Posted on 11/08/2020 2:02:12 PM PST by Kaslin
Alex Trebek, the genial television host who spent three decades testing the general knowledge of contestants and viewers of the hit U.S. game show “Jeopardy,” has died. He was 80.
He died on at home on Sunday morning, according to a tweet by the show. Trebek announced he had advanced pancreatic cancer in March 2019. Two months later Trebek said some of his tumors had shrunk by more than 50% and he was near remission, according to People magazine. He returned to the show in September for its 36th season, but soon revealed that his health had taken a turn for the worse, and he was undergoing chemotherapy for a second time.
The Canadian-born philosophy graduate was a familiar face in his adopted country for hosting about 8,000 episodes of “America’s favorite quiz show,” its trademark slogan. He headed a program that went into syndication in 1984 and averaged 25 million viewers a week a quarter-century later. Trebek won five Emmy Awards as host of the daytime show.
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So now he faces the ultimate double jeopardy round... I wish him well with it; he did decent work.
WTF was that for??
Very sad to hear this. The guy was “in your home” 5 days a week, half an hour at a time, for 36 years. He’s almost part of the family. And a very talented game show host. He got how you do that job. Whoever is next needs a good bit of Trebek in him (or her.)
It definitely won’t be the same.
The sad part is that he’ll be visiting you again tomorrow night, via TV, as he always has.
I wonder if this is why Jeopardy! hired Ken Jennings to do categories for them.
George Alexander Trebek, 80, was the son of a French Canadian mother and a Ukranian father. After his marriage and divorce to a business woman, he married a real estate manager with whom he had three children, one adopted. He was 5'8" tall. He was a registered Independent.
The first version of Jeopardy was created in 1980 by game show legend, Merv Griffin.
At the time of his death, Alex's salary for hosting Jeopardy was $18M per year. His estimated net worth at time of death was $75M.
For many years he owned a 700 acre ranch in Creston, California where he bred and raised thoroughbred race horses.
Leni
I remember Art Fleming.
Quick test: Who was the announcer for Fleming? (The guy who did Johnny Gilbert’s job.)
He went on to a more famous TV announcer gig.
Yes, noon, and I think there was another game show on at 12:30, though I can’t remember which one.
It was on NBC, as I recall.
If he shared his wife’s theology, then there is really no afterlife, just eternal being in the One Life, of which our time here is simply a chapter.
And he was a philanthropist too.
Was it Don Pardo?
Yes — Don Pardo, later famous for “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night.”
It was Pardo who introduced the “Not Ready for Prime Time Players” every week.
Who is Don Pardo?
(Now tell me what I won!)
You jogged my memory. When I watched the original SNL in the mid-70s I thought “that’s the guy from Jeopardy.” LOL.
He looked good for his age.
May he rest in peace.
When you don’t have anything nice to say ... So I won’t.
Don Pardo?
No. The original Jeopardy! first hit the air waves on March 30, 1964 as a mid-day quiz show on NBC.
Sad,but no one beats stage 4 pancreatic cancer. It’s always just a matter of time, from a few weeks to 18 months.
The Jeopardy version we are familiar with today with Alex Trebek premiered in 1984.
Leni
we will not watch Ken Jennings in this house....just can’t stomach the guy....
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