Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

Saturday 11 AM
Hosted by: Peter Sagal and Carl Kasell

NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! takes a fast-paced, irreverent look at the news of the world—and the weird. Now in its sixth year, the show offers a modern and sometimes raucous twist on the old-time radio quiz show, mining NPR news stories for quiz questions. The host is Peter Sagal, who is an award-winning playwright and father of three in his spare time. America’s favorite newscaster, NPR’s Carl Kasell, is the show’s official judge and scorekeeper.

Each week, Sagal quizzes the panelists and listeners to determine just how closely they paid attention to the week's news. He serves up questions in all forms: lightning rounds, tape from NPR news shows, multiple choice, identify the “fake” story and fill-in-the-blank limericks.Listeners call 888-WAIT-WAIT for a chance to win the most coveted prize in all of public radio: a custom-recorded greeting by Carl Kasell for their home’s answering machine or voice mail.

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Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
7:15 am
Sat January 26, 2013

Who's Carl This Time?

Originally published on Sat January 26, 2013 8:01 am

Transcript

CARL KASELL: From NPR and WBEZ-Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT...DON'T TELL ME!, the NPR News quiz. I'm Carl Kasell, and here's your host, at the Chase Bank Auditorium in downtown Chicago, Peter Sagal.

PETER SAGAL, HOST:

Thank you, Carl.

(APPLAUSE)

SAGAL: Oh, thanks everybody. Thank you. Much appreciated. We do have a great show for you today. Tech guru Guy Kawasaki will be joining us later to play Not my Job.

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Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
7:15 am
Sat January 26, 2013

Limericks

Originally published on Sat January 26, 2013 8:01 am

Carl reads three news-related limericks: Tech Soup, A Fresh Look at London, and i-Rangatans.

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
7:15 am
Sat January 26, 2013

Panel Round Two

Originally published on Sat January 26, 2013 8:01 am

Transcript

CARL KASELL: From NPR and WBEZ-Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT...DON'T TELL ME!, the NPR News quiz. I'm Carl Kasell. We're playing this week with Maz Jobrani, Amy Dickinson and Roy Blount, Jr. And here again is your host, at the Chase Bank Auditorium in downtown Chicago, Peter Sagal.

PETER SAGAL, HOST:

Thank you so much, Carl.

(APPLAUSE)

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Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
9:19 am
Tue January 22, 2013

Prediction

Transcript

PETER SAGAL, HOST:

Now, panel, what will be the next big confession in the news? Peter Grosz?

PETER GROSZ: Oprah will admit that 15 years ago she and Lance Armstrong conspired for him to engage in doping, deny it for years, win seven Tours de France, get publicly humiliated, seek redemption on her show and save her lame spin-off network from total irrelevancy.

(APPLAUSE)

SAGAL: What a scandal. Roxanne Roberts?

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Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
3:44 pm
Fri January 18, 2013

Limericks

Originally published on Sat January 19, 2013 8:50 am

Carl reads three news-related limericks: Sober Ice; Yelling Bellied Warblers; the Pol Pot of Pop.

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
3:44 pm
Fri January 18, 2013

Panel Round Two

Originally published on Sat January 19, 2013 8:50 am

More questions for the panel: The Tale of Two Kelly Hildabrandts; Heads Roll at O'Hare.

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
3:43 pm
Fri January 18, 2013

Who's Carl This Time?

Originally published on Tue January 22, 2013 9:19 am

Transcript

CARL KASELL: From NPR and WBEZ-Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT...DON'T TELL ME!, the NPR News quiz. I'm Carl Kasell, and here's your host at the Chase Bank Auditorium in downtown Chicago, Peter Sagal.

PETER SAGAL, HOST:

Thank you, Carl.

(APPLAUSE)

SAGAL: Thank you everybody. Thank you so much. We have a great show for you today. Later on, we've got Melinda Gates joining us, talking about...

(APPLAUSE)

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Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
12:18 pm
Fri January 11, 2013

Who's Carl This Time?

Originally published on Sat January 12, 2013 8:09 am

Carl reads three quotes from the week's news: Loose Change, What's Hot Right Now, and A Popularity Contest.

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
12:18 pm
Fri January 11, 2013

Lightning Fill In The Blank

Originally published on Sat January 12, 2013 8:09 am

All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
12:18 pm
Fri January 11, 2013

Panel Round Two

Originally published on Sat January 12, 2013 8:09 am

More questions for the panel: Outsourcing Updates, and Bureaucrats Gas On.

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