Bill Scheft

Bill Scheft



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July 20, 2002


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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Late Show writer and novelist Bill Scheft

This Week's Panelists:

• Roy Blount Jr., humorist and author
• P.J. O'Rourke, author and humorist
• Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style Section Report

Round 1


Who's Carl This Time? (Listen with Real Audio)
The Cable Guy Who Loved Me; I'm Guilty! Really!; How do you catch a Tiger?

» Music Cue: "I've Got a Tiger by the Tail"
Artist: Buc Owens
Composer: Howard/Owens
CD Title: Unlisted
Label: Unlisted




Opening Round (Listen with Real Audio)
A split screen moment on Wall Street; A pill to cure depression, baldness, smoking and keep Bob Dole happy; What could Scotty Pippen, Charles Schwab and Larry Flynt possibly have in common?

» Music Cue: "Gimme Some Money"
Artist: Spinal Tap
Composer: Guest/McKean/Reiner/Shearer
CD Title: This is Spinal Tap
Label: Polydor
Year: 2000



Round 2

Listener Limerick Challenge (Listen with Real Audio)
Coming this fall...NYPD Mew?; New Orleans vs. Old Spice; Don't worry officer, I'm just ululating.

» Music Cue: "Blue Yodel"
Artist: Jimmy Rodgers
Composer: Rodgers
CD Title: Classic Country Music Vol 1-4
Label: Unlisted
Year: 1993



Not My Job! (Listen with Real Audio)
Author of the new novel, The Ringer, and head monologue writer for David Letterman plays, "It's hot as Hades outside, but you, my friend, are as cool as a cucumber." Three questions about air conditioning.

» Music Cue: "Cool"
Artist: Original Soundtrack Cast
Composer: Bernstein/Sondheim
CD Title: West Side Story Original Soundtrack
Label: Sony
Year: 1992



Round Two (Listen with Real Audio)
Spain and Morocco wrestle over parsley; "What, Cheddar again? I was hoping for Stilton."

» Music Cue: "Minnie's Yoo Hoo"
Artist: Carl Stalling
Composer: Carl Stalling
CD Title: Classic Disney Volume I
Label: Walt Disney
Year: 2002



Round 3

Who's Carl This Time? (Listen with Real Audio)
A father's incontrovertible pride; Public Enemy Number Two brings the noise; One man's final call to be beamed up.

» Music Cue: "Star Trek"
Artist: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Composer: Courage
CD Title: Brain in a Box
Label: Rhino Entertainment
Year: 2000



Bluff The Listener (Listen with Real Audio)
"It's a miracle! A MIRACLE!" Three stories of wonderment in the news.

» Music Cue: "It's a Miracle"
Artist: Barry Manilow
Composer: Manilow/Panzer
CD Title: Unlisted
Label: Arista
Year: Unlisted



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

Panelist Predictions (Listen with Real Audio)
What will happen if TIPS, the program in which regular Americans will be recruited as homeland spies, is implemented.

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