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Thank goodness the host is chill, because Monday’s “Jeopardy!” show was on the tense side.
Between one contestant feverishly pumping the game show buzzer like it was a malfunctioning lighter at a concert in 1987 and another nervously shifting her weight back and forth behind the podium, it was a debonair Aaron Rodgers and returning champ Dennis Chase, rocking a patterned bowtie with a striped shirt, keeping things grounded.
Rodgers kicked off his second week as guest host in midseason form reciting one of Shakespeare’s sonnets, reading a clue about Pythagoras, Epicurus, Socrates and Diogenes as if they were old friends and sliding in a quick endorsement for “Reno 911!” when the Nevada-set “Cops” parody that features inept deputies and police uniform short shorts for men turned up on the board.
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A jovial “Yes, that’s the book” for a correct response on “A River Runs Through It.”
“Well, I’m glad you got out of there alive, buddy” to the contestant who shared a strange story about throwing divots back and forth with a gorilla at the Bronx Zoo as a kid.
Doing a pretty good bedtime story voice when reading a passage from “The Call of the Wild.”
As he approached the halfway mark of his two-week gig, the Green Bay Packers quarterback seemed more animated and comfortable tossing in ad libs on Friday’s episode. His delivery of “corrrr-ect, the raised eyebrow when asking contestants about their stories and an irrepressible smile are all starting to become his calling cards.
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