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WWDTM: David Alan Grier

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.635.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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David Alan Grier joins Paula Poundstone, Mo Rocca, and Adam Burke to talk his new movie, announcing at the Oscars, and why you didn't see him in Forrest Gump.

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From NPR and W BEZ Chicago, this is wait wait don't tell me the NPR news quiz

0:26.4

I'm the illegitimate son of Bill Curtis Andy Richter and here is your host at the Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois, Peter Sago.

0:37.0

Thank you, Andy.

0:39.0

And thank you, everybody!

0:41.0

It's so great to be here with you.

0:43.0

We do have a great show for you lined up.

0:45.0

Later on, we're going to be talking to actor and comedian David Alan Greer.

0:49.0

But first, can I say what a thrill it is that filling in for Bill Curtis this week we have a true international grand master level sidekick

0:59.6

The one and only Andy Richter.

1:03.2

Thank you.

1:06.2

So it feels a lot like the smartest dumb kid.

1:10.4

So Andy, you of course spent many, many years as Conan O'Brien's co-host.

1:15.8

What do you think is the most important rule for being the guy next to the host?

1:21.2

Mm, well, let me demonstrate it.

1:23.2

Good one boss.

1:28.6

That's it.

1:31.0

That's pretty right. Yeah, yeah, that's the whole deal. I agree with you. See?

1:36.2

So everybody out there, get whatever moral backup you need and give us a call. The number is 1,000,

1:41.7

wait, wait, that's one eight eight nine two four eight

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