From "Jeopardy!" Champ Ken Jennings

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/9/12 at 9:38pm

"There's Broadway famous and then there's famous famous. Nobody ever shot the president to impress Sutton Foster."


(posted on Facebook)

Updated On: 1/9/12 at 09:38 PM

[PlayItAgain]

Posted: 1/9/12 at 9:40pm

He is one to talk....

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/9/12 at 9:41pm

Wtf?

[Edna Turnblad]

Posted: 1/9/12 at 9:42pm

I am unworthy of your love, Sutton, darling.

[lull89]

Posted: 1/9/12 at 9:43pm

He tweeted it too. It's a joke.

[AC126748]

Posted: 1/9/12 at 9:48pm

3/4s of this board isn't old enough to get the joke.

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/9/12 at 9:49pm

I get the joke, but it just seems so random.

[AC126748]

Posted: 1/9/12 at 9:52pm

I wasn't referring to you, ljay--I know you're smart.

It is kind of random, but I find most jokes are.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/9/12 at 10:04pm

I got the joke and I'm not that old. (Mr Roxy is much older than I am)

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/9/12 at 10:07pm

The latest Tweet from Jennings:

"Voting Santorum because no, I *DON'T* think a snow leopard should be allowed to marry the Los Angeles Dodgers."

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 1/9/12 at 10:29pm

I've always wondered. Is the Jeopardy Ken Jennings the same Ken Jennings that was in the OBC of Sweeney Todd?

[AC126748]

Posted: 1/9/12 at 10:41pm

Not even close.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Jennings

[broadwaydevil]

Posted: 1/9/12 at 11:26pm

I get the reference but I don't get what Ken Jennings has anything to do with the joke? Is he a Broadway fan?

Funny nonetheless...

If someone did assassinate the President to impress Sutton, then she'd need to wait another 15 years and come out.

[Starcarolina]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 12:31am

I wonder if he has seen THE BOOK OF MORMON...and he sounds like he lives on his own personal planet already. I think jokes, even tweets, referring to assassinating a President are in poor taste. Just leave it to Sondheim to memorialize those in song.

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/10/12 at 7:44am

I think this Ken Jennings wishes he was the one from Sweeney Todd.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/14/12 at 7:26pm

Today's quip from Mr. Jennings is downright racist. I'm unfriending him:

"I used whitening toothpaste for 3 weeks and now I think the Phil Collins "You Can't Hurry Love" is better than the Supremes one."

The guy's got problems.

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/14/12 at 7:30pm

How could Ken Jennings get any whiter than he already is? I know---add a hood.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/15/12 at 11:39am

How true! How true!

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/15/12 at 11:39am

How true! How true!

[darquegk]

Posted: 1/15/12 at 1:09pm

The Supreme's "You Can't Hurry Love" is a brilliant pop tune and superior in its own right.

However, it's hard to deny that the Phil Collins version is fantastic camp. Its music video is one of the examples I usually bring up to explain how camp can be more than just "gay humor" related material- former prog-rock legend Phil Collins, in black and white, singing a totally sincere cover of "You Can't Hurry Love," while three more Phil Collinses sing backup, all dancing like white Supremes wannabes.

[Gaveston2]

Posted: 1/15/12 at 4:24pm

Compared to most of the crap on Facebook and Twitter, Mr. Jennings is Oscar Wilde.

Mocking white covers of Motown hits isn't racist; it may be the issue on which all people, black and white, can agree.

And Sutton Foster isn't even Kim Kardashian in terms of fame, despite Foster's vastly greater skills.

While the pun on "whitening" may not be deep, aren't tweets supposed to be shallow and ephemeral?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/15/12 at 5:02pm

Today Ken Jennings posted, "Thank God that freaky old man from Long Island defriended me. On Facebook AND in real life. Thank you, restraining orders!"