# Who should be the next host of "Jeopardy!"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** reality-or-game-show\ **Created:** [November 12, 2020, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460 "2020-11-12T20:49:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/41 "2020-11-14T00:14:16Z")
Eugene Levy. Has to be. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/42 "2020-11-14T00:19:38Z")
Watch them foist professional sad sack Ben Stein on us. He had some sort of Jeopardyesque game show for a while. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/43 "2020-11-14T02:18:22Z")
But he wasn’t the host, that was Jimmy Kimmel. Kimmel did a passable job, but i don’t think it would be his preferred gig. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/44 "2020-11-14T02:40:28Z")
Sean Hannity or Tucker Carlson. 🤪 ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/45 "2020-11-14T05:21:55Z")
> **[What LeVar Burton Has Said About Hosting 'Jeopardy!'](https://www.newsweek.com/what-levar-burton-has-said-about-hosting-jeopardy-1547199?fbclid=IwAR1O9JR4dQ-fitlGV83WSaMl8oBLg6mXnFehGEHYxbovK75SAUxpFML_OB8)** > > A petition calling for LeVar to be the next host of the beloved quiz show jumped by more than 40,000 signatures in one day. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/46 "2020-11-14T12:07:25Z")
I’m not a Will Ferrell fan at all and I’d support it. It would give him a regular income and take up his time, so it would get/keep him out of the movie business as well as late night TV. It would be like offering him a good job with a corner office with a door that locks from the outside. (The door unlocks and lets him out after all of the other employees are gone for the day.) ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/47 "2020-11-14T16:47:10Z")
Bill Kurtis , love his voice. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/48 "2020-11-14T17:22:27Z")
Somebody in their 30’s or 40’s and unknown. The show will make them a star. Or Andy Kaufman could come out of retirement/death for it. That’d be good too. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/49 "2020-11-14T17:46:55Z")
Unlikely, since he’s only two months younger than Alex. Of course, Jeopardy! announcer Johnny Gilbert is 95! So maybe they’d take a chance on Bill. 😀 ---
**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 14, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/50 "2020-11-14T18:31:17Z")
Born 13 July 1924, so he’s now 96. Holy crap! I did _not_ know that! 😮 ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/51 "2020-11-14T18:53:20Z")
Didn’t know that either! ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/52 "2020-11-14T19:09:19Z")
Thanks for that update. I should have checked. I suspect that Gilbert is now taping his intros from his home studio again, as he did for a while a few years ago, I think because of health issues. But he came back, and before Covid he was in the studio for every show, usually visible wearing a bright red Jeopardy! jacket on the left of the screen in the wide opening shots. [Gilbert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Gilbert) has been in show business for nearly 80 years (!) and has been on national TV since 1958. In a few months, he will surpass [Don Pardo’s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Pardo) record as the oldest working television personality with a regular role. Pardo, the announcer for SNL and countless other shows, was at NBC for 70 years, and died in 2014 at 96 and six months. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/53 "2020-11-14T19:10:53Z")
Bill Kurtis is old too, although I do like his voice. Aside: I liked how a female announcer at the NPR quiz show, _Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me_ introduced him once as: “And, with a voice that can make a woman pregnant, here is Bill Kurtis!” ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2020, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/54 "2020-11-15T00:02:20Z")
Maybe Trebek’s mustache can be enticed to come out of retirement. Does it have an agent? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2020, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/55 "2020-11-15T00:23:18Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > I think that Anderson Cooper is a fairly unlikely candidate, since already he makes about [3/4ths of Trebek’s salary](https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a13788110/anderson-cooper-net-worth/) at CNN, and even assuming he had the time for two jobs, working on a game show would tend to hurt his credibility as a news anchor. > > Perhaps if he was tired of working at CNN and wanted something easier, but I don’t get the sense that that’s the case. Also, the optics of quitting the news for a game show would be odd and open him up to some ridicule, IMHO. All very good points. Better to give it to someone who has nothing to lose. Anybody have Geraldo’s number? ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2020, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/56 "2020-11-15T01:20:15Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > I think that Anderson Cooper is a fairly unlikely candidate, since already he makes about [3/4ths of Trebek’s salary](https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a13788110/anderson-cooper-net-worth/) at CNN, and even assuming he had the time for two jobs, working on a game show would tend to hurt his credibility as a news anchor. The short-lived quiz show _500 Questions_ was hosted by two TV journalists—Richard Quest from CNN in the first season, and ABC’s Dan Harris in the second season. I was a little surprised at that, but nobody seemed to have a problem with it. I think Cooper would be great, but I doubt that he’d be interested. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2020, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/57 "2020-11-15T01:26:02Z")
Supposedly in 2014, Anderson Cooper talked to the producers about replacing Trebek. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/58 "2020-11-16T16:18:11Z")
> [@NetTrekker](#): > > they might have to water down some of the subject matter to accommodate the new host. Yeah, because Trebek just knew all that stuff, and never had pre-show briefings. ---
**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 16, 2020, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/59 "2020-11-16T16:24:01Z")
He actually said in an interview that he probably knew 80% of the information going into a briefing. That’s pretty good. They’ll have a hard time finding someone 40-ish who can match that. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/60 "2020-11-16T16:32:24Z")
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