NPR

June 30, 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: Actor John Mahoney, of NBC's Frasier and the Steppenwolf Theatre Company


•Roy Blount Junior, author of Be Sweet
•Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style Section
•Charlie Pierce, Esquire Magazine and Only A Game

Round 1


Who's Carl This Time? (14.4 | 28.8)
Just shut up and drive in New York; California's voice of moderation--like buttah!; farewell to Ensign Pulver.

Opening Round (14.4 | 28.8)
North Dakota tries to spice up its image, Texas'll take what those Puerto Ricans don't want, and the one that got away....very slowly.

Round 2

The Listener Limerick Challenge! (14.4 | 28.8)
Chicago-style limericks: why the city's motto isn't 'we're number two'; the birthplace of America's favorite sponge cake fingers; why Tinseltown owes us one.

Not My Job! (14.4 | 28.8)
Actor John Mahoney graciously plays "You're America's Favorite Condiment!"... which means we ask him all about ketchup.

Week in Review (14.4 | 28.8)
You can't speak ill of them, or in front of them; a German couple who meet each other coming and going.

Round 3

Who's Carl II (14.4 | 28.8)
What gives John McCain and the country a headache; the mayor of Toronto puts his foot in it; everyone loves a parade.

Bluff the Listener (14.4 | 28.8)
DESPERATE TIMES, DESPERATE MEASURES.

Lightning Fill in the Blank (14.4 | 28.8)
All the news that we can fit.

Panelist Predictions (14.4 | 28.8)
How will Congress make the Patient's Bill of Rights more appealing to the American public?

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