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I'm watching Ellen's Game of Games for the first time. I think it's hilarious, do you?

Posted - December 31, 2017

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  • 53509


      My wife and I also saw it for the first time this past week (I am under the impression that it's a new show, that this was the first episode) and we both loved it, so we agree with you completely.  Four thumbs up!  We consider it to be the anti-Steve Harvey Family Feud filth.

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      December 31, 2017 11:48 AM MST
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  • 2465
    I don't like Steve Harvey at all. I like Family Feud even less, and I have no idea why it still on the air.  I think he's a pompous a$$.  
      December 31, 2017 4:04 PM MST
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  • 53509




      He's still on the air because studios want him there in order to pull in the yokels who yuck it up watching him and go on to support the shows' sponsors. Like you, I fail to see any attraction. 

      I've had a burr in my saddle concerning Steve Harvey ever since his 1990s sitcom, The Steve Harvey Show. He played a teacher (who eventually was promoted to vice prinicipal during the course of the show's run) whose grasp of the English language was so appalling that for me at least, it advertised the best reasons to abolish Affirmative Action. His true fame was centered on his long-time radio career and his background as a comedian, which is fine, but in order to get ratings and to cater to his demographic, the TV executives ignored common sense and cast an uneducated person as an educator. In a society that is cowed by anything on a screen, and a youth population that emulates everything it sees there, Harvey as an educator is simply a blatant mistake. 

      Fast-forward to his stint as the newest host of Family Feud. Still catering to the lowest common denominator in order to rake in profits from and for sponsors, a once family-oriented show has become an embarrassing cesspool of toilet "humor" and sexual innuendo that belongs more fittingly in some X-Rated smuthouse than on broadcast TV. Shocking the viewers has become the rule rather than the exception, leaving the show unwatchable for those who prefer decency. There is a time and a place for everything, and Harvey has both of them wrong. 

    My wife and I were glad to find Ellen Degeneres' clean, fun, funny, and appropriate show to watch.

    (The rant is all complete now; move along, move along, there's nothing more to see here, people, so please go on to your regularly-scheduled activities. Break it up, move along.)
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      December 31, 2017 4:46 PM MST
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  • 2465
    I've also heard reports that he is a tyrant to the people that he works with. I guess he's gotten too big for his britches. 
      December 31, 2017 5:20 PM MST
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  • 53509


    There was word that supposedly he issued a letter to his staffers telling them they couldn't approach him without an appointment, things like that. 


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      December 31, 2017 5:24 PM MST
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  • 2465
    That was the exact same thing that I heard. 
      December 31, 2017 8:23 PM MST
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  • 1812
    Is Ellen the girl that likes to do it to other girls?
      January 1, 2018 1:17 AM MST
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  • 13277
    If you're asking if she's a lesbian, then yes. But why does that matter? This post was edited by Stu Spelling Bee at January 1, 2018 6:22 AM MST
      January 1, 2018 1:20 AM MST
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  • 1812
    Just being sure I am thinking of the right Ellen.
      January 1, 2018 1:25 AM MST
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  • 13277
    As opposed to, say, Rosie O?
      January 1, 2018 4:29 AM MST
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  • 1812
    Oh no, as opposed to some other Ellen. Ellen is a pretty common name.  I like the Ellen we are talking about here. I would never compare her to Rosie.
      January 1, 2018 2:56 PM MST
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  • 22891
    ive never seen it
      January 1, 2018 2:46 PM MST
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  • 13277
    Meh. Haven't seen it, but most game shows are inane and a waste of time IMO. Doesn't anyone ever turn off the TV and read a book anymore?
      January 1, 2018 11:23 PM MST
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  • 3191
    Yes. 
      January 2, 2018 2:21 AM MST
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  • 13277
    OK, I just tuned in for a few minutes and they were doing blindfolded musical chairs. Seriously? I don't know if I've ever seen a dumber thing on TV. I have to wonder about the intellect, or lack thereof, of anyone who would waste his or her time watching something so inane.
      January 2, 2018 7:25 PM MST
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