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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

WWDTM: Lena Waithe

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.635.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week, A Thousand and One producer and Emmy winner Lena Waithe joins panelists Adam Burke, Negin Farsad, and Maz Jobrani to talk Blockbuster, Jennifer Aniston, and Guy Fieri.

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From NPR, W.B.C. Chicago, wait, wait, don't tell me, the NPR News Quiz.

0:27.7

Are you ready for some foot bill? I'm Del Curtis and here is your host at the Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts

0:39.3

Building in Chicago, Illinois, Peter Siegel.

0:43.2

Thank you, Bill.

0:44.4

Thanks, everybody.

0:47.8

Great to be good with you.

0:49.8

We really do have a great show for you today.

0:51.8

We want to get to it, but first I have to get something out of the way.

0:55.0

Later on, we are going to be talking to the Emmy-winning writer, actor, and producer Lena Waith.

1:00.0

And as you know, we usually come up with a game for our special guests based on some silly pun.

1:06.8

And I just want to let you all know right now that we are not going to be making her play a game called Waith, Waith Don't Tell it.

1:17.0

Because it is true some things are even beneath us.

1:23.0

But we want to find out what your standards are,

1:28.0

so give us a call.

1:29.0

The number is 1,000,000, 8, 8,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000-8, 888-9-24.

1:34.3

Hi, your own way-wait, don't tell me.

1:35.6

Hi, this is Ben.

1:36.4

I'm calling from Woburn, Massachusetts.

1:38.1

Woburn, I know Woburn.

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