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August 4, 2001
Listen to Wait Wait Don't Tell Me:
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HOST: Peter Sagal
Official Judge and Scorekeeper: Jean Cochran in for Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Bill Griffith, cartoonist, creator of Zippy the Pinhead.
This Week's Panelists:
•Roy Blount, Jr., Author
•Adam Felber, Writer and Performer
•Sue Ellicott, BBC and Times of London
Round 1
Who's Jean This Time?
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Secret deals in the Oval Office; the Chinese
version of events; a movie star opens wide.
Opening Round
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Nelson Mandela will NOT be sold by the pailful;
get your new magazine fix in the Netherlands; whose velour bedroom
and gold bathtub is on the market?
Round 2
Historical Reenactment Theatre
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Our friends from Second City reenact someone's
triumphant entrance in Harlem; a difficult, high profile job interview; a great
defense breakthrough that might have been a little overplayed.
Not My Job!
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Cartoonist Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead, comes on to play
When You Debuted, Britney Spears Had Yet To Be Born--celebrating 20 years
of MTV.
Round Two:
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The origins of life may have come from on high,
but not in the way the Creationists meant; a waitress wants
her car, not a phonetic pun.
Round 3
The Listener Limerick Challenge (14.4 | 28.8)
Speaking up at a wedding and getting
called on it; no one wants to be Ringo; the forgotten Marx.
Bluff the Listener
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"So There IS a Reason for That...THING!":
An everyday phenomenon explained. Even if you never wondered.
Lightning Fill in the Blank
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The rest of the week's news that we can fit.
Panelist Predictions
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How MTV will change in the NEXT 20 years.
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