Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me! is NPR's weekly hour-long quiz program. Each week on the radio you can test your knowledge against some of the best and brightest in the news and entertainment world while figuring out what's real news and what's made up.

Lose the lightning fill-in-the-blank round on Saturday? No worries! There's a second chance to hear Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me! every weekend -- Sundays at 2 p.m.

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'Wait Wait' for July 13, 2024: With Not My Job guests Sam Sanders and Zach Stafford

12:52pm July 13, 2024

This week, Wait Wait is live in Chicago with special guests Sam Sanders and Zach Stafford and panelists Tom Papa, Paula Poundstone, and Emmy Blotnick

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Who's Bill This Time?

An Election Day miracle; Fancy Nancy; Toast Yay!

Kellee Edwards speaks at NYU Skirball Center on April 29, 2019 in New York City.

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Not My Job: We Quiz The Host Of 'Mysterious Islands' On Staten Island

Predictions

Our panelists predict, after Nancy Pelosi's salon bust, what will be the next great sting?

Lightning Fill In The Blank

All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.

Limericks

Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks: Nice People Finish First, Not So Great Outdoors and One Man Flight Risk.

Panel Questions

Pipe down, stay alive; the most adorable scam and dude apocalypse.

Cecily Strong arrives at the premiere of Ghostbusters on July 9, 2016, in Hollywood, Calif.

Arts

Not My Job: We Quiz SNL's Cecily Strong On Saturday Morning Cartoons

Predictions

Our panelists predict, now that he's out of a job, what will Jerry Falwell Jr. do next?

Lightning Fill In The Blank

All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.

Limericks

Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks: Alpine A-lines, Get Shorty-Shorts and Zoom Lifts.

Panel Questions

Family Reunions, endstop endgames.

Bluff The Listener

Our panelists read three stories about troubles with Wikipedia, only one of which is true.