Alex Trebek suffers 'minor heart attack'

that's sad!

67!!

:(

Yeah, guy does not look his age. I geekishly/slavishly watch Jeoparday at every given opportunity, so I'm happy to hear the man's alright!

"Jeopardy"

a few days ago there was a contestant doing a terrible snl sean connery impersonation impersonation

that probably made him more irate than the SNL Trebek was at the SNL Connery.

The bit in Jeopardy where they say something about themselves do impressions etc. makes for some of the most cringe worthy TV moments ever.

he looked much smarter w/ his moustache

also is it just me or has jeopardy been in steady intellectual decline since the early 80s? last time i watched it (thanksgiving) one of the categories was "BREAKFAST MEATS"

"Wheel of Fortune" has used some phrase with "BEACHES" in it once a week for the last three weeks.

god i love jeopardy.

the best "angry Trebek" was Eugene Levy on SCTV (hosting "Half-Wits").

R.I.P. Roger M. King.

Dear Mr. Trebek,

Please live many more wonderful and hearty years. You are an admirably gentle man who inspires deference in others with your knowledgeable grace. No one says "Judges?" quite like you. No one can top your impromptu transitional quips. I forgive you even for the "clue crew," which was probably not the idea of a man so noble as you. Get well & stay well, dear Mr. Trebek!

Yours sincerely,

Your loving fan Abbott

I used to get called Alex Trebek at school a lot when I was a kiddie.

canadians are so grebt

you can form 2/3 of my name from his last name alone!

Trebekson?

form of a question plz

Wo ist ein Trebekson???

What is a tiebreaker?

The answer: This Canadian game show host, age 67, has probably had loads of botox.

The question?

Who is Avril Lavigne?

No, I'm sorry, the answer is Al Dubois.

I couldn't see the forest for du bois.

WHO IS al dubois, bitchez

How much did you risk? All of it?

http://static.flickr.com/39/75064024_54d91db78d_m.jpg

Indiana Trebek and the Poorly Chosen Question

'X-Files' cameo = anything can be forgiven

Ohh, I'm sorry, so sorry. The answer is "Finebaum".

"Finebaum".

Oh, those jokers at E! Online: "Alex Trebek Jeopardized by Heart Attack"

the answering-in-the-form-of-a-question thing is such bullshit. It implies that if the game show were in the reverse format it would go like "What is a koala?" "This Australian mammal is known for its affinity for eating eucalyptus leaves, and no, you can't eat it."

they don't reverse the questions and answers, they just reverse the form they are said in.

my one great regret in life is not getting jeopardy on the tv channels i get.

i would watch it every day.

I like when someone goes "umm, is it Straviski?" and he's like "sorr-- oh wait, that is in the form of a question!"

Like the accidental questions. It always happens on Daily Doubles, too. I'm surprised more people don't start freewheeling and doing dumb question forms.

Trebek is a quintessential NERD and a know it all who appears smarter than everyone on the program, except he has all the answers! This guy,in real life, would put the dead to sleep! He certainly qualifies to be in politics: full of BS and an empty suit who thinks well of himself! LOSER!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you so much, omar. Now the rest of my life may at last begin.

FUCK YOU "ALEX" "TREBEK"

:/

I still like this guy!

Wait, I just noticed Trebek rhymes with Quebec. Nothing will ever be the same again.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/08/mondays-intriguing-people-35/

I was just joshing - I think he's probably an ok person. Pat Sajak, on the other hand, seriously, fuck that guy

Alex is so subtly snide, I love it.

Maybe I'm just reading too much into his voiceovers for the PS2 Jeopardy! game. "Oooooh...I'm sorry." You're not sorry, Alex, you snide old fox.

I love you can tell he's getting fed up with the ineptitude of the contestants. After 3 wrong answers in a row: "....no...."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU2w72KAkQQ

I heard he was a total lush!

