Saturday Evening Stay’s Superstar Jeopardy! sketches have supplied some actually iconic moments for the NBC sketch present. You hardly should be an SNL fanatic to have seen the finest Superstar Jeopardy! sketches that includes Will Ferrell as one of many finest sport present hosts ever, Alex Trebek. So what would Superstar Jeopardy! seem like within the Ken Jennings period of Jeopardy! if SNL have been to deliver it again as a part of the 2025 TV schedule? The host had a few wonderful concepts when he was requested that very query, however I believe he’s overlooking one apparent selection.
Ken Jennings Shares An A+ Concept For Who Might Play Him On SNL’s Superstar Jeopardy!
Sean Connery on Superstar Jeopardy! is among the many funniest recurring characters on Saturday Evening Stay, and sketches parodying the quiz present are nonetheless a number of the hottest SNL clips on YouTube. Nonetheless, it’s been 10 years the NBC writers dipped into that properly, with the final Superstar Jeopardy! sketch airing in February 2015 throughout the comedy present’s fortieth season. Throughout a current taping, an viewers member requested Ken Jennings who he may see portraying him in the event that they revived the thought for its presently airing Season 50. His response, per the Inside Jeopardy! podcast, was:
She’d have to come back again, however I believe Kate McKinnon may do it. I believe anyone on-line stated Jack McBrayer, however [he’s] additionally not a solid member. However that doesn’t matter anymore, proper? It’s simply whoever, now. That’s how Saturday Evening Stay works?
No matter the truth that she left SNL in 2022, Kate McKinnon is such an excellent reply, and I get the sneaky suspicion this was not the primary time Ken Jennings has thought-about his bodily similarity to the Barbie actress.
30 Rock’s Jack McBrayer can be a good selection, though he surprisingly has by no means appeared on Saturday Evening Stay. Because the Jeopardy! host identified, the sketch comedy has been recognized to name on outdoors comedians or former solid members to fill sure roles — it took a huge threat doing that forward of the presidential election — but when they did wish to go together with somebody presently working in Studio 8H, I believe I’ve obtained the proper man.
Mikey Day Might Completely Play Ken Jennings On Saturday Evening Stay
No person may preserve a straight face when Ryan Gosling dressed up as Beavis throughout his SNL host gig again in April, and Mikey Day’s flip as Butt-Head ensured that individuals have been nonetheless speaking about that viral Beavis and Butt-Head sketch for weeks after. Day could not look as very like Ken Jennings as the 2 examples he named, however I believe between Day’s smaller stature and, extra importantly, the vary of the characters he can play, he can be a terrific selection.
Slap a wig on Mikey Day and name it a … by no means thoughts, I’ll go away the dad jokes to Ken Jennings. One other level in Day’s favor is that he is additionally obtained some sport present expertise that he may deliver to the function because the host of Netflix’s Is It Cake?
I’ve to think about that similar to the Jeopardy! host who got here earlier than him, Ken Jennings can be nothing however flattered, irrespective of who portrayed him from behind the lectern. It was stated that Alex Trebek liked the Jeopardy! parodies, and he even made an epic SNL cameo again in Season 27.
We’ll should see what SNL’s future holds when it comes to Superstar Jeopardy! sketches, however for now, check out the upcoming Season 50 hosts and musical friends, then tune in at 11:30 p.m. ET Saturdays on NBC and streaming with a Peacock subscription.