Show Details: December 2007
2007-12-01
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Rank:
First:
Adam Felber
Total: 17
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 7
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Amy Dickinson
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
- James Lipton Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?; Panel Round #1; Bluff the Listener about old ways fading away; Not My Job about some questionable toys taken from a list compiled by Cracked.com; Panel Round #2; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: Now that Oprah Winfrey, Barbra Streisand and Fabio have all told us who they are supporting for President, who will be the next celebrity to endorse one of the 2008 presidential candidates?
During the first Who's Carl This Time? segment, Peter Sagal asked if anyone had followed the meeting between President Bush, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas. Adam Felber responded with "religiously", which led to an audience member booing Adam. This led to a great reaction from the panelists, with Adam retorting "What? ... Booed that early" and Amy Dickinson cracking up.
2007-12-08
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Rank:
First:
Kyrie O'Connor
Total: 16
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 7
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Rank:
Second:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Third:
Mo Rocca
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
- Dana Perino Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?; Panel Round #1; Bluff the Listener about the world's favorite marsupial — the kangaroo and one way it's making our lives better; Not My Job about the holiday staple "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer"; Panel Round #2: Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!: An Inconvenient News Quiz; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: which presidential candidate will next reveal a secret from kindergarten?
Dana Perino is the second White House Press Secretary from the George W. Bush Administration to appear on the show after Tony Snow.
2007-12-15
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Rank:
First:
Tom Bodett
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 9
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Third:
Amy Dickinson
Total: 8
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 2
- Frank Caliendo Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?; Panel Round #1; Bluff the Listener about unexpected medical warnings; Not My Job about eccentric British Lords, taken from an article in "Vanity Fair"; Panel Round #2; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what big changes will Major League Baseball make to clean itself up after the release of the Mitchell report on steroids?
During the Listener Limerick Challenge segment, one of the answers dealt with a computer program that interacts with people on Russian dating/romance sites. Upon hearing that, Amy twice cried out "No!" Paula had a lot of fun and ranted about the "love chat" bit. After Carl stated that the listener had correctly completed the three limericks, Paula exclaimed, "Brent was a genius!"
2007-12-22
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Rank:
First:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 17
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 7
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Rank:
Second:
Adam Felber
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Third:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
- Herbie Hancock Score: 0
Carl Kasell's Countdown; Panel Round #1; Bluff the Listener about getting into trouble in the workplace; Not My Job about the worst business decisions of 2007, from an article in "Fortune" magazine; Panel Round #2; Who's Carl This Time?; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be the New Year's resolution of one of this year's newsmakers?
2007-12-29
- Chris Paul Score: 3
- Anne Garrels Score: 1
- Valerie Plame Wilson Score: 0
- Michael Moore Score: 2
- Robert Lutz Score: 0
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring several Not My Job favorites