# 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:** 36
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2021, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/704 "2021-08-20T15:26:46Z")
The fact that they’re reopening the search just shows what BS their, “We’ve hired two fantastic hosts!” announcement was. They only announced Bialik to give cover for the bad press they were getting over Richard’s history of sexual discrimination. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2021, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/705 "2021-08-20T15:27:28Z")
Obviously, Gov. Cuomo should be the next host. Hell, he already has an Emmy. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2021, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/706 "2021-08-20T15:39:03Z")
Well, ain’t that something? Obviously Bialik is the one to go with. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2021, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/707 "2021-08-20T15:40:50Z")
I’ll take colossal fuck-ups for $1,000. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2021, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/708 "2021-08-20T16:14:41Z")
And as of Monday, he needs a job! ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2021, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/709 "2021-08-20T16:17:15Z")
Give it to the BIalik on the condition that Call Me Kat never tape another episode and all copies of any existing shows be destroyed. ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2021, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/710 "2021-08-20T16:45:40Z")
I’d prefer she just become the holistic mom she’s always wanted to be and spend her time diluting things, reading Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s latest anti-vaccine glurge, and other woo. Maybe she could blow all of her excess money on GOOP. But give her no platform whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/711 "2021-08-20T17:39:25Z")
As mush as I personally like Burton, he wasn’t the best host (he admittedly started off nervous) – maybe he would have improved if he had a second week. I’ll probably watch DESPITE who the next host is, not because of it. I’d be fine with Jennings. Brian ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2021, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/712 "2021-08-21T00:12:40Z")
This is good: > **[The Mike Richards 'Jeopardy!' Fiasco Was Maddeningly Predictable](https://www.npr.org/2021/08/20/1029670481/what-is-a-fiasco-mike-richards-will-not-host-jeopardy)** > > A bungled process led executive producer Mike Richards to be announced as the next host of Jeopardy! Now, an unsurprising rolling disaster has led to the announcement that he will not, in fact, host. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2021, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/713 "2021-08-21T00:13:54Z")
As for our household, we watch for the game, for the trivia. Almost any host they’ve “sampled” so far would be fine. There are a lot of poeple they COULD pick that would make me quit (Austin Rodgers is near the top, or Sean Hannity) but they won’t hire them, so I’m safe! 🙂 ---
**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:** [August 21, 2021, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/714 "2021-08-21T15:47:30Z")
FYI, pretty much everyone over at the (private) Jeopardy Contestants Facebook group is pleased that Richards is out as host, but they’re pissed that he’s still EP. There’s speculation, including from a former Sony employee, that certain public statements from Sony can be interpreted to mean they’re going to can him as soon as his contract expires. I don’t know why the stuff that’s already come out about him isn’t enough to trigger a standard morals clause; maybe they hope to keep the scandal level to a minimum and quietly dismiss him later. But let’s face it, it’s going to be news whenever it happens. IMHO (and that of a lot of other fans and contestants), it’s a lot more damaging to the show’s reputation to have Richards as EP, where he can continue harassing staffers, than as host. If what he’s done is bad enough to fire him as host, _a fortiori_, it’s bad enough to fire him as EP. Not doing so signals that Sony doesn’t care about female staffers who would be working for him. Bad look for a major global corporation. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2021, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/715 "2021-08-22T01:37:47Z")
Will the next round of guest hosts have to start every show with a tribute to Alex the Great? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2021, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/716 "2021-08-22T03:15:25Z")
Maybe they should all thank Richards for crashing and burning, thereby giving them their chance at the podium. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2021, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/717 "2021-08-22T03:32:58Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > I don’t know why the stuff that’s already come out about him isn’t enough to trigger a standard morals clause; How is Sony gonna fire him for a morals clause violation? Everything he’s being hammered for predates his latest contract, and was easily available public information that even the lightest of vetting would have uncovered. If Richards can show that they were aware of his history and hired him anyway, they’ll have no leg to stand on. ---
**Author:** ![BigDfromLA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@BigDfromLA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigDfromLA)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2021, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/718 "2021-08-22T09:06:32Z")
If there are going to be more guest hosts, I’d like to see Alec Baldwin do it. He is smart, funny, has a good voice and he would adjust well to the setting. He would be more serious than the goofiness you see on Match Game. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2021, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/719 "2021-08-22T12:39:58Z")
Good point. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2021, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/720 "2021-08-22T14:21:22Z")
> [@BigDfromLA](#): > > If there are going to be more guest hosts, I’d like to see Alec Baldwin do it. He is smart, funny, has a good voice and he would adjust well to the setting. He would be more serious than the goofiness you see on Match Game. Dear lord, I hope not. The host of _Jeopardy!_ should be invisible, like the umpire at a baseball game. He (or she) is there to manage the game; read the clues, call on the contestants, rule them right or wrong, provide clear explanations when they’re required, warn the contestants when there’s a minute left in the round, and keep things moving. And if you do that well for 30 years, maybe some stranger on the street will recognize your name. That’s where I think a lot of the guest hosts, and even the whole search for a star to be the new host, missed the point. Everyone paid lip service to Trebek, and to his idea that the contestants were the stars of the show, but I don’t think any of them really followed that advice. The host isn’t there to create a plot or tell stories; just manage the game fairly and the stories will reveal themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2021, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/721 "2021-08-22T14:40:25Z")
> [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > Will the next round of guest hosts have to start every show with a tribute to Alex the Great? Yes, and how DARE you mock the memory of the Greatest Human That Lived! ---
**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:** [August 22, 2021, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/722 "2021-08-22T15:17:28Z")
> [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > Will the next round of guest hosts have to start every show with a tribute to Alex the Great? Is that the plan? Are they going to go back to having a series of guest hosts? Or will they just select from one of the previous guest hosts? Googling, the new season is supposed to start on September 13, and assuming that Mike Richards taped five episodes, they’ve got four weeks to get a new host in place and start to tape new episodes. That’s a tight schedule. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2021, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460/723 "2021-08-22T15:48:28Z")
The more I think about this, the more I think Lavar would be the right choice. I’m not a huge Jeopardy fan, but that’s kind of the point: the Reading Rainbow/Giordi energy might be enough to get me to tune in, where not much else would. Few if any of the other hosts have that built-in base, I think, that would mesh so well with the Jeopardy approach. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460.md?page=35) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy/925460.md?page=37)