So my sincerest thanks to the researchers and writers of JEOPARDY for honoring us with the shout-out. And to Alex. He actually pronounced my name correctly. The last time a celebrity got the pronunciation right it was Tony Randall in 1977.
My only personal encounter with Alex was on CHEERS when we did the “Cliff goes on JEOPARDY” episode. Alex was so funny that we actually wrote him into a second scene. He was the one bar patron who everybody did know his name.
I also want to thank everyone who wrote, texted, liked on social media, and commented on the blog/Facebook/Twitter, etc. I was touched and overwhelmed by the reaction. Some people I hadn’t heard from in years checked in. Most were congratulatory. Only a few expressed utter shock and disbelief.
Again, it’s the power of television – and a pandemic that forces people to stay home.
But it was a definite career highlight. Also cool to be on the same episode as Geoffrey Chaucer.
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My cousin, who was a DJ in Seattle, was the subject years many years after he left the business in a game on a different local station called "Dead or Alive".
The contestants would hear the name of a local or national celebrity and guess if they were living or not.
My cousin's name came up and the contestant guessed "dead", thank God, he is with us today.
PS. The radio host of the game, figured that the name was so obscure, that they let the contestant stay on and have another question.
Also very impressive that you're included in a category called "Totally Awesome 80's TV" rather than "Potpourri" or "Odds and Ends."
Congratulations, Ken.
Congratulations on reaching a new level of fame! I, too, would like to pronounce your name correctly, but it would be very helpful if you would give us a hint! Are you a "Leveen" or a "Levine?" I'm already in enough trouble with the Levys!
There was also a thread on the New York Radio Message Board about your UCLA project on the History of LA radio. (Not to mention a 99X reference!)
It's been a big week for you Ken!
I don’t have an appropriate comment to make. So here’s an article about Natalie Wood.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/may/04/what-remains-behind-the-life-and-death-natalie-wood
Also last week, someone identified Janet Jackson as Ariana Grande. For a while in 2004, Jackson was the most famous woman on earth.
Congratulations to you and David, Ken. I think its a sign, you HAVE to try to get on Jeopardy. Just think of it as the dating game, but you can't make up your own answers.
If only you had begun that Cheers episode with "Whan that Aprille with the shoures shoot/the droughte of March hath perced to the root."
The lady in my avatar says "welcome to the club."
https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/44141.html
Being an answer on "Jeopardy" is very prestigious considering that you could have been a clue on "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?"
M.B.
Getting your name right is easy since the creation of Hollywood and Levine ... unless one is totally pun-challenged.
Off-topic, but I gotta get it in:
Internet reports that John Ericson passed over the weekend, aged 93.
Just back from your post of September 17, 2013, featuring 555-GIVE, a modern classic if ever there was.
Should you not bring it back for the occasion, everybody reading this should save that date: SEPTEMBER 17, 2013.
Presented as a public service.
If you listen to Ken's podcast, you will know the answer immediately...!!!
So 'Ariana Grande' is the name of a person? It sounds like one of those overpriced coffee drinks that smug, pretentious yuppies and millenials order at the Barnes & Noble snack bar.
Outstanding! And I'll bet surreal, too. What fun!
So how much were you and David worth on the Jeopardy board?
Paul Gottlieb: Ken pronounces his name Levine (not Leveen). Clearly, he's wrong, but whatayagonnado?
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In answer to the questions: Yes, Sarah, the defending champ knew Chaucer ($1000 in nicknames in the first round) as well as the Levine $800 question in the Double J round under TOTALLY AWESOME '80s TV. Yet she lost the game.
It's gratifying that the Jeopardy clue writers used the writing credits, instead of acting or directing, to lead in to the episode titles in the clue. Solidarity!
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