John Mulaney, Nick Kroll botch easy $125K ‘Succession’ question on ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’

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“Succession” during the first episode of the celebrity version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” on Wednesday night.The duo, who were playing for charity, made it to the $125,000 question after they earned $32,000 but used three out of their four lifelines.

Host Jimmy Kimmel read the “Succession” question: “The stand-out item at a 2024 auction of memorabilia from TV’s ‘Succession’ was an extra large Burberry tote bag famously described on the show as what?”There were four choices for the answer: A: Hideously expansive, B: Farcically behemoth, C: Ludicrously capacious and D: Grotesquely sprawling.Mulaney, 41, and Kroll, 46, were immediately stumped by the question.“Not to be a jerk, but if it’s so famous how come we don’t know about it?” Mulaney joked.The pair decided to use their final lifeline — Ask The Host — and called on Kimmel, 56, for help. “I did see the episode.

I love the show. I love Cousin Greg. I love Tom,” Kimmel said.The late-night host talked it through and landed on A (Hideously expansive) as the probable answer because it “would have sounded funniest” on the Emmy Award-winning HBO series.“That was useless to us,” Mulaney, who also speculated the answer could be A, jokingly old Kimmel.“I asked them not to have this lifeline in the show this year because it’s too much,” a distressed Kimmel responded.