The show was recorded remotely.

The show was recorded remotely.

The show was recorded remotely.

During the Not My Job segment, Peter Sagal asked if Mo Rocca still knew the lyrics to the Che part of "Evita". Mo Rocca and Mandy Patinkin then started singing a portion of "Oh What a Circus".

Mandy was joined by his wife Kathryn Grody and she helped Mandy answer the Not My Job quiz questions.

After Josh Gondelman won the game, he said that it was an honor to play with such a competitive panel. Mo then said that that made him "really moisten" causing Helen Hong, Josh and Peter squick out.

The show was recorded remotely.

When Peter Sagal asked Bill Kurtis how Jessi Klein did in answering her Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank questions, Bill said that "she had 5 right for 5 more points". Each question is worth 2 points and thus Jessi would get 10 more points; which, Bill did correctly say for a total of 11 points.

Tom Papa notched his very first win on the show.

The show was recorded remotely.

The third Not My Job question actually involved Owen Wilson, the Not My Job guest himself.

The show was recorded remotely.

After Paula Poundstone answered her 8th Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank question and while Peter Sagal explained the story behind it, there was some cute cat meowing sounds being made.

Tom Bodett initially answered his 6th Lightning question with "Parler" then changed it to "TikTok". Peter accepted the corrected answer.

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This show is Peter Sagal's 1000th regular show appearance as host of the show!

Mo Rocca confused a John Mellencamp song as a Bruce Springsteen song during Who's Bill This Time?

Another instance of Mo using the family name "Bagnoli" in his Bluff the Listener story.

Dulcé Sloan answered her first Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank question with "The Orange Man" and Peter accepted the answer.

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Another instance where all three of the choices for the third Not My Job question were correct.

The show was recorded remotely.

Josh Gondelman didn't receive a ding for his answer for the 8th Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank question most likely due to the discussion on the details of the story behind the question.

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Mo Rocca really wanted "dueling pistols" to be the correct answer for the first Not My Job question and led Sam Sifton to choose it. Another instance where all three choices for the third Not My Job question were correct; which, means another instance where "C" was the correct choice for all three questions.

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Faith Salie was the guest host for the show, 2018-07-28, in which Jon Batiste was the Not My Job guest.

The Listener Limerick Challenge section was from the second night of shows recorded in Seattle, Washington, 2017-12-01, which had Lindy West on as the Not My Job guest.

The show was recorded remotely.

The show was recorded remotely.

This show marks Bill Kurtis's 300th regular show appearance as judge and scorekeeper and Faith Salie's 100th regular show appearance as a panelist.

The show was recorded remotely.

The show was recorded remotely.

The show was recorded remotely.

Symone initially chose "C" for her second Not My Job question, but Peter Sagal and Luke Burbank nudged her towards "A". She changed her answer to "A", which was correct.

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Another instance where all three of the correct Not My Job answers were "B".

The show was recorded remotely.

The show was recorded remotely.

This is the fourth Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! show that features an all women panel.

While reading the third choice for the third Not My Job question, Peter Sagal hit his lamp and repeated what he was saying. Joel McHale jabbed Peter about it.

The show was recorded remotely.

Another instance where all three choices for the third Not My Job question were correct.

The show was recorded remotely.

The show was recorded remotely.

T-Pain brought his own sound effects machine to add something extra special to the segment. Another instance in which all three choices for the third Not My Job question were correct.

The show was recorded remotely.

The first panel round segment was from the 2018-05-26 show, which Helen Hong was the guest host.

The Bluff the Listener segment was from the 2018-06-13 show, which was recorded at Tanglewood/Koussevitzky Music Shed.

Chioke I'Anson was the guest scorekeeper for the 2019-10-12 show with Regina King as the Not My Job guest.

The second and third panel round segments were from the 2019-06-29 and 2017-07-01 shows respectively and both were recorded at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! has two upcoming live shows, one at the Mann Center and at Tanglewood.

The show was recorded remotely.

While Gina Brillon was answering questions during Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank, Mo Rocca not-so-quietly muttered answers either a little too late or it wasn't the correct answer. Peter Sagal told Mo that if Mo was going to mutter an answer that it should be the correct one.

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Peter Sagal nudged Dr. Ellen Stofan to change her answer for the second Not My Job question. Another instance where all three of the choices for the third Not My Job question were correct.

The show was recorded remotely.

All three of the Bluff the Listener stories involved the British Open.

This is the first time the show has been taped in front of a live audience since 2020-03-07.

Peter Sagal nudged Larry Krasner away from "B" for the second Not My Job question and Larry changed his answer to "A", which was the correct answer.

Alonzo Bodden knew and provided the answer for the Mo Rocca's 8th Lightning round question. Neither Mo or Alonzo earned points for it.

The Panel Round that was featured was from the 2018-05-26 show and Helen Hong was the guest host.

Jane Kaczmarek asked the audience for help on the second Not My Job question and they mostly yelled "B". Jane chose "B" and it was the correct answer. For the third Not My Job question, the audience mostly yelled "C", which Jane chose and was correct.

