Personal appearance role

Game show host is a profession involving the hosting of game show. List of famous game show hosts:

A contestant is someone who takes part in a competition, usually a professional competition or a game show on television. The participants competing against each other have to go through rounds. The winner may have to compete in later stages or rounds until there is just one winner. Game show contestants are usually members of the general public who are selected via some sort of qualification system, such as a general knowledge or IQ test (an example of this is Jeopardy!, in which contestants...

A video jockey (usually abbreviated to VJ or sometimes veejay) is an announcer who introduces and plays videos on commercial music television such as MTV, VH1 Canada's MuchMusic.Asia's Channel V The term "video jockey" is a derivative of the term "disc jockey", "DJ" (deejay) as used in radio. The term was popularised in the 1980s by the Music Television Network (MTV). (See List of MTV VJs.) The founders of MTV got their idea from studying Merrill Aldighieri, the person to invent the job of...

An impressionist is a performer whose act consists of giving the "impression" of being someone else by imitating the other person's voice and mannerisms. The word usually refers to a professional comedian who specializes in such performances, has developed a wide repertoire of impressions, and regularly seeks to add to them, often to keep pace with current events. Someone who imitates one particular person without claiming a wide range, such as a lookalike, is instead called an impersonator....

A bandleader is the leader of a band of musician. The term is most commonly, though not exclusively, used with a group that plays popular music as a small combo or a big band, such as one which plays swing, jazz, blues, rhythm and blues or rock and roll (rock) music. Most bandleaders are also performers with their own band. The bandleader role is dependent on a variety of skills, not just musicianship. A bandleader needed to be a music director and performer. In general the bands are named...

A guest host is a host, usually of a talk show, that substitutes for the regular host. This phrase was popularized on The Tonight Show during Johnny Carson's 30-year reign as host from 1962 to 1992. Toward the end of his tenure, Carson was granted more personal time off, and these substitutes would be more seen on the air more often. Permanent guest host is an oxymoron that likely originated on The Tonight Show. It is believed that Penn and Teller were the first to declare the phrase to be a ...