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Comedy Central's Got Game

What do you call a cross between the Travel Channel, Let's Make a Deal and Double Dare? Comedy Central calls it Don't Forget Your Toothbrush! The offbeat game show, starring Mark Curry (Hangin' With Mr. Cooper), premieres June 20. The series asks that the studio audience bring their luggage and passports to its tapings just in case they're chosen to participate in a wacky game and win a trip to some exotic locale. "It's somewhere between a game show and a sketch comedy show, where the contestants are playing a part," executive producer Andrew Golder tells TV Guide Online. "It's also sort of a hybrid with the reality genre and things like Survivor." Playing Don't Forget Your Toothbrush isn't like coming on down on The Price Is Right. "Contestants come in for an interview, essentially," Golder explains. "They fill out a fairly extensive form ? it's five pages long and asks for some general information like names o

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What do you call a cross between the Travel Channel, Let's Make a Deal and Double Dare? Comedy Central calls it Don't Forget Your Toothbrush! The offbeat game show, starring Mark Curry (Hangin' With Mr. Cooper), premieres June 20.

The series asks that the studio audience bring their luggage and passports to its tapings just in case they're chosen to participate in a wacky game and win a trip to some exotic locale. "It's somewhere between a game show and a sketch comedy show, where the contestants are playing a part," executive producer Andrew Golder tells TV Guide Online. "It's also sort of a hybrid with the reality genre and things like Survivor."

Playing Don't Forget Your Toothbrush isn't like coming on down on The Price Is Right. "Contestants come in for an interview, essentially," Golder explains. "They fill out a fairly extensive form ? it's five pages long and asks for some general information like names of friends, where did you go to elementary school, what are you afraid of... as many generic things that we can figure out. But we don't want anyone to know quite where we're going with anything."

Make of that what you will, since some of the contestants' tasks are downright raunchy. "There's one where we flew a girl's father in from Georgia to surprise her," Golder carefully recounts. "We got him on the phone and he agreed to come out and participate in this bit in which the girl had to select her father's rear end in a Speedo. She had a choice of five Speedo-clad buttocks, and had to figure out which one was her father's in a game called, 'Hey, is that my Dad's ass?' "