A lasting legacy of the Will Ferrell-Norm MacDonald era of Saturday Night Live is a parody of the special celebrity-themed weeks of Jeopardy!.
Inspired by the Half-Wits sketches from SCTV some years earlier, the writers went to the sledgehammer of plot approach with this left-handed satire that featured Ferrell as Alex Trebek, Darrell Hammond as Sean Connery, and a collection of other celebrity parodies, including, in this 2005 skit, Amy Poehler as Sharon Osborne and Kenan Thompson, months removed from the feature film version of "Fat Albert", as Bill Cosby, complete with prop cigar.
Poehler absolutely nailed it as Sharon. Ferrell as Trebek? Not so much. Couldn't they have brought in Eugene Levy to play Trebek? Hammond is currently SNL's announcer, so maybe this will return.
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