How … dumb … was she?

The one episode of “Gameshow Marathon” that I was most interested in seeing was the recreation of “Match Game,” which aired tonight. It was, in fact, pretty funny. The celebrities were George Foreman, Kathy Griffin, Bruce Vilanch, Adrienne Curry, Adam Carolla and (a frequent guest on the original version) Betty White. Lance Bass and Kathy Najimy were the players. I would have thought that entertainers trying to match entertainers might have an advantage over the civilians who played the game way back when, but Bass and (surprisingly) Najimy proved that they could at times be just as clueless as housewives from Pasadena.

The celebrities were pretty funny, and it was observed early on that the producers had chosen them carefully — Vilanch was sitting in Charles Nelson Reilly’s old seat, Kathy Griffin in Brett Somers’ old seat, Adrienne Curry in the pretty-model-or-actress seat, and so on.

This was certainly much funnier than the miserable syndicated remake of “Match Game” from the late 1990s, which used only five celebrities. Bland Michael Berger hosted that one, with Nell Carter as a regular panelist and Vicki Lawrence as a semi-regular. It never clicked. The questions weren’t that funny and you didn’t get the kind of banter among the celebrities that made the original “Match Game” so much fun to watch.

I’ve seen what I had been waiting for. I really don’t have much desire to see next week’s “Family Feud” finale to “Gameshow Marathon” — especially since various versions of “Family Feud” have been on the air ever since the original, so there’s no sense of nostalgia about it.