Ken is absolutely a great host because he respects the legacy. I've watched the other hosts they tried and every time, I was thinking they needed to bring Ken back. In my opinion, it's now his show and he should do it until the very end.
Keep in mind: at the time, Ken Jennings was set to be one of the Chasers on ABC's revival of _The Chase,_ so there had to be some plan to find a replacement.
Because any rational company would also look to make sure there isn't anyone better. And sometimes it's law to meet with some people. "Hollywood" isn't a monolith. It's a bunch of companies that still follow laws.
Ken was the only correct choice for the new host. The others that "sat in" were all good, but Ken has that super humble quality that we all grew to love in Alex, and he has a proven track record that speaks for his intellect, so he's the one.
Of what? Jennings' comments about the terminally ill movie fan? The elderly? The ability challenged? The only thing they can share is that they are both scabs who worked through strikes.
This man has been winning my heart, ever since he stepped on that JEOPARDY! stage, nearly 20 years ago. I've been coming home from school very quickly, just to see him keep on winning, until seeing his last show, while going against Nancy Zerg (who lost the next day). But with Ken Jennings becoming the JEOPARDY! G.O.A.T. and such, he really shows such a true example, on why he continues to love the game show, that's close to his heart, ever since he was a young boy, watching the show out in Korea. And Alex Trebek knew this, long before his death, and so did his competitors, James Holzhauer and Brad Rutter. Ken Jennings, you are the man, and so was Alex, too.
Ken: Keep just being yourself. You are doing a wonderful job on the the show and, although the chances that I will ever be a contestant are almost nil, I would still like to say to you " Very well done!"
It is about timing. He was a successful contestant as he got the timing of Alex and the buzzer. His timing was there to be available to be host, and as you watch him host, he has great timing with the game and monitoring the contestants. Such a hard-working, intelligent, talented person.
Exactly .. so many on this page may not have seen that Ultimate tournament of champions when he was defeated rather convincingly by previous great winners that hadn’t been allowed to continue
I am too. I just kept my fingers crossed that he would get the job. Everyone else was good, but Ken has what it takes to host this great game show since he was on it too. Alex would totally approve of this choice
Hi, there! This is Jermey McGuire I absolutely love watching Jeopardy!! It’s my all time favorite game show. I remember watching Jeopardy!! As soon I got home from school. I would turn the TV on and watch Jeopardy! To this day I continue watching my all time favorite game show Jeopardy!! I will never stop watching Jeopardy!
It's the equivalent of someone like David Tennant becoming the Doctor for Doctor Who; a true fan through and through willing and able to carry the torch of a long running series with success and passion. I highly commend Ken and his road to success.
In the words of the legendary Johnny Gilbert, "This... is 'Jeopardy!'" And the rest is history from the late Alex Trebek, to the new stamp of the Ken Jennings and made his "Jeopardy!" of his own.
I'm glad to see this -- when they ran through various guest hosts after Alex Trebek passed, the clear favorites were Ken Jennings and Mayim Bialik. EVERYONE loved those two in particular. And we had Mayim, and now there's Ken. Perfect. 🙂
I thought Mayim Bialik was a good host and I like her but Ken earned the job. I was always supposed to be his, hes the greatest contestant of all time.
I was pretty bummed when I learned that she was no longer hosting. And she always had such a smooth voice, for doing so, too. I'm just glad she got to host that National College Championship, a couple of years ago, for all of ABC to see. That was fun, including a tiebreaker and such.
For anyone out there who might not know - respectfully to Ken Jennings, he is Jeopardy’s all-time winningest contestant because he was ALLOWED TO CONTINUE beyond the previous traditional appearance limit .. when they held the ULTIMATE Tournament of Champions (of which he was obviously a contestant), he finally met his match and was actually defeated rather soundly
In his first hosting stint I thought he was being a little too soft spoken. That it was sometimes hard to understand him. Then someone pointed that out to him in a tweet, and now he's learned to project his voice much better. It's hard to root against him.
He was on in the 60s. I don't know for how long. The doors covering the answers slid open. I always thought he had an intimidating demeanor. My mind woukd have gone blank just from the intimidating atmosphere of the show. They had double jeopardy and final jeopardy. It was located in New York. I remember as a kid it seemed like an awfully scary and serious show.
I believe that Alex Trebeck wanted him as host too dealing with issues when he was dealing with death. I wanted him too & I took look forward to 7:30 Monday - Friday & I’ve been watching since Art Fleming & so glad Richard’s didn’t become host which I thought was an automatic deal since he was Staff. I did like Aaron Rodger’s.
I always wondered how the philadelphia cab driver ranked against jennings and some others. Isolating the dollar value variable. I thiught maybe around 87.
Bittersweet. He was friends with Alex, and had tremendous respect and admiration for him. So obviously given the circumstances of how he got the gig, has to be sad. But he's reserving the great legacy of Alex. Ken actually was doing other shows, such as Mastermind, so it wasn't like he was in a need of a TV gig.
@@I_WANT_MY_SLAW I still remember the first time we saw Ken's emotions, as he first became one of the first "guest" hosts of JEOPARDY!. It certainly wasn't easy to watch and listen, but we know for sure, that he meant all of what he truly said about Alex.
He was better as a contestant, that's for sure. But there were times where he was stumped a couple of times by FedEx, Madeline Albright, and also going up against both Brad Rutter (James Holzhauer sure took care of him, twice) and IBM Watson.
@@I_WANT_MY_SLAW No, he really did think it was FedEx, based off of how he misread a certain part of the clue, regarding the "70,000 seasonal white-collar employees", and thinking that FedEx had their employees wear those, for only four months a year, when it was really H&R Block, that does it. As a result of that, and his accomplishments, he admits he got free taxes for life, as well as FedEx deals, too.
He was an excellent host, but I really liked the rotation between Ken and Mayim Bialij. But they are right: Ken shares something with the contestants that even Alex couldn't emulate: he's been there.
I thought of Mayim at first like her son did. Her background also made sense. They never should have made it a competition though. Probably Mike Richards' idea so he could declare himself host. Ken and Mayim are way better than Richards.
@@trevortuominen8233 Would you believe he played Alex Trebek in one sketch, with Bobby Lee, Ron Pederson, and Aries Spears? Nothing ever made me laugh more than a slap across Lee's face, Pederson's weird smile, Spears' admiration for "Davey Duck", and Barinholtz's rant on Jennings! That was a lot funnier than some SNL Celebrity JEOPARDY! skits.
@@fable9159 Truth be told, I really miss her. She was always nice, and it was often soothing to hear a woman read the JEOPARDY! clues, from time to time.
@@fable9159 I don't know. I pretty much like hearing the ladies read the clues, in their time, so it was nice that I got to hear a woman read the clues and host the show, for that brief short time.
Art Fleming was a decent host, too. After all, he was the first one, as well as had a clean style of presenting himself, back when television was neat and such, as well as in black & white.
You did not watch his guest hosting stint where Matt Amodio almost did not make it to the TOC on his first day of guest hosting and the record breaking all time low score since the clues doubled in 2001? His stint got most of negative reviews.
It’s strange that Ken is perfect on Jeopardy, but when asked trivia outside the show he’s not that great. He never seems to know anything outside the show lol I’m sure it’s like they said, “he’s given the questions before the show”.
I think this show has gone down hill since Alex died. It's not as good as it used to be. It's a shame how many awards they've won considering shows like The Price is Right, Family Feud and Wheel of Fortune are way better.
Had Mayim hosted Jeopardy! Masters for the sake of giving her primetime specials on the original contract, do you think she can handle James Holzhauer's bantering or right now Yogesh Raut in the current season?
