Cash Cab
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A Fun Game Show - With Brains!
One of my favorite shows right now is Discovery Channel's Cash Cab. I discovered it completely by accident while flipping around looking for something interesting to watch, and have been a fan ever since. The show is filmed in New York City, where host Ben Bailey (check out his website, TheRealBenBailey), who holds an actual NYC taxi cab driver's license, picks up fares and invites them to play. But riders are warned: Three strikes means they're booted from the cab - whether they've reached their destination or not!
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Cash Cab is an Emmy Award winning game show which was devised by Adam Wood and is originally from the United Kingdom.
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If you're like me and enjoy the game show Jeopardy but wish it was just a little less difficult so you could more easily play along, you'll love Cash Cab. While some passengers/contestants seem to be clueless to even the easiest of questions, others appear to be bonafide geniuses. But, for the most part, typical New York contestants have enough smarts to answer enough trivia questions correctly to emerge from the cab at their destination with a little extra cash in hand.
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The Discovery Channel/Cash Cab website has a click-on option which lets you take a virtual cab ride and play the game. Take a test ride!
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A Little About the Cabbie
Not only is Bailey the host of Discovery's Cash Cab and Cash Cab: After Dark, he has also received critical raves from show-biz magazines Entertainment Weekly and People Magazine. Ben is also a stand-up comedian who has performed at live comedy shows world wide and on TV shows such as The Tonight Show, The Late Late Show, Last Call, Premium Blend and Tough Crowd, to name just a few. He has also made guest appearances on numerous sitcoms and dramas.
Ben Bailey stand up at DC Improv
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If you haven't seen Cash Cab already, has this piece inspired you to check it out?
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Thanks sschilke. If you like trivia games, I think you'll like it.
interesting hub. I dont think I have seen any news of this on Discovery but I will do some research and hope to find it.
Thanks Sixty. I provided links (in blue) throughout the story and an episode of Cash Cab I found on you tube, to make easy for readers to check-out the show.
Actually, I voted yes up above even though I am a fan of Cash Cab. My daughter says I should hang around New York City and try to get on - I am forever doing rather well! I do love shows like that and can remember when many game shows required intelligent answers to difficult, and sometimes easy, questions.
Great hub, and great show! See - I don't just watch CNN! LOL!!! (Actually, I do not watch that much news on CNN, FOX, although I do enjoy Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow.)
Dude I love this show! I can never guess the questions though..well, rarely. Great hub though
Thanks Jeff. I think your daughter's right, and I stand corrected... ;-) Also, Keith Olbermann IS fun to watch. And thanks for voting, that's a fun little addition, eh?
Thanks Jonno. Not surprised that you love this show, too. I'm the same way: Sometimes I kick ass - know all the answers, other times - I suck.
Hi Constant,
I voted "YES"! Looks interesting to me. I have already checked out the website and the tv listings. I am always looking for interesting things to watch. Thanks, Carol
You're very welcome, Carol, and thank you. With cable and all the cool channels we now have to choose from, there's almost always something interesting to watch.
This sounds like a much more tame versio of a taxi cab show.
Thanks for reading, Sweetie. What taxi cab show? You mean that one with Judd Hirsch?
It's actually a trivia/game show. Check out the video. It's fun! I promise.
I meant that Taxi Cab Confession one, but that is not a trivia show. This one actually sounds like something I would like to watch because I love jeopardy and trivia game shows.
I think you're right: You would like this show. Plus, it's a bit easier than Jeopardy, and Ben Bailey is MUCH more fun than Alex Trebek.
I love cash cab! I actually have known some of the answers! LOL I don't get to watch tv much, but have caught this show several times....always loved it. good hub, constant!
I know all the history, literature, geography, and some of the popular culture questions on Jeopardy. The only place where I get tied up is on science and math based questions. Cash cab sounds fun. I also like Are You Smart Than A Fifth Grader and I wonder how people miss so many questions on that show.
Thanks, Marisue. Good to hear from you. The show is on, like, four times a day - here in the West.
Sweetie, I've known the answers, on Jeopardy, in a lot of those subjects - even science! - but math definitely throws me. I'll watch Fifth Grader too, mainly because there's nothing else on at that time, and the questions are surprisingly difficult. I watched a certified "genius" get his butt kicked on that show once.
I actually applied to become a contestant on Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader, but I was never selected.
I would love to go on Jeopardy as well, but when it comes to some areas of interest, I do not do so well!
It is brave indeed to want to go on Jeopardy. Clearly, you're a "Fart Smeller."
I think I would probably do pretty well on Fifth Grader, too, because I get most of the questions at home. But I also know the pressure on-stage is much different than it is at home.
I love game shows, and I catch cash cab once in a while. It's a nice little twist of a game show!
Thanks for reading, Smith. I totally agree; trivia with a unique twist.
I have to admit that it has been a year since I saw Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader, but last time I saw it the answers people were missing were pretty easy. Wow, surprised a certified genius did not win, but the questions must be harder as time goes by.
Definitely. For "fifth grader" questions, some of them are very difficult. I was surprised.
Why not have a marrige proposal in an episode. You could get that couple in, and then ask some questions,and then for the last question you turn to the woman and ask her if she would like to marry the guy. When she turns around the guy would have the ring. [ONLY FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE PLANNING TO GET MARRIED] [AND A GUY WHO HAS NOT PROPOSED TO THE GIRL]
Interesting idea.
Cash Cab has disappeared from central Florida and I am afraid Ben has been swallowed up by one of the many denizens of the deep - simple things like pythons or gators thrown away grown too big to keep in a fish tank; they are thrown casually away by bored nonwatchers of CB. They are on my S### list; this is my all time favorite show in decades and I am desperate. Someone please help! How does one contact the deciders of what goes and what does not go with this show? I need to appeal to somebody.
Kevan, I feel your pain. According to Wikipedia (for what that's worth) Cash Cab is still being filmed in New York and airing on Discovery Channel and in syndication. Episodes can also be viewed at the Discovery Channel Web site:
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/cash-cab/ and possibly other online resources. Look around.
Good luck!
I love this show! I want to go to NYC just to get in the right cab.
It's fun, I know. Recently I've been finding it on channel 707, the HD version of 07, which is Discovery Channel here in Oregon.
just wanted to let you know that the answer to your question about the golden colored horse with the white or creme mane and tail is not palomino. palomino is a color of a horse not a breed.
Excuse my ignorance. Not a horse person.
sschilke 3 years ago
constant walker,
I will have to check it out, sounds interesting.
sschilke