(Photo by Megan Berru, from a previous Match Game Live)

Email from an anonymous tipster:

Saturday night’s Match Game featured a surprisingly unruly crowd. First there was the incoherent British fellow who decided to go off on “Bobby Newhart” for no apparent reason (guest panelist had Marcia Wallace mentioned Newhart in passing). Then there was the fellow in the front row who decided to give the finger REPEATEDLY to the 8 months pregnant Danielle Koenig when she said he resembled SNL bandleader G.E. Smith. Alrighty then. How nice.

Then the defections started occurring. The first was the British guy, who exited while still prattling on about “Bobby Newhart.” Then someone else left. Finally, in the midst of what was a truly hilarious but long-winded edition of the Game (with more matches than the previous night, where there was one particularly lamebrained contestant — or should I say vaguely a contestant), a third guy with a small canvas cooler exited quickly from the back row, ran down to the front, tried to grab host Jimmy Pardo’s signature wand mike, and rushed out.

The panelists tried to make sense of this. Graham Elwood suggested that maybe he had to deliver a kidney. Scott Aukerman pretended to leave as well, stopping by to grab Jimmy’s mike to tell Jimmy what a great host he is.

Then the truth was revealed. An audience member sitting near enough to the guy to see his phone said that he received this text: “I NEED TO BE FUCKED HARD.” The guy texted back: “BE RIGHT THERE.” And he left.

Well, Match Game is great and all, but everyone has their priorities.