I would guess the phrase “Uhh” would come up. Frequently.
Ha, we also watched that last night and could not stop laughing. Somewhat to Paul’s credit, I think, he is getting money for a charity by simply being there, whether he wins or loses, and by the end I felt like he was milking it a bit for entertainment value. Not to much saying wrong answers on purpose, but buzzing in without even thinking about the answer. There really isn’t any pressure like there would be for regular Jeopardy contestants.
The “Australian Panda Bear” had us rolling, btw.
[Sean Connery]
Your mother said “Uhh” frequently last night too, Trebeck.
[/Sean Connery]
Youtube search for “Rock and Roll Jeopardy” and “Moon Unit Mustaine Clinton” both yield no results. Any help?
-FrL-
Stephen King, Lynn Redgrave and David Duchovny. Classic.
Alex: Does the word “stupid” mean anything?
He did do very well, but Stephen King beat him. 
Bush: “These questions are hard. My buzzer’s broken. Where’s Dick?”
Chong: “Dick’s not here, man.”
I won’t be satisfied until a celebrity’s Final Jeopardy wager is either “Texas” or a crudely-drawn picture of a horse having sex with Trebek.
One of NPR’s correspodants was on Jeapordy at one point. When asked later on what Trebeck was like, he basically said Trebeck was a dick.
Hey, Carson’s pretty sharp, it turns out. I wonder if it burns Nancy at all to have been thrashed by one of the dudes from Queer Eye.
A few years ago they had “Athlete Jeopardy!” with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Martina Navratilova, and Reggie Jackson. Kareem kicked their asses all over the map. Martina was OK, but Reggie was abysmally bad.
At one point there was a question with three possible answers. Kareem rang in and missed it. Then Martina rang in and missed it, so there was only one answer left. And Reggie just stood there looking around. Alex gave him the answer anyway, saying, “Surely Reggie was about to buzz in and give the remaining answer.”
I laughed and laughed and laughed.
You made my day!
In fairness to Martina Navratilova, English isn’t her first language (and the U.S. isn’t her native land). I’d hate to have to compete in anything more challenging than paper-rock-scissors in Czech.
The one with the U.S. Sec’y of Ed is on now. And in fairness to her, one of the actors she’s up against is also a Harvard Law grad… who’s almost certainly wasting his intellect in “C.S.I. New York”.
A question for non-U.S. Dopers: does your local production of Jeopardy! also stage celebrity tournaments? If so, does it draw international celebs, or just local faces? And how well do they come across?
Heh heh, both the Secretary and the Harvard Law grad were completely owned by Michael McKean, of all people.
I want a Michael McKean-Harry Shearer-Christopher Guest faceoff! (It’s such a fine line between clever and stupid…)
Yes, but doesn’t it scare the living Heck out of you that a sitting Secretary of Any cabinet level position (let alone education) would be so amazingly dense?! Someone definitely forgot to refill the kerosene in that ‘Point of Light’…
‘Weird Al’ Yankovic has kicked serious ass every time I’ve seen him on a game show.
I dunno…reminds me of something Dolly Parton once said: “It costs a lot of money to look this cheap!”
I guess in Michael McKean’s case, it takes a lot of smarts to act that dumb.
So did Drew Carey.
You can tell they write the questions for the intelligence of the contestants. When Carey was on Millionaire, the $100000 question was like “What two countries are connected by the Khyber Pass?” When Roy Romano was on, it was “Which of these is not a doggie?”
Yeah, but he lost on Jeopardy, baby.
Daniel