Steve Harvey: YouTube darling
We ran a story today noting that Debmar-Mercury’s Family Feud has moved up in the ratings now that veteran comic Steve Harvey is hosting the show. Harvey has created some legit buzz for the veteran game, and a few clips from the show already have gone viral. Here are two that demonstrate Harvey bringing the funny back to Feud.
In the first one, which has gotten more than a quarter million hits on YouTube, former WTVT Tampa news anchor Secily Wilson calmly responds “your penis” to the question: “We asked 100 men to name a part of a your body that is bigger than it was than when you were 16.”
Harvey, ever the pro, milks his response for all it’s worth:
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g1pTxVE_d4[/embed]
This second clip was picked up by CNN today, and just started making the rounds last Wednesday, Nov. 10. Nearly a half-million people thus far have watched this clip on YouTube:
Harvey’s question: “Something you would not want to see when breaking into a house.”
Answer: “Naked Grandma!”
Probably the funniest part of the clip is that the guy’s opponent just shrugs and agrees: “I don’t want to see that either.”
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqDGK_UjfFI[/embed]
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Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.