Know what the Jeopardy! archive should contain, are lists of his question (technically, answer) responses in the affirmative. Any old Jeopardy! viewer can notice that Trebek won't merely regurgitate "correct" after every correct answer. But only the truly astute among us have observed that his alternatives to "correct" are as varied as they are plentiful. "Yep," "uh huh," "that's the one," etc. Obviously there is a finite supply, of which these are but a few, but because Trebek produces such a robust vocabulary of these utterances designed to signify the contestant has answered correctly, it appears, to the casual observer, that they are rarely repeated. It is unlikely, for example, that you would ever hear a "that's right" followed immediately by another, or for that matter, consecutive "you got its." So, unless it can proven that Trebek is naturally a statistical anomaly with the ability to maintain a remarkable adherence to some statistical measure of random distribution, I assume his writers are rightfully credited with this phenomenon. And if indeed the writers are responsible, they should be archiving this shit. It's incredible.

http://www.facialhairchronicles.com/storage/trebek1.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1284061488659

Not quite as great as the 'drunk' video but:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNMGpFu0udg

"that's the one"

I LOVE when he says that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9f1zM7I8Z8

Back and kicking ass (but also tearing tendons).

not sure quite why, but something about him has always bugged me sooo much, like to the point where i find it hard to watch the show

It's his utter inability to feign the slightest interest in the interviewing-the-contestants segment. Every single show there's a supremely awkward moment.

del, you and i are hella different dels, dog.

Still Trebekin'

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/alex-trebek-thinking-deep-after-28-seasons-of-jeopardy/2012/04/29/gIQAgi1MqT_story.html?hpid=z4

Trebek is 71. The past three decades have passed by in a blur, he says. He wanted to be many different things when he was growing up — actor, doctor, prime minister — but somehow ended up doing what he’s doing: presiding over five tapings every Tuesday and Wednesday, arriving at work at noonish and returning by 6 or 6:30 p.m. to his mansion in Studio City, his wife of 22 years and his 91-year-old mother. He spends the rest of the week traveling (he’s been to every continent except Australia), devouring television (“The Borgias” and “Law & Order” marathons) and books (he recently bristled at the iffy merits of Bill O’Reilly’s “Killing Lincoln”). He mentions, as he has in previous interviews, that he likes to fix his property’s aging sprinkler system. L.A.’s gurgly water pressure — which varies from 105 to 155 pounds per square inch, he says — strains the system’s old rubber diaphragms. Trebek talks about the sprinklers like Lennie talks about the rabbits or Norman Thayer talks about the loons on Golden Pond.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzZUXHtTr6c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvU_uJkOHH0

This was a great tournament -- Leonard's huge comeback was great.

It was great, but Leonard botched the math - if Nilai gets Eisenhower, he wins, right? That's a 14,000 swing and gets him to 40,400, 400 pust Leonard. The bet 0 and write "I just won 70k" move would've looked really foolish if he had lost.

That one match that ended without a winner was pretty funny.

But he didn't, so...

xp

he did singlehandedly make the teen tournament entertaining, which I usually dislike watching (I schedule my workouts around Jeopardy, damnit). I love the contestants that aren't afraid to get a few wrong.

the fact that he could have still lost makes it all the more badass

Was totally rooting for Leonard. The everyone-at-zero game was weird enough, but for Leonard to not only bet $18k on a Daily Double, but to also be all "Hi, I just won" on Final was brilliant.

The guy next to him was kind of hilarious, frantically flailing around with his buzzer and shouting all his responses.

I love the contestants that aren't afraid to get a few wrong.

My impression is that smart Jeopardy gameplay involves not guessing if you're not 100% sure of the answer. Barrett, the Young Republican guy in the final, had his momentum stalled several times in the final with wrong guesses, especially the Bible category in day 1.

xp -- that was Barrett, I couldn't stand that unctuous toadying shit.

in a vacuum, shouldn't it be correct to guess if you're 51% sure of the answer?

nope

it's just poor strategy; if you don't know the answer, you can't be penalized if you don't guess, whereas if you guess and get it wrong you are definitely penalized

basically it's SAT test strategy mapped onto a game show

It's a math equation - say you're 60% sure of the answer and the question is worth $1000.

