Nat Faxon Gets Honest About His Celebrity Doppelganger 

The only way his appearance would've been better is if Joel McHale was one of the other contestants.

Don't step to me.

Six seasons and a movie!

And Penn Gillette!

It is! Her actual name is Stephanie Courtney, Taylor said it at the end but it was hard to hear.

​@@stevenbrown9185She also said it at the very beginning of the show when introducing each of them, & then again in the middle.

Yes, it gives everyone a chance to sign off with a memorable line. Only Jim really took full advantage, this time.

The points matter to the extent that the prize matters.

Why, it's almost like the entire point of the show is to highlight the comedians... giving the "prize" away but having everyone still speak to the audience completely eliminates any concern over the points. No one's trying to win, other than just to compete for silliness.

Calling that "audience involvement" is ridiculous, the audience is just as involved in the entire show

And if everyone is on until the end then the points REALLY don't matter

I seriously hope so

@@Bryan_on_fire me too💯😆

I just want her to say, "as you know we always end the show with..." And then make it different every time.

people are not "whining" about FTW, they're just giving opinions on the changes, which is actually helpful cause what they're doing is literally testing new things and people's reaction???

idk if you've clocked it, but the view counts on these videos are *distressingly* low, like, *apocalyptically* low for a mainstream network TV show. It's cheap to make, comparatively speaking, but as a massive fan, I'm worried that it nevertheless won't survive... So I support any tooling around they feel like they wanna try with it. I'm sold on the show regardless, and more power to them for probing for a groove because I can't *fathom* why more people aren't watching it 💙

@grankmisguided I watched it when it was @Midnight, hosted by Chris Hardwick, so I was pleased the show returned, particularly with Taylor who's awesome.

because it's like Calvin Ball: the rules & goal changes dynamically.

still waiting for a guest to declare in the opening segment they are playing for a charity that will get all the winnings.

@@realbadger same, @midnight was my favorite show in its original run, and I was thrilled when they announced it was coming back, especially with a comedian at the helm whose work I love and respect... I admit though that I still do miss the verbal exclamation of "POINTS!" (and the occasional "...yknow what? no points for that.", which was amusing and pleasing too)... and Hardwick's reactionary laughs at everyone's bits felt more sincere and infectious than Taylor's, whose genuine laugh somehow feels put-on in some way (and I hate even typing that out loud and hope no one sees or takes note of it, because it's not something anyone can control or change 😬)... but overall I think she's absolutely killllling it, and she feels so natural and at-ease in the role, I love it 😍 Honestly the biggest flaw and tragedy in the whole thing is that right before it came back on the air, Elon thoroughly destroyed Twitter, which was a natural home for #HashtagWars, and their daily trending weirdness generated a lot of attention to the concept. (Just the other day I rewatched the hilarious old CollegeHumor mock game show skit "Why Is This Trending?", which shouts it out something along the lines of *buzz* "that is some at midnight bullshit" "correct, if it's some weird pun thing, almost always" 🤣 and wow is that video a bizarre time capsule... They did a second one to follow up like a year later and the thesis was basically yep we can't do this concept anymore because Trump has ruined everything and the internet is no longer fun 😬) I used to have a lot of fun participating in the hashtag, and now I just don't know where to put it. I signed up for Threads and did a night or two, but with no other content ever on there it felt weird to just have a threads account yelling @fter Midnight puns into the void... And it's not the same now that everything is threaded, because on Twitter you just posted it in your feed but used the hashtag and atted them, so it was discoverable but still a first-party original post from you, not buried in a thread of 30,000 other replies like it is if you comment on the clip on RU-vid or Tiktok or Instagram or Facebook... And idk if anyone sees it if you post it on your own Threads like we used to on Twitter, since there'll be an actual thread on the show's Threads for the hashtag and people seem to be commenting on it... I don't care if anyone connected to the show ever sees my stupid pun, but I want at least a couple other people making stupid puns to see it so it doesn't feel totally pointless and audienceless and masturbatory... But in the 2024 metagame of digital social interactivity, that's just not how it works anymore. And it's Elon's fault for turning Twitter into this weird X thing we have now that repels users because it's so intrinsically connected with his weird egoism that we don't want to participate in. And now we don't have anywhere quite exactly like Twitter was. It reminds me of how Facebook systematically dismantled the concept of Online status in Instant Messaging and now that just doesn't exist, the old MSN-like paradigm has disappeared and there's no way to signal "I am enthusiastically available to start an IM conversation", we're all just pseudo-online on our smartphones and never really actually there, Schrodinger's chatbots that may or may not answer any time soon, so you feel differently about engaging someone for nothing in particular. (Even in a corporate context, because no one signs in and out of things like Teams, they just leave it running, so if their work computer is on, their Teams is signed in, whether they're at their desk or not. 🙄) ...whew sorry to get on a bit of a rant there 😅😅😅