It was a badly worded question. Yes "smell" has connotations of a bad odor, but it should have said, "smell badly."

But does fresh bread really have much of a smell anyway?

@@MrMatteNWk Yes, it smells really good - check out your local bakery when they're taking out a fresh batch.

Right, and showed his mean streak. There's nothing like the wonderful smell of fresh baked bread or a roasted turkey, or even spaghetti sauce to fill the entire house. Badly worded question and Richard ran with the badness. I'm sure he really hurt people's feelings, especially with his bit about "where do they find these people." The guy who said bread looked crestfallen. Typcial egomaniac, sleezy gameshow host. He played one in the Running Man and Roger Ebert said he was born to play that role. I loved how Arnold Schwarzenegger called him "cutie pie" at the end. That's what he called the guest on the show Gretchen who was 23 years younger than him who he basically stalked, got pregnant, and then married. In that order. Charming, yes. Good person, no.

@@MrMatteNWk Oh, yes!....my childhood. a bakery.

nongthip a few years later they reused that question and combined the answers and the points together

he said that he wasn't a drinker

@@toddinthemiddle I heard that often on he had a struggle with alcoholism. But that he eventually was able to leave it.

Richard was a heavy smoker