rosie o'donnell on the million dollar pyramid

Now I think to myself, “Thank goodness I didn’t kill the show that Regis built!” But at the time, I went in and said, “Hey, have fun with it, enjoy it, be in the moment.”ĭid you change any aspect of the show to make it more contemporary?įor a lot of people, it used to be the $25,000 Pyramid, so obviously inflation has pumped it up! But we didn’t want to take away from the original because it was so good. When I took over for Regis Philbin at Live!, he was a very iconic figure. Just like with everything, you’ve just got to be yourself. I watched more to see the tone of the show. I watched him and he’s so great at it I don’t know if you can copy him.

He was like the surgeon of Pyramid.ĭick Clark hosted the original Pyramid in the 1970s and ’80s.ĭid you look to old Dick Clark episodes of Pyramid for hosting tips? Mario Batali was the most surprising because he is so smart and calm.

They did the Justin Bieber roast last year and we decided they were so great on that, why wouldn’t they be great together here? They proved it. Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg, what a combination. Kathy was on the Pyramid as a contestant years ago and won money-she said it paid her rent for a year. If you want to see great game play, it’s Rosie O’Donnell and Kathy Najimy. RELATED: Michael Strahan Exits Live! for Good Morning America Once you start watching it, it’s very addictive. People love to see celebrities and contestants become a team where they have to work together and not just for themselves. What’s old is new again! It’s such a perfect format for a show, and it’s so easy to pick up on that everybody can relate to it. Why is now the right time to bring back Pyramid? “It’s safe, it’s fun and it’s enjoyable.” “Game shows are having this big primetime comeback because you can sit with your kids and laugh with each other,” says Michael Strahan, who hosts the Pyramid reboot.

Let the games begin! ABC has gone all in with Sunday Fun & Games, a three-hour block of game shows that includes survey-driven Celebrity Family Feud, word-association challenge The $100,000 Pyramid and star-studded fill-in-the-blank competition Match Game.

Rosie o'donnell on the million dollar pyramid