CELEBRITY Q&A Checking in with Ken Jeong

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7. Qatari leader

11. Cleveland cager, for short

12. Altar avowal

13. Drop off

14. Business slumps

16. Timothy Olyphant western

18. Mandy Patinkin series

20. Show about Oceanic Airlines Flight 815

21. “Shogun” honorific

22. IRA’s kin

24. He played George on “Seinfeld”

28. Elev.

29. Experienced

30. Mamet of “Girls”

33. Fake

35. Bygone airline

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38. Charlie Hunnam series

44. Grant Gustin superhero series

45. Neeson of “Kinsey” (2004)

46. Son of Isaac

47. 136% of LXXV

48. “No Scrubs” group

49. Frayed

50. Choose

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Farm young “National Velvet” (1944) sister “Sailor ___” (anime series)

9. Shirt brand

10. Cold war side

15. E.P.A. concern

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37. Like a nerd

38. Dish cooked in a pot

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42. Fit

43. Pool site, maybe

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When it comes to game shows on Fox, Ken Jeong certainly is one of the network’s go-to personalities.

A regular panelist on “The Masked Singer,” the comedian, actor, licensed doctor and former “Community” co-star is also the host of “I Can See Your Voice,” the series in which Cheryl Hines (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”), Adrienne Bailon-Houghton (“Raven’s Home”) and guest “celebrity detectives” help a player deduce whether other participants can sing … before they croon a single note.

Based on that guesswork, many supposed singers are eliminated, and the one who remains joins an established music star for a duet. Jeong is also an executive producer of the show, which is inspired by the South Korean program of the same name. “I Can See Your Voice” returns to Fox with new episodes of its third

On a day meant for celebrating moms, virtually everyone gets in the spirit.

That includes Turner Classic Movies, which typically marks Mother’s Day with attractions centered on maternal characters. The channel holds to that tradition on Sunday, May 12, with a double feature highly appropriate for the occasion. While the daytime lineup is marked by titles including the Doris Day vehicle “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies” (1960), Oscar winner Joan Crawford’s “Mildred Pierce” (1945) and the Lana Turner remake of “Imitation of Life” (1959), TCM’s “official” double feature for the holiday comes that night.

First up is the drama “I Remember Mama” (1948), with Irene Dunne as the family matriarch. TCM regularly, and expectedly, shows that film on Mother’s Day — and it will be followed by season Thursday, May 16.

Jeong has done other jobs for Fox as well, as a host of specials and a guest on other series such as “The Simpsons” (in voice only, of course) and “Crime Scene Kitchen,” but his career dates back to the stand-up comedy he performed while he was studying medicine in North Carolina. He continued those dual professions when he moved to Los Angeles, but he ultimately leaned more towards entertainment as his live performances helped him gain work on NBC’s “The Office” and HBO’s aforementioned “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” among other shows.

After roles in such movies as “The Hangover” (2009) and “Zookeeper” (2011), Jeong brought his principal interests together by starring in and executive-producing the ABC sitcom “Dr. Ken,” which ran for two seasons, from 2015-17. He would be back on TV regularly soon afterward another picture very popular on that outlet, the original version of the comedy “Yours, Mine and Ours” (1968), with Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda as a widow and widower who marry and merge their large families.

Dunne earned the last of her five Oscar nominations for best actress for “I Remember Mama,” about a Norwegian family living in San Francisco in the early 1900s. The story is largely an extended flashback related by the eldest daughter, who is writing her autobiography (and is played by Barbara Bel Geddes, later Miss Ellie on TV’s “Dallas”). She recalls various trials and tribulations of her relatives, discovering that her literary future may lie with writing about the people and subjects she knows best.

Based on John Van Druten’s play (which, in turn, was inspired by Kathryn Forbes’ novel “Mama’s Bank Account”) and directed by

Ken Jeong hosts “I Can See Your Voice” with the 2019 premiere You,” “Crazy Rich Asians,” “Ride of “The Masked Singer,” a ratings Along 2,” “The DUFF,” “Turbo,” success from the start; it’s slated “Despicable Me,” “Despicable Me to wrap its 11th season May 22, 2,” “Rapture-Palooza,” “The Hangover,” on Fox. “The Hangover Part II,” “The

With “I Can See Your Voice” Hangover Part III,” “Pain & Gain,” now resuming, Jeong continues “The Muppets,” “Transformers: to affirm himself as a homescreen Dark of the Moon,” “Zookeeper,” star for all seasons — and “Big Mommas: Like Father, Like that’s a tune he definitely can Son,” “Couples Retreat,” “All carry. About Steve,” “Role Models,”

Birthdate: July 13, 1969 “Pineapple Express,” “Step Brothers,”

Birthplace: Detroit “Knocked Up”

Current residence: Other television credits include: Calabasas, Calif. “The Masked Singer,” “The

Movie credits include: Masked Dancer,” “The Afterparty,” “Fool’s Paradise,” “Tom & Jerry,” “Out of Office,” “Game On!,” “The “Scoob!” (voice only), “Lady and Loud House,” “The Simpsons,” the Tramp,” “Avengers: Endgame,” “America’s Got Talent,” “Magnum “Wonder Park,” “Then Came P.I.,” “Drop the Mic”

Irene Dunne and Barbara Bel Geddes in “I Remember Mama”

George Stevens, “I Remember Mama” also features Oscar Homolka (“The Seven Year Itch,” 1955), Philip Dorn (“Random Harvest,” 1942), Golden Globe winner Ellen Corby (who played the grandmother on “The Waltons” in later years), Edgar Bergen (“Fun and Fancy Free,” 1947) and singer Rudy Vallée (“The Palm Beach Story,” 1942). A television series spinoff titled “Mama,” with Peggy Wood (“The Sound of Music,” 1965) in the title role, aired on CBS from 1949 to 1957 … and prompted a re-release of “I Remember Mama” in 1956.

“Yours, Mine and Ours” marked a reunion of Ball and Fonda, who had acted together in the 1942 drama “The Big Street.” Though there’s a serious undercurrent about their fact-inspired characters losing their spouses, humor is the major theme of their reteaming, with Fonda as Navy officer Frank Beardsley, newly returned to his resentful children — all 10 of them. He meets and falls for a nurse (Ball) who has eight kids of her own, and they take a big gamble by marrying and bringing their offspring together under the same roof.

Whether for tears or laughs, Turner Classic Movies always remembers mothers, and it certainly will on Mother’s Day again this year.