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Celebrity Jeopardy!
The setup
The premise
Here’s the bit.
Alex Trebek struggles to host a celebrity quiz as Robin Williams launches into rapid-fire impressions, Catherine Zeta-Jones keeps discussing her marriage, and Sean Connery taunts him and twists the category names. Elementary clues make no difference. For the final round, Trebek lets each contestant devise a question and its answer, but their responses still derail the game and drive him to quit.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 4
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
You have led a horrifying life.
You'd have to be the dumbest people in the world to mess this up.
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
This was the ninth installment of SNL's Celebrity Jeopardy! series.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:10
Alex Trebek
Welcome back to Celebrity Jeopardy. Because of what happened just before the commercial, I'd like to apologize to all blind people and children. That said, let's take a look at the scores. Robin Williams has set a Jeopardy record by buzzing in 2,000 times and never answering a question.
- 00:31
Robin Williams
Yes, thank you, yes, Jeopardy, yes. I hear you, my boy, you are healed. We have found Tom Selleck's mustache, yes. Suddenly we go over here and look at the scoreboard. What do we have here? Oh, Vanna White, can we turn the letters? She's making a vowel movement. Yes. Oh, hi, I'm Robert Downey Jr. Robert Downey Jr. wants a recount. Yes, and there's a kid at home going, no, I want to read Harry Potter. Yes,
- 00:48
Alex Trebek
fantastic.
- 00:48
Robin Williams
Thank you. Thank you.
- 00:57
Alex Trebek
Moving on, Catherine Zeta-Jones has no score at all because she's mostly been talking about her recent marriage.
- 01:07
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Alex, I'd like to say hello to my new baby and wonderful husband. Michael, darling, if you're watching, the diaper's in the bedroom closet, and the baby's diapers are under the sink i love you darling
- 01:16
Alex Trebek
that's beautiful and finally sean connery is also here let's move on to double jeopardy where the category is
- 01:27
Sean Connery
not so fast trebek
- 01:28
Alex Trebek
i really thought that was going to work
- 01:33
Sean Connery
well you were wrong you monta bank i pose a conundrum to you a riddle if you will
- 01:40
Alex Trebek
i don't want to hear it
- 01:41
Sean Connery
what's the difference between you and a mallard with a cold one's a sick duck I can't remember how it ends but your mother's a whore
- 01:51
Alex Trebek
wonderful let's take a look at the categories they are potent potables point to your own head letters or numbers will Will this hurt if you put it in your mouth? An album cover. Make any noise. And finally, famous Muppet frogs. I should add that the answer to every question in that category is Kermit.
- 02:36
Robin Williams
Thank you, yes, Kermit, yes. It's like Kermit and John Wayne going, it's not easy being Green Pilgrim. It's like Schwarzenegger, yeah, I'm Kermit the frog, yeah. That's me, Schwarzenegger, Kermit.
- 02:45
Alex Trebek
more you more you might be legally retarded
- 02:49
Sean Connery
he has a point
- 02:53
Alex Trebek
all right Catherine Zeta-Jones will start with you
- 02:57
Catherine Zeta-Jones
I'll take giraffes for a billion
- 03:03
Alex Trebek
let's just go with letters or numbers for 200 and the answer is 5 is 5 a letter or a number the number five is it a number mr. Williams
- 03:18
Robin Williams
oh it's a beautiful thing yes right now is a guy at home going what the hell going on there may want you
- 03:23
Alex Trebek
thank you thank you mr. Williams you already rang in
- 03:28
Robin Williams
yes it's a beautiful thing though Monica whiskey's at home going
- 03:30
Alex Trebek
thank you thank you anyone else mr. Williams
- 03:35
Robin Williams
I hate you but I love you it's like Jesse Helms and Michael Jackson going yes
- 03:40
Alex Trebek
you are a very sick man anyone besides mr. Williams five is of course a number Catherine Zeta-Jones sadly it's still your board
- 03:56
Catherine Zeta-Jones
I'll take TV shows that did stories about my waiting for 300
- 04:00
Alex Trebek
for the last time that is not a category
- 04:03
Don't worry.
- 04:04
Alex Trebek
Sean Connery, why don't you pick?
- 04:06
Sean Connery
Well, the game is afoot. I'll take anal bum cover for $7,000.
- 04:13
Alex Trebek
An album cover, not anal bum cover.
- 04:32
Sean Connery
I can read, Trebek. That says anal bum cover. I spent five years of my life trying to invent an anal bum cover. Failing to do so is my greatest regret.
- 04:44
Alex Trebek
rat you have led a horrifying life the category is an album cover and the answer is the beatles white album is this color catherine zeta jones
- 05:00
Catherine Zeta-Jones
who are the beatles
- 05:02
Alex Trebek
i'm sorry that's wrong
- 05:05
Catherine Zeta-Jones
no i'm asking you who are the beatles i've never heard of them
- 05:08
Robin Williams
oh yes the beatles yes what if What if they're the Volkswagen Beetles? Yes, then it'd be in the backseat going, I wanna hold your Farfing Nugent, yes.
- 05:16
Alex Trebek
For the love of God, shut your mouth. I tell you what, let's just go to Final Jeopardy! And the category is, you know what? You guys just decide. You each ask your own question and then answer it. There's no way you can get this wrong. Because you're asking the question. Ask yourself anything at all and then answer it. You'd have to be the dumbest people in the world to mess this up.
- 05:49
Alex Trebek
And now let's see how you managed to mess it up. Robin Williams wrote nothing because he stuck his pen through his own hand.
- 06:01
Robin Williams
Yes, you know what it's like? Suddenly it's like a Shakespearean actor who's gay going, That's poor Yorick, I knew him when... Oh! Oh! Shazbot! Yes! Oh!
- 06:10
Alex Trebek
Don't ever come here again. Catherine Zeta-Jones asked herself this question. What sound does a doggie make? Fine. And you answered... You didn't know the answer. You couldn't answer your own question.
- 06:28
Catherine Zeta-Jones
It was hard.
- 06:31
Alex Trebek
Unbelievable. And finally, Sean Connery asked himself... Okay, I... I think I know where this is going. Let me just see here. Yeah, yeah, that's a horse having sex with me. Okay, that's beautiful.
- 06:47
Sean Connery
Come on, you pansy, let the people see my work.
- 06:50
Alex Trebek
No, we're not going to do that, okay? I quit again. Good night.
- 06:54
Sean Connery
Come on!
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