jimimac71 wrote: ↑June 15th, 2023, 12:03 pm
What makes this a fine forum is no one is constantly moderating for off topic posts.
As for Pat Sajak, Whoopi Goldberg wants it and some are suggesting Ryan Seacrest.
Let us remember Pat is not leaving until after the next season is over.
Both Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! have been on TV long enough.
I cannot tolerate Steve Harvey. He screams too much. Then again, so did Richard Dawson.
As much as I'm not a fan of Ben Mankiewicz, he'd be perfect.
Same kind of acceptable humor as Pat.
The next person to host Wheel must also want to do the show.
Ben could probably make room in his schedule for it.
He might think it is beneath him.
I say let Ben host Jeopardy! instead.
WAIT a sec here, jimimac!
What, you don't ALREADY get enough of Ben's nasally voice while he's hostin' over at TCM???!!! LOL
Nope, first of all, Ben WOULD probably believe hosting WoF would be "beneath him" as you've said. And secondly (and besides his nasally voice...most prevalently heard, btw, whenever he pronounces the word "actor"...uh-huh, C'MON now, the guy ALWAYS sounds like that damn Aflac duck when he says "AKK-tor"...STILL can't believe that I'M the ONLY person who hears this???...ah, but I digress here...LOL) but to host WoF, I'd say one must give off the impression of being "one with the people", and sorry again, Ben has never given off that impression to me.
Now don't get me wrong here, as I DO actually like Ben, but I'd say he's best suited for his continued duty on TCM.
Now, I THINK I could see Pat's daughter Maggie hosting the show. She seems bright and attractive enough to do this.
(...I've just always wondered where she got her height from?...she towers over her dad whenever they're on stage together, ya know...must've been from her mother...yeah, it's gotta be)