The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth can be boring.

On Fox’s new game show “The Moment Of Truth,” average-Joe contestants are hooked up to a lie detector and asked a series of personal and intimate questions. If they answer honestly, they can potentially win up to $500,000. However, if they lie, they lose the money and risk embarrassment of family and friends. It’s really a lose-lose concept.

The novelty wears off as soon as one realizes most of the questions asked are lame and uninteresting. (“Have you ever sent flirtatious text messages to a girl other than your girlfriend?”)

To add more intrigue to an otherwise lackluster show, the producers should do what all struggling television shows do: Recruit famous people.

Here are some possible choices:

GEORGE W. BUSH

Although “Dubya” would probably stay up all night studying for the lie detector test, having our current president as a contestant would be unprecedented. Aside from asking him about Al Gore and Florida, or WMDs, a whole can of worms could be opened here.

BURNING QUESTION: Have you ever had a nightcap at Condoleezza Rice’s house?

BILL CLINTON

Strapping the 42nd president to a lie detector would be like watching an epic film. There would be laughter, cries, mating calls – the whole shebang. This man was tried for impeachment for lying to the public, so of course there is going to be a lot to discuss.

BURNING QUESTION: You are going to vote for Obama, aren’t you?

PETE ROSE

Baseball aficionados know that Pete Rose is one of the greatest the sport has seen. With three World Series victories, 17 All-Star appearances and the all-time Major League hits lead, how could Charlie Hustle not be in Cooperstown?

Well, betting, for one. And admitting to betting, for two. But he only bet ON the Reds, not against them. His team spirit and loyalty could finally be addressed once and for all, and maybe Pete Rose will receive the accolades he deserves.

BURNING QUESTION: Are you still relevant?

O.J. SIMPSON

Really, who wouldn’t want to get The Juice on live television to settle the score once and for all? Simpson could finally put an end to years of debating about whether or not he killed Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman. Even if the glove didn’t fit and he was acquitted – after he almost released his book “If I Did It” – it still proved the public had an interest in this pimple on the face of the ’90s.

BURNING QUESTION: Do you have any stake in the Orange Julius franchise?

And if being alive wasn’t a prerequisite…

GEORGE WASHINGTON

The story goes that he could never tell a lie. He cut down his father’s cherry tree and he couldn’t even bring himself to say the British did it. Maybe we can finally nail Mr. One Dollar Bill on something.

BURNING QUESTION: Did you ever pull a “Sally Hemmings” like Jefferson?