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==Format==
{{further|List of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! episodes{{!}}List of ''Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!'' episodes}}{{Multiple image
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[[File:Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Live Taping.jpg|thumb|Taping of a 2010 episode at the Chase Auditorium, with panelists [[Adam Felber]], [[Roxanne Roberts]], and [[Keegan-Michael Key]]]]▼
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''Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!''
The show is hosted by playwright and actor [[Peter Sagal]]. When the program had its debut in January 1998, Dan Coffey of ''[[Ask Dr. Science]]'' was the original host, but a revamping of the show led to his replacement in May of that year. The show has also been guest-hosted by [[Tom Bodett]], [[Luke Burbank]], [[Adam Felber]], [[Peter Grosz]], [[Tom Papa]], [[Mike Pesca]], [[Richard Sher (producer)|Richard Sher]], [[Bill Radke]], [[Susan Stamberg]], [[Robert Siegel]], [[Brian Unger]], [[Drew Carey]], [[Tom Hanks]], [[Helen Hong]], [[Jessi Klein]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=35&prgDate=08-12-2006 |title=Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!- August 12, 2006|publisher=NPR |access-date=February 3, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/programs/waitwait/archrndwn/2005/aug/050827.waitwait.html |title=Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!- August 27, 2005 |publisher=NPR |access-date=February 3, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/programs/waitwait/archrndwn/2004/aug/040814.waitwait.html |title=Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!- August 14, 2004 |publisher=NPR |access-date=February 3, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Roti|first1=Jessi|title=Tom Hanks to guest host 'Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me' in Chicago|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chicagoinc/ct-tom-hanks-to-guest-host-on-npr-story.html |work=Chicago Tribune|date=December 14, 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/519656715/wait-wait-for-march-11-2017-with-not-my-job-guest-neal-brennan|title='Wait Wait' For March 11, 2017: With Not My Job Guest Neal Brennan|website=NPR.org}}</ref> [[Maz Jobrani]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 15, 2021 |url=https://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/996891102/wait-wait-for-may-15-2021-with-not-my-job-guest-elizabeth-warren |title='Wait Wait' For May 15, 2021, With Not My Job Guest Elizabeth Warren |website=NPR.org}}</ref> [[Negin Farsad]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2022/01/29/1076494413/wait-wait-for-jan-29-2022-with-not-my-job-guest-jeremy-o-harris|title='Wait Wait' for Jan. 29, 2022: With Not My Job guest Jeremy O. Harris|publisher=NPR}}</ref> Alzo Slade,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2023/02/15/1157244228/rosie-perez-on-her-first-meeting-with-spike-lee|title=Rosie Perez on her first meeting with Spike Lee and her favorite Rihanna song|publisher=NPR|date=February 18, 2023}}</ref> [[Josh Gondelman]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2023/03/01/1160422137/malala-yousafzai-won-the-nobel-peace-prize-while-in-chemistry|title=Malala Yousafzai on winning the Nobel Peace Prize while in chemistry class|publisher=NPR|date=March 4, 2023}}</ref> [[Karen Chee]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2023/03/17/1164375148/sam-waterston-on-being-the-most-recognizable-pretend-lawyer-in-new-york|title=Sam Waterston on being the most recognizable pretend lawyer in New York|publisher=NPR|date=March 18, 2023}}</ref> and [[Dulcé Sloan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2024/10/26/g-s1-30019/wait-wait-for-october-26-2024-with-not-my-job-guests-sue-bird-and-megan-rapinoe|title='Wait Wait' for October 26, 2024: With Not My Job guests Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe|publisher=NPR|date=October 26, 2024}}</ref>
