A JEOPARDY Contestant Made Alex Trebek Say "Turd Ferguson" On The Air
I remember watching Saturday Night Live during Will Ferrell's run in the late '90s and early 2000s, and the Celebrity Jeopardy! sketches were always my favorite. Darrell Hammond's masterful Sean Connery impression and his mean-spirited banter with Ferrell's flustered version of host Alex Trebek always cracked me up, but there's one sketch in particular that's stood out to fans over the years. In 1999, Norm Macdonald portrayed a heightened version of actor Burt Reynolds who demanded to be referred to as "Turd Ferguson" just to further fluster Ferrell's Trebek. Catch up with it below if it's been a while:
So great.
Anyway, on a recent episode of the real Jeopardy, a contestant took a cue from that SNL sketch and...well, take a look at what happened:
(In case the video gets taken down or something, a contestant wrote "The Love Ballad of Turd Ferguson" as her answer, and Trebek read it aloud before informing her it was incorrect.)
Turns out Trebek didn't get the joke because he apparently didn't remember the SNL bit (how could he not remember it?!). Oh well — still a great moment. I wonder if Norm Macdonald has seen this yet.