Over the last two decades, Pinckney native John Colone built a reputation as a scrupulously-honest automobile dealer. Last year, Colone sold the business he worked so hard to create, and turned his attention to building a business based on the promotion of a year-round Halloween in Hell, Michigan. The show features three contestants all claiming to be the same person. The featured celebrity panel then asks the three contestants questions, in hopes of trying to determine which one is telling the truth and which two are lying. Following the question session, each panelist has to vote for the contestant he thinks really is the person described in the affidavit.
Wrong guesses are worth money to all three contestants, who split the winnings equally.
Colone recently traveled to the Burbank studios where the program is taped, and, seated between two imposters, introduced himself as the real John Colone, President of the Hell, Michigan Chamber of Commerce. Celebrity panelists Paula Poundstone and Meshach Taylor were fooled by Colone's performance and his share of the proceeds ended up in the chamber's general operating fund. For more information, contact Abaddon Enterprises at 734.878.1099.