LeVar Burton - Growing Up Reading & His Dreams of Hosting “Jeopardy!” | The Daily Show 

That line sent me! Celebrating the culture in one breath!

I want to float an idea past you two then. There is such a think as national poet laureate. I think Maya Angelou held it a while, then Richard Pincus. What about if we got Biden to appoint Levar Burton the first national Lector laureate, or Lector Emeritus?

Facts bro

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@@4knewt505 Absolutely

This is a fact.

SOO true!! ❤!!!

Both of their laughs are full of life.

Right on!

*SIGNAL BOOST!!!!!!*

Fr anyone with a soul has to love this dude

You'd have loved Reading Rainbow as a child. He addresses children like they're all tiny geniuses. ❤️

Very cool!!! He's an excellent person to get familiar with. Not a wasted minute from him.

@@katharinehansen5940 Looking back with the gift of hindsight, that's why I loved it so much as a kid. It's a show clearly designed for young children learning how to read and discovering books for the first time but doesn't talk down to them. He respected the intelligence of the audience of kids watching the show.

Give me his podcast, NOW! ❤️

It’s a wonderful podcast!!!

I think this is a person's greatest achievement!! being lauded for doing what they enjoy doing!!

Same here, Reading Rainbow and Star Trek: The Next Generation are two of my favorite tv shows of all time. Just watched the documentary film Butterfly In The Sky about how Reading Rainbow came to be. Really enjoyed watching it, LaVar Burton is still just as passionate about reading today as he was when Reading Rainbow was airing.

Seriously! Be smart and interesting, too. Only thing wrong with this interview was that it was much too short.

I needed that reminder also. Right here .. right now.

there's always a silver lining. Every question has an answer, Buddha said

💯 he should

Way Overdue!!! And I have nominated him for the award three separate years. Please go to the KCH website and nominate Mr. Burton.

FOR. REAL.

PLEASE

@@dr.braxygilkeycruises1460 Wait, we can do that?

Yes I am too! Especially since Levar played the young Kunte Kinta ( please pardon me Alex Hailey if I misspelled your ancestor's birth name. Having married a young foreign student with the last name KUTTAINEH ( pronounced Koo- tain - ee..the "h" is silent) I look forward to Mr. Burton hosting Jeopardy. It will certainly display his talents & besides, it really is time to kinda retire his Jordy character from Star Trek, The Next Generation.Even Lavar Burton noted long ago in an interview that a " blind African American navigator on a inter planetary Star Ship who basically wore a ait filter visor to see with"...well Really? That's one small step for man* but it did not make sense... Like Mark Walberg's character in that movie The Happening , when he apologizes to a plastic ficus tree in a doctor's office waiting room. Sorry about that, hmm@ Dusk till Dawn. Take care you all.'

I remember when the guests hosts were first announced and someone suggested LeVar Burton, literally everyone thought it made perfect sense. Took them ages to take the suggestion and even after the whole Mike Richards debacle, I think everybody is still onboard with LeVar Burton or Ken Jennings as permanent host. Sounds like he's assuming he's out of the running now? Anybody know what's going on?

He was objectively terrible at jeopardy hosting

Stop it, he was horrible as a guest host. He made so many serious mistakes and fumbled his way through the entire week. That and his begging for the job. I know people have fond memories of Reading Rainbow, but that seems to blind them to just how bad he was .

@@thenostalgiabusiness First, anyone who doesn’t know what literally means, but can’t stop using it incorrectly probably isn’t qualified to have an opinion about Jeopardy. Second, he was horrible as a guest host. He made many mistakes and clearly wasn’t up to the job despite his begging for it. I get it, he read books to all of you when you were children, but let it go, literally.

We’re gonna zoom, zoom, zoom, a, zoom.

This is perfect.

Ty so much for mentioning Wishbone , because I thought I forgot about it, once I read your comment all these beautiful memories came flooding back of me and family watching their episodes almost everyday. I hope you have a wonderful day and thank you! ☺️

Take a look, it's in a book....Reading Rainbow.

I still have a stuffed Wishbone. I had 4 of them and one that talked.

Where in the world is she? Sing it Rockapella!

I agree. Is there a petition out there for what you've suggested. I would sign it without reservation.

@@fodosdanso7991 yes www.change.org/p/sony-pictures-entertainment-levar-burton-should-be-the-next-host-of-jeopardy

I need a way to push LIKE more than once!!!

He was horrible as a guest host. Is he supposed to get the job because he read books to all of you and embarrassingly begged for it ?

I also enjoyed hearing him admit to cheating his way through a book report

They most certainly do👏🏾.

I don't know what's worse: the racist comment or the fact that over 70 people agreed with it. Pretty sad.

mrsj1417 Not racist, white people rarely age well without botox or plastic surgery. Possibly because we keep toasting ourselves in the sun or tanning beds so we'll turn brown. Ironic, huh?

@@mrsj1417 the jealousy is overwhelmingly rancid in you and those who comment like you. anything black, triggers people like. the name alone seems to set you all off. Get over IT

I see what you did there...

*googles Reading Rainbow mug...*add to cart*

Wait…are you serious?! I need to see this!

@@KBWeeds her and Matt host critter hug, also she played an asamir in an episode in campaign 2, and 2 or so narrative telephone. The funniest one is where she's talking and in the background is all of her dad and moms academy awards and emmies like 14 of them. Travis and Matt both got sidetracked by that one lol. She's just as kind caring and loving as both her parents and this generation is going to be safe with another Burton in their lives.