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Wait Wait...Dont Tell Me! Famous People Who Returned Our Calls: Celebrity Highlights from the Oddly Informative News Quiz Audiobook, by Peter Sagal Play Audiobook Sample

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! Famous People Who Returned Our Calls: Celebrity Highlights from the Oddly Informative News Quiz Audiobook

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Read By: Peter Sagal, Carl Kasell Publisher: Highbridge Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 1.67 hours at 1.5x Speed 1.25 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: October 2009 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781598879032

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

14

Longest Chapter Length:

17:05 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

38 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

10:41 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

6

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Publisher Description

Celebrity guests are put on the spot in the popular “Not My Job” segment of the Peabody award-winning NPR radio show. Each week, two million listeners tune into Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me! to test their knowledge of the week’s dumbest news against some of the best and brightest—panelists including author and humorist Roy Blount Jr., author and radio anomaly Tom Bodett, syndicated advice columnist Amy Dickinson (“Ask Amy”), Atlantic Monthly journalist P.J. O’Rourke, Washington Post columnist Roxanne Roberts, and other know-it-alls. Always a high point of the show, “Not My Job” features a celebrity guest who must answer questions on a topic totally outside his or her area of expertise. Guests must also contend with not-so-helpful interjections from host Peter Sagal and the panelists, with hilarious results. Comedians Stephen Colbert (The Colbert Report) and Denis Leary (Rescue Me), actors Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek), Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother) and Carrie Fisher, musicians Mavis Staples and Moby, Southern cook and restaurateur Paula Deen, and high-wire artist Philippe Petit (Man on Wire) are just a few of the stars who find themselves under the heat of the Not My Job spotlight.

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"I love this radio program! This cd features some hilarious takes with the following guests- Barack Obama, Janeane Garofalo, Sarah Silverman, and more. There are also some not so hilarious segments with less funny guests that can easily be skipped."

— Betsy (4 out of 5 stars)

Awards

  • A 2010 Audie Award Finalist

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  • Overall Performance: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5 Narration Rating: 0 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 5 Story Rating: 0 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 50 out of 5

    " Pleasant to listen to, a bit more politically biased than I prefer in my entertainment. "

    — Beckiezra, 10/24/2013
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    " Perfect listen for a road trip with a group of friends. Extremely funny! "

    — Julie, 8/2/2013
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    " I love this show but rarely catch it so I was very pleased to find the audiobook version at the library. 2 CDs of hilarious antics and answers from then Senator Barack Obama, Janeane Garofalo, Brian Williams and Tom Hanks. "

    — Michelle, 6/30/2013

About the Authors

Peter Sagal is a playwright, screenwriter, actor, and radio host. He is best known as the host of the Peabody Award–winning game show Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!, which is produced by NPR. Heard by 2.5 million listeners per week, Wait Wait is one of the most popular shows on public radio. Sagal lives near Chicago with his wife and daughters.

NPR is a mission-driven, multimedia news organization and radio program producer of news, talk, music, and entertainment programs with a strong base of member stations and supporters nationwide. Since 1971, NPR and its journalists and programs have won hundreds of awards, including some of the most prestigious honors in journalism.

Carl Kasell is the official judge and scorekeeper of the NPR quiz show Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me! Carl has had a five-decade career in broadcasting; he is also an accomplished magician and UNC basketball fan. Carl lives in Washington, DC.