Poll of the Day > Do you agree with Jeopardy getting rid of host mike richards?

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do you

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Didn't care for him in the first place

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Excuse me what? Mike richards was hosting jeopardy?! I thought he was finished after the ****** thing....

Good.

Looking forward to Mayim Bialik taking the reins.

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KodyKeir posted...

Good.

Looking forward to Mayim Bialik taking the reins.

Has that actually been made official yet?

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ReggieTheReckless posted...

Excuse me what? Mike richards was hosting jeopardy?! I thought he was finished after the ****** thing....

What thing?


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They should just keep Ken Jennings as host. He's a bit awkward but he did a great job with his stint as guest host.

Mayim Bialik would also be fine as a full time host. Sanjay Gupta was also a great guest but I doubt he'd want to be pulled away from his medical career.

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Johnny Eagle posted...

Has that actually been made official yet?

Right now she only hosts the prime time specials officially. Supposedly they are just going to have guest hosts until they find a permanent replacement.

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Johnny Eagle posted...

Has that actually been made official yet?

According to NPR, it's official as per a Sony press release.

I don't know how the Mke Richards thing will change that, if they give her full time hosting duties or if they will bring in a second host for when she is off filming "Call me Kat"

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KodyKeir posted...

Good.

Looking forward to Mayim Bialik taking the reins.

Until her problematic past comes up. Especially her vaccine hesitancy.

none will be as good as trebek.
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Nothing would make me happier (where Jeopardy is concerned) than Mike Richards stepping down as host, considering he sucked at the job and pretty much gave it to himself.

In general, it was stupid that Ken Jennings was DQ'd for old tweets (which he shouldn't have made) yet they were handing the job to Mike Richards despite his own bad conduct... or, should I say, he was almost handing himself the job.

Good riddance, though. He was one of the worst of the guest hosts and I'd debating not watching Jeopardy when I heard he'd be the host.

Johnny Eagle posted...

Has that actually been made official yet?

I'm 90% sure that Mayim didn't want to be a full-time host so it's highly unlikely. She's already booked as a host for tourneys an special events, though.


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Mayim bailik and mike Richards were by far the worst guest hosts. especially mayim, her outfits were offensively bad and she made nearly every answer about herself. Plus she seems like a total bitch irl antivaxxer, blames women for getting sexually assaulted, etc


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Funny how the people who constantly rail against "cancel culture", usually for people who have done far worse, suddenly don't mind it when it happens to someone they don't care about.

Not defending him in any way, their (his own?) choice was a huge fucking miss and I'm glad they walked it back.

CoorsLight posted...

Funny how the people who constantly rail against "cancel culture", usually for people who have done far worse, suddenly don't mind it when it happens to someone they don't care about.

...he literally did worse than a guy who he excluded for doing less than he did. If thinking of it as "cancel culture" triggers you, think of it as comeuppance because Mike Richards used the pretext of a cancel campaign to bump Ken Jennings out of the running (for some old, off-color tweets that were stupid and shouldn't have been made) so he could get the job for himself. Of course, the really damning part is that *this* is what got him in trouble, not the sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuits he had the studios settle for him. More than anything, the hypocrisy of making Mike Richards the host was staggering, but the studio ALREADY went to great pains to cover up for his previous issues.

Mike Richards was a lousy host who used a controversy to take the job from the frontrunner people actually wanted so he could give it to himself, despite the fact his history was worse in every single possible way (and includes some illegal conduct).

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Get Conan to do it

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Metalsonic66 posted...

Get Conan to do it

Why, so Jay Leno can come along and take it too?

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they should just say fuck it and have trump host

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:'(

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This whole Cancel culture shit sucks
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LinkPizza posted...

This whole Cancel culture shit sucks

Its a right wing term, when people do unpopular things, people arent going to want to support that, so if youre a public facing individual, its stupid and risky to do things that the public thinks are wrong

that isnt a culture, its simple cause and effect and it isnt anything new

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Mead posted...

Its a right wing term, when people do unpopular things, people arent going to want to support that, so if youre a public facing individual, its stupid and risky to do things that the public thinks are wrong

that isnt a culture, its simple cause and effect and it isnt anything new

Just seems worse now. Lots of people have made mistakes in the past. Sometimes before they were in the public eye. Said things they maybe shouldnt have. But many apologize. Giving them a second chance is fine. And I think they deserve a second chance. Many people just immediately say they shouldnt have a life because of something they said as a young teenager. Its just dumb Honestly, I just really hate it
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It seems worse now because its a lot more publicized and right wingers play it up in media as much as they can. They spent months freaking out about Mr Potato Head and Dr Seuss books which were both misunderstood changes that will never have any effect on them.

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LinkPizza posted...

