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Below is a list of shows that have recently aired shows.
2025-09-06
I'm the voice so big it won't fit in the overhead compartmentBill Kurtis
- First: Alonzo Bodden Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Amy Dickinson Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Shane O'Neill Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Bill This Time?; Panel Questions; Bluff the Listener about a Good Samaritan in the news; Not My Job about Twilight; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: after Putin's comments in Beijing, what will be the next big host mic moment?
2025-08-30
Spread my smooth, buttery voice on that baguetteBill Kurtis
- First: Tom Bodett Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Mo Rocca Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Third: Joyelle Nicole Johnson Total Score: 8 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 3)
Who's Bill This Time?; Panel Questions; Bluff the Listener about a big wedding engagement in the news; Not My Job about Tupperware; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what did the old man from the Cracker Barrel do with his week off?
Another instance in which all three choices for the third Not My Job question were correct.
2025-08-23
I'm the man they call Bill-oe Vera because my voice can soothe any sunburnBill Kurtis
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! celebrating the end of summer with some of our best friends
Alzo Slade was the guest scorekeeper for the 2025-05-10 show with Nathan Lane as the Not My Job guest.
The 2025-02-08 show with Vanessa Bayer as the Not My Job guest was the first show with both a guest host, Tom Papa, and a guest scorekeeper, Chioke I'Anson.
Karen Chee was the guest host for the 2025-04-26 show with Brian Tyree Henry as the Not My Job guest.
2025-08-16
I'm the man who causes a heatwave just by introducing himselfBill Kurtis
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! clinging desperately on to the end of summer with some favorite guests and never-heard-before segments
Both the Bluff the Listener and the Not My Job segment with Dylan Thuras and Louise Story of Atlas Obscura were from a show that was taped at the Merrill Auditorium in Portland, Maine on 2025-06-27. The segments have never been aired until this Best Of show.
Chioke I'Anson was the guest scorekeeper for the show that aired on 2025-01-18 with Rose Matafeo as the Not My Job guest.