Show Details: 2007
2007-01-06
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring several favorite Not My Job guests from 2006
2007-01-13
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 6 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Second: Amy Dickinson Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Mo Rocca Total Score: 9 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about new ways to attract people to vacation spots, Not My Job about "The Lives They Lived", Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: how will cell phone companies will compete against the iPhone?
2007-01-20
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Third: Tom Bodett Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about new innovations for cars, Not My Job about Pia Zadora, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will change Barack Obama's image?
During the Not My Job segment, Roxanne Roberts mentioned that her son had been downloading and listening to various songs purportedly made by "Weird Al" Yankovic, but weren't. This caused "Weird Al" to say that one of them, about changing restroom signs, was not his. This led to a bit of embarrassment for Roxanne.
Roxanne had another bit of geekdom embarrassment when she confused Wookies as being in Star Trek. Peter had to correct Roxanne.
At the end of the Roxanne's Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round, Peter stated that he thought about not giving Roxanne the last point as he kind of wanted Paula Poundstone to tie with Roxanne. Peter's conscience kicked in and gave the win to Roxanne.
2007-01-27
- First Tied: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- First Tied: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about not-so-private private journals, Not My Job about colors, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: who will be the first Democrat to pull out from the 2008 presidential campaign?
Although Mo Rocca is a regular guest judge on "Iron Chef America", he did not appear as a panelist with Iron Chef Batali
2007-02-03
- First: Amy Dickinson Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second: Tom Bodett Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Third: Paul Provenza Total Score: 7 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 2)
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about stupid questions asked of football players at the Super Bowl, Bluff the Listener about disrespect in the news, Panelist Predictions: how will Joe Biden make up for his verbal slip?
In the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round, when Tom Bodett was asked what was the name of a California energy bill requiring people to use more efficient lighting, Tom responded with "We'll turn off the lights for you"; which is a play on Tom's Motel 6 advert tagline.
2007-02-10
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 9 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 3)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about following ridiculous rules, Not My Job about Roland Mesnier's memoir "All the President Pastries", Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what are some of the new innovations from NASA?
During the Not My Job segment, the producers aired a phone call received by Phil Bronstein's editors that referred to a newspaper headline about "pilotless drones" in which the caller went on a rant about "pilotless drones" are "drones".
2007-02-17
- First: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Mo Rocca Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about ways to save the Earth, Not My Job about out of the ordinary food, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the outcome of the "Scooter" Libby trial?
2007-02-24
- First: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: P.J. O'Rourke Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about costly newfound fame, Not My Job about the "Chinese Democracy" album by Guns and Roses, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: how will Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton's make up?
2007-03-03
- First: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Third: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
Must See Carl TV, Bluff the Listener about embarrassed politicians on film, Not My Job about Russian millionaires, Who's Carl This Time?, Panelist Predictions: what will be Al Gore's next success after his Oscar?
Paula mentions "IHOP"; Tony Snow gets "caught" with an inconsistency (running into a tree while at President Bush's ranch) and faux-stumped when asked if President Bush listens to the show
2007-03-10
- First: Amy Dickinson Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Adam Felber Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Tom Bodett Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 0 / Correct Answers: 6)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about practical jokes of the wealthy, Not My Job about Battle Mountain, Nevada (named the "Armpit of America", Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the opening sentence in Jenna Bush's new book?
For Amy Dickinson's last Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank question, discussing birth control for squirrels, Adam Felber gave the classic line, "Straight Talk About Nuts".
2007-03-17
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 5 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second Tied: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 0 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second Tied: Paul Provenza Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about daytime TV shows, Not My Job about Andy Sidaris, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what are some of President Bush's souvenir from his trip to Latin America?
2007-03-24
- First Tied: Luke Burbank Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 5)
- First Tied: Mo Rocca Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
Carl Kasell's Countdown, Not My Job about strange rock 'n' roll lifestyle, Bluff the Listener about little mistakes with significant impacts, Panelist Predictions: what memo will be found that will force Alberto Gonzales to resign?
Justice Stephen Breyer is the first Supreme Court Justice to appear on a game show.
