"Weird Al" started school a year earlier than normal, skipped the second grade, and graduated valedictorian from high school at 16. I had no idea he was that intelligent!
@JenniferGregory(Einstein) thanks for that shallow comment. I graduated high school at age 17, because my birthday is in November, and our cut-off date in NY is December 31st. My parents had a choice to leave me back before starting kindergarten. But apparently I passed some test when I was 5 years old. Yeah But if I had, the choice to do it all over again, I’d rather be with the class behind me and not be the youngest. There’s no benefit to be the youngest in your high school class. Unless you need to graduate early because you’re a tennis star, or a golfing pro (and the other other individual sports that you don’t need to go to college to be a superstar in) Or you’re. super smart, nerdy kid, that goes to college go to college at age 16 or under and just be a bookworm all their life. (you have no social skills, miss your high school prom because you’re only 14 years old and don’t date yet) Weird I was exception to this, but, but all those young kids I see going in that graduating high school age 12 to 16. I wonder how productive they’re gonna be in life. When they have no social interaction skills with people their own age.
I am shocked Al didn’t get the pagoda question answer… He has a degree in Architecture and he sang about a pagoda in The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota!
True, but game show contestants are under immense pressure, especially having a timer counting down. It can make you forget things you otherwise knew, or it might have been on the tip of his tongue but he wanted to pass to get to another question he might have known.
(Ezekiel) Zeke Hamish Beckley: Yeah a 100% deadpanned lazed comedian such as “Benjamin Jeremy” Ben Stein can be pretty doggone smart and also put me to....💤💤💤💤💤
I love the Rock and Roll special! I was wondering if you could upload the episode when they had Henry Rollins, Steven Weber and Fred Willard as Win Ben Stein's Money celebrity special contestants, please? I hadn't seen that one yet.
As a huge Al fan, I remember being stoked to see this, and mostly just being annoyed as shit by Nancy whats-er-face and that goofball from Poison. Also, very awkward moment with Matthew at the end of the second round, when he walked offstage while being taunted by CC.
Here's what aired in primetime: ABC- 20/20-Downtown, NFL Monday Showcase, NFL Monday Night Football (Redskins at Rams) CBS- The King of Queens (Dark Meet), Yes Dear (Jimmy Gets a Job), Everybody Loves Raymond (Fighting In-Laws), Becker (Beckerethics), Family Law (Family Values) Fox- Boston Public (Chapter Five), Ally McBeal (The Last Virgin) NBC- Dixie Chicks: On the Fly (special), Law & Order, Third Watch (After Hours) UPN- Moesha (All This and Turkey, Too), The Parkers (Turkey Day Blues), The Hughleys (Oh Thank Heaven for Seven-Eleven), Girlfriends (Fried Turkey) WB- 7th Heaven (Gossip), Roswell (Meet the Dupes) In late night: Late Show with David Letterman (Susan Sarandon, Gisele Bundchen, Kasey Chambers) Tonight Show with Jay Leno (Kelsey Grammar, Joe Cocker) Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn (Kathy Griffin, Monica, Tsar) Late Night with Conan O'Brien (Halle Berry, Shawn Wayans, Papa Roach)
I used to watch this all the time in college. I used to record this and MadTV on VHS when I had to work. This is the only game show I've ever recorded.
One thing I always wondered about this show is why it's so rushed. Like, half the time Stein or the host are stepping over their own words to get through the program. Compare to Jeopardy, which covers way more ground in an equal amount of time and never feels so frantic. What happened?
Ive never seen this before or heard of this show but i feel like al is doing about as well as i would do lol we are both knowledgable about music and not much else lol
@ of course George Harrison was a Beatle. . . But the moniker or “5th Beatle”, has been attributed to a few different people, including: Pete Best, Stewart Sutcliffe, George Martin, and/or Brian Epstein.
@@Manchupacabra I had just fixed it, it happened because when you say “Beatle” (singular)(instead of “Beatles”) my iPhone dictation spells it as “beetle”
You know the first season of Win Ben Stein's Money is where Jimmy Kimmel got his start, as the neutral host, as opposed to Ben who is the in-house contestant.
