2/13/2008 - Alex Trebek Drunk

It's time for Final Jeopardy!

And the answer: This video:



And the correct question is: What is the last thing I thought I'd ever see?

5/2/2007 - Celebrity Jeopardy Compilation

After watching Old School, I finally understood the appeal of Will Ferrell. It's the simple fact that this man has no shame. He can go from running naked in the streets to wearing a ridiculous elf outfit to skating in a male pair team with ease. It amazes me how well he plays a drunk too.

What I miss most about him being on SNL isn't any of these fratboy antics, however. I really miss his straight man performance as Alex Trebek in the Celebrity Jeopardy skits! It doesn't matter that he doesn't look like or sound like Alex Trebek (I don't think he was even trying), the feud between him and "Sean Connery" was just classic. The insults Darrell Hammond as Connery laid on Will Ferrell got funnier each skit. You can tell they were having fun with it too.



It was also fun to see the celebrity hosts make fun of other celebrities in their imitations of them. It's just too bad they had to get rid of these skits with Will Farrell's departure. I'd really like to see Farrell, Hammond, and possibly Norm MacDonald on a real Celebrity Jeopardy show. I wonder what would "Sean Connery" say to the real Alex Trebek...

Past Favorite - Ken Jennings on Jeopardy

Ken Jennings is simply a Jeopardy god. Sure he didn't win the Tournament of Champions, but we all have our bad days, I guess. He won 74 straight games of Jeopardy and pocketed $2,520,700. I always wonder why he didn't go on Who Wants to Be A Millionaire and win a cool million for one day's work. I think most of these contestants on the other game shows besides Jeopardy are chosen for their personality instead of their intelligence or knowledge of trivia.

Just watch a typical Jeopardy game and you'll see how much more "bland" their contestants are. They're just more serious-minded than the contestants from other game shows. It's an intense game and there's no time for jumping up and down to the sight of a large spinning wheel.

So when there is such a rare occasion that a laugh-out-loud moment occurs on Jeopardy, it's good YouTube material:



Just classic. Only the format of the Jeopardy game would allow for such a moment. What's priceless about it was the way Ken just instantly answered the question (or is it questioned the answer?) in such a matter-of-fact manner. It took Trebek a little while to process what Ken had said and by that time Ken knew what he said as well, sheepishly sinking his head in embarassment. But really, what was wrong with Ken's response?