January 17, 2002
Saw Fox's new "game show" the other night. Two people answer questions back and forth to see who gets to put up with The Chamber. It's set on either hot or cold; on hot the internal temperature gets up to about 150°F and cold goes down below zero. And the contestants have to answer questions for $1000 a question. When they get two in a row wrong or give up, they lose half their earnings. But if they finish seven minutes and answer 25 questions they get triple the money.
So there's the big-money motivation. The top prize is about $100,000. On the average they got $9167. For putting up with Regis you're practically guaranteed $32,000. Not quite sure this would be worth it, in my never-humble opinion.
Both participating and watching.
