Posted on 07/25/2006 3:42:58 PM PDT by Cagey
NEW YORK (AP) - "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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Software developer Ken Jennings from Salt Lake City, Utah, right, poses for a photo with Jeopardy host Alex Trebek on the set of the show in this July 13, 2004,file photo taken in Culver City, Calif
"I'll take famous nerds for a thousand, Alex."
Dang! My opinion of this guy just went up a notch.
(but nobody is THAT friggin smart)
I loved Ken Jennings! Have hardly watched the show since.
Here's his rant
http://ken-jennings.com/blog/dearjeopardy.html
The only difference from 20 years ago is the show's continual, on-going struggle to get/keep women and minority champs.
"I'll take people who blew 2 million dollars in a few years and now need more money for 1,000 Alex."
I especially like his sign off:
Love,
Ken
XOXOXO
Ken Jennings calling someone"robotic"? Kettle meet pot.
"Money has not been the cure for this fruitcake."
A Claxton special
"Ken currently lives outside Seattle, Washington, with his wife Mindy, his three-year-old son Dylan, and a deeply unstable Labrador retriever named Banjo."
Banjo may be the only stable one in the family Unit.
http://www.ken-jennings.com/
Ping!
Real classy. Gee, if he had so much of a problem with the show, why did he sign up to be a contestant?
That is Classic!
Heh! I saw it before the lamestream media did. nyah nyah to them. :)
I thought it was satire the first time I saw it -- but I guess it's real...
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