Will that guy on Jeopardy ever lose?

I've never heard of that album and I'm into (old) music more than avg person

i laughed at how none of them knew what Kanye's new album was called. it was probably filmed around the time it dropped, too.

I bumped into Ken Jennings’ +1 for the tapings just minutes after last night’s ep aired, and he said the lead time was much shorter than usual for these specials. The Kanye had probably been out for a month or more?

(also I’d guess they’re all busy studying existing general knowledge for months beforehand, not too deep into current pop releases)

still lol tho for sure

https://www.vulture.com/article/jeopardy-greatest-of-all-time-tournament-quiz.html

i remember yelling! "good day sir!" at the screen and was shocked that none of them got that one lol

yeah!! I thought for sure guys as online as James & Ken would know that one. I also got "nitwit", the 2 cybersecurity ones, "Jeet Kune Do", and the Kanye one of course

I know this tweet is out of date now but I still thought it was pretty funny at the time

#Jeopardy tournaments won:@bradrutter: 5@James_Holzhauer: 1@realDonaldTrump and @KenJennings: tied at 0

— GOAT Fodder (@James_Holzhauer) January 8, 2020

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dude, have any of you been watching the current streak by player MacKenzie ? about to go over 200K
I kind of love her (but hope I don't jinx her with the revive!)

she's amazing (i, too, hope i have not jinxed her)

One-year health update from Alex:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8c_mAxW7QI

The champion over-explaining her FJ answer on Monday's episode is some of the most endearing comedy I've seen in a while.

Ha yeah, we were on the edge of our seat about how Alex was going to react

yeah I'm busy not doing your shitty trivia game https://t.co/8MtrjUlDkI

— Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) April 30, 2020

dang, people getting tighter

They started rerunning the original Jennings eps today.

that one-year health update has got me choked up. hadn't seen it before.

he always carried himself with dignity.

Actually they're just re-airing the first Jennings ep today, and the rest of this week they'll have the All-Star tourney w/him & Holtzhauer & Brad from earlier this year.

Have they run out of new episodes? There was nothing at the end of Friday’s to indicate that they were showing old stuff this week.

i think so. They stopped taping in mid-march and are typically about 6 weeks ahead

I believe there’s a tournament or two in the can, probably holding them to space out remaining new content

Pretty dumb to do first-and-last on Jennings instead of the whole run imo. If this ended tomorrow, they'd still take months to get new eps into the pipeline (it's only been so short lately because of Trebek's health absences), might as well milk as many ~events~ as you can

They probably can't show all of them due to the horrific racism and sexism no doubt contained in the clues and categories crassly supplied by the Jeopardy writers in those less enlightened times of <checks notes> 2004.

Man, this Kelly lady on today is reeeeaaaaallllllly happy to be there.

Clearly no one is traveling to be on the show. Every single contestant this week is from the L.A. area

Yeah, and they said on Monday that the returning champ would not be able to appear right away (presumably due to travel issues/safety).

Yeah I haven't watched any from this week yet, waiting to get a handful bundled up to power through.

they’re starting to expand the contestant pool to the rest of the west coast - someone i know in seattle made it to the second round of zoom auditions yesterday

everyone who's ever been on jeopardy ever lost today :(

and those of us who always wanted to be on and never got the chance

they're doing the test online in covid times

RIP.

Alex Trebek hosting Classic Concentration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlRvK5Jg250

The Times obit is quite good.

(alert to mobile users rationing articles: that's the NYT, not The Times)

Today we honor Alex Trebek. For over three decades he brought integrity, humor and intelligence to his duties as host of Jeopardy! He will be in our hearts forever.

Thank you, Alex. Love from us all. 💜 pic.twitter.com/w8abYY8SX5

— Jeopardy! (@Jeopardy) November 10, 2020

yikes, that pushed my buttons

Lovely gesture. The Carillon on Parliament Hill plays theme from Jeopardy! in honour of Alex Trebek. RIP. pic.twitter.com/h3iIIzdSYV

— Michel Boyer (@BoyerMichel) November 10, 2020

oh god i just cried through both of those clips thank you for sharing :(

I presume no one knows who Wonderhussy is (I'm a fan), but she appeared on Jeopardy against Ken Jennings in 2003, and she just posted a youtube on the experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjd3A2X0vyg

Jennings named interim host, show goes back into production Nov. 30:

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/11/23/media/jeopardy-alex-trebek-interim-ken-jennings-trnd/index.html

i would say he's the only choice if not for
https://www.change.org/p/sony-pictures-entertainment-levar-burton-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy

wow I heard Ken's name floated a few times but I didn't think they'd actually do it

I heard those two names just floated bandied about in some Jeopardy circles so am not surprised.

and yeah Levar would be an awesome choice

someone I know said "there should be a female host, like who's the female Alex Trebek?" and I immediately thought of Jamie Lee Curtis

Sandy Toksvig iirc

Other possible options that come to mind if they wanted a steady solid paycheck and plenty of time off: Morgan Freeman, Patrick Stewart, Laurence Fishburne, Tilda Swinton

James Caan

End of tweet.