Yesterday I posted a comment about Jimmy Kimmel once upon a time being a co-host on Win Ben Stein's Money. This morning I posted a comment about Weird Al doing a cover version of "Sometimes You Feel Like A Nut" back in 1984. 5 minutes ago I see this in my Recommendations. Coincidence? Probably.
This show is funny and good. The reason it failed is because they spend too much time reading the category names! It takes half the show for the host to read it, the laffing and jokes, and then the contestant to read it, again, in full. C'mon! We got the joke! Move on.
The show ran for 6 years, it lost viewership after Kimmel left to focus on the man show and the head writer left to work for South Park it had nothing to do with what you said
It's a game show on comedy central.. even though they're not that funny, why would they take only comedy part out of it? If you wanna watch a regular trivia game show, watch jeopardy like the rest of us.
$900 for a charity prize seems like a joke, even for back then. $5000 also seems like a joke. Most of those rapid fire questions at the end were hard, and the co-host is annoying... all that being said, I still enjoyed this.
@@ikarikid I assumed it wasn't actually Ben's money, but thanks for the clarification nonetheless. Someone else commented that Ben donated all his winnings to charity, that was pretty cool of him.
"Win Ben Stein's $5000" WHOOPIE... I admit I did watch this show but I could never understand why it was only $5000. And Stein had almost zero respect for Nancy. I thought she was great. Ben just loooved Jimmy Kimmel, laughed like crazy at everything he said, totally kissed his butt, acted like they were lovers. But he rarely laughed at anything Nancy said, and you could see he had no patience or tolerance for Nancy
Ben & Jimmy just had better chemistry, similar dry comedic styles based more on sarcasm. Seemed like with Nancy there were more jokes about her looks and implying she and Ben were an item and that just felt creepy.
@@marcpower4167 Yeah it's really creepy to acknowledge that someone is nice looking. How creepy. You know what's really creepy? Thinking a man's natural tendency to appreciate a woman's looks is creepy---implying malicious intent.
@@Manchupacabra Do you know what creepy means? Creepy implies malicious intent. And jokes about her and Ben being an item is tame, please stop wringing your hands in righteous indignation. This is a woman who wrote for fucking South Park and wrote The Sweetest Thing, which had insanely dirty jokes in the script, including a gloryhole joke. Go watch ABBOTT ELEMENTARY or something that's suited more to your liking.
2025 this randomly popped up on my feed saw weird Al and instantly clicked
100 percent same here.
Same
Same! Though I've always been a Weird Al fan and a fan of Win Ben Stein's Money, so the question is: why'd it take so long to pop up?!
I don’t care
Same
Ben's open-mouthed shock whenever he misses a question is priceless
He got that one right, the writers fucked up.
Matthew Sweet looks like Jim Carrey dressed up as Mitch Hedberg for Halloween.
"Well. I guess that's alrighty then man." 🕶️
😂🤣 Spot on! LMAO
Best of luck on your recovery, Matt, you are an important person among all your fans.
@@IsiahTomas Agreed my friend.
And high school Dwight Schrute
Without watching I’m guessing Weird Al wins.
He doesn't beat ben
This was my fave quiz show and I forgot all about it until it showed up today!
Awesome rock stars playing for awesome charities!!! I always loved this show.
This popped up on my feed this morning, I forgot all about this show!
same and same
oh wow, happy to see this pop up. this used to be one of my favorite shows.
I used to watch the show all the time. I would love to be back in 2000.
So you could save all those people from 9/11?
No joke. I graduated college in 2000, used to watch this show all the time. I used to work Friday nights and I'd record this and MadTV.
These should all be uploaded. Good show!
"Weird Al" started school a year earlier than normal, skipped the second grade, and graduated valedictorian from high school at 16. I had no idea he was that intelligent!
Dang, me either
I don’t see the reason for skipping a grade earlier, unless you’re gonna be a professional athlete like tennis star.
