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Bob Barker Donates $2 Million to Military Charity

LOS ANGELES -- Former TV game show host Bob Barker is donating $2 million to a charity that helps injured members of the military and their families. Damian Dovarganes, AP Bob Barker is donating $2 million to the Semper Fi Fund, which helps injured military members. The former host of "The Price is Right" will...

Accident Halts Live TV Game Show in Germany

BERLIN (Dec. 6) -- A live broadcast of a popular German game show was halted after a contestant was severely injured while trying to jump over a moving car driven by his father. The accident occurred Saturday night just before Canadian teen idol Justin Bieber was to appear on the show, prompting him to say on his Twitter...

'Newlywed' Sherri Shepherd Ready to 'Make Whoopee' on TV

(Oct. 27) -- Comedian Sherri Shepherd makes conversation every weekday on "The View," but now, she's using her energy for something else: to "make whoopee" on TV every evening. Now, it's not as vulgar as it sounds. You see, Shepherd is the new host of the Game Show Network's modern-day revamp of "The Newlywed Game,"...

Live 'Gong Show' Gives Break to Yodeling Goat-Milkers, Other Quirky Acts

(Oct. 26) -- Showbiz is a hard career, but it's even more difficult if you're trying to make it big by singing "Silent Night" like a pigeon, yodeling while milking a cardboard goat or imitating Ralph Kramden doing Shakespeare. But New York radio personality Leslie Gold is doing a sort of showbiz stimulus package for...

Alleged Discovery Gunman James J. Lee's Bizarre Demands

(Sept. 1) -- James J. Lee, the man believed to be the gunman holding one person hostage at the headquarters of Discovery Communications in Silver Spring, Md., has allegedly called for the end of human procreation as a means of solving the world's environmental problems. That was the main idea among other violent and...