Ken Jennings called out for past insensitive tweets

Gawd, I loathe Twitter, and the assholes who are so determined to find someone to attack that they'll comb through YEARS olf old tweets just to find something to object to.

Yvette Nicole Brown is exhausting.

Dump Ken Jennings!

This man has zero charm. There must be stories about him being an asshole.

He has a face like a bowl of tapioca.

What a fucking asshole.

He's also homophobic, but lucky for him he hasn't tweeted his real feelings about gay people.

Jennings is an asshole homophobic Mormon, who has zero appeal.

I don't know why the Jeopardy producers love him.

Brainiacs aren't funny. You're either funny or smart- you don't get both..

R7, au contraire.

Black people really need to chill the fuck out when it comes to this stuff

but surely he's gay as a box of smarties?

Is R7 serious? Every Late Night show has a writing staff made up predominantly of Ivy Leaguers. Conan himself went to Harvard,

R1 - seriously? I love that twitter exposes dumbasses. And it’s not that difficult combing through someone’s tweets. I would think Jeopardy might have a few communications people on shit like that.

R9 WTF are you talking about?

He made comments about DISABLED people, you stupid miserable Klan Granny dumb fuck at R9.

I thought he was closeted r6

[quote]Yvette Nicole Brown is exhausting

Joy Reid fangurl and Michael Jackson truther Yvette Nicole Brown.

Yvette Nicole Brown should have several seats. She worked for known pedophile Dan Snyder for years and said nothing as little girls were abused. Fuck her.

I'd love to see Ken Jennings tweet exactly that r17. Just occasionally instead of giving some long sad apology that the professionally aggrieved will never accept anyway, just throw shit back at them.

[quote] Yvette Nicole Brown should have several seats. She worked for known pedophile Dan Snyder for years and said nothing as little girls were abused. Fuck her.

She's also besties with sexual assaulter Chris Hardwick.

[quote]In 2015, he made an insensitive comment when Star Wars fan, Daniel Fleetwood, died of cancer after getting to screen Star Wars: The Force Awakens early. Jennings wrote, “It can’t be a good sign that every fan who has seen the new Star Wars movie died shortly thereafter.”

I find this kind of funny. Cancel me.

R20 = Rosie O'Donnell.

I like absurd and/or dark and/or ironic humor. I'll never give it up to please twits.

Yvette probably saw herself as a candidate for the host job and wanted to knock off the competition

She'd need to get a new haircut. The one she has now screams "I'm a loud, annoying bitch who is more trouble than I'm worth".

It’s kinda funny how stupid smart people are sometimes.

Cancel cancel cancel! We must have ideological purity in our game show hosts!!!

He’s got a punchable face.

Old hot wheelchair news.

My vote is for LeVar Burton. I've always liked him, and I think he'd do well as Jeopardy! host.

This guy was annoying when he first appeared, and that hasn't changed.

People just need to get the fuck over it.

[quote] People just need to get the fuck over it.

Said the obnoxious asshole who doesn't have to be in a wheelchair 24/7.

That's not Stephen Hawking. That's Phillip Seymour Hoffman in Red Dragon.

I hope R14 isn't yet another burner account of the "Welp Troll" troll. They also use the phrase "Klan Granny."

For the record, I don't really like Ken Jennings, especially since he's a Mormon homophobe, but it's obvious that the producers were going to choose him for a while. He got signed on as a consulting producer earlier this season, he's the "Greatest of All Time" champion, he's hosted game shows before and, unlike a lot of the other names being tossed around, knows most of the answers in the categories.

Alex Trebek, at least before his cancer diagnosis chilled him the fuck out, always came across as smug as arrogant to me, especially when he'd scold contestants in that sharp tone when they didn't know an answer. Unlike with Trebek, where you doubted that he knew much of the content on the show, you know Jennings knows his shit. Plus, I'm sure Ken isn't going to act all smug and shit at first, especially not during his trial period. He'll want to make a good impression to win the job.

So disregard what the Twitter mob and Yvette Nicole Pedophile Enabling Brown have to say. They are not the majority of the audience and I'm sure people will still be watching, whether Ken is the host or not.

Only black people can get away with “past offensive tweets”. Ask Trevor Noah.

I’d rather see LeVar working as an actor in high profile projects rather than turn into a game show host.

^^^ Not ME, cutie! I'm pulling down a million a week - or maybe it's a million an episode, I can't even remember anymore, it's such an obscene amount for an unfunny ex-standup like me.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!

Ken Jennings? Why does anyone care what he thinks?

He literally takes up a one billionth of one billionth of my brain.

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

[quote] Yvette Nicole Brown should have several seats.

Her fat ass would need them

^I imagine that was the point.

Who thinks just because you know the answers to a bunch of trivia questions that makes you smart?

He better not host the Oscars!

I am no fan of Ken Jennings, but if he apologized sincerely once, that's enough.

For Yvette Brown to consider this somehow an unforgivable offense after he apologized is itself offensive. I am sick of cancel culture.

R41 Ken Jennings was a software programmer. Also, to be able to retain that much knowledge requires a higher degree of intelligence than most people possess. Unless Ken is autistic (which we have no reason to believe that he is), then it shows he is very smart. Same with James Holzhauer.

[Quote] Said the obnoxious asshole who doesn't have to be in a wheelchair 24/7.

Sometimes, it's karma that is well deserved.

No, it shows he has a photographic or eidetic memory. His tweets show his real intelligence.

As incredible as it is that there are actually people who would spend time scouring years of some nobody's Twitter history hoping to find cancel-bait -- if one is in the public eye, up for a life-changing very public job opportunity, wouldn't a bloke think to delete anything and everything publically accessible that might be seized upon by the Orthodoxy Warriors of 2020...?

You’ve proved my point, r47.

Plus, I like that you say “bloke.”