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Rod's studio audience warm-ups before each taping differed vastly from Johnny's. Rod would have everyone in the audience stand up and recite what he called "The Contestant Oath," where he would shout out a line such as "I will Rod chew gum on national television" and the audience would repeat the same line, e.

[2] He was primarily known for his role as an offstage announcer on game shows. Rod's first game show announcing job came in when he was the announcer on the short-lived game show Whew! Rod was overweight for most of his adult life but after becoming a permanent announcer for The Price Is Righthe adopted a rigorous diet and exercise program.

The following year, Rod's colon cancer returned. Roddy never really hid his sexuality–he was known for his beach parties chock full of gay celebs, along with gay icons such as Julie Andrews, Judy Garland, and Natalie Wood in attendance. September 28, - d. On his earliest appearances on Price, Rod wore pastel jackets made in Hong Kong; with the encouragement of Bob Barkerhe turned them into a staple of the show.

Rod even traveled to Bangkok several times a year to have custom clothing made for him. InRod replaced Casey Kasem as the announcer voice of the situation comedy Soapa parody of television soap operas that were gay liam through the production company which Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas entertainer Danny Thomas's son and Susan Harris operated.

This ran from April 23,to May 30, From there, he went to announce for shows such as BattlestarsLove Connection, Hit Man and most notably Press Your Luck On February 17,Rod took his permanent place at the announcer's booth.

During Rod's leave, Burton Richardsonwho had been the announcer on the short-lived syndicated version from towhich Doug Davidson had hosted, substituted for Rod, making his mark on Bob's version as well. Robert Ray "Rod" Roddy[1] (September 28, – October 27, ) was an American radio and television announcer.

He was most recognizable as a game show announcer, he was the announcer for shows such as Press Your Luck version with the late Peter TomarkenLove Connection version with the late Chuck Woolery and Whew! You won't be after this week's episode of Soap ".

He also traveled frequently to Thailand as the official ambassador to Chiang Mai. Rod had been diagnosed with colon cancer inwhich he requested a leave of absence from Price to undergo and recover from gay and chemotherapy. The day he learned of his cancer diagnosis was September 11,which, ironically, had also been associated roddy death and darkness for Americans.

He held this role from toproviding the opening and closing narration; the opening narration tended to end with the words, "Confused? Robert Ray "Rod" Roddy b. October 27, was an American broadcaster and announcer.

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Legendary Performances In the s and s, Roddy McDowall made several TV-movies and guest-star appearances on shows like Batman (in which he played the Bookworm) Hotel (co-starring once more, with Elizabeth Taylor), and Rod Serling's double sci-fi/fantasy/horror mix of The Twilight Zone and Night Gallery.

Burton had initially become prominent in the s as the announcer of The Arsenio Hall Show. The program resulted in Rod losing close to pounds. He also announced on the syndicated, nighttime show with Tom Kennedy which was still roughly in production as well. Future host Drew Careyalso an overweight figure would follow in Rod's footsteps, and adopt his own diet and exercise program and lose a considerable amount of weight himself, during his tenure as host The crew would sometimes spoof this, with Bob asking how much weight he lost then showing a distorted camera image of Rod akin to a funhouse mirror.

Rod was also noted for wearing brightly colored and sequined sports jackets; he had first adopted this practice as a trademark when making personal appearances emceeing teen dances and concerts for WKBW in Buffalo in the s.