With a name like Trust Me I’m a Game Show Host you know the show will either be really good or a massive train wreck; really worth watching either way. Since the titular hosts are comedians D.L. Hughley and Michael Ian Black you can already tell is it much closer to the former. The show is quite simple, both hosts give a contestant a fact, one which is true and one that is not, and then the contestant has to decide which host to trust.
If there is a problem with Trust Me I’m a Game Show Host is for a quiz show, there really are not my questions. There are only six rounds in the half hour, compared to Jeopardy which can squeeze up to fifty-one questions in the same time period. Sure a lot of the time gets chewed up by Black and Hughley as they try to convince the contestants why they should trust them and not the other guy, usually in humorous ways. Plus when it comes down to it, the contestants have a 50-50 chance of getting the questions right.
Besides the host, another reason to turn into tonight’s premiere if the first contestant for the show Ambree who may be the most likeable game show contestant you will ever see. So likeable I spent most of the time hoping they invite her back as the show’s Vanna White later in the season (it has not happen yet in the episodes I have seen). Not that she would want to comeback because she uncomfortably laughed at all the sexual and racially tinged jokes (one of the first questions involves a, um… ladies first ever self pleasuring devise) the host lobbed at each other. That uncomfortableness continues next week with a youth pastor (who is overexcited as most youth pastors) who also had his fair share of religious jokes. If you did not know Black was Jewish prior to the episode, you will by the end.
Trust Me I’m a Game Show Host airs Tuesdays at 10:30 on TBS. Check out a promo below:
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