Getting it right (1000 x .60) vs. getting it wrong (-1000 x .40) ~ an EV of +$200 for guessing

Plus, buzzing in gives you a few additional seconds to get the answer...

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyoxgsfrLb1qdmmiqo1_400.gif

I'm always buzzing in for alec trebek ;)

I love Leonard!! Barrett was THE WORST. UGH.

that gif

It's a math equation - say you're 60% sure of the answer and the question is worth $1000.

Getting it right (1000 x .60) vs. getting it wrong (-1000 x .40) ~ an EV of +$200 for guessing

Plus, buzzing in gives you a few additional seconds to get the answer...

hmmmmm...this makes sense to me IF jeopardy was, as you said, played in a vaccuum - with no other players competing. because when you incorrectly answer in jeopardy, you're not just losing $1000 (or whatever), but it's very likely that another player will buzz in and correctly answer and GAIN $1000, meaning that there was a $2000 net loss.

i'm glad i saw this thread, because when i was making that gif (many months ago), it got me thinking about making a series of vibrating chest hair gifs. they take a long time to make but they're so satisfying

chalk that up under the heading "posts I never thought I would read"

don't even get me started on the other kinds of hairs

all strangely satisfying

hmmmmm...this makes sense to me IF jeopardy was, as you said, played in a vaccuum - with no other players competing. because when you incorrectly answer in jeopardy, you're not just losing $1000 (or whatever), but it's very likely that another player will buzz in and correctly answer and GAIN $1000, meaning that there was a $2000 net loss.

well what I meant was, you have to keep the other players' scores in mind. like if you're at $20000 and 2nd place has $8000, you should guess a lot less, and vice versa if you're way behind. but what you're saying doesn't really figure in, because if you just don't answer and another contestant gets the answer, you're still looking at a $1000 net loss by that math.

Barret was actually a robot project of Tagg Romney's.

funnily enough I was just reading this

the 18k bet was a good move because the daily double was on the 2nd row (questions get harder the lower down the board they are). i don't think they put daily doubles on the first row, so that was the easiest possible daily double to get, so might as well bet it all.

I like Barrett. I'm clearly only ever going to (fantasy) date Republicans.

he did singlehandedly make the teen tournament entertaining, which I usually dislike watching (I schedule my workouts around Jeopardy, damnit). I love the contestants that aren't afraid to get a few wrong.

― frogbs, Wednesday, February 13, 2013 8:25 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

did you see the ep last week where the kids were betting like insane gamblers and everyone ended up with $0?

That was hilarious -- a semifinal match with nobody going to the final. If any bit of tv deserved the sadtrombone, that was it.

i did not but i do think that contestants are maybe too conservative on Daily Doubles in general.

but what you're saying doesn't really figure in, because if you just don't answer and another contestant gets the answer, you're still looking at a $1000 net loss by that math.

ooooh, you're right. so let me do it again, then, assuming a 2-player version of Jeopardy, and an 60% chance that you know the correct answer, and an 60% chance that your opponent knows the answer

Deciding not to answer
Opponent gets it right (-1000 x .6) vs. Opponent gets it wrong (+1000 x .4) + an EV of $-200, relevant to your opponent, for choosing not to answer

Deciding to answer
You answer the question correctly (1000 x .6) vs. You answer the question incorrectly and your opponent answers correctly (-2000 x .24) vs. You answer the question incorrectly and your opponent answers incorrectly (0 x .16) ~ + an EV of $120, relevant to your opponent, for choosing to answer.

so you're right, the correct choice would seem to be choosing to answer, even if you're only 60% sure.

relevant = relative, fuck

also, this doesn't take into consideration the possibilities that a)you decide not to answer, the opponent answers incorrectly, and then you hop in with the correct answer (2000 x .?), and b)you answer the question incorrectly and the opponent decides not to answer (-1000 x .?)

