Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Stats Page
Show Details: September 2018
2018-09-01
- First: Roxanne Roberts 16 (2 / 7)
- Second: Adam Felber 15 (3 / 6)
- Third: Paula Poundstone 13 (3 / 5)
2018-09-08
- First Tied: Helen Hong 13 (1 / 6)
- First Tied: Adam Burke 13 (3 / 5)
- Third: Maeve Higgins 9 (3 / 3)
Helen Hong's Bluff the Listener story involved people seeing public radio hosts in person for the first time, including those that came to see Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! and were shocked at how Peter Sagal and the panel looked versus what people's own mental image of them looked like. The listener contestant said that she had recently looked at a picture of Peter Sagal and was shocked. Peter asked her what she thought he looked like.
2018-09-15
- First: Paula Poundstone 14 (2 / 6)
- Second: Negin Farsad 13 (3 / 5)
- Third: P.J. O'Rourke 10 (2 / 4)
2018-09-22
- First: Faith Salie 15 (3 / 6)
- Second: Tara Clancy 11 (3 / 4)
- Third: Adam Burke 10 (2 / 4)
Aly Raisman asked the audience for help for the first Not My Job question after Peter Sagal listed the three options. The audience shouted out "B" and Aly chose it.
2018-09-29
- First: Jessi Klein 13 (3 / 5)
- Second Tied: Maz Jobrani 12 (2 / 5)
- Second Tied: Alonzo Bodden 12 (2 / 5)
- Jon Hamm 3
The listener contestant for the Who's Bill This Time? segment answered the third question which was about a company that recently changed the name. The answer that they were going for was "Weight Watchers" but the contestant answered "Dunkin' Donuts". Peter Sagal accepted the answer as Dunkin' Donuts also changed its name.
When Jessi Klein was trying to answer the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank questions, the audience yelled out some of the answers trying to help her.