Show Details: January 2019
2019-01-05
Location
Chase Auditorium (Chicago, IL)
Host
Peter Sagal
Panelists
Guests
Description
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring favorite interviews and segments from 2018
Notes
The Bluff the Listener segment came from the 2018-12-07 live taping at Carnegie Hall in New York City, New York. Since that show did not air as a regular Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! show, I have noted the chosen and correct bluff information for this show.
2019-01-12
NPR
ID: 1095
Location
Chase Auditorium (Chicago, IL)
Host
Peter Sagal
Panelists
- First: Roxanne Roberts 18 (4 / 7)
- Second: Paula Poundstone 14 (2 / 6)
- Third: Luke Burbank 10 (2 / 4)
Guests
Description
Who's Chioke This Time?, Bluff the Listener about problems specific to Dubai, Not My Job about a Mike, a Dan and a Tony, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next relevation from the world of literature?
Notes
For the second Not My Job question, Mike D'antoni asked if he could choose "D", all of the above. Peter Sagal accepted that answer since all three of the options were in fact correct.
2019-01-19
NPR
ID: 1096
Location
Chase Auditorium (Chicago, IL)
Host
Peter Sagal
Panelists
- First: Helen Hong 19 (5 / 7)
- Second: Mo Rocca 13 (3 / 5)
- Third: Alonzo Bodden 11 (5 / 3)
Guests
Description
Who's Bill This Time?, Bluff the Listener about a surprising effort to clean up the planet, Not My Job about hot cocoa, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next self-help trend?
Notes
When asked how Conan O'Brien did on the show, Bill Kurtis said that he would throw the score out because anything Conan says is right.
Mo Rocca really pulled a Mo Rocca during the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round when trying to come up with an answer for the 5th question. Alonzo Bodden would also try to pull a Mo Rocca for his second Lightning question. Peter Sagal also accepted Alonzo's answer of "collusion" for his first Lightning question.
Only five of Alonzo's eight Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank questions were included in the edited version of the show and Bill stated that Alonzo had three points. One of the three points would have been in one of the three questions that was cut out.
2019-01-26
NPR
ID: 1097
Location
Chase Auditorium (Chicago, IL)
Host
Peter Sagal
Panelists
- First Tied: Adam Burke 12 (2 / 5)
- First Tied: Amy Dickinson 12 (2 / 5)
- Third: Bim Adewunmi 10 (4 / 3)
Guests
Description
Who's Bill This Time?, Bluff the Listener about a real American hero in the news, Not My Job about offending people, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be Rudy Giuliani's next job?
Notes
All three of the correct answers for the Not My Job segment where "C".