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COMICS CURMUDGEON ON JEOPARDY SOON! Wonkette’s own Josh “Comics Curmudgeon” Fruhlinger will be on your teevee at either 7 p.m. or 7:30 p.m. (check local listings!) and the rumor is he “lets Trebek have it” and also wins super-champion Ken Jennings’ golden crown! [Jeopardy]
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“John McCain, John Warner and Robert Byrd regularly play these important roles. Josh.”
“What are the pool boy, the groundskeeper and the cable repairman in Mary Worth’s sexual fantasies?”
Let’s Trebek have it? I hope none of the categories was “Second-Grade Grammar”
Suck on it, Trebek. Suck it long and suck it hard.
Muahahaha!
“Do you kiss your mother with that mouth, Connery?”
“No, but I kissed your mother with it…”
His competition looks kinda pathetic.
http://www.sonypictures.com/tv/shows/jeopardy/showguide_thisweek.php
What kind of cut are you guys getting?
Gopherit v2.0: I dunno. Daniel Weissman looks like the mad genius bastard child of Malcolm Gladwell. He might be tough…
I’ll take, The Rapist.
El Bombastico: Heh. He struck me as a paultard. I guess we’ll have to watch to know.
Nahhhh..
Because I’ve ordered devices like that before - wasted a pretty penny, I don’t mind telling you. And if The Penis Mightier works, I’ll order a dozen.
One of the categories is Mother Goose, which is kind of like a comic, so he’s got a shot.
Oh come on, if ever something warranted a liveblog, it’s this.
uhmmm…comes on at 5p.m. here…afraid i missed it…
i think its considered as ’schooling’ in Texas, thus the hours…..
watching the show counts towards an advanced degree at SMU…
If he’s up against two chicks, he’s gonna kill.
(No, I wouldn’t bet on it, but when when I watch Jeopardy with my wife and two daughters, I always say “The chicks NEVER win,” just to piss them off.)
[/Jeopardy nerd]
Alas…
Alas…
The saddest words,
Of book or pen,
Are only these….
Classic graphic. Classic alt-text. Classic youtube.
Wow. Just… wow. His Final Jeopardy performance… that’s all I’ll say, don’t want to spoil it for anyone. Just… wow.
memphisheel: Look, Trebek had that coming for three decades, and I hope Josh isn’t sorry for doing it.
Aw, come on! You can’t leave us hanging like that!
I watched just long enough to appreciate Josh’s awesome facial hair. Did something sinister happen?
Gopherit v2.0: Whoa! In that gallery of nerds, Josh looks almost normal.
I’ll take TruckNutz five-hundred, please.
OMG, Josh!
That is all.
Finger quoting Margo for $1000, Alex.
(Yes, the joke has been made four times. Eat my thong.)
Is the contestant in that screen cap that bearded friend of Mary Worth?
Way to hang it all out on Final Jeopardy, Josh. Nobody likes a wuss.
The problem with Jeopardy is that it’s mainly a competition to see who can time the clicker best. The questions are easy, so the audience at home can feel smart. Prolly makes for a better TV show, but but diminishes the purity of the nerd-off.
Lazy Media: I agree. “Mark” a.k.a. “Sir Nerdlington” had clearly mastered the clicker more than Josh. Also, the only question in the rounds that Josh got wrong, the answer was “sailfish.” That is not a real creature!
Lazy Media: Dammit, what happened? Did he write “Suck it Trebek” as his Final Jeopardy answer?
Hi everyone! Thanks for watching … yes, there was shame, oh, shame over bloweing the “world leaders” category. I am trying to get it youtubed or redlassoed or something, because I love humiliation more than anything.
But I hope Josh got some PJ’s Pizza. That’s candy for adults.
Not to give any spoilers in case you have it on Tivo, but the Final Jeopardy ‘question’ was NOT “Who is Yulia Tymoshenko?”
Damnit, I was still at work when this aired. Post Youtubez plz.
I’ll play medulla to Josh’s oblongata any time! GINGER NERDS R HAWT.
jagorev: Click on the link above you and remember a different time, when Paultards were invading, everyone was drunk, and The Foreigns was weekly.
Actually, Josh, I just want you for your money. With that haul you just made on Jeopardy, you can more than adequately keep me in the lifestyle to which I have become accustomed.
Josh Fruhlinger: Ah shit, Josh. I knew that Mark guy was going to be hard to beat. Not for nothing is he a 3-day champ. Fast thumbs. I thought you were gonna clean up on the Poe category, though, since you are practically next-door-neighbors with the guy.
And yeah, you shoulda got Golda. So, I’m guessing “Fruhlinger” isn’t Jewish after all?
Josh Fruhlinger: Nice going, Josh. That dude racked up quite a score and was a tough competitor. The online quiz is tough enough, but I’ve seen that to get to the actual show is like salmon swimming upstream — you go through a meat grinder and there’s still a lot of chance involved — and all that to still have a one-in-three chance of winning one game.
So the hell with any thoughts of humiliation and congratulations instead on a gutsy and game attempt. I’ll be thrilled to be in that position some day, win or lose.
Who is
“I LOVE CYBER SEX TREBEK (alien name) I NEED IT NOW?”
NO.
INCORRECT.
Jeebus what is wrong with you people. You have to caawwwdle the host, let him feel the love, and attack with the sort of vengeance that puts a Boston priest to shame.
Josh Fruhlinger: Well played, sir. You dared do it, which is more courageous than most.
shortsshortsshorts: Alex Trebek is an innocent [albeit smug] Canuckistani and I protest the repeated incidents of discrimination against your norther cousins on this here tubesite. Keep it up, shorts, and Alex will hive off back to being the TV weatherman in Thunder Bay. Then your new quizmaster will be Billy Kristol. Or Flava Flav, boyeeeee.
Canuckledragger: I elect Bobcat Goldweth as my new quizzing overlord. Let you Canadians eat the pretentious quiz-master alive.
In fact, base his leverage to live on a public quiz show, a TreJeopardy.
Okay I like pressing keyboard buttons and will stop doing that now.
“A backpack, a hat and a twelve-year-old boy wearing only a jock strap.”
“Things a Republican can carry using no hands, Alex?”
Crude Oil Falls as Hurricane Dolly Misses Fields, Dollar Gains
By Nesa Subrahmaniyan
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100&sid=a2xhnrHcYqNY&refer=germany
This is great.
Without the Hurricane, the dollar falls, but with the THREAT of a hurricane, the dollar RISES. It’s simple economics.
WHAT?
NO Liveblog?
Pretty lame.
Pretty darn lame.
Lascauxcaveman: Sadly, Fruhlinger is all Chosen People, all the time. The memory of my Jewish grandmother has been defiled.
Meanwhile, while Josh is distracted, Mary Worth and Doctor Jeff are below decks rocking the yacht.