Jeopardy! fans have mixed feelings about the game show's host Ken Jennings being set to be a guest on a major morning show.
An online forum on Reddit was filled with remarks from fans who felt strongly about Ken visiting The View amid his break from Jeopardy! The Jeopardy! themed Reddit thread revealed that Ken, 49, will be a guest on The View on June 13.
Some fans who commented on the internet forum were overjoyed that he'd be on the Emmy-winning talk show. "Tape is in, rewound, and VCR is programmed to record...," one person expressed. Other supporters claimed that The View audience wouldn't appreciate him enough and that Ken was too intellectual for the show as it is now.
Jeopardy! fan loses mind over 'painful' episode saying it's one of the 10 worst "Is anyone that watches The View going to know who Ken Jennings is?" they asked. "Let’s be honest The View isn’t exactly the high intellect programming Barbara Walters envisioned," a follower shaded.
There were a few fans who assumed that Ken was only appearing to promote his new book, 100 Places to See After You Die, which will be released on June 13. "Ken has a new book that comes out on June 13th. I’m guessing it’s more to promote his book than Jeopardy," one fan proposed.
Late month, Ken was criticized after he promoted his book after returning to tape the show during the Writers Guild of America writers' strike. His co-host, Mayim Bialik, 47, opted to step back from filming the regular episodes from May 16 to May 19 in a show of support for the strikers.
On Twitter, he wrote: "My book 100 PLACES TO SEE AFTER YOU DIE comes out in less than a month... AND it's also going to be available as an audiobook. Pre-order your copy today and start listening on June 18th."
The game show millionaire also shared the cover of his new trivia book under the tweet and encouraged his near-500,000 followers to buy it. One person blasted at the time: "Oh man. You should have waited until after it came out to scab. Literally turned thousands of potential readers like me onto someone unable to support it."
A second agreed: "Won't be purchasing a book that will benefit a scab." A third snarked in reference to the book's title: "Do you have to cross picket lines to go to any of these places? Seems like a thing you do." He previously shocked fans with an NSFW joke he made on Twitter amid his hiatus from the show.
Ken shared a Garfield comic book strip that featured three images in a tweet.
Alongside the picture, Ken tweeted: "Happy 33rd anniversary of the Garfield strip where Jon drinks dog semen!"bSome of his followers were shocked at the tweet as one person replied: "Ken...KEN. Why, man?" followed by laughing face emojis.
A second person tweeted: "This is not a tweet I expected to see today."
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