Opinion | emmaladyrose: 'Jeopardy!' host Mike Richards is exactly who you think he is.
that you might expect from a generic 46-year-old Ken doll who fancies himself an “edgy” amateur comedian. According to the Ringer report, Richards frequently commented on the appearance, height and professional history of his co-host and former assistant, Beth Triffon. He called her a “booth ho” and a “booth slut” for having previously worked as a model at the Consumer Electronics Show .
Richards said exactly the type of things on “The Randumb Show” you might expect from a generic 46-year-old Ken doll who fancies himself an “edgy” amateur comedian. He also denigrates government assistance programs and unhoused people, invokes the r-word to question other people’s intelligence, uses a stereotype about Jews and big noses, comments on the weight a colleague will gain once she takes up baking, proclaims that women dress like “hookers” on Halloween and says one-piece swimsuits are “genuinely unattractive” and make women “look really frumpy and overweight.
The fact that he said all of these things — out loud, on a public podcast, recorded on the premises of his workplace, without fear of retribution — signals how little these comments struck him as problematic. Though Richards made the comments seven or eight years ago, he was already well into his 30s. When we pair that history with allegations of pregnancy discrimination at “The Price is Right,” a picture emerges of someone who is anything but a safe choice for Sony Pictures Television. (CNN's Matt Belloni reported Thursday night that Sony's CEO, Tony Vinciquerra, is
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