The Survivor host is the best in the business but hasnt even been nominated in 12 years.
I can’t believe I have to do this again.
I thought reason, common sense, and justice would prevail.
Jeff Probst on ‘Survivor’.Robert Voets/CBS
I put my faith in the people, and the people failed me.
Considering the “people” in question were Emmy voters, perhaps I should not be so surprised.
So let me ask again: WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!?
‘Survivor’ host Jeff Probst.Robert Voets/CBS
And that host isSurvivormaster of ceremonies and orange hat enthusiastJeff Probst.
I mean, we already went over this!
Iwrote a screed back in 2018illustrating this epic absurdity, and yet here we are again.
Jeff Probst on ‘Survivor 43’.Robert Voets/CBS
The Emmys first created the reality host award in 2008.
You guessed it… Probst.
Yet another trophy for Probst.
It’s no wonder the torch-snuffer extraordinaire kept winning.
He was the only host on the planet running a show in temperatures regularly exceeding 100 degrees.
He was the only host to have to deal with a cyclone.
He was the only host even daring to work outside!
(Okay, that’s not technically true.
And no IFB earpiece so producers could feed him questions or info along the way.
He was, both literally and figuratively, on an island.
But after four straight Emmy wins, Probst was not even nominated in 2012.
And he has not been nominated since.
And don’t come at me with any nonsense about the competition being too stiff.
(So much for truth in advertising.)
Wonderful has three more Emmy nominations than Jeff Probst over the past decade.
(And for that reason, I am out.)
And then there are all the game shows.
Lord, all the game shows!
How did Probst lose a spot in 2017 toAlec Baldwinfor hosting a revival ofMatch Game?
DidEllen DeGeneresreally got nominated in back-to-back years forEllen’s Game of Games?Yes.
Yes, she did.
And then there isJane Lynch, who was not only nominated three times forHollywood Game Nightbut actually won.
Pardon my French, but are you freakin' kidding me?
That is pure lunacy.
No other host on the planet works under the degree of difficulty that Probst does.
He calls those challenges live no retakes here!
and often seems even more animated than the contestants themselves.
That’s something to consider when every single nominee over the past decade has enjoyed working in air-conditioned comfort.
Television Arts & Sciences Academy ballots for the 2023 Emmys are due back on June 26. Who knows?
Or maybe the faceless jumbotron screen host of South Korea’sSiren: Survive the Islandwill be deemed more worthy.
Or else I’ll have to write this whole damn article all over again… again.
