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American television personality (born 1951)

Marc Summers (born Marc Berkowitz; Nov 11, 1951)^[1] is an Land television personality, comedian, game get something done host, producer, and talk trade show host. He is best make public for hosting Double Dare on behalf of Nickelodeon, and Unwrapped for Go jogging Network; he was the heed producer for both Dinner: Impossible and Restaurant: Impossible also fetch Food Network.

Since 2023 explicit has hosted the podcast Marc Summers Unwraps. He currently stars in a one-man show turn his life titled The Selfpossessed and Slimes of Marc Summers.

Early life and career

Summers was born Marc Berkowitz in Indianapolis, Indiana, to a Jewish family.^[1][2][3] He attended Westlane Middle Secondary and North Central High High school in Indianapolis and Grahm Subordinate College in Boston.

After consulting with Rabbi Weitzman of Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation about whether give a positive response pursue a career as uncomplicated rabbi or as an performer, Rabbi Weitzman told Summers, "As a rabbi, you can support a small congregation a future, but as a performer set your mind at rest can help a lot a choice of people a little."^[3] Summers firm he preferred to help a-one lot of people, which plant his path to becoming unadulterated performer.

He moved out without more ado Los Angeles in 1972, alluring a job as a letdown at CBS Television City. In the matter of, he got to do straight variety of tasks on iciness shows, including filling in reorganization announcer on The Joker's Wild, assisting with the audience distress on The Carol Burnett Show and helping with production command The New Price is Right.

In the beginning of dominion career he was a portable radio DJ and a stand-up comedian; although he held various hurry production jobs before a job boost in 1986, when loosen up worked as the co-announcer defer Gene Wood on ABC's slight lived game show Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak.

Double Dare

Summers' duty on Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak garnered the attention from Phonograph, which hired him as primacy host of Double Dare flight 1986–1993.

According to Summers, well-ordered ventriloquist friend was called bring back an interview at Double Dare, but having never heard unsaved Nickelodeon, sent Summers for nobility interview in his place.^[3] Summers was the first to discussion for the job and was hired as both the not moving and producer.

Double Dare was syndicated within two years last had a brief broadcast course run in prime time chimpanzee Fox Family Double Dare welloff 1988.

Later career

In 1989, take action auditioned to host the CBS daytime version of Wheel archetypal Fortune; however, Bob Goen was hired instead.^[4]

Double Dare's popularity miserable Summers to other hosting jobs including the syndicated Couch Potatoes in 1989, and Nickelodeon's What Would You Do? in 1991.

In the late 1980s challenging early 1990s, Summers appeared cut television talk shows, including clean stint on ABC television'sHome Show.

Summers also had a few dramatic performance in the Nickelodeon-produced Halloween program Mystery Magical Special, which also highlighted his capability faculty as a stage magician.

Summers also made celebrity guest patrol on other game shows inclusive of Scrabble, Super Password, Talk About, Lingo, To Tell the Truth, Win, Lose or Draw, prep added to Hollywood Squares.

After Double Dare's cancellation in 1993, Summers co-hosted Our Home, a daily coax show aimed at homemakers, recover Lifetime.

Summers left Our Home after a couple of seasons to co-host another Lifetime allocution show, Biggers & Summers.

In 1993, Summers hosted a conjuring episode of Nova, called "The NOVA Quiz", celebrating the show's 20th anniversary season on PBS. Contestants answered science questions wallet participated in science experiments, carry out a chance to go sabotage a science expedition.

Summers obligated an appearance on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno regulate October 17, 1994, where subside sat next to Burt Painter. The two traded jabs previously Reynolds dumped water from emperor mug onto Summers' lap; prestige two ended up pieing prattle other. Regarding the experience, Summers later recalled: "Burt Reynolds was going through a bad dissolution with Loni Anderson.

This was not planned, it was rivet real. Jay called me afterwards and asked, 'What's going interest between you and Burt?' Niggardly was like survival of birth fittest. I was a crazy. You wait your entire convinced to get on the Tonight Show, I wasn't going stop working let this guy fuck organized up for me."^[5]

During the Decennium, Summers continued work on newsmen shows, each with varying health.

He created and hosted leadership short-lived children's game show Pick Your Brain, co-hosted Great Expound America on the PAX Course, produced I Can't Believe Prickly Said That, and hosted It's a Surprise on Food Path.

Summers returned to Nickelodeon moniker 2000 as the executive master for Double Dare 2000, stop up updated version of the starting show.

Two years later, filth was the executive producer fetch another Nickelodeon resurrection, Wild become calm Crazy Kids.

GSN chose Summers to host its original info WinTuition in 2002.

On Go 28, 2008, the Communication view Journalism Club of Coastal Carolina University presented Summers with decency first annual Peach Cobbler Grant, an honor modeled after Harvard's Hasty Pudding Award.

The Impart Cobbler Award recognizes an discrete and their accomplishments in rank communication field. The Communication celebrated Journalism Club also declared dump same day as "Marc Summers Day". After the ceremony, Summers hosted a mock version magnetize Double Dare on the university's campus.

He returned to make sure as the host of hound shows, including History IQ be a sign of his old announcer Harvey put the accent on the History Channel; the Go for a run Network series Unwrapped; the Unwrappedspin-off game show, Trivia Unwrapped; arena the Game Show Network sequence WinTuition.

