I think he did a very good job. Great demeanor, he kept the audience attention and he connected well with the audience. He absolutely should have gotten the job. This guy hands down should have been chosen over Drew Carey. Carey sucks and he and his crew have run the show into the ground.
On watching this again, Mike did good only rewatched first iufb item up for bids. Name recognition would have been key here for any new host. Drew has had st this point, lots of name recognition from The Drew Carey Show. Doug Davidson would have been a good new host choice too. Drew is good, but many capable choices
God, he's so bad. Drew was awkward because he was stepping into an institution, but he was always sooth in front of a camera -- a seasoned television pro. He just needed time for it to become his. Mike comes off like a Christian kid trying to cosplay a game show host in front of his class. Fake charisma, like a deer in front of a shotgun. Nothing behind the eyes. You can't fake charisma. Bob was a carnival barker from a world long gone. Mike couldn't sell a nut to a squirrel.
I'm glad Richards didn't get the TPIR hosting gig and, like they say, what goes around comes around. Seems like he was a bit of an a-hole and threw people under the bus to get ahead. It caught up to him and now his TV days are in the rear view mirror.
Not hating on Ken or Mayim but I really preferred Mike Richards as the host of Jeopardy!. I thought he did a good job as a guest host and as the permanent host, and I thought he was a good guy until all that stuff came out. I prefer Mike Richards the host, not Mike Richards the man lol
He wasn’t memorable when I did practice rehearsals with him. Mario Lopez was best and so was George Hamilton, and Todd was also very presentable. I knew nothing of Mike anyways when I met him unlike the other 3…Mario from SBTB, George Hamilton from Dynasty and Todd Newton from Whammy…
All I will say is just because you may positively influence changes behind the camera doesn’t mean you should be in front of the camera. I think Drew was a smart choice because he was a proven talent who could carry a show but it still took Drew a few years to find his rhythm. Todays TPIR is a positive evolution from its origin and is totally Drew’s show.
I'd love to see the practice run throughs...if they taped them (the monitors were on as were the cameras the day I was rehearsing with them). I was there for them with Mario/Mike/George/Todd one weekend before they did their test show. What about their test shows? I was there for all that.
Not gonna lie, Mike Richards would have made a decent Price host. I know he said "Alright" a lot in this audition tape, but the guy was nervous and did his best in spite of his nerves. He played it down the middle like any decent show host would, but Drew Carey was just a bit better than him and managed to host a short-lived quiz show called Power of 10 just before getting the gig fifteen years ago. Poor Mike just couldn't get over it good and well enough in all these years and those texts resurfacing of him being not so public in the public eye cost him.
Well, I'm sure other candidates who auditioned were nervous themselves. The difference between them and Mike was that Mike lacked major on-camera hosting experience outside of his college talk show. He couldn't get the beats down all that well and he lacked-besides charisma, a natural quality in game show hosts-enthusiasm in areas where it was badly needed (watch the It's in the Bag win again).
What are you? Kid me? No car pricing game this half? Usually there are two; but there has to be at least one. The car's the most popular prize, bar none.
No offense to Mike, but he did not know how to be the star of the Price Is Right. He rushed through that It's In The Bag win all the way to the point, where there was no drama. If it was still Trina winning and Bob Barker hosting, Bob would have slowed down to build the drama with that win. Mike had told the audience to quiet down for the Clock Game, then three seconds later, he was telling them to wish the lady good luck. Also: "You are going to the showcase showdown." Mike, she already won the showcase showdown and she was going to the showcase, later on at the end of the show. Bob Barker always seemed to have natural talent at being the star of the show even without any Price Is Right experience, let alone thirty-five years. Mike Richards should just stick with producing game shows because being the star of a game show just isn't his strength.
I don't think it's really fair to compare him to Bob Barker or Drew Carey but you need a kind of genuine charisma to do this kind of thing and he just doesn't have it. You can tell he knows what he needs to do but just executes it so poorly. At times it's almost like an actor parodying a game show host on TV like it feels fake and staged with him just reading off a script rather than adapting to each contestant's personality and energy.
After watching this audition video, I’m pretty convinced he pulled a “Lori Laughlin/Aunt Becky” to get the Jeopardy gig. I think somebody forgot to tell him that Lori’s scheme backfired. Well, it’s too late now!
