WWDTM: Cynthia Nixon

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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4.6 • 35.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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This week, special guest Cynthia Nixon joins panelists Negin Farsad, KC Shornima, and Adam Burke

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0:00.0	This message comes from The Extraordinarians.
0:03.1	What does it take to be the best at something extremely specific?
0:07.0	Celebrated character actors Kristen Schall, Tony Hale, and Matt Oberg are on a mission to find out.
0:12.3	Subscribe to The Extraordinarians wherever you get your podcasts.
0:20.3	From NPR and WBECC Chicago, this is, wait, wait, don't tell me, the NPR News Quiz.
0:27.9	When you yell echo, I'm the voice that yells back.
0:36.6	Bill Curtis, and here is your host at the Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois.
0:42.9	Peter Segal.
0:44.3	Thank you, Bill.
0:45.7	Thank you, everybody.
0:47.7	Thank you all so much.
0:49.5	We are also excited because we have a great show lined up for you.
0:52.9	Later on, we're going to be talking to the legendary actor Cynthia Nixon, star of, among many other things, Sex in the City and
0:59.5	its sequels. And I am particularly excited because for years, people have been telling me that I
1:05.6	remind them of a character in the show, Mr. Big. And I've never myself watched the show.
1:11.4	I'm assuming that's a compliment.
1:28.2	He's a great guy. And that to this day, he's alive and well, right? So it's all good. And just like that, it's your turn. So give us a call. The number is 1-3-8-8-8-8-8-2-4. That's 1-88-9-24. Now let us welcome our first listener contestant.
1:29.3	Hi, you're on Wait Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.
1:28.2	Hi, this is Coup Daley. I'm calling from... Wait, Wait, Wait, That's 1 888-9248-924. Now, let us welcome our first listener contestant.
1:29.3	Hi, you're on Wait, Wait, Wait, Don't tell me.
1:30.7	Hi, this is Coup Daly.
1:42.5	I'm calling from Jersey City, New Jersey. Jersey, in New Jersey. How are you? I'm great. I'm great. I'm great. I'm great. I'm great. I'm great. I mean, you actually, all your worlds are coming together.
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