Summary
One player is an expert on a real subject — but they don’t want to be there, are tired of being asked about it, or find the whole thing unbearably boring at this point. An interviewer asks genuine questions with enthusiasm. The expert answers correctly but with increasing emotional exhaustion, resentment, or detachment. The game is really about the relationship between fame/expertise and the person underneath. Best when the expert’s fatigue reveals something real about what it costs to be the person everyone calls for one thing.
Example
A retired world record holder for longest continuous kazoo performance. Interviewer, delighted: “What was going through your mind at hour 47?” Expert, flat: “Nothing. Nothing at all. Just kazoo. Just the endless kazoo.” Interviewer: “Would you do it again?” Expert looks into the middle distance. Long pause. “No.”