How Burt Reynolds inspired SNL's "Celebrity Jeopardy!" sketch

The Washington Post

Norm Macdonald got the "Celebrity Jeopardy!" idea from an SCTV game show sketch written by Eugene Levy. Macdonald phoned Levy, who gave him the sketch. “When it came time to do the sketch, I went down and saw my wardrobe and there was white beard and a bald white cap, and I said, ‘No, no, I want to do Burt Reynolds from 1972,” Macdonald recalled to Howard Stern. “And it’s funny to me, but no one ever mentioned it, that one guy on 'Celebrity Jeopardy!' is from 40 years ago.”