Richard Simmons was a cultural icon in the decades leading up to his death earlier this summer. Though most known for his best-selling Sweatin’ to the Oldies video workout series, Simmons had a successful history in that vein and produced and starred in more than 50 different videos. Simmons used infomercials like no one ever before and used that medium to sell more than 20 million copies of his Sweatin’ to the Oldies series alone.
Simmons also hosted two television series during the 1980s, but it was his flamboyant character and quick wit that he presented as a guest on late-night talk shows that put him in the spotlight with mainstream American audiences. Late Night with David Letterman, Regis and Kathy Lee, and countless appearances during the televised airings of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade made him a TV staple throughout the 1980s and 90s.
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