Tuesday, June 17, 2003

In praise of crap
Not surprisingly, JD has his review of some of Game Show Network's newest offerings. Funny Money was OK, but nothing spectacular. Take a few pop-culture questions, mix in some half-rate stand-up comics and Kathy Griffin (who must be contractually obligated to work every game or reality show featuring celebrities), and you've got this fine mess of a show. It could get interesting if they add in more curiosities as stand-up acts like the guy who replaced Anne Robinson.

Thanks to GSN, I can also inflict this song either in trash questions or a future audio round. The show needs a lot of work, but for some reason I found it mildly compelling. OK, so his grown daughters are pretty cute, that's a plus. As for not including Scrabble in the show, I'd imagine it was a rights issue since it's not in the current rotation. So there was much creative history being written.

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