Guy Smiley

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"This is Guy Smiley, America's favorite game show host!"

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An early Guy Smiley reporting on the weather, from The Weather Show sketch.

Guy Smiley is, by his own account, America's Favorite Game Show Host. He has hosted such Sesame Street game shows as Beat The Time, Here is Your Life, What's My Part?, and others. He approaches every hosting gig with a near-frantic level of excitement and enthusiasm.

During the first season, he was called Sonny Friendly (which would later become the name of another Sesame Street game show host).

Guy Smiley has occasionally demonstrated his musical talent on Sesame Street. His song performances include "Air" and "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (with Cookie Monster). His singing voice at times can go very low, very similar to Link Hogthrob's, as in "I'll Love You in Springtime" and his tribute to the winner in "The Letter of the Day Pageant."

He was later seen in 2006, hosting a PBS commercial/game show spoof for the Ready To Learn Service.

He was also seen in episode 4117 as one of the spectators in the Number of the Day where The Count was playing golf.

Casting History

Main Performers:

• Jim Henson - from Sesame Street Season 2 (1970-1971) to Season 21 (1989-1990)
• Eric Jacobson - Sesame Street Presents The Body (2005), Ready To Learn (2006)

Alternate Performers:

• Steve Whitmire - Sesame Street Season 30 (1998-1999) (silent background extra)
• Don Reardon - Let's Make a Word CD-ROM game (voice only)

Trivia

• Guy Smiley's loud voice was so hard on Jim Henson's throat that all of the dialogue for his segments was pre-recorded. That way, multiple takes could be used without straining Henson's throat.

• When Count von Count introduced himself in a Beat the Time sketch in his traditional way, "They call me the Count because I love to count things," Guy responded with, "Well, I'm Guy Smiley. They call me Guy Smiley because I changed my name from Bernie Liederkrantz."

Book Appearances

• The Sesame Street 1, 2, 3 Storybook (1973)
• Grover and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Museum (1974)
• The Sesame Street ABC Storybook (1974)
• Big Bird's Busy Book (1975)
• The Sesame Street Bedtime Storybook (1978)
• The Sesame Street Cookbook (1978)
• The Sesame Street Dictionary (1980)
• The Sesame Street Circus of Opposites (1981)
• Which One Doesn't Belong? (1981)
• Big Bird's Book About the Earth and Sky (1985)
• Brought to You by the Letter B (2000)

Cookie Monster also disguised himself as Guy Smiley in the book No Cookies 'Til Dinner.