No. He's a super big brain
@@MikeCee7 that's because you are not smart.
@JenniferGregory(Einstein) thanks for that shallow comment. I graduated high school at age 17, because my birthday is in November, and our cut-off date in NY is December 31st. My parents had a choice to leave me back before starting kindergarten. But apparently I passed some test when I was 5 years old. Yeah
But if I had, the choice to do it all over again, I’d rather be with the class behind me and not be the youngest. There’s no benefit to be the youngest in your high school class. Unless you need to graduate early because you’re a tennis star, or a golfing pro (and the other other individual sports that you don’t need to go to college to be a superstar in) Or you’re. super smart, nerdy kid, that goes to college go to college at age 16 or under and just be a bookworm all their life. (you have no social skills, miss your high school prom because you’re only 14 years old and don’t date yet)
Weird I was exception to this, but, but all those young kids I see going in that graduating high school age 12 to 16. I wonder how productive they’re gonna be in life. When they have no social interaction skills with people their own age.
I like that you kept the Kermit and Jon Stewart promo in there.
this was one of the most fun shows ever
Love it! Great show!
I’ll watch anything with Al in it!
Love CC Deville
If the final 10 questions had stuck to the theme of rock and roll, Weird Al would have cleaned his clock!
Truth
Nancy was the best co-host, and not just because she's super hot 🔥
She is 🔥
She killed the ratings after Kimmel left
She was super hot, she killed the ratings after Kimmel left
She was hot but Kimmel was a better co host.
The John Stewart Daily show ad in the middle... I thought why is YT playing such an old ad, until I realized it wasn't a YT ad 😂
This was worth the watch!
The coolest guy there is Weird Al and then Ben Stein!
I am shocked Al didn’t get the pagoda question answer… He has a degree in Architecture and he sang about a pagoda in The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota!
True, but game show contestants are under immense pressure, especially having a timer counting down. It can make you forget things you otherwise knew, or it might have been on the tip of his tongue but he wanted to pass to get to another question he might have known.
CC Deville....😂😂 what a nut. He's great!
I had no idea Ben Stein was so smart!
(Ezekiel) Zeke Hamish Beckley: Yeah a 100% deadpanned lazed comedian such as “Benjamin Jeremy” Ben Stein can be pretty doggone smart and also put me to....💤💤💤💤💤
The lecture he gives in Ferris Bueller was an actual lecture.
CC wiped the floor on Rock and Roll Jeopardy.
Love Matthew Sweet. Get better, sir
Oh, hey. A Nancy episode. I liked her.
I love the Rock and Roll special! I was wondering if you could upload the episode when they had Henry Rollins, Steven Weber and Fred Willard as Win Ben Stein's Money celebrity special contestants, please? I hadn't seen that one yet.
Matthew sweet looks like mitch hedberg
he used to do drugs...he still does, but he used to, too.
"I'm sick of myself when I look at you, that's why I'm drinking NyQuil on the rocks."
CC sounds like Hecklefish -or the other way around LOL
This is the most bizarre combination of celebrity musical guests ever lol
lol man i remember watching this when i was a kid
No one on that stage can hide their contempt for Stein
As a huge Al fan, I remember being stoked to see this, and mostly just being annoyed as shit by Nancy whats-er-face and that goofball from Poison. Also, very awkward moment with Matthew at the end of the second round, when he walked offstage while being taunted by CC.
Hard name to say huh? Weird Al was the best!!! I’m about the same age as Ben’s son and Weird Al has always been to cool me as Ben pointed.
I used to watch this all the time and have zero memory of the obnoxious woman.
