ken jennings

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There's a phrase that Dave Barry uses to describe people who don't understand his columns are supposed to be funny. He calls them "humor impaired." I love that phrase, and use it often, and famous Jeopardy! champ Ken Jennings used it quite appropriately when responding on his blog to a recent article in The New York Post that accused him of bashing the show that made him a millionaire. Here's the thing: Jennings did no such thing. His post titled "Dear Jeopardy" was a hilariously scathing tongue-in-cheek indictment of the show that suggested Alex Trebek had actually been replaced by a robot called the "Trebektron 4000" and that the Clue Crew "look like they beamed in from some 1970s PBS show." He also suggests ideas for better categories, such as "Skanks from Reality TV Who Got Naked in Men's Magazines." It's funny, very vicious, and nothing more than a good-natured barb in the "Don Rickles" vein.