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The 10 Best SNL Celebrity Jeopardy Categories

By:: Eli Yudin

November 07, 2021

The 10 Best SNL Celebrity Jeopardy Categories

Welcome to ComedyNerd, Cracked's new deep-dive series on funny business. Today's topic: the bummers behind the blockbusters. (Also, you can stay up to date with the ComedyNerd newsletter -- sign up here.)

Here are the 10 best categories that enabled the series of sketches that basically gave Sean Connery an excuse to besmirch Alex Trebek's mom for years.

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COMEDY DEL NERD CRACKED.COM Best SNL Celebrity Jeopardy Categories CONNECT THE DOT It's hard to beat the sheer efficiency of this joke. Like if Michelangelo carved the David with a single chisel strike

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COMEDY DEL NERD CRACKED.COM Best SNL Celebrity Jeopardy Categories YOUR ASS OR A HOLE IN THE GROUND As the series went on, the categories moved from easy to actively combative with the contestants and we all reaped the benefits.

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COMEDY DEL NERD CRACKED.COM Best SNL Celebrity Jeopardy Categories A PETIT DEJEUNER Sean Connery's generous mispronunciations are a recurring bit in the series, but the reading of A Petit Dejeuner as Ape Tit was the pinnacle.

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COMEDY DEL NERD CRACKED.COM Best SNL Celebrity Jeopardy Categories AN ALBUM COVER Not the most creative Sean Connery mispronunciation, but the most complete. The catharsis of Anal Bum Cover feels like using every tile on one turn in Scrabble.

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COMEDY DEL NERD CRACKED.COM Best SNL Celebrity Jeopardy Categories COLORS THAT END IN URPLE This category proved too much for the contestants, including Tobey Maguire playing Matrix-era Keanu Reeves getting it confused with Urkel, in a joke that also serves as a time capsule to the 1990s.

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COMEDY DEL NERD CRACKED.COM Best SNL Celebrity Jeopardy Categories TOAST Simple. Elegant. Toast.

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COMEDY DEL NERD CRACKED.COM Best SNL Celebrity Jeopardy Categories DRUMMERS NAMED ES RINGO The name is good, the question (This Ringo was the Starr drummer for the Beatles) is good, and it allows Sean Connery to trot out the A-tier Bart Simpson prank call name Craven Morehead.

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COMEDY DEL NERD CRACKED.COM Best SNL Celebrity Jeopardy Categories WILL THIS HURT IF YOU PUT IT IN YOUR MOUTH The only bad thing about this category is that it's not also a real game show that I can watch. Though I guess it's basically Hot Ones?

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COMEDY DEL NERD CRACKED.COM Best SNL Celebrity Jeopardy Categories FAMOUS KAREEM ABDUL- JABBARS This is 3-word poetry It should have been the name of a garage rock band with 5 guitarists Yesterday.

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COMEDY DEL NERD CRACKED.COM Best SNL Celebrity Jeopardy Categories AT WHAT C COLOR E IS GREEN PR Less of a category and more of a koan, from an episode with maybe the most loaded overall cast of any iteration: Kristen Wiig, Darrell Hammond, Tom Hanks (as himself), and Norm MacDonald.

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