RE: Jeopardy guest hosts so far.
April 6, 2021 at 12:45 pm
(This post was last modified: April 6, 2021 at 1:43 pm by Brian37.)
(April 6, 2021 at 12:39 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (April 6, 2021 at 12:35 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Why? I don't watch Jeopordy religiously, but I do like it because I do learn things I didn't know before. It most certianly has to be considered as a show as having a billion times more educational value that WWE or Fuck Dumbnasty.
Because it’s so associated with Alex Trebek. No one’s going to be happy with whatever presenter they settle on.
It’s run for something like eight thousand episodes. Time to shoot that puppy.
Boru
The Tonight Show is still around even though Johnny Carson has long since been gone. And for my money Trevor Noah has filled in nicely for Jon Stewart.
I can think of lots of shows that deserve to die, Jeopardy is not one of them. I wouldn't think of it as trying to replace Alex, in as much as the preserving the motif of valuing education which the show does sell.
Jeopardy is far older than Alex being the host for that matter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeopardy!
I think Alex in his decline, would argue he wanted to see the show continue. I agree. I think most fans and even the current guest hosts would also agree. It isn't about replacing Alex, but about presurving the value of education.
If there is one show I for decades thought deserved to die, would have been Saturday Night Live. I didn't like the 70s act, occasionally one of the 80s motifs made me laugh, just like the 90s and 2000s, but it was never a consistant thing with me. If SNL had died back in the 70s I would not had lost any sleep. But, it survived, which means, I am not the only viewer, just like there isn't one James Bond in that franchise. Everyone has their favorites for sure.
I attended a taping of Jeopardy in the early 90s. In in person taping Alex, during audience pre taping questions came across as stuffy like he didn't want to deal with it, much like when I ran into Richard Dawkins at the 07 atheist convention in DC. BUT in regards to what Jeopardy has done long term for the difference between valuing Jerry Springer vs valuing facts, Jeopardy had always tried to put a focus on facts over bullshit.
I think Alex was always a stuffed shirt, like when I ran into Richard Dawkins. Both value facts, but if you want to hang out and let your hair down and shoot the shit, neither of them would be like Christopher Hitchins.
Alex cannot be replaced. But, neither can Sean Connery or Roger Moore in a Bond film.
If you are an SNL fan of the John Belushi era, or a fan of SNL of the Eddie Murphy era, but especially if you are a fan of science, one can accept that Carl Sagan's COSMOS was simply the precurser of Neil Degrasse Tyson's 2000s version of the same name.
