Alex Trebek suffers 'minor heart attack'

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

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

:)