WWDTM: James Marsden

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.6 • 35.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

James Marsden joins panelists Adam Felber, Karen Chee, and Faith Salie to talk Jury Duty, playing yourself, and what it's like to be the Baxter in a romcom.

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0:00.0	From NPR and WB Easy Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me The NPR News Quiz.
0:10.4	I'm the studly baker at the Stoodabaker.
0:14.2	No, Curtis.
0:22.2	And here's your host at the Stoodabaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois
0:26.9	Peter Segal.
0:27.9	Thank you, Bill.
0:29.9	Thank you, everybody.
0:31.9	Yeah, it is going to be a fun show.
0:34.6	Later on, we're going to be joined by actor James Marsden.
0:36.9	You may know him from 27 dresses or cyclops from the X-Men movies.
0:40.6	He recently played an obnoxious version of himself in the fake reality show, Jury Dooty.
0:48.7	And we were very happy to find out that we were going to be able to talk to the real James
0:53.6	Marsden.
0:54.6	But then we realized, what if the real guy is actually worse?
1:01.4	But we want to hear, as always, the best version of you, so give us a call to play our games.
1:05.6	The number is 1,888-888-824-8924.
1:09.2	Now let's welcome our first listener contestant.
1:11.6	Hi, you're on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.
1:13.6	Hi, my name is Lisa.
1:14.6	I'm so excited to see you here.
1:15.6	And I'm from Phoenix.
1:16.6	I'm very excited.
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