<P> Jennings appeared on The Colbert Report on September 13, 2006 . During the interview, Colbert discussed Jennings's book, Brainiac, and mocked him not knowing the number of pages the book contained . After Colbert coined a word to describe intellectual nerdiness, "poindexterity", Jennings was going back and forth of what is the correct noun for "poindexter ." Jennings noted, as he had done earlier that day on NPR's Talk of the Nation, that since his streak, people "seem to have an extra-hard trivia question" in case they run into him . </P> <P> He also appeared twice on NPR's Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! program . In his Feb. 25, 2006 appearance on the "Not My Job" segment, he answered all three questions correctly, winning for a listener Carl Kasell's voice on that person's home answering machine . Jennings stated, "This is the proudest moment of my game show life ." On June 1, 2013, Jennings made his debut as a panelist on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me . </P> <P> Entertainment Weekly put his performance on its end - of - the - decade "best of" list, saying, "Answer: A software engineer from Utah, he dominated the quizfest for a record 74 shows in 2004, amassing $2,520,700 . Question: Who is Ken Jennings?" </P> <P> Jennings made the news in July 2006 when an article in the New York Post by Michael Starr criticized Jennings for what Starr perceived as lack of loyalty and gratitude on Jennings' part, citing an open letter to the producers of Jeopardy! and host Alex Trebek that Jennings wrote on his blog . Jennings responded on his blog by explaining that the blog entry was satirical in tone, saying, "(Starr) knows there's no way I was genuinely calling for angry bees and ventriloquist's dummies to be added to the Jeopardy! format . It's a humor piece, and one which gets its laughs from the outrageous non sequiturs it proposes, not the ripeness of its target for criticism ." Jennings had already posted a more serious comment defending Trebek that remains on his website . </P>

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