There's a Dumb Dora joke in here somewhere
Sarah Silverman and Norm MacDonald have joined the cast of Match Game 2008.
"The comedians have signed on to be on the panel for TBS' updated "Match Game" pilot, shot this week in Los Angeles. Also taking seats are Super Dave Osborne (Bob Einstein), Kids in the Hall trouper Scott Thompson, Rashida Jones ("The Office") and Niecy Nash ("Reno 911!")."
I'll actually probably watch this, at least the first time. Back when I got the Game Show Network (curse you, TimeWarner, for taking it out of my cable package!), I used to watch the reruns all the time, and they were pretty amusing. Especially as relics of their era, with Gene Rayburn, Richard Dawson and the recently deceased Charles Nelson Reilly slipping double entendre after double entendre into the game.
It mildly amused/irritated me to watch the way women are treated on that show. There's no way women or female panelists today would let Gene Rayburn kiss them or say those sorts of things -- it would be a sexual harassment brouhaha.
It'll be interesting to see what the show is like in an updated version -- I have a feeling that overt lewdness and potty humor (which had it's place in the original) will replace the double entendres and subtle digs.
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