Will that guy on Jeopardy ever lose?

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...

I remember reading one of those "strange facts" things that claimed German was almost made the official language of the US, so I would have guessed German. I doubt the strange fact was true, though.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeopardy-set-to-announce-mayim-bialik-and-mike-richards-splitting-host-duties?ref=wrap

Welp, I'm out.

even after all the recent revelations huh

what a great time to reward an antivaxxer with a giant forum

Ken Jennings shouldn't have talked shit about Blur.

she changed her mind about vaccines last year (although she still made dishonest statements about her anti-vaxx beliefs)

even then she seemed weirdly cagey and equivocal about it. when talking about it she always seems to go out of her way to leave enough wiggle room for ppl who believe in 'vaccine choice' to hear what they want to hear: "although a lot of people have good & real reasons to be skeptical of big pharma/childhood vaccination schedules/etc, here's why I have chosen this based on my own personal research", etc.

like she did a 10 minute video about how shes not antivax, but still somehow managed to scrupulously avoid saying 'everyone should go out and get the COVID vaccine which is very safe and effective'

this really blows :/

"Hey, we know most of you are disappointed with the choice of Mike Richards to take over for Alex Trebek. We hear you. That's why we are going to make it even worse by selecting one of the few guest hots you really didn't want to see again. Also she might be anti-vaxx? Thanks for watching."

I mean, I guess we should be happy it wasn't Dr. Oz?

like,

“Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined being chosen to step into a role of this magnitude,” Richards said in a press release.

And when he hosted, he qualified it by saying he was only doing because Covid protocols/restrictions prevented them from getting a celebrity guest host right away after Jennings did his six weeks.

Poor Aaron Rodgers has to go back to playing football.

"Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined being chosen to step into a role of this magnitude," Bill Dingleberry III said in a press release as he prepares to step in to replace retiring Dingleberry Industries CEO, Bill Dingleberry Jr.

gonna say it one more time: shoulda been jennings.

I really, truly did love Robin Roberts in the spot, but I don't get the vibe that she actually wants to swing her career that direction. Too bad, because she was great.

Richards did a sketch comedy show on Malibu public access tv when he was in college at Pepperdine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBEubJk7_hQ

ffw to 2:23

Few of the guest hosts were outright awful (I didn’t watch Dr. Oz, but because he is awful as a human being, I assumed that carried over into Jeopardy hosting duties). Roberts, Guthrie, Burton, Whitaker and Jennings were my faves. Hell, Joe Buck is even doing ok, and I can’t stand him on baseball broadcasts. Aaron Rodgers struck me as robotic, and I don’t get why he was apparently a frontrunner. Richards was a non-entity, and I assume will continue to be.