JEOPARDY! player Isaac Hirsch has called out the show for interrupting his game to broadcast a press conference. Isaac jokingly hit out at the "rude" decision to show President Joe Biden 's speech on Thursday. Jeopardy! was cut off before host Ken Jennings announced the Final Jeopardy! category.
It switched to an ABC breaking news broadcast of Biden's press conference. Viewers who were able to tune in saw Isaac win his seventh game on Thursday. Following his triumph, he hit out at the interruption on X, formerly Twitter.
"I don’t want to get too political but I think it was pretty rude for President Biden to preempt Jeopardy for a press conference," he posted. He added jokingly that Biden said, "'I must be stopped' as Jeopardy champion and that he would 'shave (my) mustache off' with his bare hands." One fan commented on the post, "Isaac did you not pack enough fun shirts and now they’re sticking you with the show’s more restrained options?" "All my other fun shirts didn’t pass Jeopardy’s camera test so now we’re on to my 'job interview' shirts," Isaac quipped back.
The Burbank, California contestant has attracted attention with his quirky '70s-style suits and shirts. "That current champion looks like a 70s porn star," one Facebook user wrote last week. Another joked that Isaac "hit Studio 54" after taping the episode.
Isaac good-humoredly addressed the criticism of his funky outfits in a lengthy Instagram post. "The Internet is divided on my love of 70s menswear,.
