Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
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Genre	Game show
Running time	ca. 50 min.
Country	United States
Language(s)	English
Home station	WBEZ
Syndicates	NPR, WBEZ
Host(s)	Peter Sagal Carl Kasell
Creator(s)
Producer(s)	Rod Abid Mike Danforth
Executive producer(s)	Doug Berman
Recording studio	Chicago, Illinois
Air dates	1998 – present
Audio format	Stereophonic
Website	waitwait.npr.org
Podcast feed	Podcast

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! is an hour-long weekly radio news quiz game show produced and distributed by National Public Radio in the United States and available worldwide on the Internet. Chicago Public Radio receives a co-production credit as they provide a support structure for the Chicago-based NPR staff. Broadcast on weekends, the show is hosted by Peter Sagal, with scorekeeper Carl Kasell and a panel of three drawn mostly from Roy Blount, Jr., Tom Bodett, Amy Dickinson, Sue Ellicott, Adam Felber, Aamer Haleem, Kyrie O'Connor, P.J. O'Rourke, Paula Poundstone, Paul Provenza, Charlie Pierce, Roxanne Roberts, Mo Rocca, and Richard Roeper. The program debuted in January 1998 with host Dan Coffey of Ask Dr. Science, but was later revamped. This article is about the television genre. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_States. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... WBEZ (91. ... NPR logo For other meanings of NPR see NPR (disambiguation) National Public Radio (NPR) is a private, not-for-profit corporation that sells programming to member radio stations; together they are a loosely organized public radio network in the United States. ... WBEZ (91. ... Peter Sagal, NPR Peter Sagal is an American playwright, screenwriter, actor, and host of the National Public Radio game show Wait Wait. ... Carl Kasell (b. ... Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 606. ... Stereophonic means having two channels of audio. ... For the newspaper that gave News Corporation its name, see The News (Adelaide). ... This article is about the television genre. ... Offical NPR logo National Public Radio (NPR) is an independent, private, non-profit membership organization of public radio stations in the United States. ... Chicago Public Radio is a noncommercial public radio station in Chicago, Illinois. ... Peter Sagal, NPR Peter Sagal is an American playwright, screenwriter, actor, and host of the National Public Radio game show Wait Wait. ... Carl Kasell (b. ... Roy Blount, Jr. ... Tom Bodett is an American author, voice actor and radio host, and is also the current spokesman for the hotel chain Motel 6 who is famous for coining the phrase Well leave the light on for you. References [Tom Bodetts website] http://www. ... Amy Dickinson writes the syndicated advice column, Ask Amy. ... Sue Ellicott is a former television correspondent for the BBC and political writer for The Times in Washington, DC. Ellicott has appeared on CNN, ABC News, and Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher. ... Adam Felber is a political satirist, author, radio personality and actor. ... Aamer Haleem is a VH1 on-air personality and host of the show Bands Reunited. ... Kyrie OConner is a writer and editor. ... Patrick Jake ORourke (born November 14, 1947) is an American political satirist, journalist, and writer. ... Paula Poundstone (born December 29, 1959 in Huntsville, Alabama) is an American stand-up comic. ... Paul Provenza (born July 31, 1957 in New York City) is an actor, comedian and filmmaker. ... Charles P. Pierce, otherwise known as Charlie Pierce (born December 28, 1953 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American sportswriter. ... Roxanne Roberts is a style writer for the Washington Post. ... Mo Rocca on the set of The Daily Show. ... Richard Roeper (born October 17, 1959[1]) is a columnist/film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and, since September of 2000, has co-hosted Ebert & Roeper with fellow film critic Roger Ebert. ... Ask Dr. Science is a daily humorous radio sketch broadcast on many public radio stations which acts as like a cross between a bumper and a public service announcement. ...

In addition to the panelists, Wait Wait... listeners participate by telephoning or sending e-mails to nominate themselves as contestants. The producers select several listeners for each show, and call them to play games on the air on a pre-taped basis with questions based on the week's news. The prize for winning any game is to have Carl Kasell record a greeting on the contestant's home answering machine. These games include: Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... A prize is an award given to a person or a group of people to recognise and reward actions or achievements. ... An answering machine, also known as an answerphone/ansaphone/ansafone (especially in UK and British commonwealth countries) or telephone answering device (TAD), is a device invented in 1904 for automatically answering telephone calls and recording messages left by callers when the party called is unable to answer the phone. ...

Who's Carl This Time?

The contestant must identify the speaker or explain the context of three quotations read by Morning Edition news-reader Carl Kasell. Two correct answers constitute a win. In a variation of this game, Carl Kasell's Countdown, three popular songs are played and the contestant must identify the related news story.

Bluff the Listener

The contestant hears three odd news stories read by the panelists. Two of the stories are invented by two panelists, with the actual story being read by the remaining panelist. The listener must determine which one is true and not a product of the panelists' imaginations.

Listener Limerick Challenge

The contestant must identify the last word or phrase in three news-related limericks read by Carl Kasell. Two correct answers constitute a win.