Several members of audience chanted "Luuuuuuke" when Luke was introduced by Peter; Paula mentions "IHOP" again; hilarious interaction between the panelists, Peter and Justice Breyer including discussion about his robe.
Another hilarious bluff by Mo, in which the listener contestant is from the same city as referenced in Mo's bluff. When asked what two spiders did during Mo's Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round, Mo answered, in his unique manner, "knife fight!". The answer was "snuggling", to which Mo came back with "that's a lot of snuggling!"
2007-03-31
- First Tied: Adam Felber Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 7)
- First Tied: Angela Nissel Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Third: Tom Bodett Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about new real estate marketing techniques, Not My Job about Quentin Tarantino, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be Washington D.C.'s next tourism catch phrase?
The answer to Tom's last Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank question is the whole "Peepers The Duck" being dropped during a failed shoplifting gateway at a Linen 'N Things store. Hilarity ensued.
2007-04-07
- First: Tom Bodett Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Amy Dickinson Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: P.J. O'Rourke Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
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Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about second careers, Not My Job about Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what are the contents of gift bags given to British sailors by Iran?
2007-04-14
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Luke Burbank Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about art classics getting a modern update, Not My Job about carnival and sideshow lingo, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what will be Don Imus's next venture?
2007-04-21
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about big plans with big downfalls, Not My Job the inventor of sea monkeys (Harold von Braunhut), Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be some of the clues in Bill Clinton's New York Time crossword puzzle?
In response to the number of great-grand children and great-great-grand children that singer Don Ho had, Peter described them as "nappy bottomed Hos" as a pun on Don Imus's slur
2007-04-28
- First: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second Tied: Adam Felber Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second Tied: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 6)
Who's Carl This Time?, Not My Job about strange patents and inventions, Bluff the Listener about NASA scandals, Panelist Predictions: what will presidential letters from the future contain?
Paula dishes out some negativity in regards to Cleveland, Ohio. This was brought up in 2008-02-23 during the interview with Drew Carey. Sue Ellicott's last regular appearance?
2007-05-05
- First: Tom Bodett Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about the movie flop "Sahara", Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what happened to Queen Elizabeth while she was in the US?
The first caller is Jimmy Jellinek, the editor-in-chief of Maxim.
2007-05-12
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 9 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 3)
- Third: Paul Provenza Total Score: 8 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 3)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about odd pieces of history, Not My Job about Roger Clemens, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: how will French President Nicolas Sarkozy make France more like the US?
2007-05-19
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about media companies gunning for first place, Not My Job about people who aren't "People persons", Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what happened during Tony Blair's sleepover at the White House?
2007-05-26
- First: Mo Rocca Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Angela Nissel Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Third: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
Carl Kasell's Countdown, Bluff the Listener about news stories that sound like soap opera plots, Not My Job about Bunny Allen, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be Carl's next on-air flap?
Peter starts the show with Carl Kasell's on-air Freudian Slip by accidentally calling Monica Goodling, "Monica Lewinsky", then quickly correcting himself mid-word
2007-06-02
- First: Tom Bodett Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Amy Dickinson Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: P.J. O'Rourke Total Score: 8 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 3)
Who's Carl This Time?, Not My Job about celebrity treatment centers, Bluff the Listener about false alarms in the news, Panelist Predictions: what television actor will be next to enter into presidential politics?
2007-06-09
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 18 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Paul Provenza Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 5)
Carl Kasell's Countdown, Bluff the Listener about two things coming together to create something amazing, Not My Job about odd ideas for military technology, Who's Carl This Time?, Panelist Predictions: how will "Scooter" Libby get a sentence as short as Paris Hilton?
2007-06-16
- First: Mo Rocca Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Tom Bodett Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 7 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 2)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about odd keepsakes, Not My Job about questions that would stump Donny Osmond, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: how will Paris Hilton help humanity?
2007-06-23
- First: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second Tied: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second Tied: Luke Burbank Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about polite society, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be Michael Bloomberg's party name?
Several members of audience chanted "Luuuuuuke" when Luke was introduced by Peter
2007-06-30
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Amy Dickinson Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about consultants for consultants, Not My Job about interesting CIA contacts during the 50s and 60s, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the first flaw of the iPhone?
