Kevin Elder Pereira (born December 28, 1982) is an American television personality and host.

Early life

While he was 14, Pereira hosted ''Pointless Audio'' under the

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g4tv.com. Accessed 2007-01-25. The show featured many

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s and was hosted on such gaming sites as Planet Quake and ShugaShack (now

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); 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. A different film project was recognized in 2002. He studied

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and

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with a scholarship to the

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, California for one semester.

Career

After working as a

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at an

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for five years and also at a

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, he pursued a career at G4. He started as a production assistant in 2002 on the talk show ''

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'', then moved on to ''

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'' and ''

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'' and then quickly moved to another G4 show, ''

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'', in 2004. Pereira was a co-host of ''

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'', 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

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, who left in 2010. In 2011

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joined Pereira as co-host. 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

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coverage, preceded by a month-long retrospective of highlights from the show. Pereira also produced a show for

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titled ''Viral Video Showdown''. He formerly hosted the syndicated quiz show ''

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'' until 2014, when

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took over. On October 4, 2012, Pereira launched his podcast ''Pointless'' on the Deathsquad podcast network, but later moved to hosting his podcast on SuperCreative. Pereira appeared as a co-host on the political webshow ''

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'' on February 4, 2013, alongside long-time co-host of the show Ana Kasparian. Pereira was the co-host of ''

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'' that ended in 2018, on

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with

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. On February 12, 2021, G4 announced that Pereira would return to host ''

'' on the relaunched network. In September 2022, he announced he would be leaving the network; his last day was September 21, 2022. Upon hosting on the new G4 Kevin’s participation slowly began to get sparse and eventually he went on a hiatus and soon after G4 closed its doors again.

Filmography

Television acting roles And Twitch Roles

Film acting roles

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pereira, Kevin 1982 births Living people American game show hosts People from the San Francisco Bay Area American people of Portuguese descent American people of British descent People from Antioch, California American agnostics People in the video game industry Academy of Art University alumni