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2023-06-03
The two segments with Keegan-Michael Key as a panelist were from the shows that aired on 2010-03-27 and on 2010-07-24.
When Peter Sagal segued from Keegan-Michael Key being on the show as a panelist to Keegan-Michael Key being on the show as a Not My Job guest, Peter mentioned that 8 years had past. Keegan-Michael Key appearance as a Not My Job guest was on the show that aired on 2016-08-06 show, which would be 6 years. Keegan-Michael Key was a Not My Job guest on a Best Of show that aired on 2018-07-07.
The Not My Job segment was Regina King was from the show that aired on 2019-10-12 with Chioke I'Anson as the guest scorekeeper. The Not My Job segments with Keegan-Michael Key, Colin Hanks, Bobby McFerrin and Susan Orlean had Carl Kasell as the scorekeeper.
While introducing the Not My Job segment with Colin Hanks, Peter said that Tom Hanks was a Not My Job guest in 2005. Tom Hanks was the Not My Job guest on the show that aired on 2006-05-13. Peter then said that they had interviewed Colin Hanks 6 years later in 2011. It should be 5 years.
2023-05-27
- First: Mo Rocca 12 (4 / 4)
- Second: Hari Kondabolu 10 (2 / 4)
- Third: Maeve Higgins 2 (2 / 0)
The listener contestant for Listener Limerick Challenge is a professional limerick writer.
2023-05-20
- First: Luke Burbank 15 (3 / 6)
- Second Tied: Adam Burke 11 (3 / 4)
- Second Tied: Negin Farsad 11 (3 / 4)
Another instance where all three panelists are tied at the start of the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment
2023-05-13
- First Tied: Paula Poundstone 15 (3 / 6)
- First Tied: Adam Felber 15 (3 / 6)
- Third: Alonzo Bodden 10 (2 / 4)
Another instance in which all three choices for the third Not My Job question were correct.