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We all know about The Match game Hollywood Squares hour getting new episodes, but one host tells us about his experiences of the whole show. See why once I return.
Is everybody ready to see Sweep return to ABC? Unanimously, it's a yes. We'll have one mroe, but first, let's talk MG-HSH.
It started with this tweet from Dave Holmes.......
All I want to talk about is 1984's MATCH GAME HOLLYWOOD SQUARES HOUR on @BUZZRtv, and @decider let me. https://t.co/0FPqh0NnAw— Dave Holmes (@DaveHolmes) February 5, 2020
Jon Bauman, the host of that show responded with this.....
The show was kind of an emergency replacement for a failed soap opera as I remember it. An hour had to be filled so the idea of marrying the two classic game shows was born. The head of game shows at NBC was a Goodson alumnus. Heater/Quigley had sold Squares to Orion TV, but...— Jon “Bowzer” Bauman (@JonBowzerBauman) February 7, 2020
Goodson was going to get the hour because of the NBC connection. Irony was that Goodson had written a scathing letter to Variety in the 60’s complaining that Squares was a small step from the quiz show scandals of the 50’s because of the written jokes. Meaning...— Jon “Bowzer” Bauman (@JonBowzerBauman) February 7, 2020
Civilians weren’t given the answers, but the celebrities were establishing a false standard for wit by reading punch lines to a two-line joke off a page as if they were comic geniuses making them up. Goodson was tough but smart, & honest in this way. He was quite proud...— Jon “Bowzer” Bauman (@JonBowzerBauman) February 7, 2020
Of the clever, honest banter on his panels going back to “What’s My Line” & “Match Game” continued it. He would have produced the old-style Squares over his dead body.— Jon “Bowzer” Bauman (@JonBowzerBauman) February 7, 2020
So the result was every comedian in Hollywood grappling with “Here’s the setup- what’s the punch line?”
Fascinating from a comedy point of view- but really, no one could do it that well. Leno, Arsenio, Howie Mandel- everyone tried & some were better than others. But no one could really do it because the standard set by Paul Lynde reading the punch line off a piece of paper was...— Jon “Bowzer” Bauman (@JonBowzerBauman) February 7, 2020
And there you go.
So, did you see the new episodes of MG-HSH on Buzzr? You get 2 weeks to decide.
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