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Raymond Neil Combs Jr. (April 3, 1956 – June 2, 1996) was an American stand-up comedian, actor and game show host.

Combs began his professional career in the late 1970s. His popularity on the stand-up circuit led to him being signed as the host of the revival of the game show Family Feud. The show aired on CBS from 1988–1993 and was in syndication from 1988–1994. From 1995 to 1996, Combs hosted another game show, Family Challenge.

Career[edit]

Combs began performing comedy at Cincinnati's Red Dog Saloon, where he developed his best-known shtick of audience sing-alongs of sitcom theme songs. In 1979, Combs sent a letter to David Letterman, asking for advice; Letterman encouraged him to continue in comedy. In 1982, convinced that he was better than others he saw appear on The Tonight Show, Combs left his job as an Indianapolis furniture salesman, and moved with his family to Los Angeles. He did well in a competition with more than 200 other young comedians, and began doing audience warm-ups for sitcoms such as The Golden Girls and Amen. He became so popular, that other sitcoms changed their production schedules just so they could have him warm up their audiences.^[1]Johnny Carson heard the audience's laughter and then invited Combs to perform on The Tonight Show in October 1986; the audience gave him a standing ovation.^[2][3]

In 1985, he appeared on an episode of The Facts of Life as a background character. Around this time, he also guest starred on an episode of The Golden Girls. In 1987, he appeared as a celebrity panelist on the John Davidson version of Hollywood Squares, and had a small role in the comedy film Overboard starring Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn.

Family Feud[edit]

In 1988, game show producers Mark Goodson and Howard Felsher gave Combs a seven-year contract to host a new version of Family Feud.^[2] The program premiered on July 4, 1988 on CBS's daytime lineup, and a syndicated version was launched two months later, on September 19. According to Feud announcer Gene Wood, Combs also toured extensively around the United States to promote the show, and made guest appearances on Card Sharks (Eubanks) as well as The Price Is Right to discuss the new version of Family Feud.

Like his predecessor/successor Richard Dawson, Combs also had his very own trademark shtick with female contestants for just on occasional episodes. However, unlike Dawson, instead of kissing them on the lips he would sometimes see a tall female contestant by swapping a pair of their high heeled shoes with his dress shoes and prancing around in them on stage because of his short stature.

One of the more humorous moments on the show would occur in the unlikely event that the first contestant to play 'Fast Money' accumulated 200 points without the help of the second contestant. When this would happen, Combs would often quickly halt the family celebration and then call out the second contestant in quiet. With a straight face, Combs would state that the first contestant got an extremely low number of points. He would then spontaneously make up five ridiculous questions before telling the truth to the second contestant.

On June 29, 1992, CBS expanded the daytime show from 30 minutes to one hour. A new 'Bullseye' round was added and the show was re-titled Family Feud Challenge. On September 14, 1992, the Bullseye round was integrated into the syndicated run, which remained 30 minutes in length but was renamed as The New Family Feud. Combs was one of the most seen MCs on television during the 1992–93 season, with an hour and a half of Family Feud airing five days a week.

Midway through the 1992–93 season, ratings for the show began to plummet. CBS canceled the daytime version in early 1993, with the final new episode airing March 26 (reruns aired through September 10), as many CBS affiliates had dropped the show entirely by that time. The syndicated version was also on the verge of cancellation (as many stations had also dropped that or moved it into overnight time slots). Jonathan Goodson, who had become chairman of Mark Goodson Productions after the death of his father, Mark Goodson in 1992, decided to replace Combs with original host Richard Dawson in the hopes of spiking ratings (Dawson's return season initially drew good ratings, but was unable to sustain this strength long-term, and Family Feud's second incarnation ended after the 1994–95 season). By all accounts, Combs was hurt by his dismissal from the show.^[4]

His final episode of Family Feud was taped sometime in February 1994, and aired in first-run syndication on May 27 of that year. During his final 'Fast Money' bonus round, the five answers given by the second contestant each netted zero points. Combs joked, 'You know, I've done this show for six years and this [is] the first time I had a person that actually got no points and I think it's a damn fine way to go out. Thought I was a loser until you walked up here, you made me feel like a man!' After signing off, with ending credits rolling, Combs immediately walked off the set, went to his dressing room to get changed, left the CBS Television City facility without saying good-bye to anyone, got into his car, and drove home.^[5][6]

Other appearances[edit]

Combs also made an appearance for the World Wrestling Federation as a guest ring announcer at WrestleMania VIII, where he amused the capacity crowd at Indianapolis' Hoosier Dome by lashing into the team of the Nasty Boys, The Mountie, and Repo Man with various scathing insults before being ultimately chased out of the ring. He later served as a guest commentator alongside Vince McMahon and Bobby Heenan at Survivor Series 1993 in a match between the Hart Family against Shawn Michaels and his Knights.