▲''Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!'' was usually recorded in front of a live audience in Chicago at the Chase Auditorium beneath the [[Chase Tower (Chicago)|Chase Tower]] on Thursday nights.<ref>{{cite web|title=Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me Ticketing|url=https://www.wbez.org/events/wait-wait-dont-tell-me-tickets |publisher=[[WBEZ]] Chicago}}</ref> They also do tours around the country performing in front of a live audience. Due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], in the spring of 2020 they converted to recording remotely, largely from their homes, and had sound effects and a virtual audience added for broadcast.<ref>{{Cite web |title=For this NPR host, the show goes on ... even during a pandemic |author=Ethan Bauer |work=Deseret News |date=1 May 2020 |access-date=6 May 2022 |url= https://www.deseret.com/indepth/2020/4/30/21238543/people-of-the-pandemic-peter-sagal-npr-wait-wait-dont-tell-me-coronavirus}}</ref> Beginning in August 2021, they have held in-person recordings, when possible, with a live audience.<ref>{{Cite web |title='Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me' makes its return to live audiences in Philly |author=Peter Crimmins |work=WHYY |date=6 August 2021 |access-date=6 May 2022 |url= https://whyy.org/articles/wait-wait-dont-tell-me-makes-its-return-to-live-audiences-in-philly/}}</ref> Starting with the June 11, 2022 episode, the show returned to having a live audience every week in the [[Fine Arts Building (Chicago)|Studebaker Theater]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2022/05/17/1099627383/mandy-moore|title='Wait Wait' for May 21, 2022: With Not My Job guest Mandy Moore|publisher=NPR|date=May 21, 2022|time=0.47}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2022/06/07/1103508516/kenan-thompson|title='Wait Wait' for June 11, 2022: With Not My Job guest Kenan Thompson|publisher=NPR|date=June 11, 2022|time=1.00}}</ref>
The
''Wait Wait...'' listeners also participate by telephoning or sending emails to nominate themselves as contestants, or as of January 9, 2024, followers of the show's official Instagram account can click a link in the bio which will take them to a form to fill out and register to be a contestant.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/C15n7IMM0yf/|title=Instagram|website=www.instagram.com}}</ref> The producers select several listeners for each show and call them to appear on the program, playing various games featuring questions based on the week's news. Prior to October 21, 2017, the usual prize for winning any game was to have Kasell (named "Scorekeeper [[Emeritus]]" following his retirement) record a greeting on the contestant's home [[answering machine]] or [[voice mail]] system; after Kasell's death in 2018, the prize was changed to have a host or panelist of the contestant's choice record a greeting.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.avclub.com/article/carl-kasell-steps-down-wait-wait-dont-tell-me-201796 | title = Carl Kasell steps down from Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me | first = Erik | last = Adams | date = March 4, 2014 | access-date = July 11, 2017 | work = [[The A.V. Club]] }}</ref>
==Panelists==
In addition to the regular panelists listed below, the show also occasionally features one-off guest panelists.
[[File:WaitOctaviaMoRSigningADRB3PanelistsCrop.JPG|thumb|Regular ''Wait Wait...'' panelists (l–r) Roy Blount Jr., Amy Dickinson, and Mo Rocca sign autographs following a 2010 taping in [[New Orleans]].]]
