We were talking about game shows here the other day and this is a clip of the Fast Money round on a recent Celebrity Family Feud. Note that this is Celebrity Family Feud where the contestants are famous and they play for charity, not for themselves. That situation always liberates the producers of a game show from having to worry much about anyone claiming they were somehow cheated if rules are bent a little.
Family Feud clearly likes it when the winning family also wins the big bucks in Fast Money. It causes the episode to end on a great "up" note so the game is calibrated to make such wins likely but not inevitable. And they really like it if the money isn't won until the very last answer is revealed, thereby maintaining some suspense until the end.
When they have celebrities on, they make it even easier to get the big prize money. The team has to get to 200 points and the last of the five questions on this one pretty much guarantees that they'll get almost half that number of points just on that one question…and since it's the last, maybe they won't get it until the end. As you'll see, they're also more liberal with celebs about starting and stopping the clock.
In its existence, Family Feud has had six different hosts: Richard Dawson, Ray Combs, Louis Anderson, Richard Karn, John O'Hurley and (now) Steve Harvey. I assume devout fans of the show would insist Dawson was the all-time, never-to-be-topped best. Not that I would spend one minute of my life arguing the topic but I think Harvey is just as good.
Every time I've seen it and a contestant says something outrageous or silly, Harvey instantly comes up with a reaction that, without humiliating the contestant, extends the laugh and builds on it. He does it expertly in this clip which starts with a man giving what may not be the dumbest answer in the history of game shows but it's darn close…