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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Columnist Jimmy Breslin
This Week's Panelists:
• Humorist and author of Peace Kills, P.J. O'Rourke
• Writer for The Washington Post Style section, Roxanne Roberts
• Author and humorist, Roy Blount, Jr.
Round 1
Who's Carl
(Listen)
Comedy gold at the Democratic National Convention; name recognition problems for a rising political star; a lady unafraid to speak her mind.
Opening Panel Round
(Listen)
Definitely not the best gift a man can get before going through security; how the afterlife can effect national prosperity; what not to do when visiting Yellowstone National Park.
» Music Cue: "Mean to Me"
Artist: Debbie Reynolds
Composer: Turk/Alhert
CD Title: The Best of Debbie Reynolds
Label: Curb Records
Round 2
Bluff the Listener
(Listen)
"Hey! That's Not Funny!" Three stories of jokes that some people didn't find amusing.
» Music Cue: "I Started a Joke"
Artist: The Bee Gees
Composer: Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb
CD Title: The Best of the Bee Gees
Label: PolyGram Records
(See the real story.)
Not My Job!
(Listen)
Pulitzer Prize winner and veteran Newsday columnist Jimmy Breslin plays our game called, "You're the world's most gifted, chess playing paranoid lunatic"... three questions about Bobby Fischer.
Panel Round Two
(Listen)
The Payday Candy Bar Criminal.
Round 3
» Music Cue: "Dragnet"
Artist: Ray Anthony
Composer: Ray Anthony
CD Title: TV Land -- Crime Stoppers
Label: Rhino Records
Carl Kassell's Convention Countdown
(Listen)
The man who can still make the Dems boogie; one Democrat who
still feels wronged; the loneliest Democrat in Boston.
» Music Cue: "I'm Your Boogie Man"
Artist: KC and the Sunshine Band
Composer: Casey/Finch
CD Title: The Best of KC and the Sunshine Band
Label: Rhino Records
» Music Cue: "When Will I Be Loved"
Artist: Linda Ronstadt
Composer: Everly
CD Title: Greatest Hits
Label: Elektra Records
» Music Cue: "Don’t Come Around Here No More"
Artist: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Composer: Petty/Stewart
CD Title: Greatest Hits
Label: MCA Records
» Music Cue: "You Don't Bring Me Flowers"
Artist: Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand
Composer: Diamond/Bergman/Bergman
CD Title: The Essential Neil Diamond
Label: Columbia Records
Who's Carl This Time? (Listen)
The balloon glitch heard 'round the world; a popular Web site experiences MyDoom; the man who discovered the "secret of life."
Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank
(Listen)
All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.
Panelist Predictions
(Listen)
What controversial line will we discover was
edited out of a speech at last week's Democratic National
Convention?
 Take the quiz
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