Yoko had also miscarried around a month earlier (at around the six month mark), so John was also distracted by the grief from that.

It was just Late Show when it was Letterman; Colbert made it The Late Show, except for the audience-less shows which were A Late Show

This also points to why Levar Burton was probably always doomed, even before his lousy guest hosting job: the deranged stanning on twitter by bored twitter users made the whole thing about him instead of the show such that the suggestion that anyone else in the world was obviously out to get Burton. It made you feel…

They already did. That’s why the headline has her name in it. Also, why she was already announced for the prime time special events when they announced the hiring of Mike Richards.

I think it’s more like “it’s Bialik’s job outright, with Jennings filling in the slots where we couldn’t make the scheduling work with her sitcom over the rest of this season; next season, either her show will be cancelled or we will have had enough time to work with whoever’s making the sitcom so that we can make…

And some of those people even watch occasionally

Hopefully it was  you can resign as host and we’ll let you finish out your contract as producer, or we can fire you from both and make things messy, and he picked the former. If he gets another contract as producer....

Eugene Levy, in character as Alex Trebel (but not Will Ferrell in character as trebek)

“Weird Al” Yankovic, the rare celebrity/notable/whatever with a connection to Jeopardy pre-Trebek

I would have picked Roberts too if I had to solely go on the guest stints, but none of the three relevant networks are going to stand for a syndicated game show on some of their affiliates share a host with another networks’ morning show co-anchor and probably don’t want to share their own morning show’s co-anchor…

Oh please. Bean dad wasn’t enough of story or a story long enough to eliminate John Roderick from the running

And even Rodgers was more presenting himself for future consideration for this time of job at some point in the near future when he’s done with football

Isn’t he a A&R guy? Not on camera or even TV, but probably not enough time to squeeze in hosting Jeopardy as a side-hustle

Of course, those people also already (for the most part) have media jobs. Jobs that maybe don’t that readily accommodate even the 46(?) days of Jeopardy! taping per year, especially since so many of them are based in New York. Its’s one thing for Robin Roberts or Sanjay Gupta or whoever from the various news…

This whole thing is a set up to make us relieved on Friday when they announce the real replacement is Joe Buck

And given that the Jedi don’t really die, he was just getting rid of the limitations of his carcass so he could get around more easily

They weren’t auditions. Nobody with anything resembling authority on the matter said they were auditions. It’s not their fault you and a bunch of other assholes -- including whoever all has been behind the guest host ranking thing on this formerly worth a flying fuck website -- decided to treat them like they were…

That’s why they need to keep the guest hosts going through the calendar year, and have the new permanent host take over in January: to give Weird Al his stint. He is one of the few people with a longer association with Jeopardy than Trebek had

Which they still haven’t really done....

Ultimately, being the guy who replaces Richards in a couple years is a better gig than replacing Trebek. So you might as well leak this the week after the popular choice shit the bed guest hosting