50 Fun Facts About Steve Harvey

What did Steve Harvey send every Christmas to the sixth-grade teacher who had scolded his childhood ambition?

A television arrived every Christmas for the rest of her life. She had called him a smart aleck for writing that he wanted to be on TV, but his father backed the dream.

Which country's contestant did Steve Harvey wrongly announce as the winner while hosting Miss Universe in December 2015?

Colombia's Ariadna Gutiérrez wore the crown for only a few minutes before Harvey walked back on stage, apologised and said he had read the results incorrectly.

Where did Steve Harvey usually sleep during three years of homelessness as a struggling comedian in the late 1980s?

In his car is where he spent most nights, washing at gas stations and swimming pools unless a booking came with a hotel room.

Why was Steve Harvey ordained as a minister two days before hosting a New Year's Eve special for Fox in 2017?

To officiate a wedding on live TV: he married presenter Maria Menounos and Keven Undergaro in Times Square during the broadcast.

Steve Harvey grew up in Cleveland, but in which state was he born, the son of a coal miner?

West Virginia is his birthplace: he was born in the small town of Welch, the youngest of five children, before the family moved to Ohio.

Which daytime talk show star co-created the children's talent series Little Big Shots with its first host, Steve Harvey?

Ellen DeGeneres developed the series with Harvey for NBC, and both served as its producers while he chatted on camera with talented small children.

Which 2012 romantic comedy with Kevin Hart was based on a bestselling relationship advice book by Steve Harvey?

Think Like a Man shows four couples after the women start following the book's advice, and Harvey turns up on screen as himself.

Which Family Feud bonus round, hosted by Steve Harvey, gives two relatives five rapid-fire survey questions each?

Fast Money gives the second player five extra seconds on the clock, but anyone who repeats an answer the first player gave is asked for another one.

On Family Feud, hosted by Steve Harvey, what may the opposing family do once a team collects three strikes?

Steal the points is the reward for naming just one answer still hidden on the board, and the waiting family may confer while their rivals collect strikes.

Which director filmed Steve Harvey and three fellow comics for the 2000 concert movie The Original Kings of Comedy?

Spike Lee shot the film in front of a live arena crowd, preserving an act that had become the highest-grossing comedy tour in history.

Which beauty queen was the real Miss Universe 2015, crowned minutes after Steve Harvey first read out the wrong name?

Pia Wurtzbach had to wait while the outgoing titleholder lifted the crown and sash off the runner-up and handed them over to her.

Which childhood difficulty did Steve Harvey overcome long before he made his living by talking on air?

A severe stutter marked his early school years, which makes the ambition he wrote down in sixth grade, to appear on screen one day, all the bolder.

Which product did Steve Harvey sell for a living before he first tried stand-up comedy in Cleveland in 1985?

Insurance was one of several trades he tried before comedy, along with cleaning carpets, delivering mail and working on an auto assembly line.

Which Ohio university did Steve Harvey attend as an advertising major before flunking out after two years?

Kent State later became a partner of his charitable foundation, which funds scholarships there, and he has said he regrets not finishing the degree.

Which first name was Steve Harvey given at birth, in honour of the star of the TV series Highway Patrol?

Broderick is his legal first name, a tribute to actor Broderick Crawford, while Stephen, the source of the name the public knows, comes second.

Steve Harvey spent seven years from 1993 hosting a syndicated talent showcase filmed at which famous Harlem venue?

The Apollo Theater and its tough Amateur Night crowd made him a national face, in a hosting job he had first shared with comedian Mark Curry.

In which short-lived 1994 sitcom did Steve Harvey land his first starring role, as a widowed Dallas video store owner?

Me and the Boys ranked 20th in the ratings, yet the network dropped it after one season because it felt the comedy leaned too much on the children.

On the sitcom The Steve Harvey Show, which subject does Steve Harvey's character teach at Booker T. Washington High?

Music suits Steve Hightower, a faded 1970s funk star who once fronted a group called the High Tops and who doubles as the school's vice principal.

On The Steve Harvey Show, which school job belongs to the best friend played by Cedric the Entertainer?

Coach Cedric was the comic sidekick for the whole run, and the two actors soon shared arena stages as half of the Kings of Comedy.

Which network aired the sitcom The Steve Harvey Show for six seasons, from 1996 to 2002?

The WB kept the sitcom for 122 episodes, and its star won the NAACP Image Award for outstanding actor in a comedy series four years running.

Which actress played Regina Grier, principal and former classmate of Steve Harvey's character, on The Steve Harvey Show?

Wendy Raquel Robinson's principal put up with being called Piggy by her own vice principal, a nickname left over from their school days together.

Which Kings of Comedy tour mate of Steve Harvey went on to star in a Fox sitcom named after himself?

Bernie Mac built the sitcom on a routine from the Kings of Comedy film about taking in his sister's children, and it ran for five seasons from 2001.

Which host did Steve Harvey replace on Family Feud in 2010, after the show's production moved to Florida?

John O'Hurley has said the move clashed with his Broadway commitments, and ratings rose sharply once his successor arrived.

Which original Family Feud host, a former Hogan's Heroes actor, fronted the show decades before Steve Harvey?

Richard Dawson won the job after threatening to turn bland and silent on another Goodson panel show unless he was given an audition.

Which Today show personality hosted Celebrity Family Feud on NBC in 2008, years before Steve Harvey revived it?

