Will that guy on Jeopardy ever lose?

otoh they will die soon

To be replaced by the next generation of old and bigoted people.

(Whites In) Jeopardy!

In the online discourse about who should host, I've observed a divide between those who see hosting as executing a set of skills and those who see it as representing a set of values. The former have treated the guest hosts as a series of auditions that can be picked apart in granular detail ("He fumbled over his words on the Daily Double but seemed at ease during the contestant interviews"). The latter may not have even watched the guest hosts but have an affectionate attitude toward the show as a cultural institution and are concerned primarily with how well a potential host lives up to their idea of what Jeopardy! means to them.

This article kind of cuts through all of that by making the point that both of those factions represent a small percentage of the Jeopardy!'s actual viewership (old people!), and what Sony really needs to figure out is who it wants the show's audience to be going forward:

https://slate.com/culture/2021/08/jeopardy-mike-richards-levar-burton-new-host.html

i agree with that and they would be wise to aim at a younger audience with quarterly rotation of Levar / Jennings / Buzzy imo though they really need to add at least one female host... why did Julia Collins not get an audition?

Bialik to host the first three weeks back and will be followed by TBA guest hosts.

Has Laura Coates ever said anything about Alex Trebek's desire for her to host the show? Assuming she's not averse to giving it a whirl, they should definitely invite her to be a part of the next string of guest hosts.

why isnt mayim being a huge zionist causing any backlash?

why isnt mayim being a huge zionist causing any backlash?

you just lashed back, so it's not like nobody noticed

i feel like im the only one!

That's like fourth on the list of her most pressing issues (see her anti-vaxx/pseudoscience history, her promotion of weird home-birth views, and saying women who don't dress "modestly" may invite sexual assault).

also she was on The Big Bang Theory

jfc get her the fuck off jeopardy!

these aren't my views, but I find statements like these hard to get worked up about:

https://www.instagram.com/p/COvj1-ardt1/

can't speak to any of that other shit, sounds bad!

can’t say I trust the executives at Sony to make the right decisions about this franchise at this point! they don’t seem to understand it as a product! Oh well!

I kinda think TV/Movie/music people had it better before the social media as they could be weird a$$ mf'ers and most people would not know unless it ended up with the cops or in People magazine.

Yeah, the existence of social media and a never-forgetting internet makes things much harder for people who would have slipped under the radar in previous eras.

That plus early social media era internet was pretty much 110% "look I'm rotten too!" posturing...

Right. I am reading through Richards’ comments now. Tasteless and insensitive stuff but it’s not like he was the only person making jokes like that in 2014.

It’s good for Jeopardy’s sake to escape this dark cloud but I understand why, in the first place, they didn’t anticipate these comments being a problem. Bialik seems more problematic honestly but she also is a better host imo.

solution: Max Headroom is host

Which is all to say I get the campaign behind LeVar B. Only Mr. Rogers'es in key host roles from here on out imo.

but I understand why, in the first place, they didn’t anticipate these comments being a problem

I too understand that not knowing a podcast exists means you don’t expect comments made on it to be a problem

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar:

The ideal host for Jeopardy! should embody what the show means to its viewership: a passion for knowledge and a respect for a diverse community. Maybe the host would also reflect that diversity in order to show that it’s not just white males who can be the gatekeepers to these values. What’s especially shocking is that the producers of a show that is about knowledge demonstrated a substantial lack of awareness of recent cultural history and the coming of age our institutions — from government to the academy to entertainment — have been going through.

So, why isn't Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in the running for host?

Too much dunking on contestants.

he'd be pretty great i imagine

I mean, it doesn't seem like it, but the man is 74 years old. They don't want to do all this again in 5 years.

could always dig up Art Fleming

I had a dream the new host was Steve Harvey and that he'd stare down the contestants after every wrong answer. and he'd introduce the shows like "Welcome to Jeopardy, we got a good one for you today folks, it's Jeff, and Kate, and our returning champion, my man Marcus"

How're you gonna ANSWER. Without PUTTIN it. In the form of a QUESTION! I mean DANG, Jason; you damn sure been watching this show since... since when?
"...like... the 80's..."
And you still gonna come on here and - you know what, I ain't even gon' stress, any of you other big brain baddies want some of this one?

meanwhile the answers increasingly involve raunchiness and toilet humor

lmao forks

haha! steve would be great. *stares blankly at camera in disbelief* he has an acorns ad that plays on duolingo and i always turn the sound on and annoy my bf by watching it because i think it's so funny that he calls is "acorn" IN THE AD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8pB6qYvpKo

^^^ that's why I had the dream! I watched that right before bed. just laying there half asleep my only thought being "it's a cookie dustah Steve...a cookie dustah....it's a cookie dustah"

https://clickhole.com/how-do-they-keep-botching-this-jussie-smollett-has-resigned-as-the-new-host-of-jeopardy-after-fans-unearthed-a-hate-crime-he-staged-in-2019/

BREAKING: Mike Richards is OUT as Executive Producer of "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune"

— Michael M. Grynbaum (@grynbaum) August 31, 2021

Right wing game shows are an untapped marked. Jeopardy but all the answers are from Conservapedia.

Picking any six of the "Popular articles at Conservapedia" list on their front page would make a truly horrifying and amusing jeopardy round.

"I'll take 'Mystery:Why Do Non-Conservatives Exist?' for $400, Mike"

"Answers must be in the form of a GIF meme"

Daily Pepe

now that Final Jeopardy is over, here is the Point Recount round, where we have the audience decide who really won

Right wing game shows are an untapped marked. Jeopardy but all the answers are from Conservapedia.

Paging Pat Sajak.

Chuck Woolery has that gig on lock.

It's really the entire industry.

John O'Hurley of Family Feud/Seinfeld fame is quite conservative.

Wink Martindale was an early Trump supporter, as was Bob Barker.

Drew Carey was a Ron Paul guy. etc

that explains why he currently looks like a smug BMV driving upstate college professor then

I just looked up when exactly Bob Barker died, and... he's still alive(!) at 97