LeVar Burton says 'Jeopardy!' host gig 'wasn't the thing that I wanted after all'

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LeVar Burton says 'Jeopardy!' host gig 'wasn't the thing that I wanted after all.'

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"The crazy thing is that when you set your sights on something ... they say be careful of what you wish for, because what I found out is that it wasn't the thing that I wanted after all," Burton told Trevor Noah on Thursday night."What I wanted was to compete.

I mean, I wanted the job, right, but then, when I didn't get it, it was, like, 'Well, OK, what's next?'"Burton added:"The opportunities that have come my way as a result of not getting that gig, I couldn't have dreamt it up. If you had given me a pen and paper and said, 'Well, so what do you want this to really look like?' If it doesn't include 'Jeopardy!,' I wouldn't have been this generous to myself.

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He was disappointingly a bad host.

Burton is a fantastic person, but after watching his stint on Jeopardy, it was pretty apparent he wasn’t right for the job. He was too choppy. Surprisingly, Joe Buck blew everyone away with his hosting abilities!

I hope that's true and he is not just saying that.

Hey, Levar can exit the Jeopardy clusterfrak in style now, knowing that he'll always have those few days (July 26-30) at the helm of what WAS his dream job in his mind.

Good, because his performance as host was terrible.

You only have to work 2 months a year and get paid millions. Everyone wants that gig.

Jeopardy: We didn’t select you. Burton: Well, I didn’t want it anyway.

How wish I come across this opportunity long ago, it would have been huge now. You've corrected that step now, thanks for your good works LindaStouffes

What a complete cluster fuck this whole process has been. At this point, I don’t know who in their right mind would want to be associated with this.

Wow nice to see him again.

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there were many great choices , Burton assumed he was the shoe in .

Was this because he was rumored to be the worst off all the guest hosts? Thats the rumor i heard 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Easy to say that after the fact 😂

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