Pat Sajak and Chuck Woolery might be two of the most obnoxious if not outright offensive people on social media, but that doesn’t make them bad game show hosts. Bad people, maybe, but not bad game show hosts. Dick Clark was a cheap bastard who went through wives like Kleenex, but that didn’t make him a bad game show host.
I get the feeling, and maybe I’m wrong, that Alex Trebek had a full, rich life outside of being a game show host. But I get the feeling, and maybe I’m wrong, that Ken Jennings has no life outside of learning trivia. And while that sounds like a character judgment, it isn’t. There are people who obsess over sports, and if that’s what gets them through each day, the fact that it doesn’t interest me doesn’t matter. But what is a judgment is that Jennings lacks the charisma to carry a long-term job as a host, and I think that’s because I do not see him as having a life outside of trivia. And even if my perception of him is wrong, I doubt I’m the only one who has that perception. He might not be a bad person, but I do not think he possesses what it takes to be a good host. On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 10:44 AM Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: > For what it's worth, the joke was along the lines of "If she wasn't in a > wheelchair, she'd be hot!" > > As John Scalzi noted over on his Twitter feed, in his opinion the problem > was that Jennings never deleted the tweet, which made it sound like > Jennings never withdrew the comment. > > https://twitter.com/scalzi/status/1344352428104310785?s=20 > > On Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 10:14:29 PM UTC-6 Brad Beam wrote: > >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On >> Behalf Of *Joe Hass >> >> *>*No, I don't think we did. >> >> > >> >> >I think it flew under the radar, but I do know that amongst those it >> offended, it was never forgotten and was frequently brought up as "Oh, you >> may think Ken Jennings is awesome, but he's really an ablist!!!" >> >> >> >> So now I can’t joke about Dad’s Parkinson’s and my brother’s spina >> bifida? Well then, remove me from the host search…. >> >> >> >> _ _ >> >> |_>|_> Brad Beam- Belle WV >> >> |_>|_> http://www.facebook.com/74bmw >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/8504284d-ae63-42ba-a359-0e0cdeb17fadn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/8504284d-ae63-42ba-a359-0e0cdeb17fadn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4A-qBXKye7KhgBcexRc0Z-8yDy-drMOsRMzQGxs%3DUSyjQ%40mail.gmail.com.
