Why would someone hire Gerry Dee? Anyone who has watched the American version with Steve Harvey should know the answer. The American version heavily favours questions that elicit answers with a lot of sexual and scatalogical innuendo. I watch Family Feud to be entertained. I am not entertained when an answer is revealed to be "poop chute".
Now let's talk about hosts. Gerry Dee is pleasant and amusing. While he occasionally pokes fun at the contestants (and himself), he is never excessive or mean spirited. Steve Harvey, on the other hand, frequently comes down just shy of calling the contestants retarded. He typically follows a stupid answer with an equally stupid open mouthed gape. And when a contestant says something even mildly amusing he will double over in laughter and practically roll on the floor. This type of shucking and jiving should have died decades ago.
And a final word on the survey questions - you will likely never see questions designed merely to stroke the host's ego on Family Feud Canada. Too many questions on the American version refer to how smart, handsome, sexy, funny, etc. Steve Harvey is. I think we are a little classier than that in the Great White North.
