WWDTM: The First Quarter Century, pt. III

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

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🗓️ 3 June 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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We continue our look back at 25 years of shows with Keegan Michael-Key, Regina King, and Susan Orlean

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0:00.0	From NPR and WBEC Chicago, this is, wait, wait, don't tell me.
0:09.2	The NPR news quiz.
0:11.0	Who needs a beach bod when you've got this bill bod?
0:17.0	I'm Bill Curtis and here's your host, Dutti, Studebaker, Theatre and the Fine Arts Building
0:21.8	in downtown Chicago, Illinois.
0:24.3	Peter Segal.
0:25.3	Thank you, Bill.
0:26.3	Thanks, everybody.
0:27.3	Thank you so much.
0:28.3	Thank you so much.
0:30.3	So this year is the 25th anniversary of our show.
0:34.2	A fact so unbelievable.
0:35.6	We need to take the occasional week off just to sit around and deal with it.
0:39.8	But it is true, and to prove it, here are some highlights from the first two and a half
0:44.8	decades of our show.
0:46.5	We've been around so long we've been able to see entire careers happen in front of our
0:50.8	eyes.
0:51.8	For example, back in 2010, we asked a performer from Chicago Second City to come by and
0:58.2	try his hand answering our questions.
1:01.0	It was Kegan Michael Kee.
1:03.2	Kegan, the last supper has been a favorite subject of artists for centuries, the most
1:07.0	famous version, of course, Leonardo da Vinci's.
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