Subj : Re: Game shows
To   : JOE MACKEY
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Tue Dec 15 2020 14:09:00

Joe,

 >   Especially when most of the questions gravitated to a sexual and
 > innuendo theme.

 JM>   That was mostly the appeal of the show.

  So much for a "G" rating. :P But, it got the viewers.

 JM>   And the great thing it wasn't dirty.  The games were suggestive at
 JM> times, but never dirty.

  All I can think of is the numerous deals from "Hollywood Squares",
especially from Paul Lynde. He even said years later "I don't know
how we got some of that stuff past the censors".

 JM>   I hate to think what the game would be like today.

  Likely R or NC-17...like most of the rap songs, where every other
word is profanity (i.e. the F word). One ventriloquist, whose "dummy"
was "Shotgun Red" said "You know what I think about Rap?? Put a C in
front of it!!".

Daryl


.... A bird in the hand is a dirty hand.
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