No ‘Jeopardy!’ Contestant Apparently Knows Who Pauly Shore Is, Dumbfounding a Very Disappointed Pauly Shore

Who is Pauly Shore? 

You may know the stand-up turned MTV VJ turned actor from Encino Man or as the voice of a Pinocchio with a vocal fry who “has the whole world to see.” But to three recent(ish) Jeopardy! contestants, he’s just some guy — some guy who they apparently don’t know. 

In a quarterfinal episode of the show’s 2021 Tournament of Champions, former winner and guest host Buzzy Cohen read the following clue to the contestants: “The 2020 documentary The Comedy Store has interviews with Letterman, Damon Wayans, and of course, him, the son of the club’s owner.” After three seconds of excruciating silence and shuffling, Cohen revealed the answer to the $2,000 clue in the Stand-Up Comedians category: Pauly Shore. 

This inability to come up with his name certainly rankled the self-proclaimed Weiz at the time, a disapproval he first aired on Facebook:

But it got back under his skin yesterday as well. With it now being 2023, however, he logged on to TikTok to marvel at the contestants’ lack of vital knowledge about the world: 

Founded in the early 1970s by Sammy Shore, wife Mitzi and Rudy DeLuca, The Comedy Store would go on to become a landmark on the Sunset Strip with an illustrious roster of alumni, including Louie Anderson, Whoopi Goldberg and Marc Maron to name just a few. 

In any event, stand-up comedian and host of the documentary in question, Mike Binder chimed in on the thread, asking, “What rock have they been hiding under?” 

Apparently, a rock where they don’t have access to the five-part Showtime docuseries that chronicles the rich 47-year history of the famed L.A. comedy club — or, more tragically, In the Army Now.