{"id":2017322,"date":"2025-09-12T19:08:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T19:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2017322"},"modified":"2025-09-12T19:08:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T19:08:03","slug":"ken-jennings-watches-his-original-jeopardy-interviews-see-how-he-reacted-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ken-jennings-watches-his-original-jeopardy-interviews-see-how-he-reacted-entertainment-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Jennings Watches His Original \u2018Jeopardy!\u2019 Interviews: See How He Reacted | Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" false=\"\">\n                                <meta itemprop=\"isAccessibleForFree\" content=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>What is embarrassing? <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/ken-jennings\/\">Ken Jennings<\/a> sat down to watch all of his <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/jeopardy\/\"><em>Jeopardy!<\/em><\/a> interviews, and he had some strong reactions to some of them. Fans didn\u2019t realize how funny he was.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey, I\u2019m Ken Jennings, and I\u2019m going to be rewatching my interviews from my original <em>Jeopardy!<\/em> streak. I am genuinely afraid to see what I had to say, but let\u2019s go ahead and do this anyway,\u201d he started the YouTube video.<\/p>\n<p>Appropriately, he started with his first interview. \u201cAww, look at this young, eyebrowless man,\u201d Jennings said. The first story was about how two drunk teenagers and a truck driver saved him when he was stranded in a Nevada desert after running out of gas. Jennings gave them a shoutout, but didn\u2019t know if they watched <em>Jeopardy!<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For his seventh appearance, Jennings made fun of his shirt. \u201cLook at that shirt,\u201d he chuckled. \u201cIt was a bulky shirt.\u201d The then-<em>Jeopardy!<\/em> player had on a maroon button-down with a gray tie. \u201cI just wanted to wear a lot of big boxy dress shirts. That was my main <em>Jeopardy!<\/em> dream,\u201d he joked. Jennings shared about a later interview that he borrowed a lot of his brother\u2019s clothes because he was running out of them, and his brother knew he was winning since he was in the audience for the first game.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ken Jennings Watches His Old Interviews | JEOPARDY!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1ZE5ktHBzFQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>For his ninth game, Jennings talked about going skydiving with his friend, who basically forced him to go. \u201cGoing skydiving is like being on <em>Jeopardy!<\/em>\u201d the host said. \u201cThe brain is just so overwhelmed when you\u2019re out there. What actually took half an hour actually took five minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jennings revealed that he lied about a few of his stories. He brought a \u201cgood luck charm\u201d with him and claimed it was something he picked up in Japan. However, he was running out of stories and borrowed a small stuffed animal from his sister instead. In another story, the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/category\/game-shows\/\">game show<\/a> contestant lied about liking airline food.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Jennings also joked that he had \u201ckilled a man down South,\u201d when asked about his darkest secret, but said he stole the joke from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/david-letterman\/\">David Letterman<\/a>. \u201cMaybe I should start asking contestants what their darkest secret is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During his last game, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/alex-trebek\/\">Alex Trebek<\/a> asked Jennings if he had quit his job. He said he hadn\u2019t, but in the interview shared that this was a cursed story because his streak ended that day.<\/p>\n<p>Jennings said that he didn\u2019t quit his job for a couple of years until he got offered to write a book, in which he had to take a leave from his job. \u201cI guess I\u2019m still on leave,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The host ended the video by saying that the best <em>Jeopardy!<\/em> story is like a Mad Lib. \u201cHey, I have two skateboards, but they\u2019re both from Portugal,\u201d he gave an example. \u201cObjectively, that\u2019s a boring story. You wouldn\u2019t try that on a first date, but it\u2019s almost perfect for <em>Jeopardy!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In August, Jennings revealed he finds the interviews to be the \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1208475\/jeopardys-ken-jennings-cringiest-part-interviews\/\">cringiest part<\/a>\u201d of the game show. He promised to keep them short.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil watching this YouTube video, I don\u2019t think I realized how funny Ken really is,\u201d a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Jeopardy\/comments\/1neo6fh\/until_watching_this_youtube_video_i_dont_think_i\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reddit<\/a> user said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKen is hilarious. I can\u2019t believe they ever considered anyone else for the hosting job. Love him so much,\u201d commented another.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\" role=\"text\">Now I want to know how many of his interviews were lies out of his near-100 (or more!) appearances lol,\u201d a YouTube user wrote.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Which one of Ken Jennings\u2019 <em>Jeopardy!<\/em> stories is your favorite? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Jeopardy!<\/em>, weekdays, check local listings, stream next day on Hulu and Peacock<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>More Headlines:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.wfmz.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is embarrassing? Ken Jennings sat down to watch all of his Jeopardy! interviews, and he had some strong reactions to some of them. Fans didn\u2019t realize how funny he was. \u201cHey, I\u2019m Ken Jennings, and I\u2019m going to be rewatching my interviews from my original Jeopardy! streak. 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