Show Details: September 2006
2006-09-02
- Anthony Williams Score: 2
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! including: psychic Adam Felber and "embarrassing" answers, Roxanne and Mo lengthy attempts to correctly answer their questions, Dick Cheney incident, P.J. aggrieved rants, Bluff the Listener about KISS, Not My Job with D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams about Turkmenistan, panelists working together and thinking alike
At the start of the final segment, Peter Sagal mentioned that the clips came from the "May 15th" show. There was no show that aired on 2006-05-15. Instead, the clips came from the 2006-05-13 show.
2006-09-09
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Rank:
First:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Amy Dickinson
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 5
- Alan Alda Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about new innovations in suburbia; Not My Job about the Stanford University marching band and their crazy and sometimes offensive on-field routines; Panel Round #2; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will Katie Couric use as her sign off on the CBS Evening News?
2006-09-16
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Rank:
First:
Tom Bodett
Total: 16
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 7
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Rank:
Second:
Kyrie O'Connor
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Third:
Mo Rocca
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
- Isaac Mizrahi Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about protests not going as planned; Not My Job about questions specifically chosen to confound a fashion designer; Panel Round #2; Carl Kasell's Countdown; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: how will political pundit Tucker Carlson rebound after his disastrous appearance on "Dancing with the Stars"?
Four words for Panel Round #2: Carl Kasell on helium
2006-09-23
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Rank:
First:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Third:
Paul Provenza
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
- Joy Behar Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about forgotten icons of the 1980s who reappeared in this week's news; Not My Job about the new book "Presidential Doodles"; Panel Round #2; Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: how will President Bush get back at Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez for calling him the devil?
During Panel Round #2, Peter and the panelists had fun with George Allen's initial insistence that he is not Jewish, even though he is
2006-09-30
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Rank:
First:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Tom Bodett
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
- Kevin Clash and Elmo Score: 2
"Wait Wait" Television; Opening Panel Round; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about three stories about Bill O'Reilly taken from an article in this month's "GQ"; Panel Round #2; Who's Carl This Time?; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: where will President Bill Clinton next lose his temper and why?
The listener for the Listener Limerick Challenge segment seemed either impatient or pressed for time and didn't want the guys to dilly dally too much and told the guys to move on to the next limerick twice.