About Daryl Somers
Daryl Paul Somers is an Australian television personality and musician, and a triple Gold Logie award winner. He rose to national fame as the host and executive producer of the long-running comedy-variety program Hey Hey It's Saturday and continued his television celebrity and status as host of the live-performance program Dancing with the Stars. Hey Hey It's Saturday did not appear in early 1978 and instead Somers and Carroll created The Daryl and Ossie Special for Nine. In early 1978, Somers and Carroll suspended making of Hey Hey It's Saturday in their first attempt to broaden their audience—or rather, to find a time slot and a format to fully cater to the audience they already had. Somers' first words were "Hi, I'm Daryl Somers; Skeeter will no longer be with us, and now it's time for a cartoon." (Another account has it that his opening line was, 'Hello, I'm Daryl Somers and I'll be here for as long as you want me'). The first of these was on 23 August 1971, for a week's programming under the title Holiday Carnival.
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