Jay Jackson (1919-2005) was an American radio and television quiz show host and announcer, who is far more familiar for a one-off, fictitious host he played on a legendary situation comedy than he ever was in his decade as a real radio and television performer. A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ...

For a very brief spell in 1957, Jackson hosted the nighttime version of the popular quiz show Tic-Tac-Dough, yielding that job to Win Elliott for the remainder of the show's nighttime life (1957-59). Before he got that short-lived job, Jackson appeared in one of the best-loved among the so-called "original 39" episodes of The Honeymooners. Quiz Show is a 1994 film which tells the true story of a quiz show scandal of the 1950s. ... Tic Tac Dough, billed as everybodys game of strategy, knowledge and fun, was an American television game show where contestants answered trivia questions to earn squares on a tic tac toe board. ... Cover of a book about the Honeymooners. ...

The episode involved blustery bus driver Ralph Kramden spending a week reviewing everything there was to know about popular songs, the category under which he would compete on a television quiz called The $99,000 Answer---only too obviously a satirical salute to CBS's quiz show phenomenon, The $64,000 Question. Kramden then makes his appearance on the show and blows the very first question he is asked by show host Herb Norris, played by Jackson, in a hilariously poignant conclusion. The $64,000 Question was a popular United States television game show. ...

When the quiz show scandals exploded in 1958, it turned out that among the materials a federal grand jury investigated was a series of 1957 Tic-Tac-Dough shows, hosted by Jackson and preserved on kinescope, which featured a U.S. military serviceman winning over $140,000 during his time as a show champion. Jackson himself was never accused of any wrongdoing, though it was noted that he left the show well before the investigations began in earnest. One episode in that series of shows is said to be available now through classic video sellers. The American quiz show scandals of the 1950s were the result of the revelation that contestants of several popular television quiz shows were secretly given assistance by the producers to arrange the outcome of a supposed competition. ...

Jackson---who died in August 2005---began game show hosting in 1949, when he hosted the early TV game Twenty Questions. He also worked announcing giveaway shows on radio and television, before he was hired for Tic-Dac-Dough. After he left Tic-Tac-Dough, Jackson never again hosted a quiz or game show, though he did narrate a series of Laurel and Hardy retrospectives during the 1960s. Laurel and Hardy Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are probably the most famous comedy duo in film history. ...