WWDTM: Weird Al Yankovic

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.6 • 35.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Weird Al joins panelists Josh Gondelman, Robby Hoffman, and Tom Bodett to talk about his new (mostly real) biopic, and what he would've done if Prince hadn't turned him down.

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0:00.0	From NPR and W.B.E.C. Chicago, this is, wait, wait, don't tell me, the NPR news quiz.
0:11.4	Ask not what your country can do for you.
0:14.8	Ask, what is that beautiful sound?
0:17.3	Oh, it's my voice.
0:21.0	Bill Purvis.
0:22.4	And here's your host at the Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois.
0:27.7	Peter Segal.
0:28.7	Thank you, Bill.
0:30.3	Thanks, everybody.
0:33.0	Thank you all so much.
0:35.0	We have a really great show for you today.
0:38.4	Later on, we're going to be joined by the iconic Weird Al Yankovic.
0:43.5	You know, that's right.
0:45.6	The man behind the classic song parodies like Edith or like Asturgeon or Smells like Nirvana
0:50.6	or White and Nerdy, which in what I consider to be an outrage does not name check NPR.
0:59.2	But first we want to hear about your incredible career.
1:01.8	So give us a call.
1:02.8	The number is one triple eight, wait, wait.
1:04.5	That's one, 88, 924, 8, 924.
1:06.8	Hi, you are on.
1:07.8	Wait, wait, don't tell me.
1:09.0	Hello, Peter.
	...

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