The news has been pretty f**king grim this week, but we've now been fortunately blessed with low-stakes schadenfreude:
https://www.theringer.com/tv/2021/8/18/22631299/mike-richards-jeopardy-host-search-process-past-comments
Y'know, I didn't actually dislike him when he guest-hosted, as I thought that he did a serviceable-enough job in the role & I actually bought his lie that he was just a last-minute emergency fill-in who, although running the search for the new host, wasn't an actual contender for the permanent job. But now, though, anybody who's been paying attention to talk of this process on here surely knows by now that I've not liked the prospect of him hosting ever since it became an apparent likelihood with that Variety report. And yet still, every single piece of information that has since come about him has somehow only served to make me hate him even more than I already did. It'd honestly be amazing if it weren't infuriating.
I don't often watch Jeopardy, but I did see, I think, two of his shows as host, and I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembered that he said he was a last minute fill in due to some scheduling mix up.
I don't know if somebody mentioned this already, but that obvious lie helped his hosting of the show because he gave the impression that he was a humble "I don't deserve to be here" person. He said something like 'why is a behind the scenes person hosting? I don't belong here, but we'll be back to capable guest hosts soon." His entire act was a lie and he's obviously a horrible person, a liar and a schemer.
I also hate him.
