Alex Trebek/Jeopardy Tribute Thread

I obviously don't know, because I don't have a TV perspective. But if I were an executive producer of a good-quality, long-running. well-loved show, I'm not sure I'd want to be the host of it. But that's me, not Mike Richards.

 

Agreed. Those were the two best guest hosts and there’s no way either one was going to make that move.

 

FWIW, Joe Buck was quite watchable, though he was never going to leave his gig either.

I didn’t see all the guest hosts, and I didn’t see Mike Richards, but I never once heard anyone mention what a good job he did. In fact I never heard his appearance mentioned at all — until he was named the host.

 

Will never understand the disdain for Joe Buck. He's very good.

 

If Mike Richards had just taken over right away, people would have gone “who?” and then most of the audience would have stuck around long enough to let him rise or fall on his own merits. There would have been a couple of think pieces wondering why Ken Jennings didn’t get it, but it wouldn’t resonate outside the Jeopardy bubble.

I get why they did the celebrity rotation, but it almost worked too well, because people who hadn’t paid attention to Jeopardy for a generation got interested again. It caught the imagination, like Wonka’s golden tickets to the chocolate factory. And once those emotionally invested people found out it was a rigged wheel, the backlash began.

 

I'm not sure about that - If he was named host right away, I think people still would have dug into his past and background, and found the podcast episodes. The Ringer reporter who did the latest piece, Claire McNear, wrote a whole book about Jeopardy. I think the shit about him would have gotten aired at some point, and really - If you're Sony, why go out on a limb for -this guy-? He's been XP of the show for about a year. Just run some more guest hosts out for another 6 to 12 months, since that's working anyway. I doubt they have a lack of people wanting to give it a shot.

 

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“What is a clusterfuck?”

 

Woah!

 

Love it that he shamed the podcast co-host about collecting unemployment... and then collected like $170k in PPP.
The fucking gall of these people.

 

There were youthful indiscretions because he only had another year or two before he became a man.