Show Details: March 2012
2012-03-03
NPR
DB ID: 736
Location
Chase Auditorium (Chicago, IL)
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
- First Tied: Luke Burbank 13 (3 / 5)
- First Tied: Roxanne Roberts 13 (3 / 5)
- Third: Alonzo Bodden 12 (2 / 5)
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about innovations in beauty, Not My Job about other people's brothers, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: with Fox developing a new sitcom about an NPR station, what will the pilot episode be about?
Notes
Alec Baldwin called Carl Kasell the "Marlon Brando of public radio".
2012-03-10
NPR
DB ID: 737
Location
Chase Auditorium (Chicago, IL)
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
- First: Brian Babylon 16 (4 / 6)
- Second: Tom Bodett 15 (3 / 6)
- Third: Amy Dickinson 10 (2 / 4)
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about ways to improve your commute, Not My Job about Dr. Seuss, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: where will we see the NFL-style bounty system next?
Notes
At the beginning of the show, Peter was lamenting about the show being ignored because it was on radio, Carl responded with "Peter, you slut!". Mostly done as reference to Rush Limbaugh's recent incidents of calling Sandra Fluke a "slut" and a "prostitute".
One of Brian Babylon's Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank questions was discussed during the Not My Job segment; to which, Brian Babylon answered the question correctly.
2012-03-17
NPR
DB ID: 738
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
- First: Faith Salie 18 (4 / 7)
- Second: Charlie Pierce 15 (3 / 6)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. 8 (2 / 3)
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about how St. Patrick's Day has recently helped mae the world a little bit better, Not My Job about music from really cold places, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next public resignation?
Notes
Note: The show's page on NPR.org has the Bluff the Listener segment listed as "Panel Round Two" (the first of two listed).
The gang had fun with the Who's Carl This Time? listener contestant's name when she introduced herself.
2012-03-24
NPR
DB ID: 739
Location
Chase Auditorium (Chicago, IL)
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
- First Tied: Jessi Klein 15 (3 / 6)
- First Tied: Tom Bodett 15 (3 / 6)
- Third: Mo Rocca 13 (3 / 5)
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about new ways to improve our bodies, Not My Job about Red Bull and its inventor Chaleo Yoovidhya, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next resurgent toy?
2012-03-31
NPR
DB ID: 740
Location
Chase Auditorium (Chicago, IL)
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
- First: Paula Poundstone 15 (3 / 6)
- Second Tied: Maz Jobrani 12 (2 / 5)
- Second Tied: Brian Babylon 12 (4 / 4)
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about a life ruined by Justin Bieber, Not My Job about Singapore, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will James Cameron find at the bottom of the ocean?
Notes
This show's panel consists of three comedians.
Brian Babylon was able to flex his impressions of President Obama several times during the show. There was a bleep in the transition song between the Listener Limerick Challenge and the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round (the song was Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue [Live]".
Paula finally has won a game outright for the first time since 2010-09-18. Between that time, Paula has tied for first four times: 2011-02-26, 2011-09-10, 2011-09-24 and 2011-10-08.