Exactly - the point I was trying to make though is that if you penalize the guesser because their opponent would then get it right and "double" the loss, then you also have to give them credit for getting it right and not letting the opponent even try. As a whole, your opponents are going to average way in the positive on questions you don't answer so if anything I'd think that's more incentive for just guessing, especially when you figure it over a 3 player game.

with three players there's more incentive to let the other two duke it out if you're not reasonably sure.

I can see why since "net +" is really hard to calculate w/ 3 players but I still don't see why you wouldn't want to answer anything you were more than 50% sure of. I'm saying that if not answering/getting it wrong results in a big net$+ for an opponent then it seems to suggest that answering even when you're at like 45% is correct. Like in Z S's example, it would be more in favor of guessing if your opponent was more than 60% to get the question right. Your average Jeopardy contestant can get like 70-75% (according to Ken Jennings' book, that is) and you can't assume that YOU being "only" 60% to get it means your opponents are.

how do you calculate on the fly if you're more than 50% sure of an answer? you're treating that like it's a real statistic instead of just meaning "i think i know the answer but i'm not confident about it"

"frogbs, how did you score a zero in Jeopardy!?"
"I was so busy calculating the probability that I knew the answer that I forget to buzz in ;_;"

you just activate your Terminator HUD and have it calculate the probability really quickly

http://images.wikia.com/terminator/images/archive/d/dc/20080606144629!T-888_HUD.jpg

Basically, in addition to the standard EV of guessing something you're more than 50% on, getting it right also deprives your opponents of answering, which is a hidden bonus.

my jeopardy strategy if I ever get on would be to just to eat a lot of taco bell the night before and then fart a lot and hope that it distracts the opponents enough to give me the edge

ideally I would be in the center position

"um, can i have the center position?"
"why?"
"....*fart*"

with more people, the more likely it is that one of them does know the correct answer. if the other two are about evenly matched, they'll cancel out each other while you steeple your hands and murmur "excellent" in your best burns voice.

ken jennings' secret is finally revealed. no wonder he couldn't beat a computer.

how do you calculate on the fly if you're more than 50% sure of an answer? you're treating that like it's a real statistic instead of just meaning "i think i know the answer but i'm not confident about it"

Given what Ken writes in Brainiac I think that people who compete probably have a good sense of it. I agree that in most situations this kind of math is useless because for most questions it's either you're 98%+ sure or can't offer anything but a wild guess (and Jennings does talk a bit about how trivia contestants do this). I definitely think there are questions for which a contestant has an answer in mind but isn't totally sure and I'm arguing they should go for it anyway. There are also questions for which a contestant doesn't know the answer right away but can figure it out with the extra 3-4 seconds that buzzing in gives you. Certain categories that feature wordplay are pretty good for this.

a lot of questions also lend themselves to being narrowed down by the two chumps who answer ahead of you. like "this stooge was the stoogiest of the three stooges"

on average, how many answers do the contestants whiff on every show?

the amount of whiffing depends on whether or not dayo is the center contestant

Hubris is a bitch. Barrett was so sure he was right on a lot of those wrong answers...his jaw-drop reactions were satisfying.

xp to no-one in particular

speaking of that reminds me of a pretty infuriating episode where a Double Jeopardy category was "Also a chess piece". All the answers were chess pieces which means there were only 6 possible answers. The first four were hit, then the last was a Daily Double. Meaning there's only two possible answers left, and you have the entire clue to go off of. And yet the contestant only wagered like $3000 instead of their whole stack. I mean I know that guessing wrong sucks but you have to think you're 90% or more to get that one right.

Hubris is a bitch. Barrett was so sure he was right on a lot of those wrong answers...his jaw-drop reactions were satisfying.