[[File:WaitWaitPanel.jpg|thumb|Panelist Table]]
<big>'''Regular'''</big><ref>{{cite news |title=About The Panelists |url=https://www.npr.org/2010/12/07/110997511/about-the-panelists |date=July 21, 2009 |newspaper=[[NPR]] |access-date=January 22, 2020}}</ref>
<!-- Panelists who appear under "About the Panelists" on the main page of the "Wait Wait..." website, and made at least one appearance in 2018/2019. -->
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* [[Luke Burbank]]
* [[Adam Burke (comedian)|Adam Burke]]
* [[Eugene Cordero]]
* [[Amy Dickinson]]
* [[Negin Farsad]]
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* [[Helen Hong]]
* [[Maz Jobrani]]
* [[Joyelle Nicole Johnson]]
* [[Jessi Klein]]
* [[Hari Kondabolu]]
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* [[Tom Papa]]
* [[Paula Poundstone]]
* [[Greg Proops]]▼
* [[Roxanne Roberts]]
* [[Mo Rocca]]
* [[Faith Salie]]
* [[Dulcé Sloan]]
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<big>'''Past panelists'''</big><ref>{{cite web|last=Pham|first=Linh|title=NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!: Stats and Show Details |url=http://wwdt.me/panelists |access-date=January 30, 2014}}</ref> ▼
| caption2 = Taping of a 2010 episode at the Chase Auditorium, with panelists [[Adam Felber]], [[Roxanne Roberts]], and [[Keegan-Michael Key]]
| caption1 = Taping of a 2025 episode at [[Tanglewood]], with panelists [[Mo Rocca]], [[Joyelle Nicole Johnson]], and [[Tom Bodett]]
}}
▲<big>'''Past panelists'''</big><ref>{{cite web|last=Pham|first=Linh|title=NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!: Stats and Show Details |url=http://wwdt.me/panelists |access-date=January 30, 2014}}</ref>
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* [[Sue Ellicott]] <small>(1998–2007)</small>
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* [[Margo Kaufman]] <small>(1998–1999)</small>
* [[Angela Nissel]] <small>(2006–2007)</small>
* [[Patt Morrison]] <small>(2000–2001)</small>
* [[Kyrie O'Connor]] <small>(2004–2015)</small>
* [[P.J. O'Rourke]] <small> (2001-2020)</small>
* [[Charlie Pierce]] <small>(1998–2015)</small>
* [[Greg Proops]] <small>(2015-2017)</small>
* [[Paul Provenza]] <small>(2006–2010)</small>
* [[Richard Roeper]] <small>(2004–2006)</small>
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* [[Alison Stewart]] <small>(2008–2009)</small>
* [[Julia Sweeney]] <small>(2009–2010)</small>
* [[Keegan-Michael Key]]
* [[Reza Aslan]]
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==On-air segments==
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Though there are some deviations from time to time, episodes of ''Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!'' feature the following format:
===Opening tease===
As with other NPR programs, ''Wait Wait'' offers a one-minute top-of-hour billboard teasing the program that will follow the network's hourly newscast (which traditionally starts at
===Who's Bill This Time?===
The contestant is asked to identify the speaker or explain the context of three quotations from that week's major news stories as read by the announcer (usually Bill Kurtis). Each answer is followed by a humorous discussion of the story by the host and the panelists. Two correct answers constitute a win for the contestant. Prior to Kasell's retirement, the segment was known as "Who's Carl This Time?" and he read the quotations. Whenever Kurtis is absent, his first name is replaced by that of the person filling in for him in the game's name.
[[File:WaitWaitDontTellMeStage.jpg|thumb|Announcer podiums (left), celebrity guest chair (center) and panelist table (right)]]
===Panel questions===
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{{external media | width = 210px | float = right | audio1 = [https://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/2006/11/04/13109791/ Jimmy Wales plays "Not my job"], 10:19, [[NPR]], November 4, 2006<ref name="w8w8">{{cite web | title =Not My Job: Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales | work = Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! | publisher =[[NPR]] | date = November 4, 2006 | url =https://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/2006/11/04/13109791/ | access-date =January 13, 2017}}</ref> }}
{{For|a full list of "Not My Job" participants|List of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! guests}}
[[File:L-16-01-21-A-071 (24523631981).jpg|thumb|''Wait Wait...'' with [[Tom Perez]]]]
A celebrity guest calls in (or occasionally appears
===Listener Limerick Challenge===
Kurtis (or the announcer) reads three [[Limerick (poetry)|limericks]] connected to unusual news stories, leaving out the last word or phrase of each. The contestant wins the prize by correctly completing any two of them. The limericks are written by Philipp Goedicke.<ref>[https://www.npr.org/programs/waitwait/features/2001/011116.limerick.html Limerick Lesson by Philipp Goedicke] Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me.</ref>
=== Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank ===
In the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank, each panelist has to answer as many questions as they can in 60 seconds with each correct answer earning the panelist 2 points. At the end there is a question whose answer gets an expanded clarification by Peter or whoever is guest hosting; this question usually deals with an especially odd or obscure news story from the week.
