Match Game

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.

This game show is terrible! The only good thing about it is that the production values look OK, almost like they actually spent some money on making it unlike most shows on Canadian TV, especially game shows. But this show is really annoyingly awful. First off the host is always stumbling over words and just seems bored or boring, like he doesn't want to be there, he is not good at talking to the contestants or getting them to answer questions as if they are actually caring about being there at all. The guests on the show are awful. It seems like Sean Cullen and Deb from Videos On Trial are the two that are there every week and they are the most annoying people on earth. She won't shut up and is always running into other people's frames it's as if she is constantly shrieking "look at me look at me look at me look at me!!!" and Sean Cullen also talks constantly but instead of desperately pushing himself for the camera his just sings nonsense and makes up really weird things and clearly thinks this makes him hilarious. Sometimes he comes up with something funny but almost all of the time he's just shooting useless random **** out of his mouth. The other guests are also always terrible, like really terrible. The only thing they have to do is come up with an answer to a question so if they can't come up with one funny answer they can just put a real answer which I'm sure the contestants would like so they can actually get a match sometimes. But no they always get some actor from some other crappy Canadian show or some comedian and they always do the exact same thing, come up with the first sex act or body part they can think of and give that answer and expect everyone to laugh like they are a comedy genius. This show is just desperate and stupid and sad, there are almost zero laughs to be had and none of these people are interesting, even the contestants come off as bored and the contestants are the worst part of all of this show. Maybe it's because the host doesn't know what he's doing but they never say anything and when they do talk they're just mumbling stupid things and wanting to just get the show over with so they can win their prize which is also **** usually like fifty bucks or something. What a pathetic show! I wish I could stop paying taxes so they couldn't afford to make this ****.

The show does have problems but I don't think it is as bad as your "the sky is falling" interpretation of this show basically making it sound like it is the worst show ever made in the entire history of human civilization!

First off I don't think the host is bad at all. You can't blame the host for having bad contestants and for the six guests not having funny answers a lot of the times, all he can do is work with what they give him and if they don't give him much he obviously doesn't have anything funny to work with.

The contestants do always seem to be very uninteresting and also seem like they are bored or don't really want to be there I will give you that one a hundred percent.

Also like I already said yes the six guests do go to below the waist and toilet answers a lot of the time and have some really bad jokes but we have to give them some lee way there because unless you have been there we don't know how much time they get to answer, if it is live like it is on the show it seems like they only have 5-15 seconds to come up with and also write down a answer so it must be harder to do then we might think just watching.

The prizes are not great but what do you expect this is Canada and any game show here the prize will always be less than it is on a U.S. show, how does that take away from how entertaining the show is for us to watch anyway?

I give it 4. I would like to see better contestants brought in and also new guests, I don't know why they all seem to change except one male/female couple who are in always. Keep the host and give him a chance though I like how his style is more sedate and real life than other hosts.

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.