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Guy Smiley was a character on Sesame Street who was dubbed "America's Favorite Game Show Host." This nattily attired character is easily excitable and is perpetually shouting, and resembles that of Canadian/U.S. quizmaster Jim Perry.
Guy Smiley has hosted many of the following game show skits, such as:
- The Remembering Game - Two contestants try to match prizes on a four-space board. In its one appearance, Cookie Monster and an Anything Muppet named Bill Smith didn't like the prizes they had "won," so they traded prizes. Cookie had won an airplane and Bill had won a cookie.
- What's My Part? - A spoof of What's My Line? - Three blindfolded celebrities had to identify a body part before all three of them were disqualified (by asking a question that had a "no" answer). The first segment, featuring a nose, starred panelists Cookie Monster, Bennett Snerf and Arlene Frantic (the latter two Muppet parodies of longtime What's My Line? panelists Bennett Cerf and Arlene Francis). It ran for 4 segments.
- Mystery Guest - A spoof of a term used on What's My Line? - The contestants must guess who the Mystery Guest is. In this clip, it was the letter X, but nobody guessed correctly, and it turned out that the letter X belonged in the exit sign. It ran once.
- Beat the Time - A spoof of Beat the Clock - The contestant must bring in three things that rhyme with the key word. In the most famous segment, Cookie Monster plays must find three things that rhyme with "rain." Cookie manages to find a cane he stole from an old man, a chain holding a monster and, at the last second, arrives onto the stage by smashing through the wall with a train. It ran for 5 segments.
- To Tell a Face - A spoof of To Tell the Truth - A Baby must figure out who is real person out of three panelists. It ran for 7 segments.
- The Triangle is Right - The title was a spoof on The Price is Right - Every question is answered with the response, "A triangle." It ran short lived.
Guy has also hosted parodies of This is Your Life called "Here Is Your Life." Guests who were profiled included a loaf of bread, a tooth and a tree (all aimed at teaching children how things are made). He has also hosted pageants for numbers and letters.
Performed by Jim Henson, the character was discontinued use upon Henson's death until 1998, when he was performed by Steve Whitmire in a street scene where his role was just that of a background character. He also appeared in the CD-ROM, "Let's Make a Word" where his voice was credited to Don Reardon. More recently the character has been played by Eric Jacobson, starting with video inserts in the touring exhibit "Sesame Street Presents: The Body".
International
Sesame Street is localized for some different markets, where Guy Smiley is often renamed. In Portuguese, for example, he's Carlos Luz, a play on words with the name of Portuguese TV presenter Carlos Cruz.
Guy did make some appearances that didn't have anything notable to do with his hosting career. When Cookie Monster was in a bakery chewing up items that rhymed with the word "pie," Smiley came in announcing he was "Guy Smiley, star of daytime television." At this point, Cookie couldn't remember that it was a pie he was after, and the repeated use of words that did rhyme with "pie" did nothing to jog his memory. The scene ended with him chasing Guy around the bakery, trying to eat him!
In one movie theatre skit with Bert and Ernie, using Guy as a one-line extra, the character is puppeted by Richard Hunt.