HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Film Critics Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper
From Ebert and Roeper
Special Fifth Anniversary Broadcast of Wait Wait Don't Tell Me
recorded in front of a live audience at Chicago's Goodman Theater on Dec. 9, 2002.
This Week's Panelists:
• Roy Blount Jr., humorist and author of Robert E. Lee
• Charlie Pierce, Boston Globe writer
• Sue Ellicott, writer and journalist
Round 1
Who's Carl This Time?
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Three lame excuses from the past five years. We have only ourselves to blame; a $125 million mathematical error; the biggest political screw-up of modern times?
» Music Cue: "Big Mess"
Artist: Devo
Composer: Mothersbaugh/Casale
CD Title: Devo Greatest Hits Label: Warner Brothers
Year: 1990
Opening Round
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Silly excesses of technological enthusiasm from the past five years: a world changing invention or juiced up lawn mower? And innovations in the smallest room in the house.
» Music Cue: "Take This Job and Shove It"
Artist: Johnny Paycheck
Composer: Coe
CD Title: Best of Johnny Paycheck Label: Curb
Year: 1996
Round 2
Listener Limerick Challenge
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What if Wait Wait were born 100 years ago? Three limericks based on news from 1898-1902:
Retroactive national pride; the plush toy with destructive powers; a curdling film controversy.
» Music Cue: "Cheese Alarm"
Artist: Robyn Hitchcock
Composer: Hitchcock
CD Title: Jewels For Sophia Label: Warner Brothers
Year: 1999
Not My Job!
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Film critics Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper play our game called "You are Part of the Second Rennaisance of Arts and Culture, circa January 1998" -- three questions about other
innovations or ideas launched in 1998.
» Music Cue: "Birthday"
Artist: The Beatles
Composer: Lennon/McCartney
CD Title: Christmas Coctails Label: Capitol
Round 3
Who's Carl Part II
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The choicest insults from the past five years: the Tin Man of high tech execs; divorce New York style; snack attack!
Bluff The Listener
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Monicagate: Where are they now? And how can we avoid them? Three where-are-they-now stories of key figures in the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Lightning Fill-In-The-Blank
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All the news of the past five years that we couldn't fit anywhere else broken into three
categories: business developments; politicians who left the stage; the World of Entertainment.
Panelist Predictions
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What will be the major news headline at the Wait Wait 10th Anniversary?
Listen to the whole show