In addition to these two appearances, there were various WWF/WBF celebrity editions of Family Feud. Heenan and Combs also struck up a friendship, which Heenan recounted in his autobiography, noting that he believed Combs felt demeaned by being a game show host.^[7]

Combs portrayed himself in episodes of In Living Color and 227 in Family Feud sketches and made an appearance on the TNN television series The Statler Brothers Show, where he did a stand-up comedy routine. In October 1993, a Family Feud video game featuring Combs's likeness was released for the Super NES.

Combs was emcee of the annual StarGaze charity events produced by Jim Kelly from 1993 to 1995.

Personal life[edit]

Combs was born in Hamilton, Ohio on April 3, 1956. He graduated in 1974 from Garfield High School, where he was an actor, senior class president, and Boys State delegate. He declined a nomination to the United States Military Academy and served as a missionary from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for two years in Arizona.^[2][3]

In July 1994, Combs suffered an injury in one of his spinal discs in a car accident, which left him in severe and continuous pain. He also went through financial problems after two of his comedy clubs failed, and his home in Hamilton, Ohio, went into foreclosure. In September 1995, Combs and Debbie, his wife of 18 years (with whom he had six children), separated. The couple reconciled, but later refiled for divorce.^[3]

Combs made several attempts to resurrect his television career, including taping a pilot for a talk show called The Ray Combs Show, which ultimately was not picked up. He hosted Family Challenge from 1995–96 on The Family Channel, and made a number of appearances on the Game Show Network.

Death[edit]

On June 1, 1996, police were called to Combs' home at 1318 Sonora Avenue in Glendale, California, over reports of a disturbance. Combs had reportedly destroyed most of the inside of his house, and had also been banging his head against the walls, though Combs later told the police that he fell in the jacuzzi. Shortly after police arrived, Combs' estranged wife Debbie arrived and informed them that Combs was suicidal, and had spent the previous week in the hospital for a suicide attempt. He was taken by police to Glendale Adventist Medical Center where he was assessed by a medical doctor and placed on a 72-hour psychiatric observation hold.^[8] On June 2, 1996, at around 4:10 a.m., hospital personnel discovered Combs hanging by his bed sheets in his closet. They took Combs to the emergency room, where he was pronounced dead upon arrival. His death was ruled a suicide.^[3]

On June 7, 1996, Combs' funeral was held at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Glendale. His remains were flown back to his hometown of Hamilton, Ohio, where he was interred at the Greenwood Cemetery.^[9] Combs was survived by his parents, Ray, Sr. and Anita Jean Combs; his wife; and their six children.^[10]

Combs was deeply in debt at the time of his death; only after his suicide did his widow Debbie learn of his desperate financial difficulties. At the height of his career, he earned close to $1 million per year, but reportedly had trouble managing his money. In addition to his two failed comedy clubs in Hamilton, Combs owed $100,000 in back taxes and $150,000 in loans and credit cards, and also had a $470,000 mortgage. The bank foreclosed on the family's Glendale home, and Debbie was forced to sell some of her husband's autographed photos and celebrity caricatures. A benefit held at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood helped raise $10,000 for the family. Johnny Carson, who had given Combs his first break in show business, sent Debbie a check for $25,000, writing to her: 'I hope this will ease the burden.'^[11]

Exactly 16 years later, his predecessor and successor, Richard Dawson, died of esophageal cancer, on June 2, 2012.^[12][13]

Filmography[edit]

References[edit]

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2. ^ ^abcArmstrong, Coleen (February 1988). 'Born to be funny'. Cincinnati. pp. 17–18. Retrieved November 28, 2011.
3. ^ ^abcd'Game Over'. People. 45 (24). June 17, 1996. ISSN0093-7673.
4. ^Ray Combs. E!. E! True Hollywood Story. November 16, 1997.
5. ^Family Feud – Ray Combs Finale (Part 2 of 2), October 5, 2011, retrieved October 3, 2011
6. ^'Family Feud', E!, E! True Hollywood Story, July 28, 2002
7. ^Heenan, Bobby; Anderson, Steve (2004). Bobby the Brain: Wrestling's Bad Boy Tells All. Triumph Books. pp. 137–138. ISBN978-1-5724-3668-8.
8. ^Condon, Lee (June 4, 1996). 'Police To Probe Suicide Of Talk Show Host Who Hanged Self In Hospital'. Daily News. Los Angeles. Retrieved May 17, 2010.
9. ^'Crowd attends funeral for former TV game show host'. Portsmouth Daily Times. June 8, 1996. p. A3. Retrieved January 14, 2013.
10. ^'Comedian Ray Combs commits suicide'. Deseret News. June 3, 1996. p. A6. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
11. ^Mitchell, Emily; Baker, Ken (October 7, 1996). 'Those Left Behind'. People. 46 (15). ISSN0093-7673.
12. ^Schwirtz, Michael (3 June 2012). 'Richard Dawson, Host Who Kissed on 'Family Feud', Dies at 79'. The New York Times. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
13. ^'TV star Richard Dawson passes away at 79'^{[permanent dead link]}, indiavision.com; accessed 24 December 2015.

