Nickelodeon's Mike O'Malley and Kirk Fogg Call 'Older Brother' Marc Summers a 'Real Mensch' During Gameshow Era

Mar. 15, 2025

From L: Mike O’Malley and Kirk Fogg at 90s Con in Daytona Beach, Florida, on Sept. 13, 2024; Marc Summers.Photo:Jen Juneau Haupt;Getty

Jen Juneau Haupt;Getty

Mike O’MalleyandKirk Foggare raving about their Nickelodeon “older brother,“Marc Summers.

During a panel at 90s Con in Daytona Beach, Florida, on Friday, Sept. 13, the two former kids' gameshow hosts looked back on their own experiences on Nickelodeon, and gave a hat tip to Summers, 72, who helped define the genre starting withDouble Darein the 1980s and, later,What Would You Do?on the same network.

“He was someone who was doing a lot of live shows, live events - he helped everybody, he’s a real mensch,” O’Malley added.

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From L: Mike O’Malley, Kirk Fogg and Marc Summers hosting their respective Nickelodeon gameshows.Nickelodeon(2);Marc Summers

Nickelodeon(2);Marc Summers

Along with Phil Moore (Nick Arcade) andSummer Sanders(Figure It Out), Summers, O’Malley and Fogg, 64, made up a special group of Nickelodeon kids' gameshow hosts that would define the friendly-competition genre for millennials.

“I think all of us feeling a similar way about our experiences with Nickelodeon, and we have great pride,” O’Malley added. “We talk to Marc and Phil about this too - about what Nick was. We’re all also at the point in our lives where we’re all reminiscing and looking back at that.”

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Kirk Fogg (center) hostingLegends of the Hidden Temple.Nickelodeon

“Everybody has each other’s phone numbers. Our kids went to the same high school together,” Fogg said of himself and O’Malley. “It seems like we’re kind of old friends.”

Fogg also said he’s just “grateful” to have been “able to be part of this kind of show” that “perpetually lives on.”

source: people.com