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! visits Portland, Oregon for the second time.
2007-07-07
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring several show favorite Not My Job guests from 2007
2007-07-14
- First: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Third: Paul Provenza Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about the Philadelphia Phillies, Bluff the Listener about gullible people, Panelist Predictions: which of the 18 benchmarks that the Iraqi government will achieve?
2007-07-21
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 19 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 8)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job not about "Scooter" Libby, Bluff the Listener about unusual summer camps, Panelist Predictions: what the next popular fantasy series after Harry Potter?
After Patrick Fitzgerald was not able to answer two or more Not My Job questions correctly, an "appeal" was filed and Patrick won the game even with only one correct answer.
2007-07-28
- First: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second: Mo Rocca Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Tom Bodett Total Score: 9 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 3)
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Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about toughness, Not My Job about "World Weekly News", And You Can Quote Me on That, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next contagious thing?
Limited audience chanting of "Luuuuuuke", in which Luke retorts that for each second of chanting would be one less second that Mo Rocca can make jokes. Tom Bodett finished his Bluff the Listener story with his famous "We'll leave the light on for you" tagline from his Motel 6 adverts.
2007-08-04
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Adam Felber Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Third: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about "The Golden Girls", Not My Job about Tom Snyder, Who's Carl This Time Round II, Panelist Predictions: which of presidential candidates will commit the next fashion faux pas?
Limited audience chanting of "Luuuuuuke"
2007-08-11
- First Tied: Tom Bodett Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- First Tied: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about public speeches gone awry, Not My Job about BALCO founder Victor Conte from "Game of Shadows", Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next tainted record to be set?
2007-08-18
- First: Mo Rocca Total Score: 18 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 8)
- Second: Tom Bodett Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Third: Amy Dickinson Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
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Who's Korva This Time?, Bluff the Listener about boosting prison inmate morale, Not My Job about fringe political candidates, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what is next for Karl Rove after he leaves the White House?
2007-08-25
- First: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Mo Rocca Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Third: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
Who's Korva This Time?, Bluff the Listener about designs with unintended features, Not My Job about opinions of new MRE field rations, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be President Bush's next comparison to the Iraq War?
Deputy White House Press Secretary Dana Perino was called in regards to Rove's opinion of Barney (President Bush's dog), Bob Saget gets bleeped
2007-09-01
- First: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Second Tied: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Second Tied: Angela Nissel Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Korva This Time?, Bluff the Listener about taking advantage of the five senses, Not My Job about "The Price Is Right", Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: how will Senator Larry Craig prove he is not gay?
Peter admitted on the 2007-09-22 show that Paula Poundstone actually had 5 correct answers during the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round, rather than the 4 that Peter/Korva gave her credit for. Paula's score for this show reflects the incorrect score since it cannot be retroactively changed.
2007-09-08
- First: Mo Rocca Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: P.J. O'Rourke Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Amy Dickinson Total Score: 7 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 3)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about airline flying experience, Not My Job about the Ford Edsel, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next scientific bombshell to drop?
2007-09-15
- First: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 18 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Mo Rocca Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
Carl Kasell's Countdown, Bluff the Listener about ways the government has tried to reach out to its citizens, Not My Job about food products that have failed, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: how will Britney Spears revive her career?
After Kyrie guessed "a cat" in her last Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round question, Mo made several meowing sounds in response.
2007-09-22
- First: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Paul Provenza Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about customer dis-service, Not My Job about the strangest science experiments, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next news story making a comeback from the 1990's?
Peter admitted that they had robbed Paula of 2 points in the 2007-09-01 show and will "right the wrong" on this show; Peter predicted at the beginning of the show that it will be a good day for Paula. Paula got enough questions correct in the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round without any "additional assistance".
2007-09-29
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Amy Dickinson Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Tom Bodett Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about putting limits on a good thing, Not My Job about movie producer Joel Silver, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad do next after his failed attempt as a stand-up comic?
2007-10-06
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second Tied: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second Tied: Mo Rocca Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 6)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about politicians attempt to get attention backfired, Not My Job about croquet, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: how will children strike back at President Bush for his veto of the children's health insurance plan expansion (SCHIP)?
