You didn't ask Alex Trebek about his youth unless you wanted to learn he dated your aunt
TV Features Alex Trebek
Alex Trebek, late Jeopardy! host and international treasure, wrote about his life in a memoir released last summer. Of course, no single book can encompass a person in their totality and—as happened to a woman who long wondered if a family rumor about Trebek was true—having an opportunity to ask them specific questions can lead to surprising results.
In a video from her run-in with Trebek back in 2016, a woman decides to ask if her dad has been telling the truth with his longstanding claim that Trebek used to live in his aunt’s basement while the Jeopardy! host was a student in Ottawa. Just after she finishes the question, Trebek replies, “And I dated her daughter, Norma Klaman.”
The people around her laugh and applaud at this extra bit of information. Trebek begins reminiscing that “Norma was a beautiful young lady,” that they were quite “serious,” and that her sister worked for the Canadian government. The woman asking the questions is taken aback that Trebek “could have been my uncle,” but he just continues onward, remembering family details like how Norma’s father ate boiled chicken every night for his upset stomach. Eventually he opens his arms to her and says, “Darling, welcome home!”
Trebek also says, “It’s really embarrassing when you’re wandering into new cities and somebody comes up and says, ‘You dated my mother … and where were you on October 18, 19 …’” while the crowd laughs.
Take this video as a lesson: A family legend about the celebrity who used to live downstairs can have surprising results, up to and including learning that Alex Trebek was almost your uncle.
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What a baller.
Him and about 100 other guys! (no shame implied, go Aunt B!)
So I’ve mentioned this before on the AV Club, but one of my fave TV moments was flipping through the channels and landing on some Nick Cannon hosted teen show on MTV. He was hosting an impromptu rap battle of some sort, and so the other guy grabbed the mic and said, “Your rhymes are bogus ‘cause there’s no truth behind ‘em / I could have been your dad…but I wore a condom.”
Nick, of course, went big with that creepy/sweet song thanking his mom for letting him be born. As I remember, he took the situation pretty well.
You didn’t ask (a dead celebrity) about his youth unless you wanted to learn he (verb, past tense) your (relative)
Ooh, Madlibs night with the A.V. Club!
You didn’t ask (Hervé Vilechaize) about his youth unless you wanted to learn he (totally served) your (wicked stepmom).
You didn’t ask (George Burns) about his youth unless you wanted to learn he (boxed) your (great grandmother).
So Trebek in real life was more like SNL’s exaggerated Sean Connery that always talked about banging Trebek’s mom?
This meme is always funny, but the fact that Sean Connery died a few days before Trebek makes it legendary. Someone made a comment that this is what Connery said on beating him to the pearly gates.
“They’re far more pearly now, Trebek!”
“I’ve got your Daily Double right here, Trebek!”
“I was hoping you might have at least handed in a two weeks notice! I could’ve used the break!”
Trebek was the only guy who could do something like this and not seem creepy.
Is Armie Hammer taking notes?
Most celebrities have dated some normie’s aunt at some point. I clicked on this purely on the jaw-drop of having misread “he dated your aunt” as “he dated his aunt.” But I guess they haven’t turned to royalty yet.
He was from Canada, not Alabama.