The 70’s version of The Match Game is one of my favorite game shows of all time. Hosted by the uber creepy Gene Rayburn and made up of panel after panel of “C-list” celebrities it’s still entertaining now, 30 some years into re runs. I was thinking last night that we live in the epoch of low rung celebrities, so which ones would be good to cast if there was to be a remake, once again, of this show?
Host: Gilbert Gottfried!
Who for the Paul Lynde/Charles Nelson Reilly snarky gay guy, though?
I too love this show- Gene’s microphone still makes me laugh every time I see it. Match Game has it all- flaming queens (CNR, Richard Deacon), bitter bitchy fag hags (Brett), horndogs (Richard Dawson), hot chicks (Elaine Joyce, et. al), dirty questions, smoking and drinking on stage- best game show ever!
Richard Simmons?
or Martin Mull.
Not funny enough. At least not intentionally. 
To take Brett Sommer’s place, I nominate Lisa Lampanelli.
Ooh, he’d be good.
Oh god no. She’s a one trick pony (Ok, we get it, you sleep with black dudes. Get over yourself.) and would crash the show right away.
Good call on Lisa Lampinelli, how she has built a comedy career over “I like black dick” is surprising, only surpassed by Ralphie May’s “I’m fat and talk like I’m a rapper”.
First you need Amy Sedaris in the Fannie Flagg/Patti Deutsch seat.
I can see Michael Musto or RuPaul in the Charles Nelson Reilly seat.
Would love to see Deborah Harry in the Brett Sommers seat.
And you need someone who does good impressions - perhaps Norm MacDonald.
Too many options for the bimbo seat…
To replace Richard Dawson you need a macho+foreign+witty combo… hmm… that’s a tough call.
The Nipsy Russell seat has to go to Wayne Brady.
I am obviously the person to replace Dick Dawson.
Now gimme my check and I’ll make with the funny.
The fag hag seat could go to Tammy Faye Bakker. If she lives.
Or Liza Minnelli.
I nominate Kirstie Alley for Brett Somers’s seat. She can brag about her weight loss and how she was once a contestant.
Naw, save him to sub for the occasional panelist who lands a better gig.
One of the guys from “Whose Line” would be better.
As long as he isn’t abrasive toward the contestants.
And as long as he doesn’t recite any of those painfully lame poems.
Am I the first to think of Sean Hayes?
Paula Poundstone goes into the Fannie Flagg/Patti Deutch seat. Someone who takes the game at least half-seriously although she never gets a Match.
I see a place for Danny Bonaduce here… same thing for Jenny McCarthy.