'Jeopardy' Champ Ken Jennings Blasts Show

IRiSHMaFIA · Admin Joined: 29 Apr 2006

NEW YORK -- "Jeopardy!" ace Ken Jennings, who won $2.5 million during his 74-game winning streak, has a few unkind words to say about the show ? and dapper host Alex Trebek.

"I know, I know, the old folks love him," Jennings writes in a recent posting, titled "Dear Jeopardy!" on his Web site.

"Nobody knows he died in that fiery truck crash a few years back and was immediately replaced with the Trebektron 4000 (I see your engineers still can't get the mustache right, by the way)."

Jennings also takes aim at the show's "effete, left-coast" categories and "same-old" format.

"You're like the Dorian Gray of syndication," he says. "You seem to think `change' means replacing a blue polyethylene backdrop with a slightly different shade of blue polyethylene backdrop every presidential election or so."

A call by The Associated Press to "Jeopardy!" spokesman Jeff Ritter was not immediately returned Tuesday.

Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, snagged 74 wins on "Jeopardy!" in 2004 before he was beaten by challenger Nancy Zerg.

Trebek, 66, has hosted the show since 1984. In a "correction" posted Monday on his Web site, Jennings offers an apology of sorts.

"We regret the insinuation that Mr. Alex Trebek is a robot, and has been since 2004. Mr. Trebek's robotic frame does still contain some organic parts, many harvested from patriotic Canadian schoolchildren, so this technically makes him a `cyborg,' not a `robot.'"

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lmao brilliant stuff. That has to be the classiest way to insult someone I've seen in a good long time. I saw him on the news about winning so much and he seemed like such a mild mannered person. I'd never of expected him to have such a good sense of humour.

The 'we regret' bit was a perfect ending lol Razz

Gasman59 · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 9:47 am Post subject:

Funny stuff. Those poor Canadian children though giving it up for Alex. Brave little tykes !!!

Ally · 'Taffia' Joined: 29 Apr 2006

girldorksrule · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 5:19 pm Post subject:

While I find it mildly amusing, I still find it rather insulting. He won millions on that show and this is how he shows his gratitude for them allowing him to be on the show. No grace.

LisaMac · Joined: 29 Apr 2006 Location: Maryland, USA

I thought it was hillarious....but remeber, he is trying to SELL books now, so any publicity is good publicity.......