"I'm a lucky guy," he said.
The news comes just as the show finished airing its All-Star tournament with former contestants including Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter and more.
"I've always referred to myself as a second or third-tier celebrity," Trebek added.
Trebek also shared two names he thinks are qualified to replace him.
While Summer eclipsed Gaynor's hit production, Naomi Wolf once called Gaynor: "one of the most casually influential political figures in the popular culture of the 1970s and 1980s."
Social media users took to Twitter to express their outrage regarding Trebek's question.