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By Jerry PDX I’m surprised; I really thought they would bow to pressure and make sure the new host was either black, gay, or a woman. I had a feeling they would pick Levar Burton but he was terrible, too excited and too over the top.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jeopardy-viewers-react-mike-richards-negotiations-host
Mike Richard actually had experience hosting other game shows, and I will say he was probably better than anybody else at handling the pacing of the show. But all those guest hosts made me realize, anybody can really do the job, even a jock like Aaron Rodgers. From what I read, he had the highest ratings of any host, and I wonder if they would have chosen him if he had been willing to take the pay cut.
N.S.: I was under the impression that LeVar Burton was a done deal, and that the producers were prepared to commit showbiz suicide. Sometimes, greed is good.
Thursday, August 5, 2021 at 12:10:00 PM EDT
I think the guy on this week,David Faber from CNBC,is probably the best host of all of them--Jennings #2.Great on-air persona and very intelligent.
ReplyDeleteRichards,I detested immediately.He's probably more of a liberal than Joy Behar and he brought up diversity often during his stint.
But he IS White.
They may lose me anyways as a viewer.
--GRA
jerry pdx
ReplyDeleteYes, I didn't like Richards diversity comments either but has there been one host that isn't a far left liberal tool? Jennings was my favorite host also but his sophomoric Trump bashing revealed him to be just another brainy political dunce. I'm pretty sure it's impossible to get a major game show gig without being a Wokester. Someone like Pat Sajak would never be hired nowadays, unless he pretended to be something he wasn't.
A white man? A white man? A bi-racial, bi-sexual person of color would have been better. And if an illegal alien so much more so.
ReplyDeleteRight,speaking in Spanish--with subtitles for Whites.How about the Mex director Lin Manuel Miranda?
ReplyDelete(translated)
Your categories for Illegal Alien Jeopardy:
"Famous Mexican Felons","Words with the Letters DACA in Them","ICE,ICE,BABY","Taco,Tamale or Tostado","Do I Get Deported?"(we'll tell you the crime,you tell us if you would get deported as a result)and finally,"Mexican Drugs".
Okay,Roberto,you're our returning champion,pick a category.
Roberto:"Do I get deported--for 200 pesos.
Miranda:Murder.
(buzzer with chicken clucking sound)
Roberto:What is,NO--or I'd be gone already.
Miranda:Si,pick again.
Roberto:Same category for 400 pesos.
Miranda:Raping a White woman.
(buzzer)
Acosta:What is,I haven't heard of it happening.
Miranda:Correctamundo,you have control.
And on it would go.
--GRA
CHANGE.ORG TRIED TO FORCE LEVAR BURTON IN;MIKE RICHARDS WHITE PRIVILEGE PREVAILED.
ReplyDelete"Variety reported last week that Richards was in advanced negotiations with Sony Pictures Television to succeed Trebek, following his death from pancreatic cancer last November. Since his passing, Jeopardy has cycled through several A-list guest hosts, including star player Ken Jennings (who will stay on as a consulting producer), Green Bay Packers Q.B. Aaron Rodgers, and Reading Rainbow’s LeVar Burton—who received more than 250,000 signatures on a change.org petition in favor of his hiring."
GRA:Burton was atrocious.Richards was close behind.
--GRA