"But Rush Limbaugh told me it was like this!"

http://i.imgur.com/C0gJTe6.jpg

Clarifying some points (in response to reports on Sajak's idiocies):

I consider myself a social liberal and a fiscal conservative. I believe that climate change exists, and is contributed to by human activity. I have seen firsthand the effects of climate change, in trips to Antarctica and Mt. Kilimanjaro, both of which are showing huge changes due to global warming. I’m in favor of equal pay for women, and the Lilly Ledbetter act. I believe in equal rights for the LGBT community; in fact, this winter, I braved the Minnesota winter weather to attend a gay wedding (which was officiated over by my wife).

damn... thats brave

All Minnesotans appear to think their winter is the worst thing on earth.

I've been to Cloquet, MN in January, so they're not too far off the mark

All Minnesotans appear to think their winter is the worst thing on earth.

Considering that there are more people who live in Minneapolis-St Paul alone than the entire state of Alaska, what you're really seeing is that there are more people around to complain about the winters.

Twins' starting rotation is out of sight/mind in the winter

Alex Trebek will not be denied.

Ah man:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cInGyxCY9k

Aw crap. Fingers crossed for him.

I must say I cannot believe he is 78 years old.

oh no

grim news, his pluck is perhaps admirable but man I would not want to do one more day of work if godforbid someone told me I had advanced pancreatic cancer. even if I was on television!

Sorry, Alex, but stage 4 pancreatic cancer is not something you "beat" or a contest you "win." It is something you either die from or, in a few cases, you survive. Any way, good luck and stay hopeful. And if it helps you to imagine you are beating up on your cancer, like Popeye bashing on Bluto, then I guess it can't really hurt.

That’s a sneaky one too. Jonathan Gold found out he had his pancreatic cancer just days before he died. Same with Gene Upshaw.

I remember him well from his days in Canada. Best wishes to him. pic.twitter.com/bU5n52RTBw

— Les Williams (@leswilliams2) March 6, 2019

Still processing that Alex Trebek news. Reminder that if you're on Amazon Prime, you can watch him on Celebrity Bowling and Double Dare 76/77. pic.twitter.com/QhGeNviudX

— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) March 6, 2019

really sorry to hear about this. i binged all the jeopardy on netflix over 3-4 days or so a few weeks ago; it was a wonderful time. alex trebek is a key part of what makes the show work. i guess the good news is that he has the best doctors and insurance money can buy, i assume

it's strange to hear him delivering this news in the same clipped cadences he reads the jeopardy clues

"i'll take 'grim cancer diagnoses' for 200, alex"

p.s. sad news. i wish him the best.

my cousin was his radiologist recently iirc

alec trebel 4eva
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=LF2jdTQyyyE

lol Aimless's pedantry knows no bounds

my dad told me about this time when alex trebek came to his high school, because he used to tour around presenting reach for the top (kind of like a canadian university challenge i guess? except high school? idk if you have it everywhere else) and the kids were all brought to the auditorium to watch this match between dad's school and whoever else. alex trebek got very cross with the crowd being loud at some point and said "if you don't settle down, we won't be able to continue" which of course set off the crowd even more. i guess that's the whole story, my dad's school being jerks to trebek. idk why i brought it up

jeopardy was on every day in my house as early as i can remember, my parent's favourite show (and eventually, one of mine, even though i don't have cable anymore) and alex trebek has been there the whole time. now i do trivia all the time and host a pub quiz. he's one of those guys i kinda forgot was even mortal. this is heartbreaking. that he manages to even put a fact (50,000 diagnoses a year) in his announcement is so perfectly trebek too.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1A4bKsXgAsGMLJ.jpg

Aimless's pedantry knows no bounds

I'm not the first ilxor to have expressed this sentiment on ilx. The whole "I fought cancer and won" thing is a very strange mindset to me. Pneumonia kills a lot of people, too, but no one brags about fighting it and winning.

how dare you, the true boundless pedant of this board is sic

(it's part of why i love sic posts never stop sic)

It bugs me when bus ads etc frame cancer as a battle to be won or lost, but whomst tf thinks it's a good idea to nitpick how people express dealing with their own illnesses?

