Q. What is a booby?
A. He is being criticized for referring to "boobies" on an open mic in 2013.
Q. Who is Mike Richards, the new host of Jeopardy!?
A. Reverse racism, "toxic white masculinity".
Q. What are the real reasons Mr Richards' selection is being panned by the usual suspects?
A. Yes.
Q. Will the SJWs, BLMers etc succeed in getting Mr Richards fired?
Indeed. Mike Richards, the executive producer of Jeopardy! who was tapped to host the show in the upcoming season announced this morning that he won't be doing that, after all. "[O]ver the last several days it has become clear that moving forward as host would be too much of a distraction for our fans and not the right move for the show," he said in a press release. "As such [Why do people include that ungrammatical phrase in statements? Ed.], I will be stepping down as host effective immediately. As a result, we will be canceling production today."
Just a few days ago, Mr Richards was named permanent host of Jeopardy!, succeeding the late loveable Canuck Alex Trebek. For the sake of gender equity, actress Mayim Bialik was tapped to helm primetime specials and spinoffs.
Mr Richards was in trouble from the minute his appointment was announced, because of a number of "issues" related to political correctness or lack thereof. He was forced to respond to allegations of "pregnancy discrimination" made in a lawsuit that started ten years ago.
Earlier this week, he had to issue another apology after The Ringer uncovered a number of derogatory comments he made between 2013 and 2014 about women, Jews, and people receiving unemployment on the podcast, The Randumb Show. Apparently he used the word "boobies", not meaning the seabirds.
The real reason for the disapproval of the media elites, however, is that Mr Richards isn't LeVar Burton. Mr Burton, who is of the coloured persuasion, appeared to have the puck nailed to his stick [Will non-hockey fans get that? Ed.] because... errr, BLM, George Floyd, errr, you know....
Unfortunately, Mr Burton's performance in the role of Uncle Tom on a recent stint as guest host didn't go very well. While the erudite Alex Trebek appeared to understand what the correct answers (in the form of questions!) should be, Mr Burton as all wide-eyed, gee-whiz innocence. IMHO he lacked the gravitas to be permanent host.
Viewers seemed to agree. Mr Burton's episodes drew the lowest average viewership numbers out of all of the recorded guest hosts. His turn behind the podium, from July 26th to 30th, saw an average rating of 4.4, according to Nielsen. This was lower than Good Morning America co-anchor Robin Roberts, who guest hosted Jeopardy the week before and garnered an average rating of 4.7, or CNBC's David Faber, who hosted from August 2nd to 6th.
A: Jeopardy! GOAT champion Ken Jennings.
Q: Who got the highest ratings as guest host?
Mr Jenning's week on the air had an average rating of 6.0. I dare to suggest that's because Jeopardy! is basically a quiz show for nerdy white guys who know a little about a lot -- like my goodself! The three Greatest Of All Time champions, who competed in a special GOAT tournament in January of 2020, were Mr Jennings, Brad Rutter, and the annoying James Holzhauer -- all white guys.
Over the years, white men have dominated Jeopardy!. South and east Asian men do pretty well, white women less so. BIPOCs lag well behind. You can draw your own conclusions about the correlation between race, gender and intelligence, but the fact remains that Jeopardy!, like hockey, is a white man's game.
That's a fact that has not escaped the attention of the show's producers, hence Mr Richards and not Mr Burton. Now that Mr Richards has stepped [or been pushed? Ed.] down, Jeopardy! will continue with guest hosts until a suitable BIPOC can be found.
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