The Simpsons co-creator dealt cards to Playmates while Norm Macdonald watched. What could go wrong?
Season 1 • Episode 8
LatestSam's Game is a celebrity poker program currently airing on Playboy TV. It features a lineup of comedians, Playmates, and professional Texas Hold 'Em players and is hosted by Simpsons' co-developer, Sam Simon.
Production
Playboy TV's bizarre intersection of comedy, skin, and card strategy.
Acting
Norm Macdonald visibly questioning every life choice that led here.
Creator
Sam Simon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sam Simon co-created The Simpsons, wrote for Taxi and Cheers, then used his fortune to rescue animals—making this poker detour one of Hollywood's strangest side quests.
This captures the dying gasp of 'laddie' culture: Maxim magazine, The Man Show, and celebrity poker as aspirational male entertainment before streaming fragmented everything.
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