Even the greatest of all time can sometimes be wrong. Danger! Legend Ken Jennings – who earlier this year won the game show tournament to determine the best champion of all time – posted a stream of tweeted apologies for the insensitive posts he has posted to the networks in the past. social.
Jennings’ tweeted apology comes as he prepares to start his run as the first Danger! host to follow longtime Jeopardy! master of ceremonies Alex Trebek, who passed away in November after 36 years.
Jennings hosting tasks at Danger! will start on January 11. The search for a permanent host continues.
The tweets that prompted the apology concerned Jennings’ comments in 2014, when he posted, “Nothing sadder than a sexy person in a wheelchair.
When someone retweeted this comment in 2018, Jennings responded on Twitter saying, “I never did a public flogging for this, but I have personally apologized to the angry / hurt people who contacted personally. It was such an inane joke it meant something very different in my head [and] I regret the simple capacitist reading of this one.
Jennings also made several tacky social media jokes about a Star wars fan, an 11-year-old Barron Trump, an elderly grieving grandmother.
Apology feed of the day:
Hey, I just wanted to acknowledge the fact that over the years on Twitter I’ve definitely tweeted some unnecessary and insensitive things. Sometimes they worked like jokes in my head and I was appalled at how they read on the screen. 1 time
– Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) December 30, 2020
In the past, I usually left bad tweets so they could get soaked. At least that way, they could lead to smart answers and even advocacy. Deleting them was like whitewashing a mistake. 2 / x
– Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) December 30, 2020
But I think this practice may have made it seem like I support every failed joke I’ve ever posted here. Not at all! 3 / x
– Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) December 30, 2020
Sometimes I’ve said stupid things in a stupid way and want to apologize to people who have been (rightly!) Offended. It wasn’t my intention to hurt anyone, but it didn’t matter: I fucked up, and I’m so sorry. 4 / x
– Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) December 30, 2020
If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that we need to be nicer to each other. I can’t wait to leave in 2021 with this in mind. 5 / x
– Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) December 30, 2020