==Television==
In 2008, National Public Radio reached an agreement with CBS Entertainment to create a television pilot of ''Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!''<ref>[http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/columnists/chi-tue-phil-rosenthal-0909sep09,0,2782717.column 'Wait' may soon get answer on TV vision], ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', September 9, 2008</ref> Peter Sagal and Carl Kasell would be in the pilot, and Doug Berman would be the executive producer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/radio/wait_wait_to_become_tv_show_93640.asp|title="Wait, Wait" To Become TV Show? - mediabistro.com}}</ref>
On November 16, 2011, [[BBC America]] announced that the show would make its television debut with a "2011 Year in Review" special airing on December 23, to be retransmitted by [[NPR]] stations on the 24th and 25th. The taping included two American panelists—''Wait Wait'' regulars [[Paula Poundstone]] and [[Alonzo Bodden]]—and British newcomer [[Nick Hancock]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/network-press-releases/bbc-america-and-npr-to-bring-wait-wait-dont-tell-me-to-tv-in-december/|title=BBC America And NPR To Bring ''Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me!'' To TV In December|date=November 16, 2011|access-date=August 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180804212626/https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/network-press-releases/bbc-america-and-npr-to-bring-wait-wait-dont-tell-me-to-tv-in-december/|archive-date=August 4, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> In December 2018, [[NBCUniversal]] announced it was developing a television version of ''Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me!''<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.thewrap.com/nprs-wait-wait-dont-tell-me-is-being-developed-for-tv-by-nbcus-wilshire-studios/ | title = NPR's 'Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me' Is Being Developed for TV By NBCU's Wilshire Studios | date=December 11, 2018 }}
==Live cinema==
On May 2, 2013, an episode was performed at the [[Skirball Center for the Performing Arts|NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts]] in New York City and was streamed live via satellite as a [[Fathom Events]] presentation to hundreds of cinema theaters throughout the United States and Canada.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.fathomevents.com/#!wait-wait-dont-tell-me-encore | title=Fathom Events - Wait Wait..Don't Tell Me! | access-date=May 3, 2013}}</ref> The show included host Peter Sagal, announcer Carl Kasell, and panelists Mo Rocca, Paula Poundstone, and Tom Bodett. Celebrity guest [[Steve Martin]] won in the ''Not My Job'' segment.<ref name=":0">{{cite news | url=https://www.npr.org/2011/07/16/110997820/see-the-show-live | title=See the Show | date=March 15, 2013 |newspaper=NPR |publisher=[[National Public Radio]] |access-date=May 3, 2013}}</ref>
==Awards==
[[File:Peter Sagal and the crew of Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me at the 67th Annual Peabody Awards.jpg|thumb|Peter Sagal (third from left) and the crew of ''Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me'' at the 67th Annual Peabody Awards]]
[[File:WaitWaitDontTellMeStaffandSupport.jpg|thumb|Production staff for ''Wait Wait...'' at Tanglewood]]
In April 2008, ''Wait Wait'' won a [[Peabody Award]].<ref>[http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/wait-wait...dont-tell-me 67th Annual Peabody Awards], May 2008.</ref> The program website was nominated for a [[Webby Award]] for Humor in 2008.<ref>{{cite web | title=Webby Nominees | url=http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?season=12 | publisher=Webby Awards | year=2008 | access-date=June 29, 2008}}</ref>
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==External links==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120810204334/http://www.bbcamerica.com/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/ ''Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!'']'s [[BBC America]] site
* [http://wwdt.me/ Show Details and Statistics]
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