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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Columnist Jimmy Breslin
This Week's Panelists:
• Washington Post Style section reporter Roxanne Roberts
• Chicago Sun-Times columnist, and co-host of Ebert and Roeper at the Movies, Richard Roeper
• Author and humorist, Roy Blount, Jr.
Round 1
Who's Carl
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Someone's attempt at humor; a really, really mad democrat; the New York critics give a big thumbs down to an opening by two famous young women.
Opening Panel Round
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New York City becomes a banana republic for a day; the mother-in-law who had a need for speed.
Round 2
Bluff the Listener
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"Umm..how do you say 'my bad' in Swahili?" Three stories about international diplomacy boo boos.
Not My Job
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New York Newsday columnist Jimmy Breslin returns to Wait Wait to report on the Republican National Convention
and play a game called, "They're offering 15 to 1 that you win
this game." Three questions about the strange betting habits of
Britons from a recent New York Times article.
(See the real story.)
Panel Round, Part 2
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Ariel Sharon's security team forgets one key thing.
Round 3
Panel Round, Part 3
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An offending condiment; The most-resented gift; Voices where one would really rather not hear anyone.
Who's Carl This Time?
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Vacations ruined; South Korea's incessant whine; The Bronx Bombers bomb real badly.
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 were the outtakes from Jenna and Barbara Bush's speech before the RNC?
 Take the quiz
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