It’s practically unimaginable to maintain up with the entire cameos and callbacks in Adam Sandler’s Joyful Gilmore 2, which has remained in Netflix’s high motion pictures since premiering on the 2025 film calendar. The sequel even pays tribute to the actors we’ve misplaced because the 1996 movie, together with Bob Barker, after The Worth Is Proper host’s iconic battle scene. This time round, Jeopardy! — one other of one of the best sport exhibits of all time — was represented, and Ken Jennings opened up about his look.
Ken Jennings went on the Inside Jeopardy! podcast to debate his look within the new Netflix film, by which Joyful Gilmore’s daughter, Vienna (performed by Adam Sandler’s daughter Sunny), is watching Jeopardy! and sees a clue pop up about her dad, whose title nobody can bear in mind. As outlandish as a lot of the film is, it appears the state of affairs that Adam Sandler’s character confronted isn’t truly that unusual. Jennings mentioned:
The premise is that no person on Jeopardy! can bear in mind Joyful’s title, and he’s watching at dwelling and he’s bummed. Which is an actual factor, by the way in which. I hear from individuals after we point out them in a clue after which no person will get it proper, like, there’s nonetheless some harm emotions on the market.
No one desires to be a triple-stumper. (I imply, think about how then-77-year-old Diana Ross felt when two contestants named her for the clue searching for a 95-year-old singer.)
Since Joyful watched all of this play out on a display screen, it means Adam Sandler was not truly current when the Jeopardy! scene was filmed on the Alex Trebek Stage. Nevertheless, Joyful Gilmore 2’s star and co-writer was nonetheless concerned within the scene in a very cool means, as Ken Jennings revealed:
We had Adam Sandler on pace dial suggesting joke options.
Ken Jennings might not have gotten to fulfill the Sandman, however listening to him on the cellphone shout out totally different jokes should have been a priceless expertise for the Jeopardy! crew. Producer Sarah Foss additional described the shoot, saying:
You’d do a take and the director was right here, after which Adam can be like, ‘Let’s take this, let’s do that,’ as a result of they wished to have numerous humorous reactions to individuals not getting ‘Who’s Joyful Gilmore?’
The clip is performed fairly straight — it nearly felt prefer it may have been lifted from an everyday sport of Jeopardy! — with none of three contestants having the ability to grasp the golfer’s title:
‘Who’s Joyful Goldberg?’ … ‘Who’s Joyful Gudenstein?’ … ‘Who’s Skippy Goldenbaum?’
The best way Ken rejected all of these solutions earlier than informing the gamers, “He IS Jewish, however we had been searching for Joyful Gilmore,” made me chortle out loud, and with Adam Sandler being on the cellphone feeding them strains, I simply KNOW there’s a supercut someplace of all of the totally different responses they tried. Launch the outtakes, I’m begging you!
Ken Jennings mentioned that he should have watched the primary Joyful Gilmore film 100 occasions, and he “couldn’t be extra honored” to have been included within the sequel, even for only a “tiny cameo.” As a Jeopardy! fan, I used to be definitely delighted to see it.
Joyful Gilmore 2 is out there to stream now with a Netflix subscription, and you should definitely try what different upcoming Adam Sandler motion pictures are within the works.