In June 1996, he reportedly told a friend he was so mad at his wife that he was going to "hurt her and destroy" their house. He closed two Cincinnati comedy clubs he owned due to financial problems, and he and his wife filed for divorce. He tried to host a new game show called The Love Psychic, but it flopped. Thought I was a loser until you walked up here, and you made me feel like a man." Combs waved goodbye to viewers and instead of hanging around chatting with players as the credits rolled, walked right off the set and out of the studio.Ĭombs' termination set off a two-year downward spiral. He'd made a promise to his young daughter that he wouldn't kiss anyone other than her mother.Īfter a contestant in the final round got straight zeroes with his lackluster responses, Combs darkly quipped, "You know, I've done this show for six years and this could be the first time that I ever had a person who actually got no points, and I think it's a damn fine way to go out.
However, when Dawson returned to host Family Feud in the 1990s, there was no more kissing of the female contestants. A few hundred wanted him to stop- thousands told him they loved it. So Dawson asked Feud viewers to write to say if they thought he should drop the smooching. According to Dawson's goodbye speech in his final episode of Feud in 1985, they'd apparently received a handful of especially pointed complaints from people who didn't like him kissing women of color. I kissed her on the cheek, and I said, 'that's for luck.' " The woman provided an answer, her family went on to win the game, and kissing became a Dawson tradition.Įxecutives, however, found it unseemly and tried to get him to stop. "She didn't want to let her family down but she had no idea at all what to say." And so he did what he said his "mom would do to me whenever I had a problem of any kind. "Here was the rather darling lady about 50 or so and she was so nervous, she was a basket case," he explained. Dawson started doing it in one of the first weeks the show started taping in 1976 to help soothe a nervous contestant. For Richard Dawson on Family Feud, it was kissing nearly every female contestant, either on the mouth or on the cheek. For Alex Trebek on Jeopardy!, it was his iconic mustache. For Bob Barker on The Price is Right, it was that skinny microphone.
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