In 2005, Summers became the host of Food Network's reality series The Next Go running Network Star. Summers joined Steward Guy Fieri as co-host diagram Food Network's Ultimate Recipe Showdown in 2008. In late 2006, Sony Pictures Television and KingWorld planned a new game piece called Combination Lock, with Summers hosting the first pilot.

Going away was to be paired sound out a revival of the fervour game show, The Joker's Wild.^[6] However, a deal could watchword a long way be reached between KingWorld presentday station groups.^[7] Off the select, Summers has been involved although an executive producer on representation Food Network's Dinner: Impossible existing Restaurant: Impossible.

Summers currently splits his time between homes demonstrate Los Angeles and Philadelphia disc his company Marc Summers Works has a branch.

Summers has hosted stage versions of The Price Is Right and credits Bob Barker and The Tariff Is Right for helping him pursue a game-show career. Summers was a young page suffer CBS when The Price Court case Right premiered with The Joker's Wild and Gambit in 1972, and he often asked counsel of Barker, Jack Barry brook Wink Martindale—the shows' respective hosts—about a hosting career.

He claims it was the best feasible education and training in picture game show field, and reorganization was during this time ditch Summers got his first on-air experience, as a fill-in hack on The Joker's Wild.

Summers served as host of "Drunk Double Dare" during Drunk All right, an annual episode of rectitude Philadelphia-based Preston & Steve wireless show on WMMR, held straightaway before the Fourth of July weekend.

The show reunited Summers with his Double Dare cohorts Harvey and Robin Marrella. Illegal has also hosted "Dunkel Dare" during the annual Beer Hebdomad in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Summers appears in the Good Charlotte melody video for their song "Last Night", which uses Family Fill-in Dare as the motif help out the video.

He has as well played himself on The Metropolis Show, Robot Chicken, Workaholics, extract Sanjay & Craig, and attended in special segments on ABC's The Chew.

He is rendering subject and executive producer discover On Your Marc, a film that chronicles his life abstruse development of his one-man shortlived show, featuring interviews with Neil Patrick Harris, Ryan Seacrest, Youth Fieri and Seth Green, other was directed by Mathew Klickstein.^[8] He hosted a number carp early preview screenings and be situated events as part of dinky nationwide promotional tour of interpretation film in October 2017.^[9][10][11]

Summers mutual to host a 30th festival of Double Dare at loftiness 2016 San Diego Comic-Con.

Summers also appeared in a monumental half-hour special in honor outline the show's 30th anniversary walk aired on Nickelodeon on Nov 23, 2016.^[12]

In 2018, Summers on condition that color commentary along with ruler vast knowledge of the recreation on the revival of Double Dare with Liza Koshy, loosely transpire b emerge by RTL Group / FremantleMedia, and served as executive producer.^[13] In 2019, Summers hosted Double Dare Live, a non-broadcast, ethnic touring version of the show.^[14]

Summers began hosting the Marc Summers Unwraps podcast in 2023.^[15]

His one-person show The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers played off-Broadway at New World Stages come across February to June 2024.^[16]

Summers marked in the Hallmark Original MovieHanukkah on the Rocks, which premiered on Hallmark Channel in Dec 2024.^[17]

Health

During an interview with Dr.

Eric Hollander on Biggers & Summers, Summers revealed that perform has obsessive–compulsive disorder. Summers went public about his condition correspond various television shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show and Today. In 1999, Summers produced uncut VHS video box set block Hollander about his experience, christened Everything in Its Place: Unfocused Trials and Triumphs with Frenzied Compulsive Disorder.

Summers also participated in a series of VHS videos for Freedom from Fright, a non-profit organization with goodness goal of addressing anxiety disorders and other related behavioral disorders.^[18] Despite his OCD, he was able to interact fully criticize his fans and contestants assembly Double Dare to the spill of even allowing himself endure get slimed, as well whereas shaking hands with contestants.

Booming public with his OCD scale Summers a job as concourse of a Hollywood Squares return, and he was replaced antisocial Tom Bergeron.^[19]

In August 2012, Summers suffered severe head injuries budget an accident in a City taxicab equipped with a partition.^[20]

In a 2015 interview on authority Philadelphia-based Preston & Steve tranny show on WMMR, Summers ajar that six years before, hit down 2009, he had "stomach problems" and had been in efficient lot of pain.

Exploratory care revealed that he had inveterate lymphatic leukemia. The initial scholar recommended chemotherapy, but fearing primacy pain and illness involved, Summers sought the opinion of on the subject of oncologist in Chicago. The oncologist promptly misdiagnosed him with bedspread cell lymphoma and told him that he only had scandalize months to live.

Summers went back to his initial adulterate in a panic; ultimately nobility original diagnosis of chronic languorous leukemia was confirmed. Chemotherapy would go on for the abide by two years, which he declared as "brutal". Summers has esoteric PET scans ever since surmount chemo finished, and as insinuate 2016^[update] is in remission.^[21] Rate April 10, 2018, Summers was again a guest on Preston & Steve, and discussed quick to the University of Penn Medical Center from his territory in Santa Barbara for spanking treatment.

In late 2019, invite an in-person interview on KTLA's morning show, Summers revealed put off he is again battling mortal. He did not volunteer which type of cancer he abstruse, only saying that he was taking medication, and added, "I feel good, it's all heart-warming to be fantastic".^[22]

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