Monday, May 16, 2011

Match Game: Cher Wars

Ok, so last night I had the opportunity to go see Match Game at The Rendezvous, for the first time.  Wow! What a delightful cluster f*ck of personalities and bad humor.  Mimicking the old 60s/70s game shows, Match Game pits audience members against each other to see who can best get into the minds of the "celebrity" panelists.

Hosted by the amazingly cheesy Richard Rugburn, Sunday night's theme was a awkward mash up of pop culture references: Cher and Star Wars... which expectedly please both gays and geeks alike.  The match game phrases developed where largely absurd, but that was the point!  The celebrity panelists came up with some pretty ridiculous answers (again... the point) making it hard for the audience participants to get inside their heads.

The highlights of the show included the wit and humor of Glamazonia, and a character by Steven Stone called Lando Caucasian, a charismatic if slightly sleezy Star Wars themed politician.  References by Lucky Penny as Barbraleia a mash up character of Princess Leia and Barbarella were perhaps to obscure for the majority of the audience but she committed to them, and it was fun to watch Richard drool over her awesome go-go boots.  Bravo girl! :-)

The rest of the panelist seemed to be there to be crude, and as a show built around parodying an often risque game show of yesteryear, it worked.  For those of you who have not made it before, look it up.  Apparently they have only one more show, ending its 5 year run (this is an awesome achievement!) that will be coming up in early summer.  It's wacky, it's tacky, and it's a lot of fun.

Loves, Fosse Jack

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