Danger! Host Ken Jennings shakes fans up with a shocking NSFW joke during the show’s break
DANGER! Host Ken Jennings has shocked fans after he shared an NSFW joke on social media.
Ken, 49, was delighted Twitter on Tuesday and shared a Garfield comic strip with three pictures.
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Alongside the picture, Ken tweeted, “Happy 33rd anniversary of the Garfield strip where Jon drinks dog cum!”
Some of his followers were shocked by the tweet, with one person replying, “Ken…KEN. Why man?” followed by smiley face emojis.
A second person tweeted, “Not a tweet I expected today.”
A third responded, “That can’t be true,” and a fourth admitted, “This is not how I expected to discover your Twitter account.”
Someone else fumed: “In my opinion, you’ve just deteriorated many times over. Take some lessons man.”
Other Twitter users tried to understand the comic and debated what it actually meant.
One person shared a quote from cartoonist Jim Davis, who drew it.
Ken responded to the tweet, saying, “For the record, I totally buy into Davis’ farm boy explanation.”
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Ken’s cheeky post came just a week after he celebrated his 49th birthday on May 23.
The former Jeopardy! The candidate is currently on hiatus from his hosting duties and Mayim Bialik is replacing him.
However, not all viewers are impressed with seeing Mayim on their TV screens every day.
The fact that Ken will be off screen for “almost all summer” was made clear to unsuspecting fans in last Thursday’s episode with the actress.
Mayim’s mishap
It was Mayim’s pauses in taking contestants to heart, which angered fans as they took to Twitter to vent.
One fan wrote, “I’m sure this has been said many times, but if Mayim Bialik doesn’t stop hesitating when answering the questions about Jeopardy, I’m going to put my remote right through my eye.”
“If Mayim Bialik is at Jeopardy! would take longer to say “Yes, that’s right,” she would reply on “Wheel of Fortune.” wrote another.
With no one to really root for, and no Ken hosting either the Masters or the regular show anytime soon, the problem seemed more glaring than ever.
Another fan wrote on Twitter, “Well it’s a sad day that we won’t be seeing Ken again until the final week of season 39.”
“So most of that will be Mayim Bialik for most of the summer. But at least we’re getting closer to the 40th season of Jeopardy very soon. So that’s good news!”
Another person wrote, “Watching Mayim vs. Ken host Jeopardy is night and day.”
“Ken is quick, unhesitating, seems sincere. Mayim is stilted, seems to pause to clarify answers, and her banter seems forced. Make Ken the constant and only host!”
A third wrote: “@Jeopardy I don’t mean to whine but tonight’s match is one of the slowest I’ve seen. And Mayim needs to speed up her confirmations.”
And this week, fans once again took notice of the worrying backlash with Mayim’s hosting, urging the show’s producers to address it.
On Monday’s episode, Mayim’s moderating pace sharpened on two glaring occasions.
Niranjan Murali, an education policy expert, was joined by Travis Lee, a systems engineer, and Diandra D’Alessio, a technical writer, who won, raising $15,700.
During the Double Jeopardy! Round Travis chose the $200 hint.
Mayim, 47, read: “To protect an ancestral cemetery, attorney Lyda Conley became the third woman and first Native American to plead a case here in 1910.”
“THAT’S RIGHT, THAT’S RIGHT”
Travis replied, “What is the Supreme Court?” — which was the intended response.
However, Mayim didn’t decide one way or the other for several seconds, so Travis grinned nervously and added, “…From the United States.”
Mayim then hastily interjected during his addition, “That’s right, that’s right.”
Travis later landed in the Gulf of Mexico category on an important clue in the Daily Double.
He bet a whopping $6,000 and Mayim read, “This 76,000 square mile peninsula juts out into the southern end of the Gulf.”
Travis replied: What is Yucatan?
Mayim didn’t answer, although once again that was the correct answer.
So Travis added, “Peninsula?” Again, he thought it took more to be right.
Mayim then finally concluded that he was indeed right in the first place.
Many people commented that if Mayim doesn’t get fast enough in confirming to participants whether they are correct or not, he could keep adding to their answers, going from right to wrong in the process.
As one Reddit user put it, “I’m not posting this to open a Mayim bash, but do we know why she pauses so long before confirming an answer is correct?”
With both the Supreme Court and Yucatan responding today, participants began adding additional information because the hiatus was so long.
“I’m concerned that this might cause someone to jump to an incorrect answer (although both answers were still correct today with the additional information).”
Another agreed: “It’s not ‘Mayim bashing’ at all to suggest that her pregnant breaks confuse contestants (not to mention us viewers).
“This was an extremely important daily double for Travis and when she paused for two to three seconds you could tell he was confused and thought she needed more information.”
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