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February 3, 2001

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: NOT MY JOB GUEST: Senator and Ambassador George McGovern

This Week's Panelists:

•Roy Blount, Jr., Author, I Am Puppy, Hear Me Yap
•Adam Felber, Writer and Performer
•Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style Section

Round 1


Who's Carl This Time? (14.4 | 28.8)
Jackie Gleason-like ire on Capitol Hill...Georgia goes back to the drawing board...and the snarkiest, best looking newcomers on prime time.

Opening Round (14.4 | 28.8)
The networks kiss up--and are shot down; Milosevic does the War Crimes Tribunal one better; an illegal alien and his trunk fool the feds.

Round 2

The Listener Limerick Challenge! (14.4 | 28.8)
Good Morning America delivers; software that listens in; why antifreeze sells so well around Valentine's Day.

Not My Job! (14.4 | 28.8)
Senator and Ambassador George McGovern comes on to play "Are You Ready for EVEN MORE Football?"

Round 3

Who's Carl II (14.4 | 28.8)
If your hair and makeup is good while you're in office, people can give you a hard time about the more important things; war criminals with cute accents make great dinner guests; someone tells the judge why she needs to live large.

Bluff the Listener (14.4 | 28.8)
Pardon Me, Mr. President.

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)
How the other morning shows plan to out-program Good Morning America's live birth.

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