Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! Famous People Who Returned Our Calls: Celebrity Highlights from the Oddly Informative News Quiz

NPR

ISBN 10: 1598878964 ISBN 13: 9781598878967

Publisher: Highbridge Co, 2009

Synopsis

Celebrity guests are put on the spot in the popular ?Not My Job? segment of the Peabody award-winning NPR radio show.Each week, two million listeners tune into Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me! to test their knowledge of the week's dumbest news against some of the best and brightest-panelists including author and humorist Roy Blount Jr., author and radio anomaly Tom Bodett, syndicated advice columnist Amy Dickinson (?Ask Amy?), Atlantic Monthly journalist P.J. O'Rourke, Washington Post columnist Roxanne Roberts, and other know-it-alls.Always a high point of the show, ?Not My Job? features a celebrity guest who must answer questions on a topic totally outside his or her area of expertise. Guests must also contend with not-so-helpful interjections from host Peter Sagal and the panelists, with hilarious results. Comedians Stephen Colbert (The Colbert Report) and Denis Leary (Rescue Me), actors Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek), Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother) and Carrie Fisher, musicians Mavis Staples and Moby, Southern cook and restaurateur Paula Deen, and high-wire artist Philippe Petit (Man on Wire) are just a few of the stars who find themselves under the heat of the Not My Job spotlight.

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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! is NPR's "oddly informative" weekly hour-long news quiz program. Over 3 million listeners on over 600 stations nationwide turn in to hear host PETER SAGAL lead a group of panelists and listeners through a series of games designed to test their knowledge of the week's news—and showcase their wit. NPR newscaster CARL KASELL serves as judge and scorekeeper. When not touring, the program is recorded at the Bank One Auditorium in Chicago.

Internationally acclaimed, NPR produces and distributes programming that reaches a combined audience of 26.4 million listeners weekly, and, unlike other media, NPR’s audience continues to grow. NPR member organizations operate 784 stations, and another 117 public radio stations also present NPR programs, for a total of more than 900 stations nationwide who broadcast NPR programming.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! is NPR's "oddly informative" weekly hour-long news quiz program. Over 6 million listeners on over 600 stations nationwide turn in to hear host PETER SAGAL lead a group of panelists and listeners through a series of games designed to test their knowledge of the week's news—and showcase their wit. When not touring, the program is recorded at the Bank One Auditorium in Chicago.

Reviews

What other game show would ask singer Mavis Staples about office supplies? This collection features a dozen favorite celebrity guests from public radio's "Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me," a show that eventually gets around to asking its guests three questions after a lot of comic banter. Panelist Paula Poundstone's argument with food writer Michael Pollan about Ring Dings is the most likely to make you laugh out loud. Others who brave the panel in this volume are aerialist Philippe Petit, chef Paula Deen, Leonard Nimoy, Carrie Fisher, Neil Patrick Harris, Stephen Colbert, presidential advisor David Axelrod, musician Moby, Jane Curtin, and Denis Leary. It's a funny introduction to the NPR quiz show. J.A.S. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

Edition details

• Publisher: Highbridge Co
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1598878964
• ISBN 13: 9781598878967
• Binding: Audio CD
• Edition number: 2