Some actual big-name stars have signed on as panelists for TBS' remake of Match Game, the campy '60s-to-'70s game show in which contestants had to guess how celebrities would fill in the blanks of a sentence. In addition to Sarah Silverman and Norm MacDonald, the pilot episode will include Rashida Jones, Kids in the Hall's Scott Thompson, Bob Einstein (also known as Super Dave Osborne) and Reno 911!'s Niecy Nash.
The original Match Game helped make household names of such "personalities" as Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Nipsey Russell and Fannie Flagg. No doubt these modern celebs will be encouraged to continue in their tradition of answering with salty double-entendres -- especially since the show is being produced by Robert Smigel, best known for creating Saturday Night Live's "TV Funhouse" and Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog.
After the jump, a racy episode from 1974:
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