Match Game

This show is a perfect example of how far TV has fallen. Match Game was a winning TV game show formula that featured comedians who were funny in their day. Even watching reruns today you can find the show funny and it is entertaining and also the game show makes sense. But what they have turned it into is shrieking "comedians" who are doing everything they can to make sure they are the one getting on camera and the show has absolutely no intelligence or value at all. The other reviewer hit the nail on the head by saying all the answers are cheap and lowest common denominator. This show is an example of how our society is in decline, sorry if you think that's an exaggeration but I don't think so.

For fun the last time I watched this show (which will be the last time I watch it ever) I wrote down all the answers they gave before turning the channel (which made me feel good about myself). Here are those answers:

Prostitute, hooker, herpes, hooker with books, pearl necklace, prostitutes.

That's not unusual either, pretty much every round most of the answers are sexual or about body parts or bodily functions. The kind of scatological humour you would expect from a five year old or a clinical idiot. I'm not a prude, go ahead and give us the occasional dirty or lowbrow joke, but all the time? Really? Why are you people on TV if this is all you have to offer? Are you all sharing a brain? If so shouldn't at least one of you have the brain at any given time?

Please do yourselves and us viewers and society at large a favour and get off the air.

This show is insipid, straight up stupid and has no moral value either. It's not even entertaining or informative/educational. Not only do you shut off your brain to watch it I am 100% convinced that watching it has made me a less intelligent person. I give it 2 out of 10 because I don't mind the host, I like that he's not so over the top as most game show hosts out there. This show isn't funny and I just feel sick watching these people give their answers, knowing exactly what they will say because it's the same joke answers I would have given in high school.

"Bum, poop, fart, sex, boobs, hooker, prostitute, b-j's, gang bang, orgy, orgasm, stripper, underpants....." if that is your idea of quality TV programming, this is the show for you. If you have any self respect at all run don't walk to any other channel.

Shame on the Comedy Network. Your other programming is not much better if it's any better at all.

This show is not worth watching in fact it is only worth flushing down the toilet. None of the comedians and actors on the show is ever funny. One girl always draws pictures, usually of a penis or something. The fat girl just shrieks and yells and screams. Every time they spin the wheel I grit my teeth because the fat guy always starts singing about how the wheel is spinning which I guess is supposed to be funny. They had John Hodgman the other day and even he was not funny but you can't blame him. The host seems to be going through the motions counting the seconds until he gets to cash his check. I swear at least half the time all their answers are penis or poo or something else related to that. Our tax dollars are paying for this garbage? Get some funny people who can keep the host and guests awake or cancel this piece of crap by flushing it and replace it with Match Game 73 which is currently airing on the game show network and is still much funnier than this show. I'm not kidding about that to be funny I seriously mean run Match Game 73 instead. Or why not rerun Kids in the Hall? That show was hilarious. What the hell is wrong with this channel that you can only make crap like that? Match Game sucks huge clackers.

Match Game sucks. I watch the original game show (it is currently airing on cable and is called Match Game 73) and it is very dated but it's still an amusing show. The premise for a game show is very good where you have professional comedians as a panel trying to "help" the contestants by giving answers to the same questions and if the answers match they get points. The original show has the comedians giving funny answers but never dirty, and usually they give a real answer and just say funny things about it. This new show just has comedians who give the worst answers trying to be funny and failing. So why should the contestants even bother playing when the comedians just keep giving stupid answers which are also usually filthy? Gave his dog a what? A penis. She keeps a what in her cupboard? A penis. I could give better answers than that and also funnier answers than that and I am an accountant, probably the least funny kind of person in the world. Please stop making horrible shows like this. Whoever at your network thinks that anything sexual is automatically funny needs to be fired. Have you guys ever made one single good show? Every person on the panel is not funny and the host is also not funny. Seriously is this the best we can do?

I have seen this show twice now (including right now and I admit I probably will not finish since I'm only 6 minutes in and already in a cold sweat wanting to reach out for the remote). This is one of the worst game shows or shows in general that I have ever seen in my entire T.V. watching life.

The host is so boring and dull and seems like he (just like the viewer and the audience) doesn't really want to even be there. I certainly can't blame him for that.

The contestants aren't just bored but boring and the puzzles they do are really stupid and deliberately set up so that people will hopefully give bathroom potty joke answers.

The panel is made up of some of the least funny people I have ever seen on T.V. and their answers are so unfunny and just plain idiotic that I can't believe what I'm watching.

Match Game is a Canadian game show which is based on an older game show of the same name from the U.S. and I think it has existed a few times there after being revived in different years. The format is popular and was on for years.

This new (Canadian) version has some problems that take away from the enjoyment of the show, at least in my opinion but that's all I can give you :-)

The jury... I don't recognize most of them and don't know how they cast for this show but almost down to the last person they're just not funny. They rely almost 100% of the time on obvious "dirty" answers thinking that making sexual or scatological references will be automatically funny on their own. This is my main problem with the show. A number of them also seem to be desperate to have their jokes heard and to be seen on TV so they often resort to yelling and talking over each other/the host/contestants which is just annoying and unnecessary. A couple of them even sing all the time which just comes off as desperate.

The host... he's not as bad as the jury but he seems very stiff and for an improvised comedy show he doesn't seem to think on his feet very wittily/quickly. But I bet that stuff could be learnt with time, and let's face it, given how little I think of the jury I bet they are not giving him much to work with :-)

The contestants... they are incredibly boring, or maybe it's just that they are bored themselves and we can see that coming through in their performances.

The prizes... super cheap and it's very difficult to see them win the top prize.

The format is a winner but they just aren't doing anything with it. Just because a format works doesn't mean you can just grab any jury, host and contestants and a camera and offer a $100 cash prize and assume your show will be guaranteed successful.

This show is a major disappointment to me because the original show was very funny and worked on every level, so it's an opportunity really missed by the Comedy Network.