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September 2, 2000

Listen to Wait Wait Don't Tell Me:
(14.4 | 28.8)

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HOST: Peter Sagal
Official Judge and Scorekeeper: Carl Kasell
Not My Job Guest: actress Martha Plimpton

This Week's Panelists:

•Adam Felber, Writer and Performer
•Sue Ellicott, BBC and Times of London
•Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times

Round 1


Who's Carl This Time? (14.4 | 28.8)
Geraldo makes a new grab for power...this world ain't big enough for more than one Survivor...and why Muscovites are finding other stuff to do.

Opening Round (14.4 | 28.8)
Wearing your secrets on your sleeve, or thereabouts; the one time it might NOT be time to make the doughnuts.

Round 2

The Listener Limerick Challenge! (14.4 | 28.8)
Petri dish teeth; what all the chicest dogs will be rolling in; and Who's Who in hell.

Not My Job! (14.4 | 28.8)
Actress and Wait Wait fan Martha Plimpton joins us to play a round about world records...in You Hold The Record For Person Most Often Assumed to be George Plimpton's Daughter.

Week in Review (14.4 | 28.8)
The hundred-ton honor awarded Condoleeza Rice...and how to relax and remain centered at the office.

Round 3

Who's Carl II (14.4 | 28.8)
How Henry Kissinger saved the human race from the effects of Scotch and Dilantin; Dick Cheney asks that we not ask him to spell; the creator of Donald Duck remembered.

Bluff the Listener (14.4 | 28.8)
Are You For Us, or Agin Us?: Schisms in the News.

Lightning Fill in the Blank (14.4 | 28.8)
The rest of the week's news that we can fit.

Panelist Predictions (14.4 | 28.8)
Geraldo Rivera's first act as The Mayor of New York.

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