In 1944 he became emcee for the radio variety show House Party, which involved the audience in spontaneous contests and activities.
"We had a pretty amazing Republican president in the 80s," conservative Chicago radio show host and emcee Guy Benson told the crowd.
On Sunday, Harris took to the stage at Radio City Music Hall to emcee Broadway's the Tonys.
The former host of a WPRO radio show with a long history of disparaging women, DePetro had announced on Twitter that he would emcee a "Women for Fung" rally.
Everyone, by the looks of it, is thoroughly enjoying themselves, especially the local radio DJ serving as the emcee, who is not shy with the microphone and reminds everyone in attendance that they are currently at the "official" pork roll festival.
But it was clearly hip-hop with Chinese characteristics in other ways too: The emcee for the evening was a middle-aged radio announcer in a conservative suit and red tie, who asked the audience to vote on which they preferred, the girl band or the boy band.
Another way to complement a radio presentation career is to work as an emcee at public events.
Peter Bush, a radio announcer in Connecticut, serves as the event's emcee as well as its lead driver and rally coordinator.
In addition to actors, AFTRA (which got its start in radio and has about 70,000 members) also represents emcees, hosts, comedians, television news personalities, DJs, sports and entertainment announcers, singers, dancers, professional pitchmen, etc.
That is how Clark wound up on radio, in Philadelphia, in 1956, as rock'n'roll was exploding, emceeing the airwaves version of the WFIL's televised "Bandstand" teen dance program.
A lot of the emcee's international success comes from how well his music fares on local and on-campus radio stations.
