LeVar Burton may have been a fan favourite to become the new “Jeopardy!” host following Mike Richards’ exit, but he’s glad he didn’t get the job.
The star, who received praise from viewers after his recent guest-hosting stint on the show, told Trevor Noah on Thursday’s “The Daily Show”: “You know, we did a kickstarter several years ago.
I discovered then that the generation of adults now, who grew up on ‘Reading Rainbow’, they were down with whatever it is I wanted to do, and the same was true with this ‘Jeopardy!’ thing,” Yahoo!
reported. “I made it public that I wanted it for myself, that it made sense to me, and they were all about it. It made as much sense to them as it did to me.
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