`Match Game' Panelist/Comedian Brett Somers dies

Yahoo News ^ | 9-17-07

[My Favorite Headache]

Thanks for all the laughs Brett...

[#1CTYankee]

Liked her as well as C.N.R.

Funny people.

[My Favorite Headache]

[I Drive Too Fast]

I liked watching Match Game. Of course, I wouldn't have wanted to be a contestant on the show since the panel more often went with humor and/or a ridiculous answer rather than what you would expect.

[mwyounce]

Rest in _____________.

[capt. norm]

She was great, totally open, and funny.

This image may be more familiar.

[My Favorite Headache]

Yeah both of them went within what? 6 months of each other? This image of Brett always reminded me of the Teresa Hines Kerry picture on FR

[I Drive Too Fast]

Wow, now 3 out of 4 in that photo are dead. The game was funny, especially the interactions between the stars.

[My Favorite Headache]

In 2006, Brett Somers told the Game Show Network (GSN) that many of the Match Game personnel were “relieved” when Dawson quit the show in 1978. Dawson was annoyed that a “star” wheel was added to select celebrities, as most contestants would choose him 3 to 1 over the other five panelists prior to the wheel’s addition (in fact, he himself admitted that he took the addition of the wheel as, as he put it, “a direct slight”). Richard had already been starring as host of Family Feud on ABC prior to leaving MG and had been trying to quit MG in order to focus on his “Feud” duties. Producers initially didn’t want to release him from his contract. Because of this, in later years of MG, Dawson could be seen as looking like he was sulking and didn’t want to participate. Dawson left the show in 1978.

[I Drive Too Fast]

How could I forget? Dumb Dora was so dumb ....... (audience all together) - How dumb was she?

I seem to remember that Brett liked to see what Charles often wrote as his answer.

[ConservativeStatement]

RIP. Very funny show.

[RDTF]

interesting:

She was born Audrey Johnston in New Brunswick, Canada, and grew up in Portland, Maine. She ran away from home at age 17 and headed for New York City, where she settled in Greenwich Village. She changed her first name to Brett after the lead female character in the Ernest Hemingway novel “The Sun Also Rises.” Somers was her mother’s maiden name.

[#1CTYankee]

Now that was just cruel, she wasn’t insane!

[BallyBill]

Charles Nelson Reilly, now that was funny woman.

[mwyounce]

How could I forget? Dumb Dora was so dumb ....... (audience all together) - How dumb was she?

She was so dumb, she sent her cultured pearls to SCHOOL!

[#1CTYankee]

"Charles Nelson Reilly, now that was funny woman."

Indeed, and quite a card.

Sometimes you can give someone credit for talent even though they don't conform to our lifestyle.

A very sharp person.

[Tanniker Smith]

Rest in _____________.

Oddly enough (or maybe not), that was my first thought also.

I learned a lot of double-entendres watching that show -- except that I didn't know that they were double-entendres until sometime later . . .

[Tanniker Smith]

What’s funny is to watch the reruns and see the guys who were oldtimers back in the 70s and some of the flash-in-the-pans that make you say, “Who??”

[lowbridge]

bump

[My Favorite Headache]

I heard GSN is going to do a marathon of Match Game in honor this weekend.