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May 20, 2000
Listen to Wait Wait Don't Tell Me
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HOST: Peter Sagal
Official Judge and Scorekeeper: Carl Kasell
Not My Job Guest: Ira Glass, Host, This American Life
This Week's Panelists:
•Adam Felber, Entertainer
•Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post writer
•Ken Rudin, Editor, NPR National Desk
Round 1
Who's Carl?
Carl channels three quotes from the week's news: Rudy finds happiness
at last; President Clinton bids farewell to a West Wing regular; an O.B.E
recipient hopes she can curtsy.
Opening Round
The dangers of census-taking in southwest Texas, and the dangers of not wrapping your mawashi tightly enough.
Round 2
The Listener Limerick Challenge!
By our new limerist, Phillip GO-dih-kuh! Hope for the pink and shy, sax players take care, and goodbye unreadable glyph.
Not My Job!
Ira Glass, host of This American Life (and our office mate at WBEZ) plays "Not My Jib"---about how typos can bring us all down.
Week in Review
60 years ago, there was a run on them...what? And Bobby Knight gets a last chance to rein himself in.
Round 3
Who's Carl II
Carl impersonates those who make news: Britney SO denies it! Regis was SO wrong, and a contestant is suing to prove it! and there is SO a market for a Rocky sequel! Just ask Sly.
Bluff the Listener
The game in which a listener tells truth from fiction.
The topic this week: Yet Another Olympic Scandal.
Lightning Fill in the Blank
The rest of the week's news in speedy question and answer form.
Panelist Predictions
Helen Thomas's next career.
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