Show Details: August 2006
2006-08-05
- Barack Obama 2
- Tom Hanks 2
- Terry Gross 2
- Ken Jennings 3
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring several Not My Job favorites
2006-08-12
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 18 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Aamer Haleem Total Score: 7 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 3)
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about someone trying to profit from Mel Gibson's recent drunken tirade; Not My Job about writer/director M. Night Shyamalan; Panel Round #2; Panel Round #3; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: now that Raúl Castro has taken over from his brother Fidel in Cuba, what changes will he make?
Tradition of audience chanting "Luuuuuuke" begins, with Aamer explaining that the audience was not boo-ing Luke; Aamer comically crossed the line about large women carrying trays of food when discussing that a study showed that hungry men tended to favor more "curvaceous" women and Sue mentioned that hungry men should go after people carrying trays of food; Carl used the word "fart" in one of the Listener Limericks.
One of the panelist questions was about a Chorizo sausage mascot called "El Picante", who was let go after one game to be "re-seasoned" but could be interpreted as it having a "temporary work visa", Charlie jokingly said that it was really fast, but Luke made a slight about it being able to swim; which lead to the audience "boo-ing" Luke, but Luke commenting that all he could hear was "Luke".
2006-08-19
- First: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Second Tied: Tom Bodett Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Second Tied: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about good intentions gone awry in the business world; Not My Job about questions taken from an interview with the wife of former California congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham; Panel Round #2; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: based on the new definition, what will be the next object to be named a planet?
Continuation of audience chanting "Luuuuuuke", in which Paula retorts Luke's comment of "...explaining that's people saying my name, not boo-ing" with "It's good that you think that... he's got an indomitable spirit, doesn't he? Little fella."; Paula stumbles on a question regarding NPR by not knowing who "Stamberg" is; the panelists and a listener ended up turning the beginning of Who's Carl This Time? #2 into "Beauty Chat" with more chanting of "Luuuuuuke".
Paula answered a Lightning Fill In The Blank question about a certain computer manufacturer's "exploding" laptop, which was mentioned in Who's Carl This Time?, Round II by Tom Bodett, which Paula enthusiastically answered with "Dell!!!"; in the same round, Paula was asked about Chicagoan's last chance to eat a certain food before a ban takes effect with "Ahh, heroin!", in which hilarity ensued.
2006-08-26
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second Tied: Amy Dickinson Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Second Tied: Adam Felber Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about name recognition in the news; Not My Job about blue jeans; Panel Round #2; Panel Round #3; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be the new mnemonic device that kids will use to remember the order of the planets?
Continuation of audience chanting "Luuuuuuke" with Luke retorting that half the people would complete it with "I'm your father". Charlie Pierce's Bluff the Listener refers to the "Dingoes Ate My Baby".