# RIP Alex Trebek **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death, reality-or-game-show\ **Created:** [November 8, 2020, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-alex-trebek/925067 "2020-11-08T17:45:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-alex-trebek/925067/90 "2020-11-08T18:38:15Z")
šŸ˜­ ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-alex-trebek/925067/91 "2020-11-08T19:12:30Z")
So help me, @What_Exit, thatā€™s what I was thinking, too. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-alex-trebek/925067/92 "2020-11-08T19:13:50Z")
Apologies to all. I thought there was 2 new Alex Trebek threads and I merged an old one into the new. Iā€™ll try to break it back out I think. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-alex-trebek/925067/93 "2020-11-08T19:25:26Z")
He went out with a lot of poise and grace, and he kept doing the job that defined him his whole life right up until the end. Itā€™s hard to go go more gracefully than that. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-alex-trebek/925067/94 "2020-11-08T19:38:38Z")
Go ask Alex. I think heā€™ll know. ā˜¹ Long-time Jeopardy fan. It helped convince my family that I was smarter than I am, while simultaneously humbling _the hell_ out of me. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-alex-trebek/925067/95 "2020-11-08T20:12:34Z")
He will be missed. I too was picturing the Trebek-Connery reunion somewhere in the afterlife. Curse you SNL for forever linking them together. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-alex-trebek/925067/96 "2020-11-08T20:14:31Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > I too was picturing the Trebek-Connery reunion somewhere in the afterlife. And Burt Reynolds in an oversized hat, chewing gum. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-alex-trebek/925067/97 "2020-11-08T20:34:44Z")
I thought he sounded a bit out of sorts the last couple of weeks. I hope Iā€™ll be as courageous as he was when Iā€™m staring death in the face. RIP, Alex. You will be sorely missed. šŸ˜­ ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-alex-trebek/925067/98 "2020-11-08T20:53:24Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I just found a picture of him from that show ā€“ the perm and 'stache were most excellent. Yes, they were. And in this pic, the jacket really brings it all home. Thanks for all the enjoyment you brought us, Alex! ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-alex-trebek/925067/99 "2020-11-08T21:42:49Z")
The clue: _ **2020** _. Contestant: _ **What year just rotted 100%, Alex. Alex? Oh, damn!** _ Thanks to his show and especially my feeble attempts when trying to copy his mannerisms, nay, his stage presence, quite a lot of my students over the last fifteen years have enjoyed their exam preparation classes. Alex did a great job. The universe just got a hell of a lot less fun. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-alex-trebek/925067/100 "2020-11-08T21:54:05Z")
Alex Trebek was the only person that I know of that was caricaturized in a Warner Brothers cartoon without irony or ridicule, which really says something to the respect many people had for him. He was 80?? Dude looked good for his age. RIP Alex. ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-alex-trebek/925067/101 "2020-11-08T22:10:22Z")
Losing Trebek feels like losing a friend. Just like Anthony Bourdain, he was one of those timeless television personalities who radiated such a heartfelt and engaging manner that you feel like youā€™ve personally known them for your whole life - one of those people you could always count on to make you feel happy, no matter how fucked up everything else in your life might be. Bourdain and Trebek both helped me cope through periods of depression in my life - maybe that sounds ridiculous? I donā€™t know. Itā€™s just really terrible to lose someone like that. Very much unlike Bourdain, though, I knew that this was coming for quite some time. So the shock is nullifiedā€¦but not the sadness. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-alex-trebek/925067/102 "2020-11-08T22:17:02Z")
> [@Lamoral](#): > > Losing Trebek feels like losing a friend. Just like Anthony Bourdain, he was one of those timeless television personalities who radiated such a heartfelt and engaging manner that you feel like youā€™ve personally known them for your whole life - one of those people you could always count on to make you feel happy, no matter how fucked up everything else in your life might be. Well said and encapsulates what I was thinking but couldnā€™t quite put into words. This is the first Iā€™ve heard of his passing, though I knew about the cancer. Very sad news indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-alex-trebek/925067/103 "2020-11-08T23:05:45Z")
This is the celebrity death that has affected me the most. Iā€™m just glad he lived long enough to see Biden win. RIP, Alex. ā˜¹ ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-alex-trebek/925067/104 "2020-11-08T23:19:33Z")
This is the first Iā€™ve heard of his passing. He seemed like a personal friend, and I just feel gut-punched right now. R.I.P., Alex. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-alex-trebek/925067/105 "2020-11-08T23:23:47Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > This is the celebrity death that has affected me the most. Iā€™m just glad he lived long enough to see Biden win. > > RIP, Alex. Just to add, it seems to have affected the wife the most too. This may be the first time Iā€™ve seen her cry a little over a celebrity death. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-alex-trebek/925067/106 "2020-11-08T23:24:36Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > He will be missed. I too was picturing the Trebek-Connery reunion somewhere in the afterlife. Curse you SNL for forever linking them together. In the afterlife: _ā€œSo we meet again, Trebek.ā€_ ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-alex-trebek/925067/107 "2020-11-08T23:26:35Z")
The answer to the question is? RIP ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-alex-trebek/925067/108 "2020-11-09T00:11:21Z")
ā€œA place with fluffy white clouds and golden harps.ā€ ā€œWhat is heaven?ā€ ABCā€™s ā€œ20/20ā€ will do a memorial special, airing at 9pm Central time, this evening. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-alex-trebek/925067/109 "2020-11-09T00:14:39Z")
Canadaā€™s finest; uniting North America in admiration and respect. Condolences to all his many friends and to his family. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-alex-trebek/925067.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-alex-trebek/925067.md?page=3)