Just seems worse now. Lots of people have made mistakes in the past. Sometimes before they were in the public eye. Said things they maybe shouldnt have. But many apologize. Giving them a second chance is fine. And I think they deserve a second chance. Many people just immediately say they shouldnt have a life because of something they said as a young teenager. Its just dumb Honestly, I just really hate it

circumstances are complicated. Some people absolutely do deserve a second chance and many get it.

But others dont. Every situation is different.

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Mead posted...

It seems worse now because its a lot more publicized and right wingers play it up in media as much as they can. They spent months freaking out about Mr Potato Head and Dr Seuss books which were both misunderstood changes that will never have any effect on them.

Yeah. With social media, everything can be in the spotlight more. People have too much extra time. They just need to live their own lives
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Mead posted...

circumstances are complicated. Some people absolutely do deserve a second chance and many get it.

But others dont. Every situation is different.

Yeah. It just feels like many dont get another chance. Like a whole one and done type thing. And some try to cancel people for ridiculous reasons, as well Like when they tried to cancel that male actor from the Peloton commercial
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Mead posted...

Its a right wing term, when people do unpopular things, people arent going to want to support that.

that isnt a culture

That's incredibly disingenuous.

People don't complain about the concept because people get upset about things and stop supporting things. People complain because there is absolutely an Internet subculture (fueled by sites like Twitter and Tumblr) that actively engages in brigading, doxxing, witch hunting, and actively using the power of the excessively vocal minority to belligerenly silence or shut down anything that offends them.

The acceptable scenario is "I don't like this thing therefore I won't support it". But what we're increasingly seeing is "I don't like this thing, therefore I will actively oppose it so hard that you can't enjoy it either, because fuck you and your opinions."

This isn't actually a new thing - 20+ years ago pissed off assholes would occasionally brigade special interest groups to attack things they didn't like by targeting advertisers or artificially inflating negative feedback with organized complaint letter campaigns (and it was absolutely a behavior that spanned both sides of the political spectrum). The Internet has just made that shitty behavior much, much easier. And because Internet social culture tends to skew far more Left, you're more likely to see lynch mobs going after targets on the Right than you are on the Left (which, in turn, is why you'll see people on the Right complain about "Cancel Culture" more than people on the Left do).
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Who cares, his selection was a farce to begin with and nobody liked this guy. It's not going to set some kind of precedent because this thing already happens and there is already little consistency to "cancel culture".

I definitely think there's an element of them wanting to walk back a bad decision without necessarily acknowledging why it was such a big screw-up, this was just a convenient excuse

ParanoidObsessive posted...

That's incredibly disingenuous.

People don't complain about the concept because people get upset about things and stop supporting things. People complain because there is absolutely an Internet subculture (fueled by sites like Twitter and Tumblr) that actively engages in brigading, doxxing, witch hunting, and actively using the power of the excessively vocal minority to belligerenly silence or shut down anything that offends them.

The acceptable scenario is "I don't like this thing therefore I won't support it". But what we're increasingly seeing is "I don't like this thing, therefore I will actively oppose it so hard that you can't enjoy it either, because fuck you and your opinions."

This isn't actually a new thing - 20+ years ago pissed off assholes would occasionally brigade special interest groups to attack things they didn't like by targeting advertisers or artificially inflating negative feedback with organized complaint letter campaigns (and it was absolutely a behavior that spanned both sides of the political spectrum). The Internet has just made that shitty behavior much, much easier. And because Internet social culture tends to skew far more Left, you're more likely to see lynch mobs going after targets on the Right than you are on the Left (which, in turn, is why you'll see people on the Right complain about "Cancel Culture" more than people on the Left do).

there are speed bumps and potholes to be sure, but overall Id say people being held accountable for bullshit that happens behind closed doors is a good thing with mostly positive effects on society and the world

be a decent human being, even if nobody can see you

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Mead posted...

there are speed bumps and potholes to be sure

Which is easy to say right up until you become one of the speedbumps or potholes.



Mead posted...

be a decent human being, even if nobody can see you

The problem is that the sort of people who tend to push that sort of philosophy hardest rarely seem to think that it applies to them as well.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Which is easy to say right up until you become one of the speedbumps or potholes.

well duh

ParanoidObsessive posted...

The problem is that the sort of people who tend to push that sort of philosophy hardest rarely seem to think that it applies to them as well.

yet it does, it applies to me and everybody else. Thats fair.

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If I became famous I'd probably be cancelled by idiots with time machines who'd find out that I used homophobic slurs as insults back in 2000 when I was 12

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Zareth posted...

If I became famous I'd probably be cancelled by idiots with time machines who'd find out that I used homophobic slurs as insults back in 2000 when I was 12

tons of people did back then, me included

luckily we matured and learned enough to know and really understand in hindsight that it was wrong

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They tried to cancel Rob Halford too

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I think people getting fired because of dumb things they said on social media/podcasts/whatever is not good 99% of the time and this isn't special. However, it is hilarious that they arranged this whole parade of guest hosts and shit just to have the executive producer select himself and then he immediately got himself fired.

