![]() ![]() Combs was one of the most seen MCs on television during the 1992–93 season, with an hour and a half of Family Feud airing five days a week.ĭespite Combs' recent success, ratings for the show began to plummet. On September 14, 1992, the Bullseye round was integrated into the syndicated run, which remained 30 minutes in length but was renamed as The New Family Feud. A new "Bullseye" round was added and the show was re-titled Family Feud Challenge. On June 29, 1992, CBS expanded the daytime show from 30 minutes to one hour. According to Feud announcer Gene Wood, Combs also toured extensively around the United States to promote the show, and made guest appearances on Card Sharks as well as The Price Is Right to discuss the new version of Family Feud. The program premiered on Jon CBS's daytime lineup, and a syndicated version was launched two months later, on September 19, 1988. In 1988, game show producers Mark Goodson and Howard Felsher gave Combs a seven-year contract to host a new version of Family Feud. In 1987, he appeared as a celebrity panelist on the John Davidson version of Hollywood Squares, and had a small role in the comedy film Overboard starring Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn. Around this time, he also guest starred on an episode of The Golden Girls. In 1985, he appeared on an episode of The Facts of Life as a background character. Johnny Carson heard the audience's laughter and then invited Combs to perform on The Tonight Show in October 1986 the audience gave him a standing ovation. He became so popular, that other sitcoms changed their production schedules just so they could have him warm up their audiences. ![]() He did well in a competition with more than 200 other young comedians, and began doing audience warm-ups for sitcoms such as The Golden Girls and Amen. In 1982, convinced that he was better than others he saw appear on The Tonight Show, Combs left his job as an Indianapolis furniture salesman, and moved with his family to Los Angeles. In 1979, Combs sent a letter to David Letterman, asking for advice Letterman encouraged him to continue in comedy. He began performing comedy at Cincinnati's Red Dog Saloon, where he developed his best-known shtick of audience sing-alongs of sitcom theme songs. He declined a nomination to the United States Military Academy and instead served as a Mormon missionary for two years in Arizona. He graduated in 1974 from Garfield High School, where he was an actor, senior class president, and Boys State delegate. ![]() Combs was born in Hamilton, Ohio on April 3, 1956. ![]()
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