Will that guy on Jeopardy ever lose?

^ five questions get asked every episode

Azaria is a top five request for me. But glad to see Burton is in.

Additional names with Buck and Burton: George Stephanopoulos, Robin Roberts, David Faber

i think buck will be good actually

Have they announced that they're doing this for a full year or something? The prolonging seems kind of weird to me at this point, like how desirable a gig is this really? (though I'm sure some of these people aren't genuinely auditioning, just doing a stretch for fun/the chance to seem smart)

It's very desirable!

But I'm sure a huge part of the rotation is to leave a large, respectful gap between Trebek and a permanent successor (plus to sustain interest / avoid putting people off with one new host), more than it is an actual strategy of auditioning.

yeah that all makes sense, I guess the hype is starting to make me salty is all

when they announced the first grip of guest hosts after Jennings they said it would be guests for the season before naming a replacement starting next fall

ah ok thanks!

https://www.avclub.com/the-jeopardy-guest-hosts-ranked-worst-to-best-1847049741

Can't disagree with "the obvious frontrunner," but I've been enjoying Mayim Bialik just as much. Dr. Oz sucks, obviously, but I'm not sure why so many are so down on Katie Couric.

Buzzy did better than some people that get paid some serious cheddar to talk on TV. I think Mayim Bialik might be the best one so far. Aaron Rodgers was better than expected and there was some humor, but I'd put him being Mayim, Buzzy and Ken Jennings. Bill Whitaker was fine, but really low key.

hated buzzy as a contestant, his smugness seemed really in your face, but thought he was a warm and charming host. did not expect it! I can't handle mayim's politics, unfortunately, as she's been great as a host.

hated buzzy as a contestant, his smugness seemed really in your face, but thought he was a warm and charming host.

otm. i also thought he was way more prepared than anyone else and the only one, for my money, who came close to transcending the "guest" part of the role and making me believe he was actually hosting the show.

mayim has been fun (though not nearly as fun as her bubbly, super-talkative two-time champ julia, my favorite contestant of 2021), but she seems like she's trying too hard to play it as a role. she's the only jeopardy host i've ever seen do a callback to contestant 1 while doing an interview with contestant 2, and i like that aspect of her. she knows how to talk to people!

i thought the football player was perfectly ok, andy cooper same, i think ken jennings would be a great guest host going forward for whenever whoever gets the job is on vacation, i thought katie was a little awkward and i thought bill whitaker was a lot awkward and never found his footing. i don't think dr. oz ever needs to be mentioned again, in any context.

bubbly, super-talkative two-time champ julia

i was crushin hard on her tbh

she's great

mayim bialik has been good but its hard for me to get over the weird dissembling antivax stuff from her past. if it wasnt for that she'd probably be my #3 after jennings & rodgers

Blossom sucks!!!

Whoa hot take

I haven’t been watching at all lately so didn’t know buzzy was involved - I disliked him as a contestant but remember at one point he told Alex he wanted his job someday and Trebek seemed really pissed

Buzzy hosted the Tournament Of Champions, not as a maybe-contender for the real job. Agree that Mayim is good at the job, and that Ken should remain a regular fill-in if someone else gets it (I may have said that upthread), and still looking forward to Levar.

i thought mike richards was really good

iirc ken is presently some consultant or something & i read a quote @ least attributed to him of “there will be a permanent host in the fall” which i took to mean it wont be him

buzzy was quite good also, blossom is w/e fine

i'm taking a break until this nonsense stops and they have a regular host again

Levar's getting one week only, from July 26, if yr intersted

iirc ken is presently some consultant or something

he came on as a consulting producer in September; they've stopped doing his own micro-segments since Alex died tho.

I could watch Levar, sure.
based on what I've seen, Jennings should mellow into the role over the next few years and be able to keep the ship afloat.

It’s a huge bummer that Oasis is objectively better than Blur.

— Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) June 27, 2021

RIP Ken Jennings

Ugh. I had no use but RIP anyway.

I like how enthusiastic Lavar is when certifying an answer is correct.

Sooooooo, this Matt guy...

Lavar needs a lot of seasoning but his voice and presence are great. i wouldn't be mad.

i've only watched the first lavar episode so far but it bugs me that he seems to be trying to give a dramatic reading to every clue, like he's at a table read.

he dropped the ball several times in the first ep for sure

3 days in lavar wouldn't be in my top 5 guest hosts and it's not really close either

Lavar has gotten better.

Matt Amodio tonight was the terminator. Up 40k going into Final Jeopardy and then hit the final for 30k. Yikes. Over 250k... Only really been close in 1 game so far.

just fyi all, it's LeVar

can't say i'm a fan of LeVar's performative singsong children's show host delivery, but it has been a weirdly interesting pairing with Matt's brutal steely-eyed efficiency

What the fuck

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/mike-richards-jeopardy-host-alex-trebek-1235034673/

Dumb move, but I’m guessing this was the plan all along and the guest hosts were to make sure the ratings got goosed for awhile.

Getting the other Michael Richards of Seinfeld and racism fame as the permahost would be a less perplexing decision

Ugh he was so boring

Mike Richards has a history.

https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/09/price-is-right-model-sues-show-for-alleged-sexual-harassment.html

Lanisha Cole names the producers of the popular game show, Michael G. Richards...as well as their production company, Fremantle Media North America.

Cole began working on "The Price Is Right" in 2003 and by all accounts enjoyed a normal work environment over half a dozen years.

But beginning in December 2009, the situation began to deteriorate when Richards suddenly and inexplicably stopped speaking to Cole and began showing favoritism to another model with whom he was having a relationship, the suit alleges.

According to the court papers, Richards used policies "which never before existed" to limit her modeling work on the show and engaged in abusive behavior.

According to Wikipedia, he was in consideration for the TPIR hosting job (in addition to being a producer) but lost out to Drew Carey, so I imagine this guy has had an axe to grind in the gameshow world for over a decade and now that he gets to call the shots he naturally thinks he's the right man for the job.

ugh ugh ugh. he's a perfectly good game show host, which is exactly what jeopardy doesn't need.

this sucks, hope this dude flames out hard and they have to replace him
xxp to johnny fever

i can't remember if it was monday or yetersday's game that came disastrously close to only matt qualifying for final jeopardy--the other two contestants were both still in the red with 6 clues remaining--but it made me wonder, has it ever happened before that only one contestant makes it to final?

yeah it was yesterday's, it was like 43k to -800 and -300 at the end there lol. and then matt wagered 37k on final jeapordy and got the question wrong!

Richards would not even be in most peoples top 5 of the guest hosts. Don't know David Faber at all, but he has been better than Richards.

Oh well, my girlfriend called it that he was already chosen going to be the host, they just wanted a bit of separation to allay any complaints.

In hindsight, considering the German migration, I guess that makes sense on the final question yesterday. I guessed French myself for what language was the newspaper to first report the signing of the US Declaration of Independence.

xp- matt's strategy of going row-wise from the bottom made it extra tense too cause there were only like $200 and $400 clues remaining

i guessed france too but it seemed too obvious to me even as i said it. like how many languages could it have really been? it was basically like a multiple choice question so i was thinking it was gonna go sideways somehow. i'm surprised he screwed it up so badly

In hindsight, considering the German migration, I guess that makes sense on the final question yesterday. I guessed French myself for what language was the newspaper to first report the signing of the US Declaration of Independence.

ya my guess was that it was a benjamin franklin-owned newspaper, and figured since he'd spent time in france...