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Just for Laughs Says You!
Visits Wisconsin
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Says You! It's the witty word game from
WGBH / Boston that has engaged and amused audiences
from L.A. to New York. Each week two teams
bluff, guess, and expound their way through the
fast-paced, 30-minute program (broadcast Sundays at
8:30 a.m. on the Ideas Network stations).
What makes the shows even more
fun and spontaneous is that they are recorded in
front of live audiences. Host Richard Sher and his
panelist visited Milwaukee and Madison in April to
record six shows for national broadcast in May.
And a good time was had by all!
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On April 15 at the infamous
ComedySportz club in Milwaukee, nearly 150 public
radio fans laughed along with Sher and his
panelists - radio personality Tony Kahn, television
host Barry Nolan, television producer/writer Arnie
Reisman, consumer reporter and “Ladies Home
Journal” columnist Paula Lyons, public
television executive Francine Achbar,
columnist/critic Carolyn Faye Fox, and
ComedySportz's founder Dick Chudnow. The show
then moved on to Madison to tape four shows.
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It was a dark and stormy night
when, suddenly, Richard Sher drew the Trivial
Pursuit question "What do you call the band of
low pressure that surrounds the Earth at the
Equator?" In his typically debonair
fashion, his first thought was, "Who cares?
What a dumb question."
Then he realized the answer was
"the doldrums." "Eureka!" he
shouted to himself, because if he shouted out loud,
his game-mates would think he was crazy or, worse
yet, steal his idea. Richard's epiphany was
"the point is not that it's important to know
the answer; it's only important to like the
answer." When he managed to get a bunch of
people in a coffee shop talking by challenging them
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name the music on the shop's
sound system, a game show host was born.
As originally conceived by
Richard, Says
You! is played in
five rounds. Rounds one, three, and five are
original categories that change each week. Sample
categories include "What's the
difference?," "What am I doing?,"
and "Who or what came first?" The second
and fourth rounds are bluffing rounds. One team is
given a word to define. Only one panelist knows the
actual definition, the other two panelists must
each make up a definition good enough to fool the
other team. "It's not easy," Richard
says, "but it's a lot of fun."
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