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Show Details: August 2017
2017-08-05
- First: Faith Salie 14 (2 / 6)
- Second: Patton Oswalt 12 (2 / 5)
- Third: Adam Burke 11 (3 / 4)
The Bluff the Listener contestant initially chose Patton Oswalt's bluff story, but the audience reacted disapprovingly. After some nudging from Peter, the contestant changed her choice over to Adam Burke's story.
During the Not My Job segment, Faith Salie asked Jeffery Tambor what his favorite book was. Jeffery decided to start eating something instead of answering the question, causing Patton asking Jeffery if he was eating.
The Listener Limerick Challenge contestant is a distant relative to Abner Doubleday, who, in some circles, has been credited at one point (but refuted) with creating baseball.
2017-08-12
- First: Paula Poundstone 18 (2 / 8)
- Second: Roy Blount, Jr. 14 (2 / 6)
- Third: Alonzo Bodden 13 (3 / 5)
After Peter Sagal read the three options for the first Not My Job question, someone in the audience yelled out "C" and Jerry Rice chose to go with "C"; which, was the correct answer. The audience also helped out by yelling "A" for the second Not My Job question.
Peter asked the same Bill Murray going to see performances of a play adaptation of "Groundhog Day" on all three panelists during Lightning Fill-in-the-blank. When asked if Alonzo Bodden was ready to start his set of Lightning round questions, he asked if he could concede.
2017-08-19
I'm a man so pure and honest, they named that quality after me, I'm incorrupti-Bill
The guest scorekeeper for the Not My Job segment with Stephen Colbert was Glynn Washington and the segment came from the 2017-02-11 show. Information regarding the scoring exception can be found in the show notes for that show.
2017-08-26
- First Tied: Paula Poundstone 17 (3 / 7)
- First Tied: Luke Burbank 17 (3 / 7)
- Third: Faith Salie 11 (1 / 5)
This show is an encore presentation of the Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! show that aired on 2017-01-14.
Tom Hanks used the phrase similar to "hands on buzzer" a couple of times. Tom Hanks also called Bill Kurtis "Bill Kurtis with a K" a couple of times as well.
Paula Poundstone used the last name "Swamu" again in her Bluff the Listener story.