Richard Dawson on the cancellation of Family Feud - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG

word of mouth killed us I break myself up for hours know how I got I had done enough I don't 11 years and really you know nighttime as well it's not like a labor I don't mean I had such a hard job makeup only came to see me twice a week you know I loved it but is it an exhausting emotionally to you know look at lots of hives and I got low so they asked me to do another year viacom I said I really don't wanna I've done what I can do and I'll just be doing it and I never just wanted it just to do it so I said okay I find then Leonard called me and said you don't know how many people were going to put out of work I said what all the people that's been with us all this time well I think when you're going to blame me I mean I don't understand that this should win when they give these jobs out saying by the way if this show goes away we've got another job really you know but that's a guilt chata month I don't want to feel guilty about putting them all out of work so I said the learner I'll do the nighttime show and I'll do you know and enough for the daytime but you got to go into route 39 like we used to 39 week and rest and rerun and that's it and he said okay silence for about a week and then he said viacom cancel there was nothing I could do turn it so I made it by about 4300 people or the employees of a visa I love them all I had wonderful time

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Length: 2min 33sec (153 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 13 2011