The good-spirited Trebek thinks the parodies are hilarious, and especially liked Levy's take. Trebek's version of Jeopardy! quickly became one of the most popular game shows in television history, and as its charismatic and unflappable host, Trebek became a pop culture icon, winning multiple Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Game Show Host over more than three decades on air.Īnother measure of the host's iconic status in pop culture is the ubiquity of Trebek parodies - Will Ferrell played a crazed Trebek on Saturday Night Live, Eugene Levy played "Alex Trebel" on Half Wits, and Family Guy, The Simpsons, and The X-Files have all included Trebek-parodying storylines. Jeopardy! employed a unique format in which clues were offered in the form of answers and contestants answered in the form of questions. The show was a revival of a popular trivia competition called Jeopardy!, which aired from 1964 to 1975 in its first incarnation. In 1984, ABC tapped Trebek to host a game show by the famous creator of Wheel of Fortune, Merv Griffin.
"His basic philosophy was don't throw out something because someday it'll come in handy," he says about his father. Trebek describes his father as a hoarder of knickknacks that had a way of proving useful years later. His mother, Lucille Trebek, was a French-Canadian woman with some First Nations ancestry, and his father, George Trebek, was a Ukrainian immigrant who worked as a chef at a local hotel. "My dad drank pretty heavily, and he never missed a day of work in his life," Trebek recalls. Trebek was born on July 22, 1940, in Sudbury, Canada, a large city in northern Ontario. In 1984, he began his longtime hosting role of a revived version of the trivia show Jeopardy! In 2019, he revealed that he's battling stage 4 pancreatic cancer and passed away from the disease in November 2020. His first American television gig was as host of the short-lived 1973 game show The Wizard of Odds. In the mid-1960s, Alex Trebek became the host of the Canadian quiz show Reach for the Top. Alex Trebek served as the host of 'Jeopardy!,' one of the most popular game shows in television history, for more than 30 years.
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