Al Roker fronted a single summer run because the regular daytime host was busy with a talent series on CBS, and the revival came in 2015.

Which network launched Judge Steve Harvey in 2022 and revived Celebrity Family Feud with Steve Harvey in 2015?

ABC was also the original home of the family game in 1976, and it made the celebrity edition part of a summer block of evening game shows.

Steve Harvey taped his first season of Family Feud in which Florida city?

Orlando kept the show for only one Harvey season: in 2011 production moved to Atlanta, where he already broadcast his morning radio programme.

For which country, alongside Ghana, did Steve Harvey begin hosting a local edition of Family Feud in 2020?

South Africa was where both editions were taped, a venture run through his own company, which holds rights to make the game abroad.

In which city did Steve Harvey tape his self-titled daytime talk show at the NBC Tower from 2012 to 2017?

Chicago was the show's home for five seasons, until he moved west to launch a successor called Steve with more comedy and celebrity guests.

Whose new daytime talk show replaced Steve Harvey's programme Steve on NBC-owned stations for the 2019–20 season?

Kelly Clarkson's show took over the slots on the NBC-owned stations, and Steve aired its final syndicated episode in June 2019.

Steve Harvey's talk show Steve was revived in 2020 as an original series for which online platform?

Facebook brought it back on its Watch video service under the title Steve on Watch, and later ordered twenty more weeks of episodes.

Which Bridesmaids star replaced Steve Harvey as host of the talent series Little Big Shots for its fourth season?

Melissa McCarthy was named the new host in 2019, almost a year after his third and final season had finished airing.

In which city did Steve Harvey end his 27-year stand-up career with a farewell show on pay-per-view in 2012?

Las Vegas hosted the two-hour farewell at the MGM Grand resort, a long way from his first set at a Cleveland comedy club called Hilarities.

Which historically Black fraternity did Steve Harvey join during his two years as a college student in Ohio?

Omega Psi Phi welcomed him on campus, though he left without graduating, a setback he says sent his life into a downward spiral.

Which one-word title did Steve Harvey give his 2016 book, inspired by a parachute speech to a Family Feud crowd?

Jump grew out of an off-air pep talk after a taping, in which he compared trusting your natural gifts to going off a cliff and relying on the chute.

What kind of creature does Steve Harvey voice in the 2005 talking-zebra film Racing Stripes, alongside David Spade?

A horsefly named Buzz is his part, one of two pest brothers who befriend the zebra hero, and Spade voices the other, Scuzz.

In which 2003 teen comedy starring Nick Cannon and Christina Milian did Steve Harvey play the hero's father?

Love Don't Cost a Thing remade the 1987 comedy Can't Buy Me Love and borrowed its title from a pop hit of the same name.

Which of Steve Harvey's daughters became a fashion model signed to IMG and founded a skincare company in 2021?

Lori was a competitive equestrian with Olympic hopes until an injury ended her riding, and she became his daughter by adoption after he married her mother.

All three of Steve Harvey's wives have had first names beginning with which letter of the alphabet?

M starts all three names: he was married to Marcia and then Mary before marrying Marjorie in 2007.

On Family Feud, hosted by Steve Harvey, how many people have been polled for each survey question on the board?

100 people answer every survey, so each reply on the board is worth the number of people who said it, and a reply needs at least two votes to appear.

Which sports league's annual awards show did Steve Harvey host two years running, starting with its eighth edition?

The NFL booked him for its Honors ceremony, and he opened his monologue by asking the room what had taken the league so long to call.

On the 2017 competition series Steve Harvey's Funderdome, who decided which inventor took home the seed funding?

The audience voted after each pair of rival pitches, a twist on Shark Tank, where the investors themselves decide who gets a deal.

Unlike most court shows, which fill daytime schedules, in which slot did Judge Steve Harvey launch in 2022?

Prime time matched its sitcom-style schedule of one new episode a week, where typical court shows put out a fresh case every weekday.

Which part of Steve Harvey's Cleveland childhood neighbourhood was renamed in his honour in 2015?

His street, East 112th, became Steve Harvey Way, and the old address lives on in the name of his production company, East 112.

In which North Carolina city was The Original Kings of Comedy, featuring Steve Harvey, filmed before a live arena crowd?

Charlotte and its Coliseum supplied the roaring crowd over the last two nights of the tour, and the finished film took in about $38 million at the box office.

Which combat sport did Steve Harvey practise as a young man, years before he ever tried stand-up comedy?

Boxing sits on a long pre-fame CV that also includes delivering mail and cleaning carpets, and he was 28 when he first told jokes on a stage.

Thomas Miles, the prank-calling co-host of The Steve Harvey Morning Show, is what real-life relation to Steve Harvey?

Nephew is both the relation and the act: he performs as Nephew Tommy, and his prank phone calls have been released as albums.

Which TV presenter hosted Miss Universe 2020 with Olivia Culpo, ending Steve Harvey's run of five straight pageants?

Mario Lopez stepped in for the edition delayed to May 2021 and held in Florida, and Harvey was back for the next pageant that December.

What did Steve Harvey avoid throughout his 2006 stand-up special, which was filmed at the MegaFest gathering?

Profanity was absent from the entire set, and the clean performance was released as a film directed by Leslie Small.

Which group of young people is served by the yearly mentoring camp run by Steve Harvey's charitable foundation?

Fatherless children are the camp's focus, and the foundation he runs with his wife also funds scholarships at the Ohio university he once attended.