Alex Trebek

I tell audiences who come to our tapings that the thing I enjoy most about the show is the 30 minutes I spend onstage with the contestants, because I love spending time with bright people. And with these three, it was particularly enjoyable, i hate spending time with stupid people.

Because of the cancer diagnosis, it's no longer an open ended life ; it's a closed ended life because of the terrible survival rates of pancreatic cancer, because of that, and something else that is operating here, people all over America and abroad have decided they want to let me know now, while I'm alive, about the impact that I've been having on their existence.