2007-10-13
- First: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about business strategies that have backfired, Not My Job about a Disney-created Florida suburb called Celebration, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: which worker's union will go on strike?
2007-10-20
- First: Amy Dickinson Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Paul Provenza Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Tom Bodett Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
Carl Kasell's Countdown, Bluff the Listener about new strategies in preventing crime, Not My Job about mistakes in journalism, Who's Carl This Time?, Panelist Predictions: after the revelation of Barack Obama and Dick Cheney are related, who else will be discovered to be related?
Amy Dickinson said that she didn't think she had won before and Peter was doubtful of that. Amy had tied for first at least seven times and won outright at least twice in 2010: 2010-02-03 and 2010-03-10.
2007-10-27
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! where Peter Sagal, Carl Kasell, Roxanne Roberts, Tom Bodett, Paula Poundstone, Charlie Pierce and Kyrie O'Connor review their favorite moments from the past ten years
2007-11-03
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Third: Mo Rocca Total Score: 9 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 3)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about new services in the hotel industry, Not My Job about Los Angeles billboard sensation, Angelyne, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Prediction: what will Shirley MacLaine reveal about a presidential candidate?
The name of the Bluff the Listener round is "We'll Leave the Light on for You", which is the tagline used by panelist Tom Bodett's Motel 6 adverts, though Tom was not one of the panelists for this show.
2007-11-10
- First: Paul Provenza Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Tom Bodett Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about prison innovations, Not My Job about wrestling's Fabulous Moolah (Lillian Ellison), Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what lines of dialogue will be spoken during prime time while TV show writers are on strike?
Paul Provenza's had his first win on the show
2007-11-17
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second Tied: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Second Tied: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about trying to keep people out, Not My Job about vacationing in North Korea, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will Matt Damon first do as "People's" sexiest man alive?
Paula was a bit jealous about the court and lawyer crackdown in Pakistan, particularly that the lawyers were being hit with sticks. Roxanne asks Paula, "spend a lot of times around lawyers, huh?". This lead to a little laughter when the listener playing the Listener Limerick Challenge said that she was a lawyer.
Peter went a bit too far with conjugations of the Hebrew neologism "le condel", with Charlie threatening Peter if he did anymore conjugations.
When Paula had a hard time coming up with "Ho, ho, ho!", Peter and the other panelists gave her interesting hints about what mall Santas can no longer say in Australia. The entire bit got really funny when Paula went down the route of what Don Imus said to got him kicked off of the air.
The podcast version of the show Listener Limerick Challenge and Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank duplicated.wywy
2007-11-24
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Not My Job segments
This show is about the same as the 2006-08-05 show, with the exception of Brian Williams being the first Not My Job segment rather than Barack Obama.
2007-12-01
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second Tied: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second Tied: Amy Dickinson Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about fading traditions, Not My Job about questionable toys from a list compiled by Cracked.com, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: which celebrity next endorse a 2008 presidential candidate?
After Peter asked if anyone had followed the meeting between President Bush, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas, and Adam smartly replying "religiously", an audience member booed. This led to a great reaction from the panelists, with Adam retorting "What? ... Booed that early" and Amy cracking up.
2007-12-08
- First: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Mo Rocca Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about the kangaroo, Not My Job about Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: which 2008 presidential candidate will be next to reveal a secret from kindergarten?
Dana Perino is the second White House Press Secretary from the Bush Administration to appear on the show.
2007-12-15
- First: Tom Bodett Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 9 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Third: Amy Dickinson Total Score: 8 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 2)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about unexpected medical warnings, Not My Job about eccentric British Lords, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: how will Major League Baseball straighten itself out after the release of the Mitchell report on steroid use.
During the Listener Limerick Challenge round, 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
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Adam Felber Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
Carl Kasell's Countdown, Bluff the Listener about trouble-making in the workplace, Not My Job about worst business decisions made in 2007 published in Fortune magazine, Who's Carl This Time?, Panelist Predictions: what New Year's resolution will be made by one of the newsmakers in 2007?
2007-12-29
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring several Not My Job favorites