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A non-character role is essentially a non-fiction television appearance. Examples include game show and talk show hosts, news anchors and correspondents, talk show guests, game show contestants, announcers, commentators, etc.Fictional characters...
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A non-character role is essentially a non-fiction television appearance. Examples include game show and talk show hosts, news anchors and correspondents, talk show guests, game show contestants, announcers, commentators, etc.
Fictional characters should use the "TV Character" type. less
Fictional characters should use the "TV Character" type. less
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| Game show host | Topic | QI | Stephen Fry |
Game show host is a profession involving the hosting of game show.
List of famous game show hosts:
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| Profession | The Price Is Right | Bob Barker | |||
| Personal appearance role | Family Game | Bob Barker | |||
| Truth or Consequences | Bob Barker | ||||
| American Idol | Ryan Seacrest | ||||
| Game show announcer | Personal appearance role | Wer wird Millionär? | Günther Jauch | ||
| Topic | The Price Is Right | Johnny Olson | |||
| The Price Is Right | Rod Roddy | ||||
| The Price Is Right | Rich Fields | ||||
| Contestant | Topic | QI | Alan Davies |
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...
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| Personal appearance role | 8 Out of 10 Cats | Sean Lock | |||
| 8 Out of 10 Cats | Dave Spikey | ||||
| 8 Out of 10 Cats | Jason Manford | ||||
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A person who presents the news on radio or television.
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| VJ | Topic | The Wedge | Sook-Yin Lee |
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...
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| Co-host | Personal appearance role | MythBusters | Adam Savage | ||
| Topic | MythBusters | Jamie Hyneman | |||
| Penn & Teller: Bullshit! | Teller | ||||
| Penn & Teller: Bullshit! | Penn Jillette | ||||
| Remote Control | Kari Wührer | ||||
| Impressionist | Topic | MADtv | Aries Spears |
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....
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| Host | Personal appearance role | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Conan O'Brien | ||
| Topic | Yo Momma | Wilmer Valderrama | |||
| Sessions at West 54th | David Byrne | ||||
| Sessions at West 54th | Christopher Douridas | ||||
| Sessions at West 54th | John Hiatt | ||||
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| Narrator | Topic | Arrested Development | Ron Howard | ||
| Fictional Character | How I Met Your Mother | Bob Saget | |||
| Film character | Planet Earth | David Attenborough | |||
| Personal appearance role | Planet Earth | Sigourney Weaver | |||
| Him/Herself | TV Character | Futurama | Al Gore | ||
| Topic | I Love the '80s | Michael Ian Black | |||
| Fictional Character | I Love the '80s | Tom Arnold | |||
| Special film performance type | Driven | Dinah Lohan | |||
| Personal appearance role | The Apprentice | Donald Trump | |||
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Topic | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Andy Richter |
A sidekick is a stock character, a close companion who assists a partner in a superior position. Sancho Panza in Don Quixote, Doctor Watson in Sherlock Holmes and Batman's companion Robin are some well-known sidekicks.
The origin of the term comes from pickpocket slang of the late 19th and early 20th century. The "kick" is the front side pocket of a pair of trousers, and was found to be the pocket safest from theft. Thus the "side-kick" became an inseparable companion. As well the companion...
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| Bandleader | Topic | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Max Weinberg |
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...
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A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their role in creating or performing music:
A musician can be self-taught, or learned by formal education in a conservatory or by a private instructor or a guru.
Musicians can be amateur or professional. The meaning of these terms is, however, somewhat diffuse. Musicians' have individual levels of activity and ambition in music, which often makes music both a hobby and a profession. Many professional musicians...
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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 ...
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| Celebrity guest | Personal appearance role | Match Game | Charles Nelson Reilly | ||
| Topic | Late Night with David Letterman | Howard Stern | |||
| Late Night with David Letterman | Howard Stern | ||||
| Late Night with David Letterman | Howard Stern | ||||
| Late Night with David Letterman | Howard Stern | ||||
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