Match the host with his game show:

1) Penn Jillette; 2) Jeff Foxworthy; 3) Howie Mandel; 4) Bob Saget.

a) Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?; b) 1 vs. 100; c) Deal Or No Deal; d) Identity.

Hey, this could be a game show in itself!

Anyway, if you took longer than a couple of seconds to come up with the following sequence -- 1-d; 2-a; 3-c; 4-b -- then you haven't been paying much attention to primetime TV lately.

Big sets, big casts, big money. That's the big plan in the big hope for big ratings.

Identity rejoins the fray tonight on NBC and CH, following a five-episode trial run last December. This is the show on which contestants attempt to match 12 strangers with 12 occupations or noteworthy facts (i.e., doctor, lawyer, pro volleyball player, shark-bite victim, desperate to be on TV at any cost, etc.).

Jillette, from the illusionist team Penn & Teller, always has rubbed us the wrong way, to be blunt. We never liked any of that magician crapola anyway, and when you throw in obnoxiousness, well, say no more.

But in muted form, Jillette is oddly likable in Identity. The same can be said for Foxworthy, Mandel and Saget in their respective game shows, too. For some reason, veteran comedians work well in these formats.

Can you be a complete idiot and still win lots of cash on any of these shows?

Well, at least with Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? and 1 vs. 100, the contestants have to answer a question or two on their own at some point.

Being an idiot actually might help you on Deal Or No Deal, since if you got near the end of the game and the $1-million briefcase still were in play, you would have to turn down a huge cash offer -- say, $250,000 -- to go for the mil. And who, besides an idiot, is going to turn down a guaranteed $250,000?

Identity helps the contestants by having about half of the 12 strangers "in uniform" -- the rabbi is dressed like a rabbi, and the sumo wrestler is dressed like a sumo wrestler, rather than vice-versa. But then it gets harder. Is the man in the Hawaiian shirt a baseball umpire or a heart-transplant survivor?

Our subtle sense of dignity scolds us that we shouldn't like any of these shows. But in a bizarre, lowest-common-denominator kind of way, they are strangely compelling.

Up next: A new-and-improved Definition with Mike Myers as the host. Okay, we made that one up. But anything's possible.