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1 vs. 100

SagetWEB.jpgThey say a million dollars isn't what it used to be. On 1 vs. 100, NBC's new, imported game show, correctly answering the following question will set you on your way to procuring that sum: What do you do with a badunkadunk? a) drive it, b) sit on it, or c) wear it. These days, the only person who can't win a million bucks is my grandma.

Bob Saget hosts this mash-up of Who Wants to be A Millionaire and Hollywood Squares. Saget, who has experience hosting dopey TV (America's Funniest Home Videos anyone?), continues to shed the corny, do-gooder persona he developed on Full House with a follow-up to his filthy turn in The Aristocrats. He's sassy and a bit smarmy, nobody's Danny Tanner. Though a vast improvement over Howie Mandel (not saying much) and Regis (ditto), he's still a game show host, by which I mean, "he makes lame jokes." When a contestant says she has "a boyfriend of nine years," Saget replies, dad-style, "He's very, very young." What's next? "'I'm sick of your shtick.' 'Hi, Sick. I'm Bob of Los Angeles.'" Ouch.—Willa Paskin

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