JFC dude, "bragging"? I rarely feel like I know this cast of ilxors enough to call someone out on anything, but this whole take is quite dickish imo. cancer is fucked and anyone who's dealing with it and keeping up a brave face is worth your silence if you feel otherwise.

won't anyone think of how cancer must feel about all this

I'm not the first ilxor to have expressed this sentiment on ilx. The whole "I fought cancer and won" thing is a very strange mindset to me. Pneumonia kills a lot of people, too, but no one brags about fighting it and winning.

IDK, my dad died of cancer and I have no problems with the phrase "I fought cancer and won", nor would I have a problem with saying my dad eventually lost his battle. When my dad got his first cancer diagnosis back when I was 9 and went into remission (after it almost killed him) he framed it in terms of having "won" his battle so I figure it's perfectly fine.

Anyway, I'm really hoping Alex Trebek is one of the lucky few to beat this. I know pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest and stage 4 is about as advanced as they get so am not trying to get too optimistic, but surely if anyone can beat the odds it's one of the two kings of the game show, right? (The other king being Bob Barker.)

thing is a very strange mindset to me.

yet somehow you don't think casting aspersions on the outlook/semantics of people facing a terrible, likely fatal illness is very strange *shrugs til shoulders separate*

like obv there's nothing any patient can do to "fight" cancer other than get the best treatment possible, and those who succumb to it didn't do so because they weren't good enough fighters...but to point this out to someone dx'd w it is just a major dick move imo

people desire agency. there's zero harm in allowing them to think they have some, no matter how small or large.

this hits me pretty hard. when I was 6 I used to watch Jeopardy every day, I thought Trebek was the coolest guy on the planet. obviously I never knew a single answer but I loved the format of it. it was my dream to be a game show host. or a game show contestant. I still watch from time to time, it is absolutely the best thing to watch when you're working out.

obviously he was kind of a private dude but Ken Jennings writes a lot of nice words about him in his book, where he claims that he's a lot wittier than he appears on TV. I only know the "real" Alex Trebek through the many prank calls Longmont Potion Castle made to his house...he was the one guy who he could never get to crack, the only celebrity who never pulled the "do you know who I am?" line

obv there's nothing any patient can do to "fight" cancer other than get the best treatment possible, and those who succumb to it didn't do so because they weren't good enough fighters...

I accept your statement that this is obvious. It is equally obvious to me. I further accept that, for the vast majority, this obvious fact falls among the facts that are considered unmentionable and my offense was to mention it.

it's a psychological tool to frame it that way. Maybe people take it too literally, but oh well.

what is the point of having to phrase responses in the form of a question

^^^ the real million dollar question

my offense was to mention it.

"chill bro I'm just tellin facts"

what is because shut up that's why

xxp

what is the point of having to phrase responses in the form of a question

Because if you don't, the "Jeopardy!" gods will come down from Mount Trivia and smite you.

thank god you're around to speak truth to people on their death bed

i really enjoy jeopardy. we don't get it in the uk so it's something i was purely familiar with through references in american pop culture.

few years back i would watch it whenever i got home from work and it wasn't baseball season.

hang in there, trebek. fight the best anti-cancer battle that your inner-strength and fortitude can muster

xxxpost: it was just a gimmick merv griffin came up with to sell the original 60s version of the show, reversing the order of the questions and answers. i think i read a long time ago that it was partly meant to make the show seem different and distinguish it from the shows that were involved in the 50s quiz-show scandal.

what is alex trebeks display name

I used to feel bad for the contestants who had negative dollars. Didn't seem right they had to owe the show money. My mom assured me they didn't actually have to fork it over. Then I felt like I had been snookered by the show.

