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Ken Jennings takes AMA questions on Reddit
- jedsmith 16y agoLots of people think it's a Jeopardy reference, but actually I was thinking of that time Watson and I were cellmates in prison, and it kept raping me. After I read that response I scrolled right back up and checked his proof that it's him. I knew Ken Jennings has a sense of humor, but I clearly underestimated him.
- joelhaus 16y agoThe retort wasn't bad either: How bad can a 3½-inch floppy be?
- blahedo 16y agoSee also: "Bruce Vilanch is hiding under my desk right now. Unfortunately he's not writing jokes for me, if you know what I mean."
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- sudont 16y agoHe said further down that he likes to turn the assumption of boring mormons on it's head. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fwpzj/iama_74time_jeopardy_champion_ken_jennings_i_will/c1j6nyf http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fwpzj/iama_74time_jeop...
- mattgreenrocks 16y agoHow edgy.
- burgerbrain 16y agoWhat better way to clear up mormon stereotypes than by making prison rape jokes....
- Benjo 16y agoI was a little jarred that he explicitly mentioned rape. Don't get me wrong, nothing is off-limits for a joke, provided it is funny enough, but this joke is just as funny without the last clause. Including it is just redundant, not to mention it pulls the punchline slightly. To me it reads like he's trying to be offensive. I guess this version of the punchline could hit through a language barrier though?
- syllogism 16y agoEhhh, it depends on your expectations (or how you "mentally deliver" it, for a text joke). To me just a prison rape reference is kind of tired, so spelling it out contradicted my expectations and was much funnier.
- Benjo 16y agoAh, I hadn't considered that reading of it. For what it's worth, I'd want a full stop period or even line break before the second punchline before I'd read it that way. In that way the joke is perhaps much more funny to people who read it that way and only slightly less funny to others.
- edanm 16y agoMy favorite answer: "My Sunday school teacher, when I was a Mormon teen, once memorably advised us that "There's nothing more overrated than sex, and nothing more underrated than a good bowel movement." It totally worked...I don't remember a single other sermon from when I was a kid, but I think about this guy exactly once a day, and then again once a week."
- JoachimSchipper 16y agoLook past the "we're turning into reddit" HN angst: the IAmA reddit really can be very interesting.
- thecoffman 16y agoThere's much of reddit that is still interesting and useful, and there's plenty of good discussion to be had - it just has a much worse signal to noise ratio since its exploded in popularity. If you're willing to unsubscribe from some of the bigger subreddits and take the time to "roll-your-own" so to speak, there is a lot of value to be had.
- javanix 16y agoRight, there's really nothing fundamentally different about HN and reddit other than the audience. At their core they are both vote-based commenting communities - and the generally high quality of comments makes me wish more sites (like Gawker, Engadget, etc) would use the same mechanism. Yes there is a lot of herd behavior but it's leagues better than the "First post!" cruft you see everywhere else.
- phillmv 16y ago>Right, there's really nothing fundamentally different about HN and reddit other than the audience. Yeah. It just has an incredibly more functional UI and working RSS feeds.
- javanix 16y agoNot sure what you mean by this, but in my opinion differing UI and RSS feeds are pretty much the opposite of "fundamental differences".
- monochromatic 16y agoGot some suggestions for good subreddits?
- javanix 16y agoSo apparently Ken Jennings is about 9000x more hilarious than I expected him to be. Good to know.
- syllogism 16y agoHe's a lot better than I expected jeopardy-win-streak-guy to be. I first saw him play on the Watson special, and was impressed that he chose his charity pretty rationally (VillageReach, top charity at www.givewell.org ).
- SeanLuke 16y agoI fully expected it, having read the question/answer session he did for the Washington Post two weeks ago. Utterly hillarious, especially the bit about Watson's voice. http://live.washingtonpost.com/jeopardy-ken-jennings.html http://live.washingtonpost.com/jeopardy-ken-jennings.html
- shawnee_ 16y agoQ: "What is one epiphany/something that was said to you that made you realize 'I can maintain my fame and not be remembered as just the guy who once won big at Jeopardy!'?" A: Screw that, I don't want to be famous. I keep getting asked who my publicist is. Why would I have a publicist?!? I'm just a guy on a game show. I got mine. I need a privacist. His Tuesday Trivia messages are always entertaining, but they aren't usually this funny.
- jfm3 16y agoThe most interesting bit is that he thinks trivia-game ability is genetic. (Well, that and how he handles being a mormon.)
- joezydeco 16y agoThe admission he's a Dan Bejar fan blew me away.
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