I mean they should just go with Levar Burton the vast majority of people love the guy.

Wayne Brady

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Mead posted...

tons of people did back then, me included

luckily we matured and learned enough to know and really understand in hindsight that it was wrong

Yeah like i thought it was stupid when they took hulk hogan out of the hall of fame for comments he made ages ago back when tons of white people where guilty of it. Like acknowledging a guy is or simply said something racist doesnt erase he was the biggest name in the wrestling industry for a long time. And wrestling probably partially owed becoming really big in thanks to him.

But ive always been a you can hate the person but still enjoy their work kinda guy.

Edit: ironic too considering from all ive heard vince is racist as fuck himself

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Monopoman posted...

I mean they should just go with Levar Burton the vast majority of people love the guy.

that seemed like the most obvious choice to me

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mooreandrew58 posted...

Edit: ironic too considering from all ive heard vince is racist as fuck himself

Yeah but he's the boss he can be racist as fuck if he wants to, nobody's gonna fire him to improve their image

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Zareth posted...

Yeah but he's the boss he can be racist as fuck if he wants to, nobody's gonna fire him to improve their image

While I understand that. I just felt taking him out of the hall of fame was just beyond petty. Like ok dont let him wrestle for you anymore or make guest appearances. hes old and washed up anyways.

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Mead posted...

Its a right wing term, when people do unpopular things, people arent going to want to support that, so if youre a public facing individual, its stupid and risky to do things that the public thinks are wrong

that isnt a culture, its simple cause and effect and it isnt anything new

There's a difference between somebody getting called out for something they did now and something somebody did in the past.

Mead posted...

It seems worse now because its a lot more publicized and right wingers play it up in media as much as they can. They spent months freaking out about Mr Potato Head and Dr Seuss books which were both misunderstood changes that will never have any effect on them.

The company itself refuses to publish those Dr Seuss books. It's like book burning for censorship without anything actually getting burned.

Mead posted...

tons of people did back then, me included

luckily we matured and learned enough to know and really understand in hindsight that it was wrong

Twitter doesn't care.
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Monopoman posted...

I mean they should just go with Levar Burton the vast majority of people love the guy.

His Reading Rainbow cadence was all wrong and came off as a little condescending, he blatantly made several mistakes, and was often slow to confirm right or wrong responses, slowing the pace of the game and intruding on contestants' response windows on re-rings.

LaVar wasn't THE worst guest host, but he was definitely bottom tier.

Aaron Rodgers did surprisingly well, he was prepared, he was quick to respond; I didn't have high expectations for his two week stint but he really did a good job. A couple of the guest hosts could potentially live up to the expectations of the job, but Aaron was by far, the best of the bunch.

People are even calling for him to return to host, and he is apparently willing to do so.

11110111011 posted...

LaVar wasn't THE worst guest host, but he was definitely bottom tier.

I was looking forward to LeVar, but all the criticisms posted here are valid, it was a bit of a disappointment tbh. In time he might improve, but there are better candidates available that don't need to work on their timing and delivery.

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I'm willing to volunteer for the job since I've spent years watching Jeopardy!. Also, as someone born in a state that borders Canada (I'm from Minnesota) I know more about Canada than half of the hosts that have been on Jeopardy!, which includes Aaron Rodgers.

GastroFan posted...

I'm willing to volunteer for the job since I've spent years watching Jeopardy!. Also, as someone born in a state that borders Canada (I'm from Minnesota) I know more about Canada than half of the hosts that have been on Jeopardy!, which includes Aaron Rodgers.

While it's nice that you know a lot about Canada, there are still five other trivia categories you need to compete in to become Jeopardy host.

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Krazy_Kirby posted...

none will be as good as trebek.

He's irreplaceable.

That being said I never thought anybody else but Bob could do The Price is Right either but Drew's fantastic.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

Get Conan to do it

I think Anderson Cooper would be great at it too.

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Black_Crusher posted...

He's irreplaceable.

That being said I never thought anybody else but Bob could do The Price is Right either but Drew's fantastic.

He grew into the role, and I think his replacement will have to as well.

I remember seeing an Alex Trebek interview or on another game show just before he became the host, and he was joking that he was a horrible choice and would probably be fired in a year or two. And if you ever saw Jeopardy episodes from the first few years he was host they are like night and day compared to later years. It took him a long time but he eventually learned how to do it. Do any job for 36 years and you will get used to it I guess.

Whoever replaces him I think just needs to do an OK job, and be willing to improve as need be. Do that and in a few years you will have a Drew Carey situation.

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