Celebrity Jeopardy! (film)

Celebrity Jeopardy! is a 2020 American epic comedy film directed by Adam McKay, produced by Judd Apatow, and written by Norm Macdonald and Steve Higgins. Based on the sketch of the same name on the NBC variety series Saturday Night Live, the film stars Will Ferrell as a fictionalized version of Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek who tries to host a game show for the sake of charity only for idiotic celebrities to constantly embarrass him and thwart his progress. The ensemble cast includes Darrell Hammond, Norm Macdonald, Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler, Martin Short, Andy Samberg, Keanu Reeves, Kristen Wiig and Jimmy Fallon.

Synopsis
Alex Trebek (Will Ferrell) is known as the host of the hit game show Jeopardy!, with which he has remained synonymous since 1973. But his show was unceremoniously cancelled in the late 80's, leaving him to search for another way back to the top. This led to the creation of Celebrity Jeopardy! in 1996, in which celebrities would play the iconic game in an effort to attract more viewers and give money to charity. Trebek's plan had a rough start until he hosted an episode featuring the comedic Jerry Lewis (Martin Short), the easy-going Burt Reynolds (Norm Macdonald) and the Trebek-hating Sean Connery (Darrell Hammond). What followed was nothing but randomness at the expense of Trebek's sanity, and yet the show somehow gets more viewers going heading into the mid-2000's. But as time goes on, corporate decisions could result in another one of Trebek's shows being taken off the air. Now the stressed-out game show host must save the only thing that keeps him going, and he must form an alliance with as many celebrities as possible.

Cast

 * Will Ferrell as Alex Trebek
 * Darrell Hammond as Sean Connery
 * Norm Macdonald as Burt "Turd Ferguson" Reynolds
 * Jimmy Fallon as Regis Philbin
 * Kristen Wiig as Kathie Lee Gifford
 * Martin Short as Jerry Lewis
 * Adam Sandler as himself
 * French Stewart as himself
 * Andy Samberg as Nicolas Cage
 * Joe Piscopo as Phil Donahue
 * John Goodman as Marlon Brando
 * Taran Killam as Michael Keaton
 * John Travolta as himself
 * Ben Stiller as Tom Cruise
 * Jeff Goldblum as himself
 * Minnie Driver as herself
 * French Stewart as himself
 * Calista Flockhart as herself
 * Keanu Reeves as himself
 * Jamie Costa as Robin Williams
 * Hilary Swank as herself
 * Tom Hanks as himself
 * Jim Breuer as Ozzy Osbourne
 * Amy Poehler as Sharon Osbourne
 * Kate McKinnon as Martha Stewart
 * Reese Witherspoon as Anne Heche
 * Lucy Liu as Catherine Zeta-Jones
 * Jay Pharoah as Chris Tucker
 * Bill Hader as Dave Matthews
 * Melissa Villaseñor as Björk
 * Shawn Mendes as Justin Bieber
 * Tim Roth as Christoph Waltz
 * Alec Baldwin as Tony Bennett
 * Jim Carrey as Matthew McConaughey
 * Kenan Thompson as Steve Harvey

Trivia

 * This is the first Saturday Night Live feature film since MacGruber, which came out in 2010.
 * Some of the celebrities represented in the film are played by actors who had the same roles on SNL while others just play themselves.
 * The film is directed by Adam McKay and produced by Judd Apatow, both of whom worked on the Anchorman franchise alongside Will Ferrell.
 * Norm Macdonald and Steve Higgins, who worked on the original SNL skit together, co-wrote the film.
 * Near the end of the film, Kenan Thompson is featured as Steve Harvey as a callback to the Celebrity Family Feud sketch on SNL.
 * This is an ensemble film in the same vein as It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.