Paula Poundstone started the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment with 3 points, tied with Josh Gondelman. When Peter Sagal asked how many questions Paula would need to answer correctly to win, Chioke said, "8 to tie, 9 to win". There are only 8 questions asked for each panelist in a regular Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment.

After Paula finished her questions, Peter asked Chioke if Paula did enough to win, Chioke said that Paula answered 5 correct for a total of 15 points. The only way that would be true is if Paula started the segment with 5 points, not 3 points. Paula's correct score should have been 13 (unlucky as it may be) and would have placed her in third behind Maz Jobrani with 14 points. Instead, Paula slotted in second place.

Since Chioke is the official judge and scorekeeper for the show, the points and rankings listed for Paula and Maz are based on the official records as stated by Chioke.

The show was recorded remotely.

The show was recorded remotely.

After the listener contestant chose Maeve Higgin's Bluff the Listener story, Peter Sagal stated that the listener was "the first person ever to choose one of Maeve's stories". Maeve's Bluff the Listener story was chosen 6 times over her previous 17 regular show appearances.

Maeve answered her fourth Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank question with "iPads. iPods. iPhones". Although Peter and Bill will only allow the first response as the answer, Peter allowed Maeve's eventual answer of iPhones and she got points for it.

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The correct choices for the three Not My Job questions were A, B and C. ABC is a competitor to NBC, the network in which Yamiche Alcindor worked at before joining PBS.

The show was recorded remotely.

The show was recorded remotely.

RZA initially chose "C" for the second Not My Job question but Peter Sagal nudged him away from that choice. RZA then chose "A" but Peter continued to nudge him towards the correct answer. RZA then chose "B", which was the correct answer. RZA also initially chose "C" for the third Not My Job question and Peter hinted that it wasn't the correct answer and RZA changed his answer to "B", which was correct.

Another instance where all three of the correct Not My Job questions were "B".

The show was recorded remotely.

In the edited version of the show, of the 7 Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank questions that were included for Adam Burke, he answered 4 of them correct for a total of 12 points. When Peter Sagal asked Bill Kurtis if Adam did enough to win, Bill stated that Adam answered 5 correct for 14 points. The score entered in for Adam reflects the scoring as stated by Bill.

The show was recorded remotely.

The Bluff the Listener contestant initially chose Alonzo Bodden's story but Peter Sagal nudged the listener to a different answer. The listener then switched to Karen Chee, who had the correct story.

Another instance where "C" was the correct answer for all three Not My Job questions.

The show was recorded remotely.

P.K. Subban initially chose "A" for his answer for the first Not My Job question, but Negin Farsad nudged him away from that answer and P.K. changed his answer to "C". For the second Not My Job question, P.K. initially chose "A" but changed his answer to "B" after some more nudging. Negin continued to nudge P.K. again and he switched his answer to "C". For the third Not My Job question, P.K. initially chose "B" but then Negin said "What if you minused B by one?". P.K. switched his answer to "A".

Peter Grosz answered his third Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank question with "methane" but Negin said that the correct answer was "greenhouse gasses". Methane is a potent greenhouse gas.

This is the first show taped in front of an audience in Chicago since the start of the pandemic.

The listener contestant answered the second Listener Limerick Challenge with "snakes on your plane". While Bill Kurtis accepted the answer, Peter Sagal didn't quite accept it. Brian Babylon then said "Snakes on a [bleep] plane!". With that, Peter credited the listener with the point.

Another instance where all three panelists started the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment in a three-way tie.

Of the 7 questions that Brian were included during the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment in the edited version of the show, Brian answered 5 of the questions correct (with 5 confirmations from Peter and 5 bell dings) for a total of 13 points. When Peter asked how well Brian did, Bill stated that Brian answered 4 correct for a total of 11 points. With the correct score, Brian would have tied for 1st with Negin rather than being tied for 2nd with Bobcat.

The score listed reflects the official score as stated by Bill Kurtis.

The show was recorded remotely.

All 3 of the choices for all 3 Not My Job questions were correct.

The show was recorded remotely.

For the first Not My Job question, Brook Lopez chose "A" while Robin Lopez chose "C". For the second Not My Job questions, Robin chose "A" while Brook chose "B". For the third Not My Job questions, Robin chose "B" while Brook chose "A". Brook answered all 3 correct while Robin answered 0 correct, allowing Brook to win the game.

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Audra McDonald initially chose "A" for the third Not My Job question but changed her answer to "C", which was the correct answer. Even though Audra only answered one question correct, Bill Kurtis announced that she was a winner.

The audience continued the tradition of chanting "Luuuuuuke" (or maybe even some booing) when Luke was introduced at the start of the show.

For the third Not My Job question, Bashir Salahuddin chose "B" while Sultan chose "C". The correct answer was "B".

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Another instance where all three of the correct Not My Job answers were "C".

During the second Panel Round, Faith Salie and Mo Rocca made hissing sounds and dropped hints for Tom Bodett.

The Bluff the Listener segment was unique for the Best Of show, thus the chosen and correct data has been entered. The topic for the segment is Christmas traditions of the rich and famous.

For the Not My Job segment with Lindsey Vonn, the guest host was Maz Jobrani.

The unaired Panel Question segment was from the show taped on 2021-12-09 at the Harris Theater.