Discovery Channel’s ‘Cash Cab’ is Back in These Streets

I don’t care how cool, or how “I’m late for a very important meeting ’cause I’ma business person” you are: if you’re a New Yorker and you get in a cab and those LED lights go off on the ceiling, you’re going to fan out ’cause you know you’re in the Cash Cab. Cash Cab hit the scene in 2005 and became an instant cult classic. The premise was easy: you get money for answering trivia questions while your host, comedian Ben Bailey, drives you to your destination. You get three chances to get the questions right. If you strike out, you lose the money and get the boot before your destination. Cold blooded, right? Damn Ben, you gon’ kick me out half way to my destination ’cause I didn’t know to what country wolverines were indigenous? Hell yeah. That’s New York. The show ran for seven years before driving off into the sunset in 2012. Until now… The Cash Cab Rides Again

Six years later and the wait is up. Ben Bailey steps back into the driver seat, adjusts the rearview mirror, and get his Max Max Mario Kart Ryan Gosling in Drive on for another season. Bailey is the type of host that makes you take heed to the “you don’t know what you got till it’s gone.” You see him back in action and that “I’ve missed this” smile creeps up on you. Bailey doesn’t miss a step returning as host. His jokes are perfectly placed jabs to get folks comfortable and keep the good-time vibe between questions upbeat. Once that clock starts ticking and he switches tone because needs an answer? You can feel tha…