Still Bigger Than a Breadbox

As explained in this posting here, a wonderful little show is performed every Wednesday evening up in Hollywood — a fun and faithful resurrection of the great game show, What's My Line? Your host is J. Keith van Straaten (who produces with director Jim Newman). There's a lovely hostess/model, Claudia Dolph, and a terrific live musician, Adam Chester…and everyone really does a superior job of bringing the old program back to life for an hour or so.

I mention it again because I went again: My pal Nat Gertler and I were in the front row, rooting for our friend Len Wein, who shared panelist duties with comediennes Cathy Ladman and Jane Brucker, and comic actor J.P. Manoux. The four of them managed to guess the first two contestants — a lady who makes dog biscuits and another lady who gives flying lessons — but failed to guess a gentleman who juggles while drawing portraits. (They did get the juggling part, and then the gentleman gave a demonstration of his simultaneous skills.)

The Mystery Guest was David Faustino from Married With Children. After a few go-rounds, Mr. Manoux nailed him with the question, "Are you either David Faustino or someone else?"

If you're in or around Los Angeles on a Wednesday evening, you'll have a very good time at this show. Details here.