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Kevin Elder Pereira (born December 28, 1982〔Kevin Pereira (December 28, 2005). (Operation: Birthday ). Accessed 2006-11-04.〕) is an American game show host and TV personality. ==Biography== While he was 14, Pereira hosted ''Pointless Audio'' under the pseudonym Captain Immy.〔Stephen A. Johnson (April 15, 2006). (AOTS hosts Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn ). g4tv.com. Accessed 2007-01-25.〕 The show featured many prank calls and was hosted on such gaming sites as Planet Quake and ShugaShack (now Shacknews); it later evolved into ''Pointless TV'', and finally LickMySweaty.com.〔 One of the projects featured on the latter site, a short film created for his video production class at Deer Valley High School, earned him three California Media Festival awards in 2001.〔(2001 Secondary Subject Area Award Winning Videos ). 35th Annual California Student Media & Multimedia Festival. Accessed 2007-01-26.〕 A different film project was recognized in 2002.〔(Secondary Awards 2001-2002 School Year ). 36th Annual California Student Media & Multimedia Festival. Accessed 2007-01-26.〕 He studied film and television production with a scholarship to the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California for one semester.〔 After working as a network administrator at an Internet service provider for five years and also at a television network, he pursued a career at G4.〔 He started as a production assistant in 2002 on the talk show ''G4tv.com'', then moved on to ''Arena'' and ''Pulse'' and then quickly moved to another G4 show, ''The Screen Savers'', in 2004.〔(Kevin Pereira ). IMDb.com. Accessed 2007-01-26.〕 Pereira was a co-host of ''Attack of the Show!'', G4's live tech info show, and was the last original cast member to leave. He co-hosted the show for a year with Sarah Lane, who left in 2006, followed by Olivia Munn, who left in 2010. In 2011 Candace Bailey joined Pereira as cohost.〔Moye Ishimoto (December 6, 2010). (Candace Bailey is the New AOTS Co-Host ). g4tv.com. Accessed 2011-08-02.〕 He hosted his last episode of ''Attack of the Show!'' on May 31, 2012 after it was announced on May 8, 2012 by G4 that his final broadcast would take place on that day. His final broadcast for the channel was their Electronic Entertainment Expo coverage, preceded by a month-long retrospective of highlights from the show.〔(Kevin Pereira Leaving Attack Of The Show ). G4 (TV channel). Accessed 2012-05-08.〕 Pereira is also producing a show for SyFy titled ''Viral Video Showdown''. He formerly hosted the syndicated quiz show ''Let's Ask America'' until 2014, when MTV VJ Bill Bellamy took over. On October 4, 2012 Pereira launched his podcast ''Pointless'' on the Deathsquad podcast network, but is now doing his own podcast on supercreative.tv/ . Pereira appeared as a co-host on the political webshow ''The Young Turks'' on February 4, 2013, alongside long-time co-host of the show Ana Kasparian.〔http://www.tytnetwork.com/ TYT Network. Accessed 2013-02-06.〕 From June 11, 2013 through June 13, 2013, Kevin co-anchored Microsoft's ''Xbox @ E3 Live'' streaming coverage on Xbox Live, reuniting him with former G4 personalities, Morgan Webb, Blair Herter, Jessica Chobot, Blair Butler and Tina Summerford. It was announced in September 2014 that Pereira would be hosting truTV's new show ''Hack My Life'' alongside Brooke Van Poppelen. The show's first season premiered on January 6, 2015. On February–March 2015, Kevin Pereira and his crew from SuperCreative launched a popular interactive gaming talk show via online streaming on twitch.tv called "The Attack" and is currently the main leader/host of the show along with many other co-hosts. The online show has a variety of different segments and topics that covers pop culture ranging from technology, general news, reviews and previews of video games, movies, and many other things. They also have lot of interactive events such as video-game playthroughs and hangouts online with stream viewers and subscribers on twitch with daily and weekly giveaways. There will also be upcoming live events like video-game events, live music performances, etc. which much of all this is very reminiscent of G4tv's ''Attack of the Show!'' On June 14, 2015, he hosted the Nintendo World Championships. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kevin Pereira」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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