External links[edit]

• Ray Combs at IMDb
• Ray Combs at the TCM Movie Database
• Ray Combs at Find a Grave

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Paul Raymond , who started the boom in British strip clubs by opening “ Raymond’s Revuebar” in 1958 and died in 2008 aged 83 one of Britain’s richest men , has since his death been the subject of 2 biographies and his life is to be made into a feature film called “ Paul Raymond’s wonderful world of Erotica” staring Steve Coogan expected to be released in 2012. I thought strip-magazine readers might be interested in an outline of his rise to fortune and how all this came about.

Paul Raymond was born Geoffry Anthony Quinn in Liverpool in November 1925, he was brought up in a strict catholic family but his father a haulage contractor left his mother for another woman in 1930.When the war broke out the family moved to Glossop with an uncle who was a Doctor and Raymond left school {where he had not been a success} to join the Manchester Ship canal as a trainee. Britain had national service in those years and after a very short spell as a Bevan Boy in the coal mines he joined the RAF as a drummer while at the same time making additional money as a self confessed spiv on the side.

Paul Raymond was attracted to show business and made his first move in 1947 when he changed his name and bought a mind reading act used first on Clacton Pier and later in a range on mainly northern variety theatres. He enlivened the mind reading act by introducing scantily clad dancers and later the girls went topless though in the fashion of the time they had to stand stock still once bare breasted. The topless girls were a big success and this led to Raymond developing his own reviews which often featured nudity and were used an attempt by variety theatres to combat their falling audiences.

One of the girls was Jean Bradley who Paul Raymond married in 1949 and she acted as his dancer and also started choreographing the shows. The couple’s reviews also featured Phyllis Dixey who was the most famous stripper in the UK but coming to the end of her career, plus performers like Shirley Bassey whose star was on the rise. Variety theatre was in long term decline with the advent of television plus the couple had a daughter Debbie in 1956 and also Raymond could see the potential for racier shows so this all cumulated in 1958 with him buying the lease of the old Doric Ballroom in Soho to convert into a permanent home for his shows. MEMBERS ONLY The Life and Times of Paul Raymond

The new venue was to be called “Raymond’s Revuebar” and was to be a private members club as such not covered by the Lord Chamberlain’s rules and able to offer moving nude dancers for the first time in the UK. The club was a great success and by 1960 it had 45,000 members and was visited by many of London’s celebrities of the time like John Mills, Peter Sellers, and Stanley Baker.

The authorities were still very straight laced in those days and still tried to restrict the acts leading to a series of what now sound ludicrous complaints. In 1961 Raymond was fined £5,000 {the price of a new Rolls Royce then !} for allowing the audience to ring the bells of the Ding Dong Bell girl ! The various complaints actually acted as good publicity and as the notoriety of the place grew so it got even busier.

The new much more raunchy Revuebar saw the closure of the old Windmill

theatre in 1964 but as the 60s developed a number of new competitors started to appear as laws were relaxed and Soho became the sex centre of the UK with over 30 strip shows opening and as many as 60 sex shops. The Revuebar was much plusher and more professional than any of the newcomers and retained and strengthened it’s position as a less sleazy way to watch naked women. Raymond became seen as the more acceptable face of Soho and in 1967 he was inducted into the showbiz charity organisation the Grand Order of Water Rats.

The growth of the sex industry in Soho in the late 60s early 70s owed much to corruption in the Metropolitan Police however expose’s in the newspapers and the appointment of Robert Mark as Chief Constable saw this change and in 1972 a case involving James Humphries saw several senior officers go to jail and the attempt to introduce much tighter controls. This caused something of a mini recession in Soho which depressed property values just at the time Raymond had started buying freeholds in central London particularly Soho, in 1968 he had bought the Whitehall theatre and in 1974 he added the Windmill theatre and from this time to the mid 90s he acquired the freeholds of a reputed 60 out of the 87 acres of Soho representing over 400 properties. Through all this expansion Raymond remained the only shareholder and displayed a reluctance to take in outside finance which eventually paid off big time.

