Will that guy on Jeopardy ever lose?

i cried :(

Me too.

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Holy Shit...

https://tvline.com/2021/02/12/jeopardy-brayden-smith-dead-age-24-five-time-champion/

Dr Oz? Fuck that.

https://www.jeopardy.com/jbuzz/news-events/jeopardy-guest-host-schedule

Ken Jennings, Jeopardy! GOAT & Consulting Producer
Show Air Dates: January 4, 2021 - February 19, 2021

Mike Richards on Jeopardy! Set
Mike Richards, Executive Producer, Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune
Show Air Dates: February 22, 2021- March 05, 2021

Katie Couric, Journalist & New York Times Best-Selling Author
Show Air Dates: March 8, 2021- March 19, 2021

Dr. Mehmet Oz, Host of “The Doctor Oz Show”
Show Air Dates: TBD

Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay Packers Quarterback
Show Air Dates: TBD

Savannah Guthrie, NBC News' TODAY Co-Anchor
Show Air Dates: TBD

Anchor Anderson Cooper, “Anderson Cooper 360°” Anchor
Show Air Dates: TBD

Mayim Bialik, Actress and Neuroscientist
Show Air Dates: TBD

Bill Whitaker, “60 Minutes” Correspondent
Show Air Dates: TBD

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent
Show Air Dates: TBD

i would answer every question with "What is quack doctor selling snake oil" in protest

holy shit @ brayden, how sad

the list of guest hosts is definitely... not what i would have expected. consolation is that i cant imagine most/any of them are being considered for the permanent gig? I hope?

Aaron Rodgers will probably cause a temporary spike in viewership

Anderson Cooper is a curious choice, considering he legendarily bombed on the show (and even sassed Alex!) a few years back: https://news.avclub.com/last-night-s-jeopardy-was-a-shitshow-1798247379

Ken has been quite good imo.

he has the pace of the show down, which is the main thing. i have a feeling Aaron Rodgers' episode is going to have to be heavily edited to have any flow.

and they'll have to edit out the moments where Dr Oz sells essential oils

Rodgers can run a hurry-up offense better than anyone on the planet, I'm sure he can handle this

he has the pace of the show down, which is the main thing. i have a feeling Aaron Rodgers' episode is going to have to be heavily edited to have any flow.

― he said that you son of a bitch (Neanderthal), Monday, February 15, 2021 1:04 PM (fifty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah, Ken knows the pace of the show, but you can also tell that he LOVES the game itself; he often seems more excited than some of the contestants. And one thing Alex used to do, that Ken never does, is say something along the lines of, "[contestant far behind] has a lot of catching up to do!" Alex was never mean, but I'd think, jeez, that contestant knows they're behind, maybe don't emphasize that.

"really clogged up the shitter that round, didn't ya?"

alex was a dick to contestants about once to twice per show sometimes in ways that felt vaguely sexist or at least dismissive.
ken is, as noted, genuinely excited to be there and it shows.

vaguely sexist

I recall him addressing women contestants as "little lady" a number of times.

he LOVES the game itself; he often seems more excited than some of the contestants

ha, that's one of the things i haven't liked about him as host. alex seemed to me like an unknowable voice of authority who existed on an entirely different plane of existence than the contestants. maybe that can't ever be replaced, but ken seems more like a guy who wants to stand on the field of play and be everyone's coach. he seems more like a typical game-show host in that sense. i liked that alex was not that.

Ken has done four days of work in the job tbf, it's entirely likely he'd get more towards his politely smart-assed stage and podcast character if he had the job full-time and was able to relax

they call him "Jaded" Jennings

Ken has done four days of work in the job tbf...

fair point

I am wishing for a host with a deeper voice than Ken’s but he isn’t really failing in other ways. I mean he wrapped up some of his questions to the contestants sort of awkwardly but that is to be expected early on.

the one thing he was doing that annoyed me was too long pauses before giving them a "correct"

More former Jeopardy champs as hosts, please. Ken has other hosting gigs.

I want it to be this guy:

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

yeah, Austin and James would each make more interesting guest hosts than quack TV doctors

I love Austin so much

new champ jon spurney is a musician/composer/session player who was in the original new york productions of both "passing strange" and "hedwig and the angry inch" and has a hella long music c.v. and like jeop music champs before him, he was slow on the buzzer in the one music category that came up on his first show. i'm a fan.

(but not much of a fan of the showrunner who's hosting now. he's nice and personable and all, but he seems even more game show host-y than ken did.)

finally put it together last night that I recognized the last champ michael from being a panelist on best week ever and those VH1 "i love the (whatever decade)" shows

In the ILX-y spirit of list-making, here is how I would rank the guest hosts so far:

1. Ken Jennings
2. Katie Couric
3. Mike Richards

I will keep you all updated on my rankings.

i think ken's the right guy for the job

Kramer hosted?

today's champion told a heartwarming story of flying across the country to meet his wife on a blind date, who turns out irl to be a Federalist contributor and the author of "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters"

when you know, you know.

friend: i've got a girl for you.
jeopardy champ: awesome. when can i meet her?
f: well, you're gonna have to fly 3,000 miles.
jc: for a blind date? f*** that.
f: she will never, ever let your daughters be seduced by a transgender craze.
jc: booking a plane now.

i wouldn’t be mad if Ken were host but i wasn’t loving it either, tbh i did welcome the current guy’s injection of suave confidence. the rest of that list of guest hosts is depressingly ghoulish. rip alex

lolz at Jeopardy having a legit "Potent Potables" category tonight

Couric sounds weirdly robotic

lolz at Jeopardy having a legit "Potent Potables" category tonight

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lolz at Jeopardy having a legit "Potent Potables" category tonight

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― armoured van, Holden (sic)

Reference to St Paddy's day, I'm guessing..

my guess is that the lolz are because "Potent Potables" is such a staple of Jeopardy parodies - am i right that it's always one of the categories in the SNL sketches, and never actually chosen by the contestants? but i'm pretty sure that stems from it actually being a classic, frequently-used Jeopardy category!

<SPOILER ALERT>

Today's ep has a post-credits scene.

post-credits scene

best song he's written in years.

i dont think he was wearing a wetsuit, but it reeeally looked like he was wearing a wetsuit

kt lowe, a librarian from st. clair shores, michigan, today's second place finisher, used to run a warren zevon fan site, which is my new all-time favorite contestant interview story.

warren called her one day to correct some errors on the site, thus beginning a long correspondence. that was the story :)

fuck if i'm gonna watch doctor oz in any capacity

yeah that was great. she even had kind of a zevon look going with her big round glasses.

much better than the guy from the jennings run whose fun fact was that he listened to podcasts.

New favorite Jeopardy contestant pic.twitter.com/q0NBsj5yT5

— Scoops (@ejmaroun) March 30, 2021

her final jeopardy callback-answer made me LOL

fuck if i'm gonna watch doctor oz in any capacity

― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Friday, April 2, 2021 12:40 AM (fourteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yep. It's been a weird Jeopardy-free two weeks for me, but no fucking way am I watching Dr. Oz. I hope the show's ratings cratered during his hosting run.