Improv-a-GONE-za

GSN made a truly weird decision when they brought Improv-a-Ganza back from the dead on Friday night. Wiser (or at least more conscious) heads have now prevailed. Drew Carey and company have once again departed, replaced by Baggage. I make some comments on the GSN schedule board...

I didn't think Improv-a-Ganza was an embarrassment or a disaster. It's just that too many stretches of the show were pretty light on laughs. Which is a problem for an alleged comedy show.

Maybe GSN just couldn't afford to tape enough footage to edit the show down to high-quality material. A straight comedy project with no gameplay was always going to be a tough sell on GSN. So the show had to be really funny to succeed. Improv-a-Ganza just wasn't all that funny, and it sank like the boat which hit the iceberg. I don't know why GSN execs thought a second go-round would produce better results.