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CBS announced today they are bringing back Let’s Make a Deal on October 5th with Wayne Brady as the host. The hour long game show will be filling Guiding Light’s slot. Although the show has a new host the original host Monty Hall will be a consultant on the new version. What was cool about the press conference is that the original host told stories about the evolution of Let’s Make a Deal. Costumes were not part of the first two weeks of the show when it first started, but one day a woman made a sign saying to pick her and he did. The next week 500 people made signs and then came the costumes and those as we know stuck. When asked what his favorite costume was, he told the story of a woman whose husband was an electrical engineer, made a costume for her with a stage with 3 doors and a mini Monty Hall that went in and out of the doors and even with this most awesome costume she was not a contestant on the show and she would not let him keep her brilliant attire.
But enough about the past, the new version will have the feel of the old one but will bring it into the new millennium! I personally think that Wayne Brady is the perfect host for the show because he has a natural ability to relate to his audience. In fact that is something he brought up, he says he tailors his humor to his audience. So the jokes he will be telling on the CBS daytime show will not be the same ones he tells at his Vegas show. Which is not something everyone can do and that is why he is so good at what he does!
So tune in and dress up for CBS’s Let’s Make a Deal on October 5th!
