Show Details: August 2025
2025-08-02
Hey there, Salt Lake City. Your lake might be salty, but my voice is so sweetGuest: Alzo Slade
- First: Shane O'Neill Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Luke Burbank Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Shantira Jackson Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Alzo This Time?; Panel Questions; Bluff the Listener about the word "seborga" in the news; Not My Job about famous female criminals; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: now that they're bringing back the Presidential Fitness Test, what will be the next surprising thing from our own childhood to return?
When Peter Sagal asked Alzo Slade how well Luke Burbank did, Alzo didn't state how many questions Luke answered correctly and didn't state Luke's total score, only that Luke didn't answer enough to win.
2025-08-09
I'm an anchorman among anchor-boysBill Kurtis
- First: Brian Babylon Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second: Negin Farsad Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 8 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 3)
Who's Bill This Time?; Panel Questions; Bluff the Listener about a surprising reason why Adam Driver is in the news; Not My Job about the celebrity gossip magazine, "Us Weekly"; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: after that zoo in Denmark, how will zoos get our attention next?
Pedro Pascal asked the audience for help with the third Not My Job question and they yelled back "All". Pedro answered "all of them", which was correct. Thus, another instance where all three choices for the third Not My Job question were correct.
When Tom Papa asked Bill Kurtis how Negin Farsad did, Bill said "Four right, eight more points. Total of ten". In the edited version of the show, Negin answered three out of five questions correct and got a bell ding for each. With three questions edited out for content or time, Negin would have answered one of those questions correct.
2025-08-16
I'm the man who causes a heatwave just by introducing himselfBill Kurtis
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! clinging desperately on to the end of summer with some favorite guests and never-heard-before segments
Both the Bluff the Listener and the Not My Job segment with Dylan Thuras and Louise Story of Atlas Obscura were from a show that was taped at the Merrill Auditorium in Portland, Maine on 2025-06-27. The segments have never been aired until this Best Of show.
Chioke I'Anson was the guest scorekeeper for the show that aired on 2025-01-18 with Rose Matafeo as the Not My Job guest.
2025-08-23
I'm the man they call Bill-oe Vera because my voice can soothe any sunburnBill Kurtis
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! celebrating the end of summer with some of our best friends
Alzo Slade was the guest scorekeeper for the 2025-05-10 show with Nathan Lane as the Not My Job guest.
The 2025-02-08 show with Vanessa Bayer as the Not My Job guest was the first show with both a guest host, Tom Papa, and a guest scorekeeper, Chioke I'Anson.
Karen Chee was the guest host for the 2025-04-26 show with Brian Tyree Henry as the Not My Job guest.
2025-08-30
Spread my smooth, buttery voice on that baguetteBill Kurtis
- First: Tom Bodett Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Mo Rocca Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Third: Joyelle Nicole Johnson Total Score: 8 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 3)
Who's Bill This Time?; Panel Questions; Bluff the Listener about a big wedding engagement in the news; Not My Job about Tupperware; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what did the old man from the Cracker Barrel do with his week off?
Another instance in which all three choices for the third Not My Job question were correct.