While the idea of having one contestant take on 100 people in a game of trivia skill sounds on paper like a hugely challenging undertaking, in truth it probably is 100 times less challenging than "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" because 1 the questions tend to be far less brainy, and 2 the competition ain't all it is cracked up to be. The 100 opponents, as it were, are really more like a studio audience that is packed with surfers, waitresses and models (and, yes, a few teachers and valedictorians, too). [...] here he is, mostly reining in his natural impulse to be the class clown but occasionally allowing his disdain for the whole exercise to peek through.

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