To become the intellectual you were, you didn't have to be one of the world's greatest physicists. You just had to start a game show.
Seriously, what the heck? AiG has just called Ben Stein an "Einsteinian Figure". Does it even come close?
http://answersingenesis.org/articles/2008/03/13/meeting-of-minds
(Did the pic myself, took me about 40 mins tops)