Humor & Fun

Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney perform during All In WA: A Concert For COVID-19 Relief on June 24, 2020, in Washington.

'Wait Wait' for February 17, 2024: With Not My Job guest Sleater-Kinney

12:04pm February 17, 2024

Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein formed Sleater-Kinney in Olympia 30 years ago, and are still going strong. Their new album is Little Rope, but can they answer our questions about knitting?

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Lena Waithe attends the Black Girls Rock! 2018 Red Carpet at NJPAC on Aug. 26, 2018, in Newark, N.J.

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'Wait Wait' for February 10, 2024: With Not My Job guest Lena Waithe

10:15am February 10, 2024

In 2017, Lena Waithe became the first Black woman to win an Emmy for comedy writing. Since then, she's done it all, from acting to producing. She made The Chi, but what does she know about Guy Fieri?

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'Wait Wait' for February 3, 2024: Live from Milwaukee with Kristen Kish!

8:53am February 03, 2024

It was announced last year that Top Chef winner Kristen Kish would be replacing Padma Lakshmi as host. She may be Top Chef, but what she know about Jeff Bezos, the Top Jeff?

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen testifies before the House Financial Services Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on May 12, 2022, in Washington, D.C.

'Wait Wait' for January 27: With Not My Job guest Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen

11:46am January 27, 2024

Janet Yellen is the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, so naturally, we've asked her about things that are treasure-y, specifically, the items people bring onto the Antiques Roadshow.

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A U.S. scientist has stirred the pot with Britain by offering some controversial advice about tea.

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A U.S. scientist's tea recipe has Brits aghast. Salt? Warm milk? The horror!

12:12pm January 25, 2024

by Lauren Frayer

Some 250 years after Americans ruined a lot of British tea in Boston Harbor, a U.S. chemist's salty tip for the perfect cup has prompted an intervention from the U.S. Embassy in London.

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David Oyelowo accepts the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for Lee Daniels' The Butler during the 45th NAACP Image Awards presented by TV One at Pasadena Civic Auditorium.

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'Wait Wait' for January 20, 2024: With Not My Job guest David Oyelowo

9:38am January 20, 2024

David Oyelowo is a celebrated actor who's played everything from Old West lawmen to MLK. His newest movie is called Role Play, but what does he know about Roll Play, or games played by rolling balls?

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'Wait Wait' for January 13, 2024: With Not My Job guest Jason Isbell

10:16am January 17, 2024

Jason Isbell is a multiple Grammy award winner and one of the world's most celebrated singer-songwriters. Can he answer our questions about Big Ben, which is not clock, but is bell?

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Television host Rachel Maddow arrives for a lunch hosted in honor of British Prime Minister David Cameron at the State Department on March 14, 2012, in Washington, D.C.

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'Wait Wait' for January 6, 2024: New Year, New Interviews!

10:21am January 06, 2024

It's the new year, and we're bringing you new interviews with Rachel Maddow and Bob Woodruff, plus a never-before-heard Bluff the Listener game!

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'Wait Wait' for December 30, 2023: Happy Holidays from Wait Wait!

9:13am December 30, 2023

To celebrate the holidays, we hand out the greatest gift of all: interviews with Geena Davis, Weird Al, Karen Allen and fifth-generation lobsterman Jacob Knowles!

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NPR's Scott Detrow gives the verdict on Korea's green onion cereal, 3 years later

11:09am December 24, 2023

A follow-up to a very important story — okay, it's actually a very silly story — that Weekend Edition did on a special variety of Chex cereal released in South Korea.

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