How does the taping work?
“Jeopardy!” tapes five shows over two days at the Sony studio in Culver City, Calif. Players who don’t live in the Los Angeles area are selected for the first day of taping, and a few of them tape on the second day of taping, with locals filling in the remaining spots on the second day. All of the out-of-towners gather on the morning of the first taping day and are herded into a “green room,” where the rules are reiterated, we get made up by professional makeup artists (which the guys weren’t too thrilled with), and we practice our “Hometown Howdies,” the greetings that air on local stations before our shows air.
