New TV: Thank God You're Mo'Nique, "I had a couple of cocktails before I got here..."

Did anyone else catch the back-to-back premiere episodes of NBC's unscripted "game show", Thank God You're Here?

I LOL'd a couple of times. I wish the show was a little less Who's Line Is It Anyway in the awarding a meaningless prize (been there done that) and a little more funny sketches (since SNL can't seem to get it right these days), but, they got me to watch both hours (on DVR and no commercials). I've signed up to record all future new eps, so we'll see how that goes.

Here's a sample with comedienne, Mo'Nique. The premise of the game is that she has neither any idea what she walking into nor who she is supposed to be:


From my performance days we always talked about improv not negating...and this sketch seems to negate what Mo' throws out there, making her look a little stupid. The show works a better when the cues are being taken from what the guest star does, but she handles it with style and she ends up "winning" the episode, so God bless her.

This is based on a hit Australian TV show of the same name.