It was called 'Celebrity Jeopardy'; thought up by Norm MacDonald as he portrayed Burt Reynolds, there were other interesting celebrities.
The best had to be Darryl Hammond portraying Sean Connery who always would pick on Alex Trebek. Laughing at him, making remarks on his sexuality, and claiming he would sleep with his mother.
I fell in love with these skits, and you can't get any funnier than what he would say.
Some celebrity portraits are pretty good. Especially with Jimmy Fallon. He was French Stewart, Robin Williams, Dave Matthews, Hillary Swank and many more. He would annoy Alex Trebek with the silly voices, especially when he was Robin Williams.
He can do amazing impressions, but he's not the only one.
Alex Trebek is portrayed by Will Farrell. Love this guy and it amazes me how he keeps a straight face when Sean Connery is egging him on.
It seems the character is so strong, it feels as if Alex Trebek himself would do the same thing and so would Sean Connery. Even some of the guest stars of SNL portray pretty good impressions of certain characters.
Celebrities like Reese Witherspoon portraying Anne Hasche, Tobey McGuire doing a killer impression of Keanu Reeves and even Alec Baldwin portraying Tony Bennett. It was pretty good.
David Duchovny even played Jeff Goldblum, and the impression is so similar to the real Goldblum. Kate McKinnon was pretty good at play Justin Bieber and Keanan Thomson was...Bill Cosby. This was before all the #Metoo movement.
Norm McDonald as Burt Reynolds or 'Turd Ferguson' as he liked to be called was the best. I miss Norm and well...without him, this skit would have never happened.
He would be there for a while and do the same thing Sean Connery would do. Make jokes and wear huge hats to piss of Alex Trebek
Unfortunately, Will Farrell left SNL to peruse a movie Career. The last time he did SNL's Celebrity Jeopardy; the real Alex Trebek made an appearance and the audience cheered as they usually would.
Sean Connery decided to make some jokes commenting their sexuality and all. These skits still make me laugh, but sadly...it can't be done anymore without the Alex Trebek around as well as Sean Connery.
Around the 40th Anniversary they did another Celebrity Jeopardy skit. Having not only Norm McDonald back, but Jim Carrey also made an appearance as Matthew Mcconahay.
It was pretty good. What I also like to talk about is what Sean Connery would like to do to some of the categories. Make then different so he could piss off Trebek. Like Let it Snow would be 'Le Tits Now', Therapist would be 'The Rapist', Famous Horseman, he would change it to 'Whore Seman' and so on and so forth.
One of the last SNL Celebrity Jeopardy episodes had Tom Hanks portraying himself as a dimwit person and well...it was entertaining.
Sadly, there hasn't been another one since Alex Trebek's death. It wouldn't be the same. With the 50th SNL anniversary coming up, who knows what's going to happen.
They did have another Jeopardy version called Black Jeopardy where Kenan Thompson would be the host and there would be two African American contestants and another that's either white or even Black Panther.
It's not as great as the original but still entertaining, and we miss Chadwick Boseman today.
There are a lot of skits on SNL that have been enjoyable. I just wanted to mention the one that made me laugh the most.
There is an actual Celebrity Jeopardy happening now with celebrities trying to answer questions to win money for their charity. I'll enjoy that for now and still remember there are clips of the SNL version that I enjoy today.
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