Funny You Should Ask

The reviews for this prove it! Yes it's basically a midday game show. Yes the prize money isn't a lot. Yes it's mostly past their prime comedians. Yes they all have the answers and jokes written/rehearsed for them! There's nothing new here, it is the same format as Hollywood Squares. But you know what? All the negatives fit the old game shows like it too! Charlie Weaver, Paul Lind, Rose Marie were all past starring in stuff too. But people loved those old game shows! Match game actually restored some people's fame! Everybody chose the same guy for the final answer, Richard Dawson over and over, and he eventually became iconic-ally beloved on Family Feud. But as a half hour escape, it is serviceable. Louie Anderson is very funny, Tom Arnold loves to point out he's stupidly married 4 times. The only real negative for me is the final question is like final Jeopardy champions tournament level hard. You're only going to get that by wildly guessing right! But c'mon people stop condemning it for being exactly what it is supposed to be! A low budget campy giggles daytime filler show. There are/is far worse high budget Network crap out there. That ridiculously bad Kiki Micheal and Sarah show that last like what, a few weeks? Sheesh!

Yes, for those old enough, this show invites comparisons with Hollywood Squares. I'm not a game show fan, but I liked Hollywood Squares and watched it as often as I could (it was a daytime show, and I usually had a day job).

'Funny You Should Ask' can be considered a lower-budget variation of the Hollywood Squares theme, but with six comics providing multiple answers every show, there's plenty of opportunity for hilarious mirth. And they deliver.

Two competing contestants, always a male and a female, try to choose the correct answer provided by the panel of comedians. General topic questions, ranging from culture and society to history and science, are posed, and the comics give a funny answer as a first response, then give their final answer, which may be either true or a bluff.

What is so challenging about the questions is they cover such a wide variety of specialized and esoteric topics, so that often the most logical answer is false and the most bizarre answer is true. Yet, the better-learned contestants will have better odds at winning because correct answers can sometimes be deduced from the questions.

The progressive 3-tiered structure of the show is interesting because each episode provides the chance for serious come-from-behind winning dynamics.

Jon Kelley is as good as game show hosts can get. Perfect for this program.

Hopefully, this show will endure and grow, with the winning purses increasing over time, as well.

Should be paying the contestants more. Loser goes home with nothing. Winner takes home peanuts. Show only exists to give washed-up comics rent money.

I admire the improv speed with which the comics come up with something on the spot, UNLESS they know beforehand what their question will be; I started suspecting that when most qs to Byron Allen involve viagra! Actually all of them do go to Allen! I agree it's really cheap money compared to other shows, especially loser gets nothing, and to turn the knife in the wound Kelly reiterates to the winner that game money is theirs to keep!. I think it's the comics who command the majority of the budget even though in the end they only answer 3 questions!. But it is rather new so I'll give them a break to improve their budget. Some of u think it copies Hollywood squares (9 comics) but is more a reboot of original " funny you should ask " in the 50"s black and white Era of television, and back then the winnings were better!!!Lol!!

Some of the 5000 dollar questions are just plain ridiculous. For example; According to the Guinness Book of Workd records, What is the combined weight of of the heaviest set of twins ever. Yeah right no one would "know" the answer to that question. Pure guess for the measly 5K they are so cheap about they ask unanswerable questions.