Anthony Anderson OF ‘TO TELL THE TRUTH’

Since you’re still doing it in addition to your work on “black-ish,” is it safe to assume you’re still happy to be hosting “To Tell the Truth”?

I’m happy and excited that we’re back for our sixth season, and the only person more excited about it than I am is my mother (Doris, who serves as a co-host)!

Of the three people in each “To Tell the Truth” segment, do you know from the start which is the “real” person and which two are the impostors?

No. From Day One, I never wanted to know. I wanted to be as surprised as the audience and our celebrity panelists. I never knew who was telling the truth unless I knew them personally or professionally, and that’s happened maybe only twice in the six years we’ve been doing the show.

Academy Award-winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter (“Black Panther”) was on the show last season, and though she wasn’t the original designer on my movie “Kangaroo Jack,” we were having some issues on that and I knew someone who knew her. I just recused myself from playing along and making a guess on the show. And there was a rapper who made a song 20-plus years ago who I knew of, and that was it.

Now that there are so many primetime game shows on ABC, both new ones and revivals, do you take special pride in “To Tell the Truth” having been among the first in that wave?

I’ve never really thought about it like that, but yes! To be part of that renaissance from the beginning, it does feel great to know that we kind of pioneered that ... and to have been around for six years and still be going strong.