Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper



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February 9, 2002


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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: TV's favorite film critics, Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper

This Week's Panelists:

•Writer and humorist P.J. O'Rourke
•Writer and journalist, Sue Ellicott
•Writer and performer Adam Felber

Round 1


Who's Carl This Time? (Listen with Real Audio)
In Washington, D.C., the new sleaze echoes the old sleaze; half-witted, muted rhyming rants; Yes to ads for rogaine, no to ads for meat products.

Opening Round (Listen with Real Audio)
A Congresswoman asks, "Why walk when you can ride in style?"; From the Senate cries of "No! Your life was heaven compared to mine!"; this week's stupid criminal complete with flailing legs.

Round 2

Listener Limerick Challenge (Listen with Real Audio)
What next? J. Alfred Prufrock wishes you Happy Anniversary?; A gargantuan tube of Olympic advertising; Sorry, no more treats from the mailman.

Not My Job! (Listen with Real Audio)
Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper of the TV film criticism show, Ebert and Roeper play a game called: "You're 50 years old, and you're still not sprouting any eyes." Three questions about Mr Potato Head.

Round Two (Listen with Real Audio)
Phone messages Joe Lieberman just ignores; Our version of NBC's Olympic Heroes pieces; a makeover worthy of a hand puppet.

Round 3

Who's Carl II? (Listen with Real Audio)
Phone messages Joe Lieberman just ignores; Our version of NBC's Olympic Heroes pieces; a makeover worthy of a hand puppet.

Bluff the Listener (Listen with Real Audio)
Honey, where should we eat tonight? New concepts in dining out.

Lightning Fill-In-The-Blank (Listen with Real Audio)
All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else

Panelist Predictions (Listen with Real Audio)
Now that the Red Cross has starting giving Sept. 11 money to upscale Manhattanites and New York limo drivers, how else will the Red Cross dole out the money?

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