Peter Sagal and Carl Kasell
The first audio collection from NPR’s “oddly
informative news quiz” spotlights the “Not
My Job” segment of the show, with celebrity
guests including Tom Hanks, Terry Gross,
Jeopardy Grand Champion Ken Jennings,
and Illinois Senator Barack Obama.
Each week, 2 million listeners tune into Wait Wait…Don’t
Tell Me!, the hour-long news quiz from NPR and Chicago
Public Radio. They test their knowledge of the week’s
dumbest news against some of the best and brightest in
the news and entertainment world. Host Peter Sagal and
scorekeeper (and veteran NPR newscaster) Carl Kasell join
panelists including author and humorist Roy Blount Jr., Washington Post columnist Roxanne Roberts,
Boston Globe
writer Charlie Pierce, and comedian Paula Poundstone.
Always a high point of the show, the “Not My Job”
segment features a celebrity guest who must answer
three questions on a topic totally outside his or her area
of expertise. Nice guy Tom Hanks is asked about
Hollywood’s biggest louts. Magician Penn Jillette can’t
escape three questions about Ben Franklin. Jeopardy
Grand Champion Ken Jennings is almost (but not quite)
stumped by “What in the world does Ken Jennings not
know?” And Barack Obama, Democratic Senator from
Illinois, takes the floor for three questions about the
superstitions of Baseball Hall of Famer Wade Boggs.
Introduced by Sagal, with hilarious interjections from
panel members, the first-ever Wait Wait audio is fast paced,
funny—and oddly informative.
Celebrity Guests:
Tom Hanks
Terry Gross
Sarah Silverman
Ken Jennings
Penn Gillette
Barack Obama
Major Robert Bateman
Harold Ramis
Janeane Garofalo
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Panelists
Adam Felber
Roy Blount, Jr.
Paula Poundstone
Mo Rocca
Amy Dickinson
Roxanne Roberts
Tom Bodett
Kyrie O'Connor
Charlie Pierce
Ahmer Haleem |
PRAISE FOR Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!
“The program’s rabid fans clamor for Sagal, and
especially Kasell, like rock stars.”
—Los Angeles Times
Original radio broadcast; 2 hours on 2 CDs
978-1-59887-070-1 (1-59887-070-X) CD Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! The Best of “Not My Job”
PETER SAGAL began hosting Wait Wait in 1998. Before that, he
was a playwright, screenwriter, stage director, actor, extra in a
Michael Jackson video, travel writer, essayist, ghostwriter, and staff
writer for a motorcycle magazine.
CARL KASELL, the show’s
official judge and scorekeeper, has been a newscaster for NPR’s
Morning Edition since its inception in 1979.
A production of NPR and Chicago Public Radio.