People engage in constant mythmaking in an attempt to reckon with the terror of mortality. This is like humanity 101, perhaps our defining trait as a species. I guess its weird but no more so than like puzzling over the mechanics of swallowing. It just is, and if it confers some comfort then go with (insert deity of choice).

Sorry, sorry. 'What is...'

guys srsly shhh shhh trebek is on his deathbed and he can hear u

was waiting for some wiseass to point that out, and lo and behold king of the ilx wiseasses steps to the plate

I think there was a short-lived UK version of Jeopardy many years ago, daytime ITV style. Anyway great game, mortality sucks, carry on.

when longmont potion was on my radio show, he called alex on the air and HE ANSWERED! def one of the highlights of my life. i watch jeopardy every fucking day of my life. so does brian wilson.

I'm going to make chana masala,vape a bunch of sativa oil,and watch a ton of jeopardy on Netflix tonight

i saw trebek's video on twitter yesterday and started watching it without any idea of what it was -- i assumed he was announcing his retirement -- and found myself getting genuinely choked up at how calm and even confident he sounded. this is a shitty thing that shouldn't have to happen to anyone.

one of my favorite YouTube videos is Alex Trebek calling a college football game. not only hilarious but there's such a neat sense of calm about it. I've probably watched this at least 30 times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mioJvjkuRA

yah i broke down like a baby when i saw that video expecting his retirement too.

Alex Trebek is going to suck cancer’s D

was waiting for some wiseass to point that out, and lo and behold king of the ilx wiseasses steps to the plate

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 7 March 2019 19:14 (forty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if you knew it was a dumbass thing to say then....oh look, nm

I'm going to make chana masala,vape a bunch of sativa oil,and watch a ton of jeopardy on Netflix tonight

the All-Stars championship that ran the last two weeks was really fun, I watched it all on dailymotion

the All-Stars championship that ran the last two weeks was really fun, I watched it all on dailymotion

― steven, soda jerk (sic), Thursday, March 7, 2019 2:05 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nice

Alex Trebek is going to suck cancer’s D

― flopson, Thursday, March 7, 2019 11:35 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nice

I feel like Alex Trebek is one of those people, sorta like Roger Ebert or Casey Kasem, whose stature I will struggle to explain to my (entirely hypothetical) children one day. Like,

"Who was that?"
"He used to host Jeopardy."
"Umm, so?"
"No! You don't get it, he was great...oh, never mind."

if you knew it was a dumbass thing to say then....oh look, nm

It wasn't. But I knew a dumbass wouldn't be able to read it without responding like a dumbass to it. You dumbass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Jks6rIhMY&t=1m6s

shhhh danny u'll wake alex shh theres a gullad shhhhh

i'm sorry you have a miserable life and have to come on here and forever shit on people

gd we cant fight in here this is the trebek listening room im stepping away now out of concern for the listening trebek and remember shhhh

Ken Jennings on Alex:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/09/opinion/sunday/alex-trebek-jeopardy-ken-jennings.html

Sigh.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/nation-world/2019/10/11/im-nearing-the-end-of-my-life-alex-trebek-says-hes-not-afraid-to-die-as-cancer-grows/

Long may he thrive

A one-year update from Alex: pic.twitter.com/W9101suZeZ

— Jeopardy! (@Jeopardy) March 4, 2020

Autobiography almost out, big interview in the NYT:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/books/alex-trebek-jeopardy-the-answer-is.html

There are no shocking revelations in his memoir, but there are a few surprises. Trebek swears, a lot. He was so unruly as a boy that he almost got expelled from boarding school. He has a half brother he didn’t know about until he was in his 40s. In the early 1970s, he accidentally ate four or five hash brownies at a party in Malibu, and woke up at the host's house three days later. His favorite animal is the musk ox. His favorite drink is low-fat milk, or if he’s feeling frisky, which he isn’t often lately, chardonnay.

