Joel Hodgson names Jonah Ray as the (potential) new host of MST3K
Reinforcing MST3K’s continued commitment to nerds, Joel Hodgson has named Jonah Ray as the man he’d like to kidnap, shoot into space, and torture with bad movies for days, weeks— years, hopefully—on end. In other words, Ray is Hodgson’s choice for the new host of MST3K, where he will go by the name of Jonah Heston. The anointing took place on Kickstarter earlier today, where Hodgson posted in an update on the Bring Back MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 page:
I probably met Jonah about three years ago, when I did the [Nerdist] podcast and we talked about MST3K. It was a fun gig, and two things were really clear: I liked all three of those guys very much, and they all seemed to really love MST3K. They knew all about it, which always makes interviews easier. We had a great time and I left with a really good impression of Jonah …