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''Celebrity Jeopardy!'' are sketches that aired regularly on the television comedy/variety show ''Saturday Night Live'' between 1996 and 2002, the years when Will Ferrell was a cast member. It parodies the same-named special event on the television quiz show ''Jeopardy!'' which features competition between notable individuals with all winnings going towards charitable organizations, and significant reductions to the game's level of difficulty. Fifteen sketches aired between December 1996 and February 2015: two sketches per season from 1996 to 2002, when Ferrell was a regular on the show; and one each in 2005 and 2009, when Ferrell returned to the show as host. All 15 sketches took place on reproductions of the 1996-2002 ''Jeopardy!'' set, even though the sets changed on real ''Jeopardy!'' The sketch was revived for the ''Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special'' on February 15, 2015. Ferrell portrays ''Jeopardy!'' host Alex Trebek. Darrell Hammond also appeared in each sketch, usually portraying Sean Connery, in an impersonation that "often questions Trebek's sexuality and sometimes implies that he has known Trebek's mother in a carnal sense."〔Phil Pirrello, Scott Collura (February 28, 2008). (Top 15 Will Ferrell Characters ). IGN.〕 Norm Macdonald appeared as Burt Reynolds in six sketches. Jimmy Fallon also appeared six times, each time portraying a different character. On several occasions, ''Celebrity Jeopardy!'' sketches have been referenced during actual episodes of ''Jeopardy!''. ==The sketch== The sketch begins at the start of the second round of ''Jeopardy!'', called Double Jeopardy!. Trebek welcomes the audience, often apologizing for the contestants' behavior during the game's (unseen) first round (e.g. "Before we begin the Double Jeopardy! round, I'd like to ask our contestants, once again, please refrain from using ethnic slurs"), and introduces the celebrity contestants (who often appear confused, cocky, immature, or showing no interest whatsoever in the game), along with their current scores, which are revealed to be either $0, a negative score, or a very low positive score. The rules of ''Jeopardy!'', as in the original game show, require that a contestant select a category and a dollar value from the game board in order for the game to proceed. However, the celebrity contestants will refuse or fail to select an appropriate clue, grinding the game to a halt, and often requiring Trebek to choose one himself. As the celebrities' growing ineptitude became apparent, the subject matter used for categories shifted from normal topics (such as "Movies" and "Popular Music") to more childish topics, as well as categories whose titles give not-so-subtle hints as to the correct response without even reading the clues, such as "Colors that End in 'Urple'", "States that Begin with 'Californ'", "Famous 'Kareem Abdul-Jabbars'", and categories that do not require any responses whatsoever (such as "Don't Do Anything", "Automatic Points", and "I Have a Chardonnay", where "you automatically get the points and I get to have a glass of wine"). "Potent Potables", a recurring category on the actual ''Jeopardy!'' show, appears in every sketch but is never selected, though Trebek mentions that it is about alcohol to Kathie Lee Gifford, who soon rejects it. When it finally is selected, it results in an inadvertently offensive pre-recorded Video Daily Double involving Bill Cosby. During the round, none of the contestants ever gives a correct response, buzzing in and either giving horribly incorrect responses or saying things which have nothing to do with the game, frustrating Trebek who does nothing to hide his contempt for the celebrities' performance. Trebek's mood is also exacerbated by Connery's antics, which include making sexual jokes at Trebek's expense; including the implication that Connery has had sexual relations with Trebek's mother. Connery also tends to misread categories, turning them into sexually suggestive phrases (i.e., misreading "Catch These Men", a category about people on the FBI's Most Wanted list, as "Catch the Semen"; "Japan U.S. Relations" as "Jap Anus Relations"; "Therapists" as "The Rapists"; "The Pen Is Mightier", a category about quotes from famous authors, as "The Penis Mightier", which Connery thought was a penis enlargement drug; "Famous Titles" as "Famous Titties", "Who Reads" as "Whore Ads", "Let It Snow" as "Lè Tits Now", etc.). Connery would also appear to change categories, such as crossing off letters in the categories "Richard Nixon" to make it read "Hard On" and "I Have a Chardonnay" to make it read "I Have a hardon", and, on one occasion, covered up an entire category with a piece of paper with a new one on there (specifically, "Potpourri" was covered up by "Things Trebek Sucks"). Trebek eventually grows exasperated with his inability to conduct the show, and cuts the round short by moving to the Final Jeopardy! round. Sometimes, he discards the scripted category; when this happens, the scripted category is usually not revealed (although at times, if conducive to the contestant's shenanigans, he will, as in the category "Famous Mothers"). When Trebek discards a category, he moves in favor of a much easier task; for instance, he will ask the celebrity contestants to write their own clue and respond to it, or make any mark whatsoever to earn a correct response. Sometimes, a childishly simple category is announced, such as "First Grade Math" or "Horsies". Despite constructing scenarios wherein it appears impossible for the celebrities to fail, they invariably do. Connery occasionally provides a correct response, but uses his wager to transform the text into a rude phrase. For instance, when Trebek asks the contestants to write a number to earn a correct response, Connery writes "V" for his response, which Trebek acknowledges as correct since "V" is the Roman numeral for 5, but Connery reveals "SucK it, Trebek" for the wager (the "V" forming the top of the "K"). In some occasions, Connery appears to have sympathy for Trebek until the wager reveal, which happens to be a rude drawing at Trebek's expense. However, Connery wasn't the only contestant to perform this. In response to a Final Jeopardy! question from one of the earlier sketches, which has each of the contestants name their favorite food, John Travolta responds "miso", surprising Trebek who says that miso is indeed a soup; yet when he asks for the wager, Travolta reveals it to be "horny", which is read as "me so horny". Trebek is the beleaguered straight man, and is generally the only person on stage who is interested in the game. The contestants, who are either unaware of what the game is or uninterested in playing it, will ramble incoherently, deliver irrelevant monologues, or openly antagonize the host. Whenever a contestant takes the game seriously, he/she proves utterly incapable of supplying a correct response. In all fifteen sketches, no contestant ever buzzes in with a correct response; Phil Donahue in the second sketch came closest, answering ''"This December 25th holiday involves decorating a tree and opening presents"'' with a vivid description of a Christmas Eve/Morning scenario but never actually says the word "Christmas". During the 40th anniversary sketch, Tony Bennett, played by Alec Baldwin, delivered a similar description of the book ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer''. Initially, Burt Reynolds had been the celebrity who appeared on each episode. When Reynolds appears for the last time on the sketch, he misreads the categories in the same manner as Connery. (Condiments as "The Condom Thing" and A Petit Dejuner as "Ape Tit"), and insists that he be addressed as "Turd Ferguson" because, as he states, "it's a funny name". Reynolds appears briefly along with his podium (which still reads "Turd Ferguson") in the fourteenth sketch near the end of the Double Jeopardy round and then mysteriously vanishes during Final Jeopardy. Reynolds also makes an appearance during the 40th anniversary sketch, having apparently "driven" his podium onto the set. At the end of almost every sketch, all three celebrities have scores in the negative thousands of dollars, and in most cases, a humorous, often sexual, Final Jeopardy! punchline is delivered by Hammond's Sean Connery character. Only once has the sketch ended with an unquestioned winner and money being awarded to charity, but even in this sketch, Burt Reynolds won simply because he had the least amount of negative money, rather than actually earning a victory.〔On the second Celebrity ''Jeopardy!'' sketch, from the ''SNL'' episode aired on May 10, 1997, Trebek declared Burt Reynolds the winner and announced that a $10,000 check would be awarded to Reynolds' charity, the Palm Beach Golf & Tennis Resort. Please see (this transcript )〕 Trebek ends the show, many times by announcing that money will not be awarded to charity or by declaring his intention to resign or commit suicide. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Celebrity Jeopardy! (Saturday Night Live)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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