The name, of course, is a throwback to the beloved SNL Celebrity Jeopardy! sketch featuring Norm MacDonald as Burt Reynolds, alias “Turd Ferguson“.
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“This song from a 1999 animated film about censorship had a word censored from its Oscar performance”, Trebek read aloud.
A woman named Talia gave an answer that may have been one of the best practical jokes ever played on TV.
Meanwhile, Lavin – a former staffer at HuffPost – told the site about her Internet-friendly response.
Did Talia know the answer?
As all good SNL fans know, Turd Ferguson is the pseudonym for Norm MacDonald’s Burt Reynolds. The real answer was “Blame Canada” from “South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut“.
Alex Trebek seems like a nice man; he smiles, he speaks in a soft tone, he changes up his facial hair on a relaxing, generational scale. A recent episode of the immortal game show saw him forced to say the name “Turd Ferguson“, which should amuse anyone with a passing knowledge of modern comedy.
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“Great”, a frustrated Ferrell-as-Trebeck muttered.