(pvmic warning) It beats me why people would be so interested in such mundane and unremarkable details just because they are attached to a pleasant, lovable, but apparently somewhat bland, television host. I mean, many people find me lovable, but there aren't any who give a shit about knowing what's my favorite animal. This is just a more expensive hardcover version of a People magazine profile.

IDK, it's nice to occasionally think that maybe not every celebrity is (secretly or no) a raging piece of shit.

Well, he's a Canadian, so you have to factor that in.

And bilingual, so maybe he swears in Franco-Ontarian.

pleasant, mundane and unremarkable details are what keep me alive a lot of days. i've spent most of this morning agonizing over whether to write a several thousand word essay about laundry tickets. (i probably won't, at least not today.)

aimless, what is your favourite animal?

I have only pleasant associations with pikas, because whenever I see one, I am in a wonderful pace doing something I love, which is not as true for any other animal. But there are many more animals I admire greatly and love for their sterling qualities, e.g. black bears, elephants, gray whales, bumblebees, hermit thrushes, turkey vultures, just to name a few. All of them are worth knowing personally if you ever get a chance.

my treeplanting stint will forever make me consider black bears irritating pests but I won't pretend that's coming from a rational place

i didn't know there was such a thing as a pika without a chu at the end! thank you for sharing

Trebek swears, a lot.

Old news.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H49nlqD611o

Hail, and farewell.

Jeopardy! is saddened to share that Alex Trebek passed away peacefully at home early this morning, surrounded by family and friends. Thank you, Alex. pic.twitter.com/Yk2a90CHIM

— Jeopardy! (@Jeopardy) November 8, 2020

What is “heartbroken”? Godspeed, good sir.

A lotta good people dying this year. At least this one we were able to see coming. Really glad he got to do the GOAT tournament and elevate Jeopardy into the national conversation one last time.

My future plans in my high school yearbook: "PBKR plans to kill Alex Trebek and take over as host of Jeopardy."

RIP Alex. Glad I never got to you.

goddammit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_mfVsxA1hU

friday's show.

I dont know if he was actually exhibiting it more than usual or if I was imagining it, but it really seemed like he was having an especially good time hosting since they came back on the air. He always seemed to really love Jeopardy as a game, getting excited when it was close, getting invested in the tension of who's up and down, genuinely curious about how it would end and who would win. Obviously its the job of any pro host to convey that to viewers but Trebek seemed genuine. Always thought he seemed like he'd have been a devoted Jeopardy watcher even if he'd never been the host.

I've watched every episode since they came back on. Alex was (not always but occasionally) uncharacteristically halting and a bit slow to move the game forward... i'm pretty sure I saw him occasionally leaning backward into something behind the podium that was helping him stand. As a game show host, i found him occasionally snide and regularly minimizing to the players but that was the character I guess. Over the course of my life I may have watched him on television more than anyone except Letterman.

but to your point, he did seem very happy to be there and the contestants seemed, more often than usual, excited out of their minds to be on the show. you got the sense people knew.

with him and Letterman you can tell that they're both quick, intelligent people who at various moments in their lives - some of them on-screen - can't help but allow a bit of pent-up befuddlement that they've become rich and famous being something akin to a carnival barkers to poke through

i would've paid a dollar to see them change jobs for a week

A glimpse into his Franco-Ontarian side:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcWYJHdeN8Q

still love this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZnKJkgmvhI

classic

that led me here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzZUXHtTr6c

Lotta great memories:

https://www.vulture.com/article/alex-trebek-memorial-jeopardy-contestants.html

Including this tidbit which, what the:

When we’d all chat at the end of a taping, he’d draw us all into the conversation, and share his thoughts on some part of the game. On one memorable occasion, he shared a story about how he was interviewing Muhammad Ali at Louis Farrakhan’s house of Islam the night Bobby Kennedy was assassinated when he was starting out in media.

https://www.google.com/search?q=alex+trebek

:)