From "Jeopardy!" Champ Ken Jennings

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From "Jeopardy!" Champ Ken Jennings

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)

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

#2

From

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

He is one to talk....

#3

From

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

Wtf?

#4

From

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

I am unworthy of your love, Sutton, darling.

#5

From

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

He tweeted it too. It's a joke.

#6

From

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

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

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#7

From

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

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

#8

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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.

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"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

#9

From

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)

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#10

From

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."

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#11

From

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?

#12

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

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

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"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

#13

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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.

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#14

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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.

#15

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

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

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#16

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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.

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#17

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

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

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#18

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

How true! How true!

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#19

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

How true! How true!

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#20

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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.

#21

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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?

#22

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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!"