Comedy central

A while back I faux tweeted about Bunk, the new comedy sort-of-game show debuting June 8 on IFC. In case you don't know, IFC is one of the cable channels way up in the nosebleed section. I think the initials once stood for Independent Film Channel. But now they stand for, er, IFC.

Basically, Bunk seems like a Whose Line-ish improv comedy show, except with more formal game show trappings. The host, Kurt Braunohler, and the "competing" comics actually stand behind podiums on a set that looks like leftovers from Win Ben Stein's Money. The show offers goofball prizes and odd ways of keeping time, like however long it takes an intern to pick up a spilled box of uncooked spaghetti.

Since my favorite game show of all time, Match Game, was essentially an improv comedy show with some silly little game thrown in, I shouldn't mind such frivolity. And I really don't, except Bunk seems to have no real gameplay at all.

If they're just gonna have comics do improv, well, why not just have comics do improv? No need to pretend we're on Ben Stein's set and playing a real game.