Show Details: May 2008
2008-05-03
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about someone trying to close the barn door after the horse has bolted; Not My Job about nice things to ask the man who has scared us out of our wits for decades; Panel Round #2; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: how will Miley Cyrus rebuild her tattered image?
2008-05-10
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Amy Dickinson Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Mo Rocca Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
Carl Kasell's Countdown; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about new and unexpected vacation destinations; Not My Job about "Dracula" author Bram Stoker from the book "The Dead Travel Fast"; Panel Round #2; Who's Carl This Time?; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will happen at Jenna Bush's wedding?
2008-05-17
- First: P.J. O'Rourke Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Third: Amy Dickinson Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
Carl Kasell's Answering Machine; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about learning just how old or young somebody is; Not My Job about the lore and history of miniature golf; Panel Round #2; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will families do for a summer vacation now that gas prices are so high?
2008-05-24
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Tom Bodett Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about people in the news e-mailing us at "Wait Wait" and asking us not to make fun of them; Not My Job about the life and career of action star Steven Seagal; Panel Round #2; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be the big story coming out of John McCain's weekend barbecue with his VP candidates?
2008-05-31
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.