Here's what aired in primetime:
ABC- 20/20-Downtown, NFL Monday Showcase, NFL Monday Night Football (Redskins at Rams)
CBS- The King of Queens (Dark Meet), Yes Dear (Jimmy Gets a Job), Everybody Loves Raymond (Fighting In-Laws), Becker (Beckerethics), Family Law (Family Values)
Fox- Boston Public (Chapter Five), Ally McBeal (The Last Virgin)
NBC- Dixie Chicks: On the Fly (special), Law & Order, Third Watch (After Hours)
UPN- Moesha (All This and Turkey, Too), The Parkers (Turkey Day Blues), The Hughleys (Oh Thank Heaven for Seven-Eleven), Girlfriends (Fried Turkey)
WB- 7th Heaven (Gossip), Roswell (Meet the Dupes)
In late night: Late Show with David Letterman (Susan Sarandon, Gisele Bundchen, Kasey Chambers)
Tonight Show with Jay Leno (Kelsey Grammar, Joe Cocker)
Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn (Kathy Griffin, Monica, Tsar)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien (Halle Berry, Shawn Wayans, Papa Roach)
Damn you are good with knowing what was playing that night.
So basically if you didn't turn on a television that day, you didn't miss anything.
Would have liked to see Kermit The Frog win Ben Stein's money.
18:31 Weird Al taught me this word! I guess he hadn't written "Bob" yet.
I used to watch this all the time in college. I used to record this and MadTV on VHS when I had to work. This is the only game show I've ever recorded.
Nancy made it move when she danced with Ben.
They missed an opportunity here-Alice Cooper’s classic “Beat Ben Stein”
Goddammit I fucking love the everlasting shit out of Weird fucking Al
CC talks like Kyle's cousin on South Park
I'm impressed Yanukovych thought of McVee (spelling) before Nicks.
Was there any doubt Weird Al would run away with the lead on this one?
One thing I always wondered about this show is why it's so rushed. Like, half the time Stein or the host are stepping over their own words to get through the program. Compare to Jeopardy, which covers way more ground in an equal amount of time and never feels so frantic. What happened?
CC sounds like Miltons dad on "The Simpsons." 😂😂😂
I was disappointed that for the dance bit, they didn't use a Weird Al song.
CC sounds like a male version of Cyndi Lauper! 😂😎
Has CC always sounded like a retired woman currently living in Florida?
Now bluebear, you were thinking of November 20, 2000.
Ive never seen this before or heard of this show but i feel like al is doing about as well as i would do lol we are both knowledgable about music and not much else lol
Did Ben refer to George Harrison as the “5th Beatle” 7:31 (that’s incorrect)
Yeah, he wasn't even a beetle.
@ of course George Harrison was a Beatle. . . But the moniker or “5th Beatle”, has been attributed to a few different people, including: Pete Best, Stewart Sutcliffe, George Martin, and/or Brian Epstein.
@@MikeCee7 I was making fun of you spelling Beatle wrong, dingus.
@@Manchupacabra I had just fixed it, it happened because when you say “Beatle” (singular)(instead of “Beatles”) my iPhone dictation spells it as “beetle”
@@MikeCee7...and near the end, Billy Preston
You know the first season of Win Ben Stein's Money is where Jimmy Kimmel got his start, as the neutral host, as opposed to Ben who is the in-house contestant.
Yeah, I'm still trying to forget that.
Weird Al looks like Kylie Kelce. Should send her a friendship bracelet.
Nancy was such an upgrade from kimmel
Seems odd because the better Ben does, the less money that goes to charity.
The guy worked for Nixon - you were expecting maybe an altruist?
Jan 7th and I had clicked on a political video but remembered I don’t care about politics anymore , thankfully AI knew what I needed 🙂
Going up against “Weird Al”, one might say that C.C. Dared To Be Stupid…
Back when celebrities were smart
I think it was just Weird Al who proved to be smart.
Close your eyes & CC sounds like Mort from Family Guy
And he looks like a fucked up version of Denis Leary.
This is a special Rock N Roll episode of Win Ben Stein's Money and the contestants are CC, Matthew, & Weird Al.
Why would you say that
At least C.C. can read
lol ive seen several episodes where the answer in the final round is israel.
Wow, I’m shocked that CC can read.
I love that female co host. She seems like a lot of fun. Much better than jimmy kimmel
This show should be streaming on Paramount+. Like my comment if you agree.
