One other widespread Jeopardy! contestant has gone from participant to worker on the sport present. Followers observed that Buzzy Cohen‘s title was within the credit alongside a brand new job title.
“Buzzy is a author now?” a Reddit person posted. “I used to be catching up on this week’s episodes, and I observed ultimately credit of Tuesday’s (Could 6) episode that Buzzy is listed as a author. I don’t know the way lengthy this has been, however I solely noticed it simply now, and haven’t seen it talked about anyplace else.”
His title was listed within the credit, alongside Robert McClenaghan, John Duarte, Marcus Brown, and Amy Ozols. Nevertheless, Cohen’s title hasn’t been added to the Present Writers’ web page on the Jeopardy! web site.
One fan identified that Cohen is a author for Pop Tradition Jeopardy! as effectively. “I do know he was one of many writers for Pop Tradition J! however thrilling to see his title come up on the common model of the present! Dream job tbh,” they mentioned. With Pop Tradition Jeopardy!‘s future up within the air, Cohen could also be making an attempt to remain within the Jeopardy! household any method he can.
“I’m shocked it took this lengthy to place a former Jeopardy! champion into the writers’ pool. You’d assume they might ask Sam Buttrey to do the identical occasionally. Or Ken [Jennings] for that matter,” one other mentioned. Jennings turned the host in 2021 after Alex Trebek‘s dying in 2020. Buttrey can be a visitor host on the Inside Jeopardy! Podcast, so he’s nonetheless part of the Jeopardy! household.
“Good for him! He was perhaps my second or third favourite host once they have been doing the rotating host season. So pleased he will get to proceed working with the present!” a 3rd added.
One fan did some tremendous sleuthing and discovered when Cohen’s title was added as a author. “Rapidly scanning, the writers as of January 1 have been: Michael Davies (additionally the Exec Producer), Billy Wisse, Michelle Loud (each Editorial Producers), Debbie Griffin, Jim Rhine, Robert McClenaghan, Mark Gaberman, John Duarte, Marcus Brown. Curiously, I didn’t take a look at each episode, however I discovered a bunch with compressed finish credit that doesn’t embrace writers in any respect. Seemingly at random. I don’t know why. Could possibly be sure days of the week. I didn’t do a deep evaluation. Feb 18, Amy Ozols is added (However Mon Feb 17 there was no writers’ credit score). Could 6, Buzzy Cohen is added (However Monday Could 5, and the top of the prior week there was no writers’ credit score).”
“So he might have simply been added as a author to J!, however as others have identified, he was a author on PCJ! and I might think about the chance {that a} class or some he wrote for PCJ! was decided to be higher fitted to common J! and introduced over, so he needed to be credited,” the particular person continued. “He’s been credited in all of the episodes this week that had writers’ credit, however these are all recorded in a single taping session. We’ll see if he stays credited in the long run, however most certainly he was certainly added as a author to the principle present.”
A number of followers observed that Ozols was a author for The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon and at the moment writes for Hollywood Squares.
“How cool!” one other mentioned.
“Whoa! Good eye,” commented one fan.
Cohen got here into the general public eye when he had a nine-game profitable streak on Jeopardy! in 2016. He turned a fan favourite contestant when he received the 2017 Event of Champions. Cohen even hosted the 2021 ToC. He’s additionally a contributor for the Inside Jeopardy! podcast.
It’s not clear when Cohen joined as a author, what clues he wrote, or if he’ll write for the sport present sooner or later, however control the top credit to see if his title is there.