Show Details: November 2024
2024-11-02
I'm not just eye candy, I'm also ear candyBill Kurtis
- First: Luke Burbank 14 (Start: 4 / Correct: 5)
- Second: Emmy Blotnick 12 (Start: 2 / Correct: 5)
- Third: Brian Babylon 10 (Start: 2 / Correct: 4)
Who's Bill This Time?; Panel Questions: What's Dame Helen Mirren Up To This Week?; Bluff the Listener about chaos on a work trip; Not My Job about hedgehogs; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: what other vices will be revealed about animals?
All three panelists' last name start with "B".
2024-11-09
- First: Faith Salie 14 (Start: 2 / Correct: 6)
- Second Tied: Negin Farsad 13 (Start: 3 / Correct: 5)
- Second Tied: Peter Grosz 13 (Start: 3 / Correct: 5)
- Tara Dower 3 *
Who's Joshua This Time?; Panel Questions; Bluff the Listener about updates from the paranormal world; Not My Job about folktales from Appalachia; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be the next giant thing we buy for our homes?
After Tara Dower answered two out of the three Not My Job questions correct, Peter Sagal asked Joshua Johnson how Tara did. Joshua said, "Well, normally she just got the two points, but every one of the toes that she sacrificed is actually worth a quarter point. So, we're just gonna give you a perfect score."
2024-11-16
Take a Michi-gander at this hunk of manBill Kurtis
- First: Roxanne Roberts 15 (Start: 3 / Correct: 6)
- Second: Josh Gondelman 13 (Start: 3 / Correct: 5)
- Third: Hari Kondabolu 8 (Start: 2 / Correct: 3)
Who's Bill This Time?; Panel Questions; Bluff the Listener about something new and unusual happening in Argentina; Not My Job about smaller bodies of water; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be the next surprising trend in holiday films?
2024-11-23
Making the best of a weather delay at O'Hare by filling in for Bill KurtisGuest: Tim Meadows
- First: Maz Jobrani 17 (Start: 3 / Correct: 7)
- Second: Tom Papa 15 (Start: 3 / Correct: 6)
- Third: Joyelle Nicole Johnson 14 (Start: 2 / Correct: 6)
Who's Tim This Time?; Panel Questions; Bluff the Listener about a VIP making strange demands; Not My Job about remote places; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: What will be the next innovation in sleep?
Bridget Everett and Jeff Hiller initially chose "C" for the first Not My Job question, but changed their answer after the audience shouted "B", which was the correct answer. For the second Not My Job question, Bridget chose "B" and Jeff chose "C" for their answers, and "C" was correct. For the third Not My Job question, Bridge chose "C" and Jeff chose "B", with "B" being the correct answer. When Peter Sagal asked Tim Meadows how they did, Tim said "Jeff got a three questions correct. It's a record."
Before the second Panel Questions segment, Peter called the usual Listener Limerick Challenge segment "Listener Timerick Challenge".
Before the listener contestant for Listener "Timerick" Challenge could answer the third limerick, the audience shouted out the answer "recline". Tim gave the listener contestant 800 points.
When Peter asked how Joyelle Nicole Johnson did answering the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank questions, Tim said that Joyelle had 12 points. Joyelle started with two points and answered six correct for a total of 14 points. Joyelle corrected Tim and Tim updated Joyelle's total score to 14.
2024-11-30
I'm the person everyone thinks of when they're asked what they're thankful forBill Kurtis
Best Of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! celebrating Thanksgiving with a cornucopia of incredible guests
Both the Bluff the Listener segment and the Not My Job segment with Mary Theisen-Lappen were from a show that was taped at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota on 2024-08-30. The segments have never been aired until this Best Of show.
Alzo Slade was the guest host for the show that aired on 2024-05-18 with Maya Hawke as the Not My Job guest.