I might start this up. Oh, I’ve seen them all before several times, but this one last time, in the actual speed they were broadcast, without cuts (they actually affect.... comedic timing) and without commercials. The syndicated version seen on my local broadcasters contain all of these butchings.

As Brockmire! 

If he hadn’t tried to give himself the hosting gig, he’d still be employed.

Once again:

Get a map of North America.

Throw a dart at it

Find the nearest decent-sized TV market

Hold auditions among the news, weather and sports TV and radio personalities. Go out of your way to make sure women and persons of color are represented in the interviews.

This isn’t hard. No game show host should be famous…

What’s so weird to me - and I do have to give him credit for pulling this part of the move off - is how easily and successfully he rebranded himself as “the producer of Jeopardy!”, and how well that’s stuck. My generation will always know him as the host of “Beauty and the Geek” (i.e., kind of the epitome of what’s…

but the entire ‘try out’ method was tainted from the get-go because of richards’ involvement.

Just pick Buzzy and let Mayim do the Tournanments!

Hilarious. He wanted fame and he got it. If he hadn’t been such a weasel by rigging the host search to make himself the winner nobody would even know he was a creep. 

Next up on Ow, My Hubris!

“Mike is leaving Sony to spend more time with his eight-figure severance package and his family.”

I’d never even heard of this guy before this Jeopardy fiasco, but now it all sounds like if he hadn’t stuck his head out it wouldn’t have gotten chopped off. 

Mike Richards out-fucking-up Michael Richards is truly remarkable. All he had to do was not steal the hosting job. This is like if Michael B. Jordan was better at basketball than Michael Jordan.

I’ve had a touch of that. I coach a sport at a small college in a small town in the south. People call me “Coach” throughout town and want to know how things are going, despite not knowing anything about my sport. I had jury duty and I was the bailiff’s best friend for 3 days.

By no means am I anywhere near famous, but I think I got a small taste of what it might be like. I was the only doc on a mid-sized FOB in Afghanistan. Suddenly, I was in a relatively restricted environment where everybody knew exactly who I was, even though I barely know anyone else. I often got asked random personal…

And if he hosted w/a contestant in a wheelchair, would that be “awkward”?

So Mike Richards was supposedly in charge of testing potential hosts with focus groups. Dollars to donuts these stories were front and center to show bad testing for Jennings. Richards needs to go as EP too. Jennings described himself as a “company man” when Richards got the job initially.Wonder how he feels now?

I never cared for Ken Jennings. He just is not good at hiding his feeling of superiority.

This is literally the stupidest thing I’ve read about this week and is making me wonder whether this was Sony execs or Richards putting his thumb on the scale.

Manning has a sexual assault history so that would be a no 

I feel like you’re describing SF Great Adventure, which had a ton of cutting edge, super awesome and varied coasters...and then Rolling Thunder, an ancient woodie with lapbars that sometimes worked. That was the scariest god damned roller coaster I’ve ever been on.