Jeopardy! followers will get a Ken Jennings bonus this summer season. After Jeopardy! goes off for the season on the finish of July, the beloved host can be on a rival recreation present — Who Needs to Be a Millionaire? — with Matt Damon.
Jimmy Kimmel is again to host Season 4 of Who Needs to Be a Millionaire? however this time it’s all celebrities competing in pairs for charity. The brand new season kicks off on Wednesday, July, 23 at 8pm.
Together with Jennings and Damon, this season’s contestants embrace sportscaster Joe Buck and actor Oliver Hudson, Helen Hunt and Scandal‘s Dan Bucatinsky, Kal Penn and Jameela Jamil, E! pink carpet reporter Brad Goreski and producer Gary Janetti, comic Mike Birbiglia and actress Atsuko Okatsuka, Dietland‘s Tramell Tillman and actor Zach Cherry, Sarah Silverman and comic and podcaster Marc Maron, Jordan Klepper and comic Ronny Chieng, Jillian Bell and Chloe Fineman, Neighborhood alums Joel McHale and Jim Rash, Workaholics stars Adam Devine and Anders Holm, The Workplace alums Kate Flannery and Oscar Nuñez, Whose Line Is It Anyway? alums Drew Carey and Aisha Tyler, Deli Boys stars Asif Ali and Saagar Shaikh, and CNN’s Jake Tapper and Kaitlan Collins.
In a preview for the sport present, Ken Jennings is seen saying, “Will we love Matt Damon or what?”
“I’m approaching Jeopardy! with somebody you hate,” Kimmel joked. Jennings shrugged as Damon sat in silence together with his hand resting on his chin. The 2 have famously “feuded” for 20 years. On the finish of his speak present in 2005, Jimmy Kimmel Reside!, Kimmel stated, “Apologies to Matt Damon, however we ran out of time,” however Damon was by no means scheduled to look on the present. This has turn into a operating gag and the 2 have pretended to hate one another ever since.
So with Jennings competing on a brand new recreation present, may he additionally turn into champion of Who Needs to Be a Millionaire? One factor;’s for sure, he’s not more likely to beat his Jeopardy! winnings, which stand at $4,370,700, as particulars on the Leaderboard of Legends.
Reddit customers seen the preview through the NBA finals and questioned why he was partnered with Damon. “Personally I’d have gotten a much bigger kick out of it if it had been Ken and Brad [Rutter] or Ken and James [Holzhauer], however I’m wanting ahead to this,” the unique poster stated. “I imagine Ken was final on Millionaire as a non-celeb contestant a couple of decade in the past and tapped out on the $250,000 query.” H gained $100,000 in 2014.
“Noticed this through the recreation and also you beat me to the submit! That is attention-grabbing to me. Millionaire and Jeopardy! have some overlap, together with earlier Ken appearances. It looks like we’re lastly seeing Ken enter standard tradition as THE host of Jeopardy! between this and Joyful Gilmore,” one other stated. Jennings is slated to look in Joyful Gilmore 2, releasing on July 25.
Nevertheless, numerous Reddit customers stated that Matt Damon is “no dummy” and is “depraved sensible,” so it is going to be attention-grabbing to see how he competes with the Biggest of All Time.
“This strikes me as a chief alternative to advertise Jeopardy!’s new Hulu deal,” one fan stated. Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune not too long ago struck streaming offers with Hulu and Peacock.
The superstar model has solely given out the $1 million prize twice — superstar chef David Chang earned the prize for the Southern Smoke Basis in 2020. Final season, father-son duo Ike and Alan Barinholtz additionally gained $1 million for the ASL Program at Los Encinos Faculty. Ike additionally gained Season 1 of Celeb Jeopardy!. Will Jennings be the third? His precise episode date isn’t but identified.
Who Needs to Be a Millionaire?, Season 4, Wednesdays, beginning July 23, 8/7c, ABC