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Guy Smiley is a fictional character on Sesame Street who was dubbed "America's favorite game show host ". His skits are among those on the show that parody commercial media. [1] . Smiley has also hosted This Is Your Lunch and Here Is Your Life, a parody of This Is Your Life.
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- Casting history
- Filmography
- Book appearances
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Guy Smiley is, by his own account, America's Favorite Game Show Host. He has hosted the Sesame Street game shows "Beat The Time," "Here Is Your Life," "What's My Part?" and many others. He approaches every hosting gig with a near-frantic level of excitement and enthusiasm.
Guy Smiley has occasionally demonstrated his musical talent on Sesame Street. His song performances include "Air" and "They Can't Take That Away From Me" (with Cookie Monster). His singing voice at times can go very low, very similar to Link Hogthrob's, as in "Gone with the Wind," "I'll Love You in Springtime," and his tribute to the winner in "The Letter of the Day Pageant."
Most of Guy Smiley's appearances in sketches have been as the host of game shows. Many of the sketches where he doesn't host game shows still involve him being the host of a show, including "The Weather Show," "The Letter of the Day Pageant," and "On Vacation with Guy Smiley." One of the few sketches he starred in where he didn't host a show or sing was a sketch where he took his entire studio audience out for lunch. His first appearance was in a sketch where he appears as a spokesman for "Brand X." (First: Episode 0010)
In an interview with Leslie Mostly, Guy Smiley's home, particularly his living room, is shown to be identical to his game show sets. He keeps all his living room furnishings behind curtain #1, his personal organ player Buzz Crescendo behind curtain #2, and a pet studio audience of monsters and Anything Muppets behind curtain #3. He also mentions having a pet dog named Strongheart (whose picture hangs on the wall).
In addition to his dog, Guy's family also includes an Aunt Betty (who has her own dog, Bubbles) and an Aunt Martha (as seen in Episode 4920).
Although Joan Ganz Cooney described Guy Smiley as one of Jim Henson's funniest characters, Jon Stone once recalled that Henson didn't like to perform the character, noting "the voice was so hard on him." Because of this, the dialogue for Guy's earlier sketches was commonly prerecorded, so multiple takes could be filmed without straining Henson's throat.
The original puppet for Guy Smiley was repurposed from a Whatnot design that had appeared in various commercials and TV appearances throughout the 1960s (such as Conrad Love). In 1972, the puppet transitioned to the standard "Orange Gold" model, with a special mechanism that allowed Guy to raise or lower his eyebrows. This particular puppet often doubled as Prince Charming.
In the first season of Sesame Street, the puppet was often cast as a show business type, with a different name in each appearance. His first appearance was as a spokesman for Brand X in the tenth episode, and later that season, he would show up to sing "Gone with the Wind" and as an announcer in the first two Answer Lady sketches (performed by Frank Oz).
Main Performers
•Jim Henson - from Sesame Street Season 1 (1969) - Season 21 (1990)
•Eric Jacobson - Sesame Street Presents: The Body (2005) - present
Alternate Performers
•Don Reardon (voice) - Let's Make a Word (1995) and Get Set to Learn (1996)
•Richard Hunt - as unnamed moviegoer in "Scary Movie" (First: Episode 0627) (1974)
Episodic appearances
•Episode 0915 •Episode 1045 •Episode 1079 •Episode 3820 •Episode 4182 •Episode 4510 •Episode 4920 •Episode 5111
•The Sesame Street 1, 2, 3 Storybook (1973)
•Grover and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Museum (1974)
•The Sesame Street ABC Storybook (1974)
•Big Bird's Busy Book (1975)
•Bert's Big Band Paint-with-Water Book (1976)
•The Monsters' Alphabet (1977)
1.Finch, Christopher. Jim Henson: The Works, Random House, 1993, p. 62.
2.St. Pierre, Stephanie. The Story of Jim Henson, Dell Publishing, 1991, p. 57.
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Guy Smiley is a fictional character on Sesame Street who was dubbed "America's favorite game show host." His skits are among those on the show that parody commercial media. Smiley has also hosted This Is Your Lunch and Here Is Your Life, a parody of This Is Your Life.
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