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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

Dana Carvey

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.635.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week on "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me," we are back with a brand new show from the Studebaker Theatre in Chicago featuring panelists Josh Gondelman, Skyler Higley, and Paula Poundstone. Plus, we quiz comedy legend Dana Carvey on a subject he knows nothing about in our "Not My Job" game.

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0:00.0

From NPR and WDB easy Chicago, this is Weight Weight Hotel May the NPR news quiz.

0:11.5

Some say soccer, I say foot bill, bill curtains, and here is your host at the Studebaker

0:20.8

Theatre of the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois, Peter Saga. Thank you, Bill. Thank you,

0:28.7

everybody. Thank you so much. We have a great show for you today. Later on, we're going

0:34.2

to be talking to Dana Carvey, the Saturday Night Live legend who, as the church lady

0:39.7

and other characters gave us so many comic catchphrases, which, as it turns out, sound

0:46.8

a lot more menacing when Bill Curtis says them. Isn't that special? You want to hear

0:56.4

about your contributions to the culture? So give us a call. The number is 1-triple weight

1:01.0

weight. That's 1-888-9248-924. Let's welcome our first listener contest and how you

1:05.9

run weight weight, don't tell me. You're from Cadillac, Michigan. I've always wondered

1:13.4

does that have anything to do with the car? Or is it just, you know, something? Now it's

1:17.1

an after the explorer Cadillac who discovered Detroit and explored the area up here.

1:22.9

Well, okay, that's also very nice. What do you do there? I'd rather for UPS. You drive

1:27.3

for UPS. Yes. So, okay. During the pandemic, sometimes the only human contact I had outside

1:37.5

my wife was the UPS guy and I never even got to talk to them. I just saw them show up

1:42.8

and yet tears of gratitude would flow down my face. Was that your experience of people

1:48.9

just being absolutely thrilled to see you? We got a lot of waves through windows and stuff.

1:53.7

A lot of people kept their distance pretty well, but yeah, I mean people were generally

1:58.7

happy to see us. Yeah, it must be great because people have been

2:02.1

taking you for granted for so long and all of a sudden you represented the entire world.

2:08.5

I mean, the other is true. Yeah. Well, welcome to the show. Let me introduce you to our

2:16.5

panel this week. First up, he's a staff writer for the onion and a stand-up comedian whose

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