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December 22, 2001


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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: ABC Monologist Spalding Gray

This Week's Panelists:

•Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style section
•Evan Smith, editor Texas Monthly magazine.
•Charlie Pierce: writer at large for Esquire Magazine

Round 1


Who's Jean This Time? (Listen with Real Audio)
The new Elvis; rich people get the blues this Xmas; you loved the book, you probably will hate the movie.

Opening Round (Listen with Real Audio)
Cleveland's fans show they care; Science and humor don't always mix; noodles so good, you'll need a 12 step program to stay away from them.

Round 2

Historical Reenactment Theater (Listen with Real Audio)
Tough times for a retailer in Kabul; Kandahar gets Carson Daly'd; Santa + Heathers = a date in criminal court.

Not My Job! (Listen with Real Audio)
ABC Monologist Spalding Gray plays a game called: You're the Scourge Of Gotham's Underworld. Three questions about Batman...and at least one involving Robin.

Week in Review (Listen with Real Audio)
Two U.S. cities each earn a title: in the first case, the mayor says the judges must have been drunk. in the second, the town revolts against the ignominy; Happiness is Matt and $60 million in the bank.

Round 3

Listener Limerick Challenge! (Listen with Real Audio)
The truck that got stuck; the pigskin versus a show of skin; the baked good that won't die.

Bluff the Listener (Listen with Real Audio)
Keeping it Clean: three innovations in the art of cleanliness

Lightning Fill in the Blank (Listen with Real Audio)
The rest of the of the week's news that we can fit.

Panelist Predictions (Listen with Real Audio)
Where's Osama?

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