WWDTM: Ego Nwodim

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Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.6 • 35.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week, special guest Ego Nwodim joins panelists Tom Papa, Dulceé Sloan, and Hari Kondabolu

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0:00.0	This message comes from CBC.
0:02.2	If you're finding it hard to tune in to the actual news, why not laugh about it instead?
0:07.2	Because News invites comedians to riff on the headlines through games and quiz questions.
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0:27.9	From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz.
0:32.5	I'm the original Big, Beautiful Bill. Bill Curtis, and here is your host at the Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts
0:43.5	Building in Chicago, Illinois.
0:45.8	Peter Sagle.
0:46.8	Thank you, Bill.
0:49.5	Thanks, everyone.
0:51.0	Great to see you again.
0:51.7	We got a great show for you today.
0:53.5	Later on, we're going to be
0:54.2	talking to Ego Wodem, the Saturday Night Live Star, who's also guest starring in the latest
0:59.9	episode of Pokerface on Peacock. That's the show that gives every star in Hollywood a chance to do
1:06.5	what they've always dreamed of, murder somebody. We won't ask that kind of commitment to the bit from you.
1:12.9	Just give us a call and play our games.
1:14.4	The number is 1-3-8-8-8-Wait-wait.
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1:18.4	Let's welcome our first listener-contestant this week.
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