5th March 2011, 9:57 PM
They aren't working for points, that's the joke! They're really just doing improv and the whole "game" thing is basically just one big joke. They'd "work their asses off" (as you put it) anyway, because really it's just all good comedy fun for them.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)