I’d be happy with the obvious answer - Ken Jennings - but
I like this idea even more. A really smart, affable, comedian like Aisha Tyler would be a great choice. Maybe Ellen DeGeneres if she weren’t already too busy. I could name a few others but you get the idea.
I would love the job. I’ve got a great speaking voice, am smug and arrogant and can be condescending with the best of them.
Well, sure, if you count a negative amount.
See above. If he got the job, that would be the end of Jeopardy in my house. Hate that guy.
So you’re saying … Tony Romo?
NEVER! Aaron Rodgers, maybe. But not that buffoon. I thought we wanted someone that wouldn’t overshadow the game.
That’s the biggest thing - you need a host who doesn’t think he’s bigger than the game. Trebek skirts that line, and crosses it sometimes, but mostly he’s on the right side.
How about:
Jeff Glor. He’s a good news anchor. He comes across good, and can pronounce foreign words properly.
If we’re talking old host like Steve Parr, how about someone like John Charles Daly. He kept a good rein on What’s My Line. He ran it like the most friendly and inviting Manhattan cocktail party.
The one thing I hate about Trebek is he seems to have forgotten he wasn’t the original host. Art Flemming was The Man for 12 years. He was the face of Jeopardy! in Airplane II. Trebek’s just the upstart. Ironically, or coincidentally, he also died of pancreatic cancer. Maybe there’s something about the show that is killing the hosts!
While it is a bit morbid, the sad truth is that he is a 78 yr old man with stage 4 cancer. I am willing to bet that the producers are in talks with people already and Alex might be involved.
“For patients with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, the five-year survival rate is only 3 percent.” From here.
And keep in mind that last summer, we were talking about his replacement because he was considering retirement. So not morbid.
Hmmm - Art Fleming also died of pancreatic cancer. Jeopardy hosting causes cancer.
I don’t want to spoil anything, but I overheard Jennings practicing his French accent.
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I disagree entirely. If the three contestants are interchangeable, then why does it matter who wins? I like to be able to pick one to root for, and to do that, I need to know a little about them.
There’s also a strategic element for the players to know a little bit about each other: If I know that one of my opponents is an English professor, for instance, and one of the categories is Shakespeare, I’m going to put off choosing that one for as long as possible.
It doesn’t matter who wins. That’s not why I watch jeapordy. The “getting to know the contestants” is by far the worst part of the show.
Edit: the only thing that matters is that I beat my mother in law. And not get too destroyed by my dad.
OTOH, Sandi Toksvig would be a perfect Jeopardy host. Now that I’ve thought of her, she’s got to be my first choice.
But I think the best choices for who *should *replace him are either the obvious Ken Jennings, or Aisha Tyler.
I’ve always wondered if the smart strategy might be to get my weaker categories out of the way early. Most days the players finish the whole board, so it’s not a question of leaving the harder clues unused. If my English professor opponent happens to hit a Daily Double in the Shakespeare category, I’d rather we get to it early when she has less money to wager on a clue she’s likely to get right. If I find a Daily Double in a category involving aviation, space, or computers I’d want it to come to come later in the round when it can boost my score even more.
Exactly. I don’t give a toss about anything except can I get the right questions during the allotted time. Usually I can’t, because my mental filing system doesn’t work fast enough. I have what I call flypaper mind, lots of stuff sticks to it, but it’s not in any particular order.
This is the break Johnny Gilbert has been waiting for.
Gilbert Gottfried you say?
Remembering that X-Files episode…
Jesse Ventura.
This could be the vehicle for Matt Lauer’s triumphant return to…
Ha ha, no. Alex Trebek should be replaced with virtual Alex Trebek. Either a hologram or a cyborg, whichever works.
Jeopardy tries to maintain a slightly stuffy feel, so I think removing that would be a bad idea. People like Aisha Tyler would seem to try and make it more “fun.”
I have watched a lot of stuff with Richard Osman, and agree he has the right temperament. The problem would be that he likes to innovate, creating his own shows. I’m not sure he’d be into an old format.
There is no one more perfect than Ken Jennings.
Aaron Rogers would ask his own questions then work toward getting the producer fired.