An unemployed self-described “stay-at-home son” with a master’s degree recently won big on the television game show “Jeopardy.”

Champion Brendan Liaw, 27, has a master’s degree in political science and won $59,398 in three contests that aired last week, The Wall Street Journal reported.

“At his request, ‘Jeopardy’ host Ken Jennings introduced him at the beginning of each episode as a ‘recent graduate and stay-at-home son,'” the Journal reported, quoting Liaw as saying: “I figured even if I lost my first game, at least I could make people laugh.”

“It worked. Liaw’s self-deprecating humor made him an overnight legend on social media, where people say he is, like, pretty much living their dream, lol,” the outlet reported.

Apparently the term dates back to at least 2007, according to the Urban Dictionary, but it’s a reality now, the Journal reported.

“This graduation season is likely to produce a whole lot of stay-at-home sons. The overall unemployment rate is 4.2%, but 8.2% of 20- to 24-year-olds are jobless. The unemployment rate for men in that age range is even worse, 9.6%,” it reported.

Liaw graduated from the University of British Columbia with a bachelor’s of science in chemical biology in 2020 and completed his master’s in political science there in 2024, according to a university news release.

Liaw, meanwhile, is studying for the LSAT, and said he felt the fun term sounded better than “unemployed.”

“It can get a little dark at times when you’re just, like, what am I doing? I’m just here at home,” he told the Journal. “I would tell people to keep the faith, hang in there. Maybe study for ‘Jeopardy.'”

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IMAGE CAPTION AND CREDIT: Brendan Liaw on Jeopardy / Courtesy of Jeopardy Productions, Inc.

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