Will that guy on Jeopardy ever lose?

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

And he'll stay alive until every pet in Los Angeles is spayed or neutered.

in any case, thank god they finally got this guy off the show completely

Some judged Mike Richards solely on his podcast comments and formed a negative opinion, but I judged him by the way he treated people backstage at Jeopardy and formed a much stronger negative opinion https://t.co/mebtz0Tgc3

— James Holzhauer (@James_Holzhauer) September 1, 2021

LOL

Knives out.

holzhauer is hilarious

I caught one episode of the show he works on, it’s not bad. Being the guy tasked with ruining peoples’ chances at a life-changing payday seems like a bummer though.

Richards seems to be from a long line of people that can somehow navigate the corporate world falling upwards while being a total kiss ass to his managers and terrible to anyone around him that cannot help him out. That really seems to be one of the more successful ways to go it seems in any field.

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I kind of love that his downfall was tied into him deciding the world needed a behind the scenes pod about The Price Is Right that would somehow go beyond subjects like the origin of Plinko.

Mike Richards: "It's What The Kids Want!"

what is it with the name Michael Richards jesus

The five episodes that Richards shot in his first and only day as “Jeopardy!” permanent host were scheduled to start off the new season on Sept. 13; as of now the plan is to air those episodes, even though he is no longer EP or host

these are gonna be strange

i also have to assume richards is gonna sue sony? tho i guess he still has an overall deal there whatever that exactly means, maybe they will throw a ton of $ at him to go away

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/jeopardy-mayim-bialik-ken-jennings-host-mike-richards-1235066317/
luckily the handoff was easy and uncomplicated

matt amodio has surpassed james holzhauers’ streak in games won. although he’s only made about a third as much money in that time (800k v.s 2.4m)

& btw wouldve lost yesterday if his opponent knew roger rabbit

Holzhauer won 32 games, Amodio is only at 23.

Or 24, as stated at the top of today's ep.

It’s a shame he came on in this fucked up luminal time, I would otherwise be following closely

Unlike Holzhauer, Amodio rarely goes all-in on Final Jeopardy. I could see that he didn't know Who Framed Roger Rabbit? last night, because he stared straight ahead for a long time before writing down his answer. But I didn't think he'd lose, because he's been pretty conservative on Final. He sometimes goes all-in on Double Jeopardy questions, and once that put him in negative territory, but he's a much more conservative better than Holzhauer.