GAME SHOW HOST AN INCREASINGLY COVETED POSITION "So you want to be a game show host? Get in line. These days it seems as if every B-list actor is angling for the job. … For the networks, game shows are winners because they are inexpensive to produce, appealing to viewers and can be sold in the same format around the world. For actors, the job can be a good way to revive a flagging career — think of Howie Mandel, who had a failed talk show and a stalled acting career before starring in 'Deal or No Deal' on NBC during prime time. In the last year, Kevin Belinkoff, vice president for original programming at the Game Show Network, has been peppered with résumés from performers, some of them well known. Barely a day goes by without an agent or talent manager suggesting that he hire a client."

Actor Christopher Knight, perhaps best known for playing Peter Brady in 70s sitcom The Brady Bunch, has been tapped to host the live-action version of snooty board game Trivial Pursuit.

In the decades since The Brady Bunch, Knight has done little but participate in sad spectacles (The Surreal Life) and marry Adrianne Curry, a woman so crazy even lunatic factory America's Next Top Model refuses to claim her. Which raises the question: Is it wise to hire a man to host a game he probably isn't very good at?

Can someone introduce us to a Jeopardy contestant who actually watches The Hills?

Just when I think Ice-T can't get any more offensive, he goes and compares his wife to a sports car. On a family game show. In front of his mother-in-law. Host Al Roker seemed surprisingly unfazed by the show of misogyny, though. The "Ice-T Family" competed against Joan Rivers and Co. on Celebrity Family Feud last night. The families play for charities — Ice-T's was a gang prevention program and Joan Rivers' was a charity that gives guide dogs to the blind. You don't have to watch until the end of the episode to know that a few blind people woke up in really good moods this morning.

The first topic was "something that's slippery and hard to hold onto." You know where this is going.

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