“Jeopardy!” host Ken Jennings has received praise from fans for the way he hosted the show after the late Alex Trebek.
After the beloved host passed away from pancreatic cancer, Ken was the first guest host to take over and now co-hosts the show with “The Big Bang Theory” alum Mayim Bialik.
While fans have embraced the author of “100 Places To See After You’re Dead,” Ken revealed the hardest thing about hosting the award-winning game show.
‘Danger!’ Host Ken Jennings Reveals The Hardest Part Of Hosting The Show
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In an interview with the New Yorker, the beloved game show host opened up about the most difficult aspect of hosting the show, claiming that the speed and repetitive nature of the game makes hosting seem more difficult than it is on TV.
“It’s the speed,” Ken explained. “It’s hard to overestimate how moving it is and what mechanism the host of the sixty one time show has to do: read the instructions perfectly, contact the right contestants, decide their answers correctly. And then it all happened again.”
“It’s really hard work, and Alex makes it look easy,” he continued. “So it’s a no-win thing—the only person we’ve seen do it look so confident and graceful for thirty-seven years, and we all love her.”
Ken Reveals Alex Trebek Made Lots of Calls ‘On The Fly’
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When asked if Ken is the one who decides if the contestants are correct when giving their answers, Ken replied, “There’s a judges schedule that I can appeal to. But, in practice, Alex makes a lot of those calls quickly, just because he knows the game and knows it needs to keep moving. And you are also in a difficult position.”
“You are the referee of the game, like managing the players, but you also manage the studio audience and the home audience,” he explained. “You’re the stadium announcer, and you’re the play-by-play guy in the booth. You try to do everything.”
“And actually the way to do that, it turns out, is just to play the game as if you were a participant. I was like playing around in my head, like, Oh, I know this one! Let’s see if they know. Hey, they do, great! We made it! We can go again! And I don’t know if that’s right—it’s definitely not Alex’s energy, but nobody can do what he does,” he added.
Ken Jennings Says He Tries To Make Contestants Feel ‘Not Panic’ While Playing
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Even so, Ken tries to be there to support the contestants because he has been in their shoes. “I’m always thinking, How can I make the participants feel—I don’t know about comfortable, but at least not panic? Because I’ve been there, and I know it’s hard,” he said. “I see hands shaking when they try to bet.”
“And they know it’s a heavy moment,” he admits, noting that it’s one of the “hardest parts” of the game. “The good thing is, you can take an afternoon and do some research online and break down how to bet Final Jeopardy.”
“If you can figure out four or five cases, and if you can train your brain to do that flowchart, you can be prepared,” he explains. “That said, it’s a tough one, and sometimes people make mistakes.”
Ken Jokes About Being ‘Want-It-All’ From A Young Age
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Elsewhere during the interview, the former “Chaser” on the game show “The Chase” was recognized for his personality, which was on full display on social media and during his time as host of the show. “I realized, from a young age, about being a know-it-all. You immediately realize that America doesn’t like that, that it’s not a hit with the girls in your class to know Captain Kirk’s middle name,” Ken joked.
“So, to this day, I carry, in a healthy way, some of that shame, which I think has chemically transformed into self-awareness. It’s a little silly to know this weird thing, but we can have fun with it,” he continued. “It better than not knowing, right?”
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