In July 2018, Nye played for the National League squad at the MLB All-Star Legends and Celebrity Softball Game. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. With Bill Nye, Pat Cashman, Michaela Leslie-Rule, Jaffar Smith. Mini Bio (1) Bill Nye was born on November 27, 1955 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. Nye portrays a hyper-kinetic, tall, and slender scientist wearing a blue lab coat and a bow-tie. 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William Sanford Nye (born November 27, 1955)[4] is an American mechanical engineer, science communicator, and television presenter. Episode Review "The Sun", Deep Yellow's "My Favorite Star". [28] While looking for more TV gigs, he got the opportunity in 1989 to host Fabulous Wetlands, a short educational show about Washington's wetlands, sponsored by the Washington State Department of Ecology. NOTE: The Production Codes were taken from the United States Copyright Office. The official website of Bill Nye The Science Guy featuring books, shows, appearances, episode guides, and home demos. Nye Labs, the production offices and set where the show was recorded, was in a converted clothing warehouse near Seattle's Kingdome. April 14, 1993. It consisted of Pat Cashman saying the show's title in a distorted male voice, and the word "Bill" is repeated throughout as a percussive shout. [75] Bill Nye's Climate Lab featured him as commander of the Clean Energy Space Station and invited visitors on an urgent mission to thwart climate change. [62], In 2017, he was the subject of a biographical documentary film, Bill Nye: Science Guy, directed by David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg. . Nye became the face of "Bill Nye's Climate Lab," a permanent exhibition at the Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland, California. [30], In 1993, collaborating with James McKenna, Erren Gottlieb and Elizabeth Brock, Nye developed a pilot for a new show, Bill Nye the Science Guy, for the Seattle public broadcasting station KCTS-TV. Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Nye_the_Science_Guy&oldid=1142149610, 1990s American children's comedy television series, 1990s American sketch comedy television series, American children's education television series, American television series with live action and animation, Television shows filmed in Washington (state), Short description is different from Wikidata, Pages using Sister project links with hidden wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. [34] While portraying "The Science Guy", Nye wore a powder blue lab coat and a bow tie. [65] Also in 2018, Nye made a second guest appearance on The Big Bang Theory as himself, together with fellow scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson, in the first episode ("The Conjugal Configuration") of the show's final season. I hired a guy to sing it who sounded pretty cool. Omissions? Now he has incorporated philosophical ideas into his upcoming book and Netflix show. by Ken Ham on July 8, 2016. ", "Bill Nye's guy: Popular TV show scientist throws support behind President Obama", "That time I took a selfie with Neil Tyson and the President of the United States", "Bill Nye defends plan to see State of the Union with Trump's NASA nominee", "Washington Gov. [49] In 2007, he also hosted an eight-part Discovery Channel series, Greatest Inventions with Bill Nye. Disney was allowed to continue to classify streaming and download revenue from Bill Nye's show as "home video" revenue, a judge ruled. The science communicator and mechanical engineer best known for his syndicated PBS science show, Bill Nye the Science Guy, is no criminal. Biography and associated logos are trademarks of A+E Networksprotected in the US and other countries around the globe. Also a successful author, he remains a popular public figure and vocal member of the science community. [5], As Nye produced more demonstrations for Almost Live!, he began to develop the idea of a show featuring his "Science Guy" persona; KING-TV declined his proposal, though he eventually received assistance from station alumni James McKenna and Erren Gottlieb. He began freelancing for a sketch comedy show called "Almost Live!" where he earned his nickname after correcting a fellow host who mispronounced the word "gigawatt." And that turned out to be great advice. [7] Known as MarsDial, in addition to tracking time, it had small colored panels to provide a basis for color calibration. as a percussive shout, deliberately imitating the shouting featured in House of Pain's 1992 song "Jump Around". How tall is Bill Nye? [6][5] Nye successfully obtained underwriting from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy. Bill Nye, pseudonym of Edgar Wilson Nye, (born Aug. 25, 1850, Shirley, Maine, U.S.died Feb. 22, 1896, Arden, N.C.), journalist and one of the major American humorists in the last half of the 19th century. [123], Despite Disney's involvement in the series, the series has not been available on Disney+ due to a dispute with Nye over revenue sharing. He has appeared frequently on other TV shows, including Dancing with the Stars, The Big Bang Theory, and Inside Amy Schumer. [3], Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment released the series in its entirety on DVD, as part of the series' 20th anniversary. American science communicator (born 1955), This article is about the American science educator. Known for its "high-energy presentation and MTV-paced segments",[5] the program became a hit among kids and adults, was critically acclaimed, and was nominated for 23 Emmy Awards, winning 19, including Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming for Nye himself. In 1978, Nye started doing stand-up comedy. What I'm saying is the planet's on fucking fire. [130] Nye also received an honorary doctor of pedagogy degree during a commencement ceremony at Lehigh University on May 20, 2013. The Sioux City, Iowa NBC affiliate of KTIV is an example of a station that carried the show in Syndication. He had like a rockandroll kind of voice, so it sounded pretty slick. In the shorts, Nye's "Science Guy" persona worked as the "head sparkologist" of Noggin,[24] and he tried to find out what topics sparked viewers' imaginations. [104] His California house is solar-powered, and often feeds extra power back into the public power grid, something he enjoys showing visitors. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). Nye also voiced himself in the animated feature Happy Halloween, Scooby Doo! Shortly after reading my article, Nye began discussing philosophy with his friend David Kyle Johnson, a . On behalf of the committee, Eugenie Scott stated: "If you think Bill is popular among skeptics, you should attend a science teacher conference where he is speakingit is standing room only No one has more fun than Nye when he is demonstrating principles of science. He came with an appealing show called Bill Nye the Science Guy in 1993 aired on public broadcasting station KCTS-TV. He made the show for the KCTS television show. Got it? Along with his TV programs, Nye has written several children's books about science. [20] Nye's friends asked him to do Steve Martin impressions at parties, and he discovered how much he enjoyed making people laugh. "[14], Set to a house beat, Greene enlisted rappers to repeat the word "Bill!" "People still move to the United States, and that's largely because of the intellectual capital we have, the general understanding of science," Nye states in the clip. After Nye and Sheldon leave, Leonard receives a selfie of the two having smoothies, and later gets a text from Sheldon asking for a ride home, as Nye has ditched him at the smoothie store. Popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, he was born and brought up in Washington D.C. His interest in science was initiated by his father who was a sundial enthusiast. While the shows were aimed to catch the attention of younger audiences, it gained viewership from adults as well and were even used as effective educational aids for school science classes. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/bill-nye-3677.php. As of May 2017, the 1996 episode "Probability" is edited from its original airing, with a segment removed featuring a cast member saying there are only two genders. Here, I've got an experiment for yousafety glasses on. Settling in Laramie, Wyo., in 1876, he served as postmaster and justice of the peace and contributed to the Denver Tribune and Cheyenne Sun. [54], In 2008, Nye hosted Stuff Happens, a short-lived show on the Planet Green network. In 2013, Nye took on a different type of television role by joining the cast of celebrity contestants on the popular competition Dancing with the Stars. Are any of them free? Bill Nye Eventually, Nye decided to leave engineering and pursue his a full-time comedy career; at the time, it was a career move that seemed pretty risky! [2] After the show's first run was completed, Nye continued to portray the Science Guy character for a number of short interstitial segments for the cable television channel Noggin, which aired during rebroadcasts of Bill Nye the Science Guy. He earned a mechanical engineering degree from Cornell University. When surveyed whether Nye was a scientist or actor and comedian, most students asserted he was a scientist, though many said both. Children's Show Host #1. For the film, see, Friend, T. (January 5, 2004). [27], Even though Nye was regular on Almost Live!, he was only doing freelance work for the program. At the end of each episode, Nye thanks the viewers for watching, before explaining in a clever description of a theme's activity. His father was held in a Japanese prisoner of war camp, where he had no electricity for four years. "I mentioned how I planned to talk about bridges and bicycles and so onstuff that, as an engineer, I'd been interested inand [Sagan] said, 'Focus on pure science. He then invented a digital hydraulic tube. Updates? We were excited that he accepted . In 2012, Nye appeared on CNN to express his views on the devastating natural repercussions of nuclear incidents in Japan. On August 27, 2011, gave a public lecture at Cornell University that filled its 715-seat Statler Auditorium. . Nye acknowledged that omitting his bow tie on the program was a mistake. Nye was a celebrity guest and interviewer at the White House Student Film Festival in February 2014. [83], In September 2012, Nye claimed that creationist views threatened science education and innovation in the United States. The debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham on the question "Is Creation A Viable Model of Origins?" was held February 4, 2014, at the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky.. Ken Ham, founder and chief executive officer of the Young Earth creationist (YEC) ministry Answers in Genesis (AiG), challenged Bill Nye, a science educator best known for hosting the 1990s television series Bill Nye the . He is best known as the host of the science education television show Bill Nye the Science Guy (19931999) and as a science educator in pop culture. In 1852 Nye's family moved to Wisconsin, where he later taught school and read law. (with Bill lip-syncing), "Inertia is a property of matter", and "T-minus seven seconds". Starring: Bill Nye, Karlie Kloss, Derek Muller Watch all you want. [72] He became the organization's second Executive Director in September 2010 when Louis Friedman stepped down. He has been honored by many universities with several doctorates because of his contribution to science. Each half-hour show begins with a cold open, where Nye introduces the episode's theme, which leads into an opening credit sequence, and featuring Nye in a computer animated scientific world, along with his head spinning, radio frequencies, and plastic toy dinosaurs flying. [51] On October 28, 2007, he also made guest appearances on the VH1 reality show America's Most Smartest Model. [7][10] During the demonstration, Nye submerged an onion in liquid nitrogen and proceeded to shatter it, receiving acclaim from the studio audience. In 2006, Nye spoke about his relationship with musician Blair Tindall on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. He married her in a few months time, but they separated after seven weeks. "[23], In conjunction with the production of Bill Nye the Science Guy, KCTS-TV conducted several research studies that evaluated how effective the program was as an educational tool. [19], Nye started doing standup comedy after winning a Steve Martin lookalike contest in 1978. 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