This weekJeopardy , frozen in time like Nic Cage ’s hairline , is hold a series bid " Power Players " where celebrities play for their favorite charity . Like its SNL resume counterpart , these episodes are notoriously uncomplimentary to the celebrity who need to prove their smarts . Wednesday ’s installation feature comic Louis CK taking on journalists Kate Bolduan of CNN’sAt This Hourand Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post and MSNBC .
This should have been a lay - up for the journalists . They ’re reply questions in categories like " State Facts , " " D.C. History , " " CEOs , " and " It ’s Not Rocket Science " against a guy whose semi - autobiographic show boast him jack off in the larder . however , they break up gruelling thanJoanie Loves Chachi .
Louis owned them , ultimately beating Bolduan by over $ 18,000 . Like 99 % of celebrity Jeopardy appearances , the " smart " multitude looked like buffoon . Like whenAndy Richter beat Wolf Blitzerby over $ 40,000 . Or when quarterbackAaron Rodgers bested astronaut Mark Kellyand the not - so - terrific Kevin O’Leary , who , like Blitzer , finish with a negatively charged amount of money .
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Bolduan and Capehart held their own through the first round . Bolduan even had a $ 200 steer on Louie . But three-fold Jeopardy was the start of a quiz show mass murder .
The two journalists bear good of themselves and were visibly pose at times , trying to give the opinion that they whole knew the answer . At other times they were a lilliputian too happy to get one rightfield . Capehart let out a Napoleon Dynamite inspired " Yes ! " after get a question in good order in bivalent Jeopardy . The $ 2,000 reception bring in him within $ 3,400 of Louis .
It ’s nothing against Louis . He ’s clearly a smart guy . But when a diarist who covers politics goes on a quiz show and does n’t know who the longest - tenured Supreme Court DoJ is , that requires a long discussion with a bottleful of wine in an eerily still hotel way . It ’s not good for them , and it ’s not good for anyone to see . It cause you question a diarist for the untimely reasons , on the wrong criteria .
Worse yet , in last Jeopardy , with the answer " This state ’s 2 main heathenish groups are Punjabi ( who are also found in India ) & Pashtun ( also last in Afghanistan ) " on the plank , Steele ’s question was " What is a place far , far away ? "
You do n’t even have a guess ? Oh no .
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