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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Al Franken, humorist and author of many books including Why Not Me? and Oh, the Things I know!
This Week's Panelists:
• Roy Blount, Jr., humorist and author of Am I Pig Enough for You Yet?: Voices from the Barnyard
• Charlie Pierce, Boston Globe writer
• Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style section reporter
Round 1
Who's Carl This Time?
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Leaving the job of mocking this week's newsmakers to Jay Leno and David Letterman, Wait Wait hops in the Wayback machine to revisit three classic Cold War quotes.
» Music Cue: "Oh Mommy"
Artist: Brewer and Shipley
Composer: Brewer/Shipley
CD Title: Brewer and Shipley Greatest Hits
Label: Buddah Records
Year: 2001
Opening Round
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What is Bill Clinton's legacy? Making other presidents' pasttimes seem dull by comparison.
» Music Cue: "Private Eyes"
Artist: Hall and Oats
Round 2
Listener Limerick Challenge
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Three rhymes about regrettable historical fashion trends.
» Music Cue: "Hot Pants"
Artist: James Brown
Composer: James Brown
CD Title: Hot Pants
Label: Polygram
Year: 1993
Not My Job!
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Humorist and Saturday Night Live alumnus Al "Stuart Smalley" Franken plays a game called "I'm Sorry, but You're Just Not Our Sort, if You Know What I Mean," in which he tackles three questions about the timeless practice of snobbery and social climbing.
» Music Cue: "What Do the Simple Folk Do"
Artist: Original Sound Track Cast
Composer: Lerner/Loewe
CD Title: Camelot
Label: Warner Bros.
Year: 1998
Round Two
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Remembering important historical inventions: paperclip patriotism and electric monks.
» Music Cue: "Electricity, Electricity"
Artist: Goodness
Composer: Dorough
CD Title: School House Rock! Rocks
Label: Atlantic
Year: 2000
Round 3
Who's Carl Part II
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All about car culture: a Ford customer testimonial that never quite made into their ads and examples of why car makers don't ask poets to name new models.
» Music Cue: "Rocket '88'"
Artist: Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats
Composer: Brentson
CD Title: The Sun Records Collection
Label: Rhino Entertainment
Year: 1994
Bluff The Listener
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A great leap forward -- almost. Communist marketing plans that didn't quite pan out.
» Music Cue: "Rawhide"
Artist: Unlisted
Composer: Tiomkin/Washington
CD Title: CBS: The First 50 Years
Label: TVT Records
Year: 1998
Lightning Fill-In-The-Blank
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All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.
Panelist Predictions
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What will be the next historic, life-changing invention?
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