Anderson Cooper和Ellen的猜谜游戏

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All right, you like games because Er… Did you win in Jeopardy？

I am a Jeopardy champion. I don’t like to brag, but I have it on my business cards. Yeah.

And, ok, literally, it was the dumb-down celebrity version of    Jeopardy. Have you been on Jeopardy？

No.

It’s all about the Buzzer and Trebek’s voice. I’ll explain to you later.

The Buzzer and Trebek’s voice?

Yeah. It’s all about this end of Trebek’s voice. Yeah, It’s like you don’t pay attention to the light, you pay attention to his voice. You wait to beep after he finishes. Then you try to predict the… anyway. I can talk about this for hours.

Well, I don’t think it’s that easy to just listen to the end of the sentence and buzz the buzzer. I would not know the answer. I’m sure.

But it was dumb. I mean it was a dumb-down version of the show.

I still wouldn’t know the answer.

Yeah, I don’t believe that.

That’s why I stick to games like Celebrity.

You know I’ve never played Celebrity.

You haven’t?

I have not.

Oh, it was so much fun.

I heard it’s good.

Yeah, at home you can just write names down. Everybody writes names. And you put them in a big bowl or a basket or something, and you pick out and you have to get teams to guess …

Right

And you give clues. You can’t say their name. You can’t say their last name. You just give clues.

Ok.

So, you are gonna put these on your lap and pick up the first one. Over your head.

So I have to guess who this is.

I think this way. I think. Um, and I’m gonna give you clues and you are gonna guess who I am telling you is. We’ll see who guesses the most.

Alright, where, where do I put it?

Just over your head.

Oh, she’s married to Seal and she’s a beautiful…

Heidi Klum.

Yes. Oh, he just won for “Milk”, the best actor. And he is…

Sean Penn.

She is a judge on American Idol. And she is short.

Paula Abdul.

Yes. And uh… and she, he is on cnn also when he has…

Wolf Blitzer.

No, and he has a talk show it’s been on forever, 6:00 and 9:00.

Larry King?

Yes. An she won for the Reader？And best actress…

Kate Winslet.

Yes. And, oh, he is a singer, very talented, dating Jennifer Aniston.

John Mayer. He sang with you in the bathroom.

Yes, he sang with me… Oh, she is “My BFF”, and whatever, you know, she is my BFF.

Oh, Paris Hilton?

That’s right. Um, and…

Ho, ho, I seem better.

Get real. Get real. Alright.

Whew, see I am like, I am drenching sweat.

It’s exciting, right? Alright.

My heart is racing.

Now you have to give me clues and I have to guess.

Ok.

Is there something on this one? Alright.

Oh, they are three brothers and they sing.

Jonas Brothers.

Ok. Wanted to be president of the United States.

McCain.

Now the secretary of the States

Uh… Hilary Clinton.

Yes. Oh, crotchety on 60 Minutes. Makes jokes.

Andy Rooney.

Yes. You want to be in her magazine.

Oprah Winfrey.

Yes. On American Idol, just has a new album coming out… uh… female.

On American idol?

She was on American …

Kelly Clarkson?

Yes. Yeah. Uh… He groped you. He molested you. (Yes.) He’s on the news. He’s on MSNBC. (Yes.) He wanted to be a senator. He, He just, he’s an old presenter.

I know…. I try to forget about that.

I know. You blot it out.

Yes.

You blot it out. I totally understand that.

I try not to think about Chris Matthews as much. I forgot the name.

There are a lot of people like you.

Yes.

Vocabulary:

1.       Jeopardy: an American quiz show featuring trivia in topics such as history, literature, pop culture and science. Unlike other game shows, it has a unique answer-and-question format in which contestants must phrase their responses in the form of a question.

2.       brag: 自夸，吹嘘

3.       dumb-down: to present news or information in a simple and attractive way without many details so that everyone can understand it

4.       Celebrity: (also known as Celebrities or Lunchbox) is a party game where teams play against each other to guess as many celebrity names as possible before time runs out.

5.       My BFF: Paris Hilton的新歌，这里Ellen巧妙的引用了歌名作为提示

6.       Get real: 实际点

7.       crotchety: capriciously stubborn or eccentric; perverse.思想奇怪的

8.       blot out: to obscure; to make something undecipherable; to obliterate完全清除(思想、记忆等)