Drunk or no drunk

Pat Sajak's adventures in drinking, exaggerated or not, have spawned a lot of Net chatter. On Matt Ottinger's board, a poster took the chance to debunk a (supposed) myth:

Alex Trebek was not intoxicated on the 1980 High Rollers finale. This rumor likely stemmed from the fact that the finale was the only circulating episode of the '78-80 run of HR among tape traders for many years, and many people thought that the odd jokes and non-sequiturs uttered by Trebek indicated he'd been drinking. However, other episodes that have since surfaced show him making similar jokes and comments; it was just his style of humor at the time.

Don't ask me, I wasn't there. But the Trebek story has even shown up in a comment on this blog. You can judge for yourself because the final High Rollers episode is now on YouTube.

Nowadays Trebek looks like the planet's soberest guy on Jeopardy. Gotta admit, an episode of the august quizzer would be pretty funny with an inebriated Alex. Love to hear him try to pronounce some of those polysyllabic foreign names under the influence. Hammurabi might come out Hammmmmurrrrraabbbbbaaabbbaabbbaaaaa.