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My Anecdotal Life by Carl Reiner Heard on the show: Visit the United Kingdom Parliament Web site. "I Feel Good!": James Brown Pardoned In S.C. Walk This Way: Can You Be Recognized at 500 feet? An Unlikely Target Al-Qaeda Targets Uh... Norway? Broken By Barney: Purple Dinosaur Used in Interrogation. American Idol: More Than 24 Million Votes Later... DOOM: Breaking Ground, and Virtual Skulls, Since 1992.

May 24, 2003


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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Comedy legend Carl Reiner. His new book of memoirs is called My Anecdotal Life.

This Week's Panelists:

• Charlie Pierce, Boston Globe writer
• Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post style section reporter
• Mo Rocca, correspondent for Comedy Central's The Daily Show

Round 1

Who's Carl This Time? (Listen)
Bye bye to a Wait Wait... favorite; One cow causes a heifer load of trouble; Who felt good this week?

» Music Cue: "I got you (I feel Good)"
Artist: James Brown
Composer: James Brown
CD Title: The Best of James Brown, The Millennium Collection
Label: Universal Music



Opening Round (Listen)
Al Qaeda's fjord problem; Vladimir Putin's superpowers; Britain's House of Lords is really out of touch.

» Music Cue: "Spam"
Artist: Monty Python
Composer: Monty Python
CD Title: Another Monty Python Record
Label: Charisma



Round 2

Bluff the Listener (Listen)
Why Don't We Dial It Back A Notch? Three stories of people who really needed to back off a bit.

Not My Job! (Listen)
Comedy legend Carl Reiner plays a game called "Dude, You've Been Fragged!" Three questions about the video game Doom from a new book, Masters Of Doom, by David Kushner.

» Music Cue: "Dick Van Dyke Show"
Artist: Unlisted
Composer: Earle Hagan
CD Title: Television's Greatest Hits
Label: EDJ Music Co



Round 3

Who's Carl This Time? (Listen)
A meltdown we're glad we didn't see; tips for not so sexist golfers; Are we reliving the quiz show scandals of the 50's?

Carl Kassell's Countdown (Listen)
A new game in which Carl spins three tunes, all of which refer in some way to a story in the news: U2 sings for some folks who just keep searching; Conway Twitty sings for a man who knows too much about make believe; Live from the U.S. Congress, it's Fiddler On The Roof.

» Music Cue: "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"
Artist: U2
Composer: U2
CD Title: The Joshua Tree
Label: Island Records



» Music Cue: "It's Only Make Believe"
Artist: Conway Twitty
Composer: Twitty/Nance
CD Title: The Best of Conway Twitty
Label: Pegasus



» Music Cue: "Sunrise Sunset"
Artist: Unlisted
Composer: Jerry Bock
CD Title: Fiddler on the Roof, The Original Soundtrack
Label: United Artists



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

Panelist Predictions (Listen)
Where will Ari Fleischer show up next?

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