WWDTM: Chris Perfetti

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.6 • 35.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week, Abbott Elementary's Chris Perfetti joins panelists Joyelle Nicole Johnson, Alonzo Bodden, and Luke Burbank

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0:00.0	The House of Representatives has approved a White House request to claw back two years of previously approved funding for public media.
0:08.0	The recisions package now moves on to the Senate.
0:11.2	This move poses a serious threat to local stations and public media as we know it.
0:16.6	Please take a stand for public media today at goacpr.org.
0:22.6	Thank you.
0:28.0	From NPR and WBEC Chicago, this is, wait, wait, don't tell me, the NPR News Quiz.
0:36.0	I'm the voice that tells souls to go toward the light.
0:44.7	I'm Bill Curtis, and here is your host at the Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts
0:49.2	Building in Chicago, Illinois, and the Gine Farsad.
0:52.3	Oh.
0:54.5	Thank you, Bill.
0:56.0	And thank you, everyone.
0:57.2	I'm filling in for Peter Sagle
0:59.2	because he likes to take a full Father's Day week.
1:02.5	We have a great show for you today.
1:04.6	We're going to be joined by Chris Perfetti from Abbott Elementary.
1:08.6	He, it's right.
1:10.0	He plays the anxious, grammar-sensitive frisbee dork on the show, which means he'll fit
1:15.6	right in with us.
1:17.6	But first, it's your turn to dork out.
1:20.1	Give us a call to play our games.
1:21.4	The number is 1-8-88-wait-wait-wait.
	...

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