He looked kind of wobbly when he came on stage, too. That’s what chemotherapy will do to you.
So sad. 
Good gods, no. I love Carr, but Jesus Christ is he wrong for Jeopardy!
(I would love for Distraction to come back, though.)
I’m on board if Celebrity Jeopardy goes like this…
Very unlikable… biggest d-bag I have seen on the show.
Doris Burke would be great. She is deft, has composure, can sound a bit eggheaded, has an understated sense of humor. Someone like her I mean, as I think she’s only ever done sports broadcasting, and ideally a bit closer to Alex’s age when he started.
Well, okay, let’s take this seriously.
In fact, most intelligent, well-spoken, well-groomed people would be absolute disasters. I don’t mean “not as good as Trebek” I mean “a raging dumpster fire full of burning hobos who jump out and run screaming.” The ability to host a show that well - hell, host it to any degree of competence - is incredibly rare. I know it looks easy, you just have to be able to wear a nice suit and read. It’s not. It’s amazingly hard. Ken Jennings would probably suck.
There is a reason this wasn’t Trebek’s first game show, and that many other pros have hosted multiple game shows, and that when they do get a rookie who works out it’s usually a performer of some kind, like Drew Carey; sounding good, acting friendly and likable, thinking on your feet, moving stuff along, hitting your marks and whatnot is a really difficult skill set.
Concur with bells on. I’ve done something like hosting a game show IRL (long story short, trivia night), and it’s exhausting. And it I hadn’t had a pretty substantial history of performing in public, it would have been an outright disaster.
Eugene Levy.
Eugene Levy would be awesome. They should also change the name of the show to ‘Half Wits’…
More seriously, Penn Jillette would make a great host for Jeopardy. But he has a regular gig at the Rio in Vegas, so I don’t if that would work.
Ken Jennings seems like an obvious choice, except that I never noticed that he has particular skills that a host needs.
My criteria are:
[ul]
[li] Is smart.[/li][li] Wouldn’t be leaving a better job for Jeopardy![/li][li] Isn’t polarizing.[/li][/ul]
For these reasons I suggest Neil DeGrasse Tyson. He has some baggage, but it looks like his current job has forgiven him so why not Sony?
Yeah, but see, I don’t think Trebek does do it well. He’s stiff and awkward. He comes across as arrogant and douchey. Oh, he tries not to, but you can just tell he thinks he’s better than the peons he deigns to associate with - it radiates off him. His attempts at being loose and funny are just painful. He doesn’t know how to have an unscripted conversation; I swear he’s on the spectrum somewhere. During the “getting to know you” segment, his response to almost every contestant is “Good for you!” You could make a drinking game out of it if you don’t value your liver.
I hardly wish death on the man, but I’m looking forward to a host who doesn’t ping my “there’s something wrong with this guy” radar.
Stephen Fry
Mostly because I miss him and perhaps not the very best fit for the job but Jon Stewart could be fun.
Wrong for Jeopardy, but he’d be great for 8 out of 10 Cats does Jeopardy.
Is Craig Ferguson available?
I thought of him last night while I was trying to sleep, and I decided I didn’t think he was right for this. He’s genial enough to be the opposite of Trebek, but I don’t think he has the iron control needed to bring in 5 shows a week on time and under budget. Have you ever seen QI that he used to host in Britain? The patients basically ran the asylum. Of course, that was the point, in order to get people to watch what was otherwise a dangerously boring trivia program, they needed the panel to be funny and obstreperous.
Also, I don’t think he’d want to do it – too scripted, no room for spontaneity or fun.
<brief hijack> I’m sorry, but I just had a bit of a vision and had to share: Samuel L. Jackson.
I’d watch it for at least a week, especially if they let his usual movie vocab in (with or without bleeping, all good) </brief hijack>
When Alex Trebek leave… the show will be in jeopardy! :eek:
No one can ever replace Alex. He is Jeopardy. 
I have had it with these mother fcking questions on this mother fcking quiz show!
Would you settle for Josh Radnor?