Sure, contestants may have perfect teeth, and while I’m sure looks factor into it a bit, at the end of the day, a strong story can beat out everything else. Along with those elements, a great “story” helps a lot. The casting agents I’ve worked with make it clear that they’re looking for a few key factors in a contestant: tons of energy, ability to play the game (you don’t have to be a brilliant player, but you have to understand what’s going on and be able to compete), and a ton of personality. Heck, even casting agents for The Price Is Right talk to every single person in the audience before going into the theater during that time, they make the determination about who will be called to come on down! (More info on this Marketplace piece, and if you click the play button directly under the top photo, you’ll hear me talk about my experiences, too.)
For bigger shows, I’ve been through three auditions and still didn’t make it on the show. For one of my recent appearances (as a player on the GSN reboot of Pyramid), I auditioned twice before I was chosen. In turn, the casting folks conduct auditions to evaluate potential players. The producers know what kind of contestants work best on a game show, and they hire casting people to find those contestants.
The main thing to remember is that game shows are cast … you don’t just sign up and they call you in. That’s illegal-Google “quiz show scandal” if you don’t know why. But nobody on a game show is a hired actor, in the sense that he or she is given lines, a script, the answers, or are paid.
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