And he sat down on "Concentration" about a year into the run, since he was
blocking the prize board behind him. Goodson-Todman got rid of the podium
between the puzzle board and the contestants when they took over the
franchise, I guess because they liked the idea of the host standing between
the
Incidentally, when people in the “Jeopardy!” studio audience would ask Alex
what his favorite (non-“Jeopardy!”) show was that he hosted, his standard
answer was “'To Tell the Truth,’ because I got to sit down." (Although he did
have a chair at his “Jeopardy!” lectern for the last few years.)
https://tvline.com/2020/11/08/alex-trebek-dies-jeopardy-host-dead-pancreatic-cancer/
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