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'Will & Grace' Is Back, But Will Its Viewers Be?

NBC is bringing back Will & Grace for at least two revival seasons, more than 10 years after it went off the air the first time. But the show has some work to do to get its viewers back.
Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally once again play Jack McFarland and Karen Walker in NBC's Will & Grace. / Getty Images

Just as the original Will & Grace did in 1998, the new Will & Grace finds our two favorite roommates playing a party game. But while the original scene was more like $25,000 Pyramid ("Driftwood ... John Wayne ... your parents' marriage ..." "Things that are dead!"), this time, they're playing Celebrity — similar, but different. This time, it's a joke about Newt Gingrich looking like a lesbian, one about Melania Trump being a "rich hostage" (thus confused with Patty Hearst) and one about Caitlyn Jenner being hard to like.

When Will and Grace played Pyramid

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