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The Whitehall theatre was used for a series of farces which involved nude girls starting with” Pyjama Tops” and running for many years on variations of the theme. The lead actress in these productions was normally Fiona Richmond and from 1971 Raymond started a very public affair with her leading to a divorce from his wife in 1974. At this period Raymond in his mid 40s and in contrast to his later years was very much the “playboy about town” driving a Rolls reg PR1 while Richmond had an E Type with the reg FU2 ! He also had a 48ft yacht, a flat near the Ritz, and seemed to specialise in fur coats, medallions, and suntans! Richmond wrote for his magazines and regularly took part in various stunts including riding through Soho as a naked Lady Godiva to publicise one of his shows.

At the Windmill he employed French choreographer Gerald Simi to develop a revue type show called “Rip Off”which opened in 1978 and ran for 6 years. The Revuebar itself stayed open and within the complex another smaller theatre opened called the “Boulevard” which was used to stage a show by US porn star Marilyn Chambers and then after 1980 it became the “Comic Strip” a late night comedy club with Alexei Sayle as compare and featuring the likes of Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, and Rick Mayall before they became famous.

Paul Raymond had seen the potential of girlie magazines early but a first attempt called King folded after only 2 issues in 1964. In 1971 however he purchased the struggling Men Only title and proceeded to drive the circulation up to 500,000. This formed the basis of a publishing empire which eventually involved a vast range of titles including Club, Escort, Razzle, and Mayfair several of the titles being published in Europe and overseas as well. The magazines were rather like the stage shows raunchy but just within the law and though they were raided and magazines seized no prosecutions stuck. The magazines were also considerably lessrisky than promoting stage shows, in the 70s

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Paul Raymond had produced a show called the “Royalty Follies” which lost over £400k. In 1979 he launched the “Electric Blue” series of videos which were basically an extension of his magazine into new media and also produced a couple of soft core films featuring Richmond. The revenues generated by the publishing side soon overshadowed the live shows and the combination of this and the ever expanding property portfolio saw Raymond starting to appear on the various lists of richest people in the UK {he was officially declared Britain’s Richest Man in 1992} and even making the world list of $ billionaires in Forbes magazine of the US. It emerged after his death that a bad effect of all this wealth this was that there

were 2 extortion attempts which were eventually foiled by the police but not until Raymond had various threats made and suffered a series of fires at his home.
The 70s and 80s must have been a very busy time for Raymond with normally 3 or 4 shows running simultaneously in the West End, a booming publishing business, and an ever expanding property portfolio in Soho estates. He split up amicably with Fiona Richmond in 1978 but relations remained very acrimonious with his ex wife who painted him as a shallow, unfaithful, miser.

Hecontinued to be photographed with various buxom showgirls but never had another long term commitment. Paul Raymond 2 children Debbie and Howard now started to get involved with aspects of his business, especially Debbie who became a key member of the publishing part of the empire. Debbie was definitely the apple of Paul’s eye and at one time moved into the house he shared with Richmond though she had a troubled private life including 2 marriages and drug and alcohol abuse. After trying to support her unsuccessful music career she was though groomed to take over his business as he got older. In 1992 Debbie died of a heroin overdose aged just 34.

Paul Raymond by then 67 had been a very “hands on” operator in all of his businesses but after the death of his daughter he withdrew more and more into his flat and stopped being such a feature of Soho life. He stopped getting involved in live shows and in 1994 sold the Revuebar business to Gerald Simi {though not the property}. Stories emerged that portrayed him as something of a Howard Hughes type figure increasingly isolated from his family and friends spending more and more time alone in his flat

As trends had worked with Paul Raymond in the 60s and 70s they started to work against him in the 90s and beyond, this made worse by his withdrawal from active business making him unresponsive to the changing market. The live theatre shows were replaced by new table dancing clubs, the magazines by proliferating competition and later by internet porn with sales reportedly dropping by 90% over their peak, Electric Blue folded in the mid 90s just as other people like Playboy were moving into cable TV, but through all this his property empire continued to flourish. The Revuebar itself finally closed in 2004, ironically caused it seems by Raymond’s rapacious rent demands, though by 2011 it had reopened as the UK branch of ”The Box” a club in concept not unlike the original Revuebar.

On his death in 2008 he reportedly still left £650m apparently mainly to his granddaughters Fawn James and India Rose {Debbie’s children}though it seems stories of break ups with various members of his family were somewhat overstated. It’s emerged since that much of the will was left in various trusts and that others have benefited so that by 2011 his old property empire has been essentially split into 2 parts; Raymond Estates operated by his son {reportedly estranged for many years} Howard and Mark Quinn his nephew who had worked for him since 1980, and Soho Estates run by John James Debbie’s ex husband. It has even been reported that Derry McCarthy Paul’s illegitimate son from a relationship prior to his marriage who had only met his father once has also benefited from his estate. It all rather contrasts to the newspaper image of a sad, lonely old man who had no friends and ignored his family.

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