RIP, Monty Hall.

[Miles Archer]

Former ‘Let’s Make a Deal’ Host and Co-Creator Monty Hall Dies in Beverly Hills at Age 96



http://ktla.com/2017/09/30/former-lets-make-a-deal-host-and-co-creator-monty-hall-dies-in-beverly-hills-at-age-96/

Monty Hall, the television icon who was co-creator and the first host of “Let’s Make a Deal,” died at his home in Beverly Hills on Saturday due to heart failure, his daughter, Joanna Gleason, has confirmed to the New York Times. He was 96.

Hall was born Maurice Halperin in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, on Aug. 25, 1921.

The game show host began his career in regional television in the 1950s and early 1960s on several children’s shows including “Cowboy Theater,” “Fun In the Morning” and “Video Village,” according to IMDB.

Hall then moved on to host network game shows such as “Split Second,” “Masquerade Party” and “Beat the Clock,” but it was “Let’s Make a Deal” that made Monty Hall a household name.

[shenmue]

1. Rest in peace

[PJMcK]

2. He was the man!

I remember watching him in the 1960s. One summer when I was 7, I got pneumonia and had to stay indoors for about a month. I survived by watching game shows on a black and white TV and Mr. Hall was hysterical.

RIP, sir.

[LeftInTX]

21. I also had pneumonia when I was 7

Fortunately, it was during the school and I was home for a month. There was a station where I lived that showed reruns of sitcoms. We had just moved from Japan, so I thought I died and went to heaven. (No English TV in Japan)

[PJMcK]

24. Glad we both survived! (n/t)

[jberryhill]

3. ...and in the hereafter, he was asked to choose one of three doors...

[samnsara]

4. hes still handsome as ever...Godspeed..

[CrispyQ]

5. In the summers, my friend & I timed our lunch to coincide with "Let's Make a Deal."

Oh man, we loved that show!

RIP, Monty! You brought a lot of smiles to a lot of people!

[Mrs. Overall]

6. RIP, Monty.

As a child watching Let's Make A Deal, I never understood why people were sad to choose the door with the donkey behind it.

A donkey in a straw hat was so much more interesting than a new refrigerator or car.

(on edit: I think it was a donkey and not a mule)

[DinahMoeHum]

7. "My whole life lies waiting behind Door Number Three"

The cover of Steve Goodman's original, performed by JimmY Buffett. . .

Rest In Peace, Monty. Always loved the "zonks" on the show.

[Va Lefty]

10. Did not know that was a cover. Love the song. Safe passage Mr. Hall

[underpants]

12. I could use some Buffett right now

Thanks.

[Ohiya]

25. Then I grabbed that sucker by the throat until he called on me...

.. one of my favorite lyrics.

[Ron Obvious]

8. He lent his name to a famous logical problem

Choose one of three doors. Without opening your choice, the host (Monty) opens another door which reveals nothing behind, and offers you the choice of staying with your original choice or to pick the remaining door.

The answer is that it's always the better option to switch because that one door has a 2/3 chance of containing the treasure (in effect because it really represents two doors: itself, and the one that's just been opened), whereas your original choice is still stuck at 1/3 despite the fact that only two doors now remain.

This simple problem set off a storm of discussion when it was first introduced as it seems so counter intuitive.

[csziggy]

11. He didn't lend his name to "The Full Monty?"

[longship]

18. It goes like this...

First, one door has a new car behind it. The other two doors have goats (zonk!).

Right away, you have 2/3rds chance of picking a goat, 1/3rd chance for the car. This fact is crucial to your strategy.

You pick a door.

Monty Hall then always opens a door with a goat. He can always do this because there are always two goats.

Monty now asks you if you want to keep your selected door, or switch to the other unopened door.

Note, at this point you know that your odds of having selected one of the two goats is still 2/3rds, and the car is still 1/3rd.

If you keep your door your odds of getting the car remains 1/3rd. But in the 2/3rds of the time that you first selected a goat the other unopened door, after Monty reveals the other goat, has to have the car.

So you should always switch because you then have a 2/3rds overall chance of winning the car.

[Ron Obvious]

19. I find that it becomes intuitively obvious when you imagine 100 doors

with 99 goats. After you pick a door (1/100 chance of success), and then Monty opens 98 doors with goats.

It's pretty clear you should switch at that point.

[longship]

20. I think that just confuses the issue.

When, in the 2/3rds of a time you first pick a goat, Monty has to reveal the other goat. The third door then has to have the car, so you switch. If you don't switch, your odds remain 1/3rd that you first picked the door with the car.

So by always switching you double your chances. No need for any other number of doors but three.

Really pretty simple.

I've heard the hundred door explanation often. I think it just obfuscates the issue. It comes down to what happens in the 2/3rds case when you first select one of the goats.

There are only two cases. Either you select the car, or one of the two goats (it doesn't matter which, the results are symmetric). The odds are 1/3rd and 2/3rds. In the 2/3rds case you always get the car by switching doors.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Hoped he picked the right door. R.I.P.

[Tom_Foolery]

13. RIP...

He always came across as a true gentleman.

[blogslut]

14. Awww.

I always thought he seemed like a nice guy.

[Generic Brad]

15. I met him at a benefit once

Way back in the mid 1980's. He was emceeing the event and was all business behind the scenes. Very prepared. Definitely a pro.

[liberaltrucker]

17. Should be 3 headstones on his burial plot

Leaving us to guess for eternity where he *really* is!

RIP, Mr Hall. Thanks for the laughs.

[Auggie]

16. The perfect host for LMAD

Ran it as a carnival barker ... kept it moving and fun.

[Kaleva]

22. An all around great man.

[Wolf Frankula]

23. Money Bags Hall is What my Mom called him

He's very much alive hiding behind Door No. 2.

Wolf

[oswaldactedalone]

26. RIP Monty

Loved Let's Make a Deal. Surprised there's been no mention of Carol Merrill, the model on the show. He always introduced her by her full name for each deal which benefitted her career. Many of us teen age boys at the time had a crush on Carol Merrill. We watched as much for her as we did the deals.

[Aristus]

27. I don't have many nostalgic memories of Mr. Hall.

But I'll always be grateful to him and his wife for their daughter, Joanna Gleason:

[Sanity Claws]

28. Is he behind tombstone #1? Or is it tombstone #2? Or is it #3?