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“Jeopardy!\u2019s” Ken Jennings<\/a> candidly compared game show hosts Alex Trebek and Pat Sajak.\u00a0<\/p>\n

During a podcast interview, Jennings, 49, told actor Justin Long how “brilliant” Sajak, 77, was at interacting with contestants on the beloved game show “Wheel of Fortune.”<\/p>\n

“Alex was such a genius at being the host of \u2018Jeopardy!\u2019 you really cannot do better than that\u2026 But as a kid I was always like, ‘Pat’s more fun, Pat jokes around with the three people,'” Jennings said on the “Life is Short” podcast.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“I’m a little more of a Pat Sajak where I’m like if I say one more thing, please end it with a joke,” he continued of his own hosting style. “Whereas Alex was very much like ‘OK, helium balloons, all right. How about you?'” he described Trebek’s interactions with contestants.<\/p>\n

Kennings added, “I want to make it less painful than it was for me as a viewer.”<\/p>\n

His comments come on the heels of the third anniversary of the iconic game show host\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

Trebek died in 2020 from pancreatic cancer, but his “Jeopardy!” legacy lives on. He was 80.<\/p>\n

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The longtime game show host announced in March 2019 that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer and continued to update fans on his condition as he underwent treatment. He vowed to continue hosting and doing the job that he loved for as long as humanly possible.<\/p>\n

Trebek hosted “Jeopardy!”<\/a> since 1984, presiding over more than 8,000 episodes. He routinely talked about how much he loved hosting the popular game show and even credited the fans with helping him throughout his treatment.<\/p>\n

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Former “Jeopardy!” champion Jennings and “The Big Bang Theory” actress Mayim Bialik<\/a> were named the new hosts of the popular game show after the death of Trebek.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Jennings previously revealed that he spoke with Trebek just hours before he passed away.<\/p>\n

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“I actually ended up talking to him what turned out to be the night before the day he passed away about guest hosting for him,” Jennings explained on “The Last Podcast on the Left” in August.<\/p>\n

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“We didn\u2019t know,” he continued. “We thought \u2018Oh he\u2019s going to get better, he\u2019s going to bounce back, he\u2019ll be hosting again.’ I was just going to fill in.”<\/p>\n

Describing their conversation, Jennings said, “We talked about the game, and, you know, he gave me the impression he always did over the years, which was that he did not want to be the center of attention on \u2018Jeopardy!\u2019”<\/p>\n

Jennings explained that Trebek was never interested in the attention that came from hosting the show, even saying that he called himself the host of the show instead of the star because “he thought the game itself and the contestants should be the star.”<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital’s Emily Trainham contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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