What is: Colin Jost is hosting a new Jeopardy! spinoff. The longtime Saturday Night Live star will host Pop Culture Jeopardy!
for Prime Video. It marks the first time that a spinoff of the long-running quiz show has been made exclusively for streaming.
The series has been in the works for some time, having been announced in May at Amazon’s upfront. Jost, who is in Tahiti covering the Olympics surfing for NBC and navigating nasty toe injuries, will lead the series, which comes from Sony Pictures Television, the studio behind Jeopardy!
The “Weekend Update” star has been a clue twice on Jeopardy! but the contestants didn’t know who he was either time. “I found out about it because my mom sent me the clip and she said, ‘I would have gotten it.’ When you’re a clue on Jeopardy!, you feel like you’ve made it, but then in the same moment you realize, ‘Oh, I have not.’” RELATED: Longtime ‘Jeopardy!’ Host Alex Trebek Memorialized On U.S.
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