Not My Job

A specially invited guest takes a three-question multiple-choice quiz on a topic completely unrelated to the celebrity's field, with a unique appropriate category name used each week. Originally, the guests on these segments were NPR personalities and reporters, but the pool of guests later expanded to include mostly celebrity guests, ranging from former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright who was asked questions on the history of Hugh Hefner and Playboy magazine, to author Salman Rushdie who was asked about the history of PEZ. Two correct answers constitute a win and the prize goes to a randomly selected listener who contacted the show but was not chosen as a contestant. At least one exception to this rule has been recorded when, in June 2005, Sagal made an "executive ruling" in favor of then-major Robert Bateman, who was participating as the celebrity from his station in Baghdad, Iraq. Although no longer used, the scoring system for Not My Job used names of NPR personalities corresponding to the numeric scores:

• 0 correct: Flintoff
• 1 correct: Rat Boy^[1]
• 2 correct: Siegel
• 3 correct: Dan Schorr

NPR Geek Game

Snippets are played from lighter news stories on Morning Edition and All Things Considered. The contestant must identify from which stories those snippets were pulled, potentially outing themselves as an "NPR Geek" in the process. In recent years, this segment has all but disappeared.

Wait Wait... Television

Debuting on October 1, 2006, Carl Kasell reads commercials for fictional television shows based on recent news events. The contestant must guess the person around whom the "commercial" is based to score a point. As with the other games, two correct answers out of three possible yields the prize.

The Carlslist Internet Destination

Debuting on October 22, 2006, Carl Kassel reads postings from the fictional Internet site Carlslist based on recent news events. The website is a parody of the website Craigslist. The contestant must guess the person around whom the "posting" is based to score points.

In between games, Peter Sagal asks the panelists questions from the week's news and the panelists earn points by giving correct answers. A panelist also earns a point if a contestant chooses his/her story in the Bluff the Listener game, whether that story was true or made-up. At the end of the show, the panelists take a Lightning Fill-In-The-Blank quiz. Each panelist is given a series of eight fill-in-the-blank questions about news stories, and must answer as many as he or she can (the stories become more frivolous and humorous as the quiz progresses) and are scored 2 points for each correct answer. After the quiz all the points are totaled and the panelist with the highest score is declared the week's champion. Panelists do not receive prizes for winning. For the Wikipedia quotation templates, see Category:Quotation templates. ... Morning Edition is an American radio news program produced and distributed by National Public Radio (NPR). ... A limerick is a five-line poem with a strict meter, popularized by Edward Lear. ... Megastar redirects here. ... In several countries, Secretary of State is a senior government position. ... Madeleine Korbel Albright (born Marie Jana Korbelová on May 15, 1937) served as the 64th United States Secretary of State. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Classic Playboy logo. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A typical PEZ dispenser and packaging PEZ is the shortened name of PEZ Candy Inc. ... Robert Lake Bateman (born 1967) is an American historian, author, and web and newspaper columnist. ... Megastar redirects here. ... Steve Inskeep is one of the current hosts of Morning Edition on National Public Radio. ... Robert Siegel is an American radio journalist. ... Daniel Schorr (born August 31, 1916) is a journalist who has covered the world for more than 60 years. ... All Things Considered, sometimes abbreviated ATC, is a news radio program in the United States, broadcast on the National Public Radio network. ... A geek is an individual who is fascinated by knowledge and imagination, usually electronic or virtual in nature. ... October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... October 22 is the 295th day of the year (296th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 70 days remaining. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Craigslist is a centralized network of online urban communities, featuring free classified advertisements (with jobs, housing, personals, for sale/barter/wanted, services, community, gigs and resumes categories) and forums sorted by various topics. ...

The show typically closes with the Panelists' Predictions, during which each panelist provides a headline that is designed more to make the listener laugh than to actually predict a real news story. That segment usually ends with Carl Kasell stating that if any of those come true, "... we'll ask you about it on Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!"

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! is produced by Chicago Public Radio, and was recorded in one of its studios until May 2005, when the show switched formats to being recorded in front of an audience at Chicago's Chase Auditorium in the Chase Tower on Thursday nights. A few times a year the show travels to various cities in the United States and produces a road show in front of a live audience. Chicago Public Radio is a noncommercial public radio station in Chicago, Illinois. ... Nickname: The Windy City, The Second City, Chi Town, City of the Big Shoulders, The 312, The City that Works Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in Chicagoland and Illinois Coordinates: Country United States State Illinois County Cook & DuPage Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government... O1 Chase Tower Chase Tower in Chicago is a 60 story skyscraper completed in 1969. ...

"Not My Job" guests

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness. Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.

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References

Morning Edition is an American radio news program produced and distributed by National Public Radio (NPR). ... Steve Inskeep is one of the current hosts of Morning Edition on National Public Radio. ...

External links

• Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Official website
• Chicago Public Radio Official website
• National Public Radio Official website