The two Jews missing the Kingdom of Israel question is kinda funny.
Al is a Christian. His name is Slovenian.
Yesterday I posted a comment about Jimmy Kimmel once upon a time being a co-host on Win Ben Stein's Money. This morning I posted a comment about Weird Al doing a cover version of "Sometimes You Feel Like A Nut" back in 1984.
5 minutes ago I see this in my Recommendations. Coincidence? Probably.
CC sounds like a bad Danny DeVito
,$5,000.00 no one would do that show today. And if it's Charity , jeshh
I think CC Deville might just be Anthony Fauci.
CC slept with every woman in the 80's but acts like a dork that's never touched a woman.
CC Deville stole this show.
This show is funny and good. The reason it failed is because they spend too much time reading the category names! It takes half the show for the host to read it, the laffing and jokes, and then the contestant to read it, again, in full. C'mon! We got the joke! Move on.
The show ran for 6 years, it lost viewership after Kimmel left to focus on the man show and the head writer left to work for South Park it had nothing to do with what you said
It's a game show on comedy central.. even though they're not that funny, why would they take only comedy part out of it? If you wanna watch a regular trivia game show, watch jeopardy like the rest of us.
@@patmccrotch5373 misunderstanding. Read the question once, funny. No need to repeat it. Also, we can read. You don't need to read it to us.
@Redmenace96 I hear ya
$900 for a charity prize seems like a joke, even for back then. $5000 also seems like a joke. Most of those rapid fire questions at the end were hard, and the co-host is annoying... all that being said, I still enjoyed this.
In reality, the $5000 was put up by the studio. Ben got to keep whatever wasn’t won in addition to a normal salary.
@ikarikid Supposedly Ben donated most if not all of that money he "won" to charity.
@@ikarikid I assumed it wasn't actually Ben's money, but thanks for the clarification nonetheless. Someone else commented that Ben donated all his winnings to charity, that was pretty cool of him.
This show was good hearted. Tee-Vee seems mean and psychotic >:-( now. I mean some of it was, then, too. but you know
That 'new' cohost totally BIT! :(
Agreed Jimmy and Cousin Sal set the bar very high.
@@act4666 Cousin Sal?
@@dhpbear2 The last cohost and that’s Jimmy’s cousin. Sal still loves being called Cousin Sal
Weird Al didn't win $5000
I suppose that means... ♫ He lost on Ben Stein's Money, Baby... ♫
Thanks man, came here to watch this because I didn't wanna see how the show played out 🙄
Show was so much better without Kimmel.
Remember when Jon Stewart was funny?
Bring back jimmy
"Win Ben Stein's $5000" WHOOPIE... I admit I did watch this show but I could never understand why it was only $5000. And Stein had almost zero respect for Nancy. I thought she was great. Ben just loooved Jimmy Kimmel, laughed like crazy at everything he said, totally kissed his butt, acted like they were lovers. But he rarely laughed at anything Nancy said, and you could see he had no patience or tolerance for Nancy
Nancy sucked, but she was cute
Ben & Jimmy just had better chemistry, similar dry comedic styles based more on sarcasm. Seemed like with Nancy there were more jokes about her looks and implying she and Ben were an item and that just felt creepy.
@@marcpower4167 Yeah it's really creepy to acknowledge that someone is nice looking. How creepy. You know what's really creepy? Thinking a man's natural tendency to appreciate a woman's looks is creepy---implying malicious intent.
@yournamehere6002 They were saying jokes about her and Ben being an item were creepy.
@@Manchupacabra Do you know what creepy means? Creepy implies malicious intent. And jokes about her and Ben being an item is tame, please stop wringing your hands in righteous indignation. This is a woman who wrote for fucking South Park and wrote The Sweetest Thing, which had insanely dirty jokes in the script, including a gloryhole joke. Go watch ABBOTT ELEMENTARY or something that's suited more to your liking.
I wish CC had been silent the entire time.
I never knew CC Deville sounded like Jerry Lewis. 👀
The earlier episodes of this show were the only time Kimmel was actually funny.