A little slumming

I'm not a Glee-ful type. Never watch the show, in fact. But as a faux tweet noted, it was hard to miss Google News getting all excited over Glee's Jane Lynch hosting NBC's upcoming Hollywood Game Night.

She won't be the first celeb to take a small slumming tour through our déclassé genre. A glance at her Wikipedia article didn't reveal any prior game show experience, and her IMDb page mentioned only a bit part on syndie Millionaire. That's just as well. Hollywood Game Night sounds more like a celeb-fest than a serious competition.

Supposedly, it's a pop-culture quizzer conducted in a party atmosphere. "A-list celebrities" hang out and bat around trivia questions with "fun-loving non-celebrity contestants." Jeopardy this ain't, but fun-loving non-celebs are probably the best kind of non-celebs.

As long as Jane doesn't barf on the air, she should be able to handle what sound like very non-taxing host duties. Eight hour-long episodes are due in late summer.