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Alex Trebek (Official Thread of Jeopardy)

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060726/ap_en_tv/people_ken_jennings_9

'Jeopardy' champ Ken Jennings blasts show

Tue Jul 25, 8:55 PM ET

NEW YORK - "Jeopardy!" ace Ken Jennings, who won $2.5 million during his 74-game winning streak, has a few unkind words to say about the show — and dapper host Alex Trebek.

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"I know, I know, the old folks love him," Jennings writes in a recent posting, titled "Dear Jeopardy!" on his Web site.

"Nobody knows he died in that fiery truck crash a few years back and was immediately replaced with the Trebektron 4000 (I see your engineers still can't get the mustache right, by the way)."

Jennings also takes aim at the show's "effete, left-coast" categories and "same-old" format.

"You're like the Dorian Gray of syndication," he says. "You seem to think `change' means replacing a blue polyethylene backdrop with a slightly different shade of blue polyethylene backdrop every presidential election or so."

A call by The Associated Press to "Jeopardy!" spokesman Jeff Ritter was not immediately returned Tuesday.

Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, snagged 74 wins on "Jeopardy!" in 2004 before he was beaten by challenger Nancy Zerg.

Trebek, 66, has hosted the show since 1984. In a "correction" posted Monday on his Web site, Jennings offers an apology of sorts.

"We regret the insinuation that Mr. Alex Trebek is a robot, and has been since 2004. Mr. Trebek's robotic frame does still contain some organic parts, many harvested from patriotic Canadian schoolchildren, so this technically makes him a `cyborg,' not a `robot.'"

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"Suck it, Trebek!"
 
kn1f3party;1874458; said:
Watson is incredible, but still does stupid things like provide the same question someone else does after it was incorrect. You could hear the air escape the room as the IBM engineers gasped.

Trebek does a good job of treating Watson no differently than any of the other contestants. I think it was Ken Jennings who tried one answer, and Watson then repeated it, and Trebek responded, "No (dumbass) Ken just tried that."
 
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