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- this show isn't concerned with being politically correct. Because of chronic poverty, he was typically dressed in threadbare clothes with a length of rope for a belt. Out of 21 questions asked, I audibly laughed 7 times. In the bonus round, the player is asked three questions, one at a time. Despite this, only a single jokebook survives from ancient times: the Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459) was one of the most colorful and versatile of the Italian humanists. Friends describe him as tetchy and difficult, but exhilarating to be around. Well, jokes do fall into the category of folklore, along with myths, proverbs, legends, nursery rhymes, riddles, and superstitions. It was a fat, tattered paperback bearing the title No doubt "G. Legman" itself was a pseudonym; both the initial (G-spot?) Players alternate, with three questions going to each contestant per round. (Yes, I counted.) were suspicious. I would appreciate it if more the questions weren’t True or False; it feels like there’s more room for comedy with open-ended answers.In my home town, FYSA airs at 3:30 PM. The theme song is Pharrell Williams’ Happy, and it’s left to the reader whether composing new music would be cheaper or more expensive than licensing the 20 seconds of Happy the show uses. In each half hour episode, six superstar comedians try to help two contestants win a big cash prize. It is thanks to him that we have Lucretius's Not only was Poggio the greatest book-hunter of his era; he also wielded one of its wickedest pens, satirizing the vices of the clergy and lambasting rival scholars in his Ciceronian Latin.

On the Roman side, Plautus refers to jestbooks in a couple of his plays, while Suetonius tells us that Melissus, a favorite professor of the emperor Augustus, compiled no fewer than 150 joke anthologies. A surprising caliber of celebrity and quick questions make Funny You Should Ask worth at the very least a DVR series recording. Funny You Should Ask is, at its core, Hollywood Squares with three fewer celebrities and without that pesky “tic tac toe” mechanic. In the episode I watched, the panel was made up of Tom Arnold, Caroline Rhea, Bill Bellamy, Emmy Award-winning actor Louie Anderson, Sheryl Underwood and Jon Lovitz. A secretary to eight popes over a half century, he fathered fourteen children with a mistress before taking, at the age of fifty-five, a beautiful eighteen-year-old bride, who bore him another six children. Quite simply, Funny You Should Ask is laugh-out-loud funny on almost every question and the punch lines will, more often than not, make your jaw drop. )The jokes range from Hollywood Squares-level corny zingers to actually clever, laugh-inducing chuckles. He is a competent ringleader but you could lift and replace him with an off-screen voice and nothing of value would be lost. Reviews Review Policy. Funny You Should Ask is an outrageous new game show that believes every question always has a funny answer. FYSA feels like a faster game, with more questions being doled out than Hip Hop Squares’ snails-pace of questions. If the history of folklore aspires to be a history of the human mind, as some of its practitioners insist, somebody has to do the tedious job of collecting and recording obscene, disgusting, and blasphemous jokes, and ushering them into print.Although we think of the joke as a cultural constant, it is a form of humor that comes and goes with the rise and fall of civilizations. Read more. Thus is the trouble with syndication: starting a new, untested show in syndication means taking a lot of chances in some aspects of production and playing it safe in others. (The last answer given is always a joke answer). Two players compete for cash as host Jon Kelley asks each celebrity trivia questions. Funny You Should Ask allows you to interact with the comics and play for stakes that increase as the game progresses. In the Athens of Demosthenes, there was a comedians' club called the Group of Sixty, which met in the Temple of Heracles to trade wisecracks, and it is said that Philip of Macedon paid handsomely to have their jokes written down; but the volume, if it ever existed, has been lost. By Shakespeare's time jestbooks had become extremely popular. Legman was born in 1917 into a Jewish family in the coal country of Pennsylvania. The set is actually really nice; it doesn’t fall into the trap of being blue and purple and dark all the time. In the late 1940s he wrote Legman was a handsome man, five feet nine inches tall (according to his FBI file), with thick dark hair, blue eyes, and a strong nose. Is this really an area in which scholarship is appropriate or profitable? Each answer is preceded by a joke, and the players must agree or disagree with the celebrities’ answer. After the laughter subsides, the comedian answers again, this time trying to respond correctly. Legman, in turn, was disdainful of folklorists with PhDs, whom he called "Phudniks" and "cacademics." Funny You Should Ask Stop Me If You've Heard This Before, Jim Holt's funny, scholarly history of humor, ranges high and (very) low to answer the question, "What are you laughing at?" This is the strength of having six pure comedians on the panel (as opposed to a Squares type show in which 1/3 of the panel are comedians and the rest are entertainers delivering the writers’ jokes with just enough timing to earn their scale pay for the day) and Funny You Should Ask builds on that well.Jon Kelley’s performance as host is serviceable. Whether the show makes it to a second season will not be because the show isn’t well-crafted (because it is), but because it’s not being watched. Even better, there are more such punch lines than on any show you've ever seen. W.W. Norton Poggio was a passionate bibliophile, and he profited from the disorder, traveling throughout Europe in search of lost works of ancient literature. From the dungeons of remote medieval monasteries he rescued precious manuscripts that had been rotting into oblivion, and laboriously deciphered and copied them. A skilled calligrapher, Poggio invented the prototype of the roman font. The prize budgets are just about the same. Two players compete for cash as host Jon Kelley asks each celebrity trivia questions.