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we absolutely HATE him....

and the dolts he plays against....they sit on their hands the entire game...

I think they wanted a big winner to boost their image, and selected idiots for the guy to play against...

I think "kenny" is reading the question faster than the Alex can read them outloud, and then "kenny" buzzes in first, many times he is just taking good guesses...

I smelled a rat when they asked him at least three questions reguarding Salt Lake .....

I have stopped watching a good portion of the show....

when it comes to final jeopardy, and the one contestant has no money and the other one has like about $400.00, and "kenny" has 30 thousand, that is not entertainment nor exciting....

Oh, stop it. Fercryinoutloud. The guy is a trivia buff and has a background in these sorts of "knowledge bowls". He just happens to be damned good at what he does. You also forget that is was only recently that Jeopardy! decided to let winners just......keep going; NOT end at five wins. Who knows how many other previous winners could have continued on and for how long (anyone here remember young "Chuck" from a few years ago??? Kid was awesome....).

No more Jeopardy! conspiracy theories, already.

Okay, I'm going to speak with a level of insight here. You see, in 1994, I was on "Jeopardy." And although I didn't win, I did lead through most of the game. Buy me a beer sometime and I'll tell you the whole sad story of how I went from first place to last in three questions.

Now, I rarely watch the show anymore. Somehow all the fun goes out of it once you've had your shot and lost. So I haven't seen this guy, but I will say this: there's a definite rhythm to the show and to working the buzzer, and the more practice you get, the better you are. Here's how the routine goes: the question is revealed and is clearly legible by the contestants. Alex reads the question out loud. The instant he is done reading a guy offscreen pushes a button that unlocks the buzzers. Buzz in before that, and you're locked out for something like 2 seconds. It took me a couple of minutes to get the rhythm and then I started to dominate. The other thing I realized is that all three contestants know the answers to probably 90% of the questions, so the whole show comes down to buzzer control.

Now, here's the shocking secret of "Jeopardy": Alex blows the question reading a couple of times per show. He mispronounces or fumbles or something. What they do then is have him re-record the questions during the commercial breaks (the shows are taped real-time). Notice that you never see Alex read the question.