Colin Jost to host new “Jeopardy” pop culture spinoff at Prime Video

It's time to start calling him Colin Host.

It's been a busy summer between Saturday Night Live seasons for Colin Jost.

The "Weekend Update" host has bounced from gig to illustrious gig since SNL season 49 wrapped in May. He spent the early part of July touring his comedy act around the country and made a cameo appearance in the film Fly Me To The Moon, which the film's star and Jost's wife Scarlett Johansson joked was the result of certain obligations in his prenuptial agreement.

Back in April he emceed the White House Correspondents' Dinner, and currently, he's providing live coverage of Olympic surfing in Tahiti (and injuring his toes in the process).

SNL season 50 doesn't premiere until September, which leaves Jost wide open to concentrate on his most exciting new role to date, host of Prime Video's new Jeopardy! pop culture spinoff.

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Pop Culture Jeopardy! will infuse the game show's rigorous intellectualism with some refreshing splashiness. Rather than battling to answer questions about British military history or types of fungi, contestants will "need to be experts in categories from Alternative Rock to The Avengers; Broadway to MMA; Gen Z to Zendaya," according to a press release shared with Entertainment Weekly.

The show's "answer-and-question" format and panel of three contestants will remain the same.

"What is: I'm excited," Jost remarked in the same release.

Indeed Jost is excited because this isn't his first rodeo with Jeopardy! He was actually a clue on the show in the past. During a 2021 appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers, Jost shared how he learned he was featured on the show. "I found out it happened because my mom sent me the clip," he recalled. Along with the clip, Jost's mother insisted she would have known the answer to the Jeopardy! question, "A head writer of Saturday Night Live, he titled his memoir, 'A very punchable face.'"

A contestant on the show immediately answered comedian Conan O'Brien. "I think that's a real burn on Conan," Meyers said as Jost laughed and slapped his knee.

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Pop Culture Jeopardy! marks the first Jeopardy! spinoff produced exclusively for streaming, but it's nowhere near the first spinoff of the long-running game show.

Crackle's short-lived 2014 spinoff Sports Jeopardy!, a kids version called Jep! ran from 1998-2001 on GSN. Also, Rock & Roll Jeopardy! ran in the same time frame on VH1 and was hosted by Jeff Probst. Plus, Super Jeopardy! aired in the summer of 1990 as an ABC mini-event.

Related: See late Jeopardy host Alex Trebek's new postage stamp, released on his birthday

Pop Culture Jeopardy! commences production in August and will eventually be released on Prime Video.

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