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!

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.

The fairly low prize money for the competitive rounds seems reasonable because of the need to increase with each round to enable "come from behind" scenarios and because it feels uncomfortable enough for $300 to be the reward for the right answer to a kooky question that has to be a complete 50-50 guess -- if they raised the $100 amounts, then they'd have to raise the $200 amounts and the $300 amounts. Also, it is probably easier for the loser to go home with nothing when the winner didn't get that much anyway.

However, I would really enjoy the show better if they changed the ultimate (winner only) round to allow the contestant to win $1,000 if they get the first question right, another $2,000 if they get the second question right, and an additional $3,000 if they get the third question right. I would also prefer that they make that last question something that maybe 15% to 25% of people would actually know instead of making it something that only maybe 5% of people would actually know, as well as maybe a modicum of logic being able to be applied to it.

As for the jokes -- I enjoy those a lot, even the "groaners". Don't some people realize that those are part of comedy tradition? I hope they have subsequent seasons and that they get the next one out soon enough that multiple reruns of the existing episodes don't turn off so many viewers that they start thinking of that show as something they don't watch instead of something they do.

Pertaining to the question: Are there any countries that begin with the letter "w" and you called the answer "no" from the contestant to be right..When in fact..Wales is a country..and the only country starting with the letter W!!

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!!