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The visible front end of any [[Game Show]]. This is the person who moderates the show and actually runs the game; s/he also enforces the rules (though s/he usually has to defer to off-screen officials for any close judgment calls), engages in small talk with the guests, and keeps the mood light and fun.
Game Show Hosts are [[Acceptable Targets|popular butts of jokes]] in fiction. This may have something to do with their need to maintain a jovial atmosphere as previously stated, even when contestants are losing, which might make them seem aloof; or maybe they just come across as slimy and slick, like common depictions of a [[Honest
There has been a recent (not new) trend, at least for high-profile American programs, to cast has-been D-listers as Game Show Hosts.
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* Peter Marshall, original host of ''[[The Hollywood Squares]]''.
** Also John Davidson, Jon "Bowzer" Bauman, and Tom Bergeron for the various revivals. Although if you consider "notable" to mean "good", only Marshall and Bergeron qualify.
* Regis Philbin of ''[[Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?]]'' (the American version) and ''[[Password|Million-Dollar Password]]''.
* Drew Carey of ''The Price Is Right'', ''Power of Ten'', and ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway]]''.
* Anne Robinson of ''[[The Weakest Link]]'' became so popular in Britain that she migrated to the United States to host the Americanized version.
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