from foxynews dot I am a gay twerker that has no balls!!!! I also have no idea how to use the quote function to post stories, so I annoy the piss out of others. I like male genatalia in and around my mouth.. I realize Match Game is before most of you young whippersnapper's time. But this game show was must-see TV during its heyday. Very simple premise but every fill in the blank question was purposely designed to give some type of sexual/dirty answer. I'll at least check it out to see if the new version is any good.
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The '70s game show "Match Game" is coming back, with Alec Baldwin picking up the long, skinny microphone originally held by Gene Rayburn as host, Vulture reports. The new "Match Game" will air for 10 episodes this summer on Sundays at 10/9c on ABC as part of a game show block that will also include "Celebrity Family Feud"and "The $100,000 Pyramid."
The new "Match Game" will have the classic format of contestants trying to guess how the celebrity panelists answered the jokey fill-in-the-blank-questions. No celebrity guests have been confirmed, but it's probably safe to assume that frequent '70s guest Betty White will return. Panelists back in the day often included Richard Dawson and Charles Nelson Reilly (maybe we'll see Baldwin's impression of that game show stalwart).
"Match Game's" best-known incarnation ran from 1973 to 1979 on CBS. It was last revived for a short stint in syndication from 1998 to 1999.
Match Game will premiere June 26 on ABC.
Dude. I watch Match Game almost every morning on GSN while I'm sorting out my calendar for the day. It's on at 7 and again at 7:30.
Used to watch this in syndication in the afternoon after school, too. This and Tattletales with Bert Convy. And Hogan's Heroes, Gomer Pyle, Brady Bunch, Partridge Family and Gilligan.
Match Game isn't always great, but there are some pretty funny moments. What never ceases to amaze me about that show is how comfortable people were about things. They made black jokes, jewish jokes, white jokes, sexist jokes and had fun with each other. Things were so much better when everybody wasn't looking for a reason to be offended and had a good sense of humor about it all.
Gene Rayburn was the perfect host for that.
Nipsey Russell is good on there. Charles Nelson is, Richard Dawson is, Fannie Flagg is, Betty White is, Patty Duke is, Bonnie from One Day At A Time is.
It's interesting to me to see some of those people when they were still hot and young.
Some of the contestants are fairly hot too. Kirstie Alley (way before Cheers) has been on there. So was the motorcycle chick from CHiPS, Brianne Leary. She was on there as a contestant, got discovered and became an actress and then came back as a panelist.
I really don't think I want to watch a new version of it, though. It will be lame.
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