Waitwaitdonttellme Podcast: Wait, wait, wait. Don’t tell me that! It is an hour-long weekly radio news panel broadcast by WBEZ and National Public Radio (NPR) in Chicago, Illinois. On the show, panelists and contestants are asked in amusing ways about the week’s news. The show averages about 6 million listeners per week on-air and via podcast.
I’m not sure what I’m missing here. is a weekly quiz show on National Public Radio that lasts an hour. You may put your knowledge to the test each week on the radio if you’ve ever wondered what the best and brightest in the world of news and entertainment is up to. You can also participate via the internet. We need to give credit where credit is due in order to make something like this look as nice as it does.
Peter’s past work included work as a playwright, screenwriter, stage director, actor, extra in a Michael Jackson video, travel writer, essayist, ghostwriter, and staff writer for a motorcycle magazine.
He is the author of The Book of Vice: Naughty Things and How to Do Them, as well as The Incomplete Book of Running (Simon & Schuster, 2018). Opera News, AARP the Magazine, Saveur, Finesse, and Runner’s World, where he is the “Road Scholar” columnist, have all featured his writing. In Peter’s aquarium, which he shares with his wife Mara and their three daughters in the Chicago area, there are a few goldfish he hasn’t bothered to learn the names of.
Bill Kurtis was, for many, the embodiment of Chicago’s news. Bill gave CBS affiliate WBBM an aura of authority and honesty with Walter Jacobson as his co-anchor. He has gained a wide range of experience in the media sector as a result of his subsequent work in production and hosting, including shows such as Investigative Reports, American Justice, and Cold Case Files. If you hear Bill Kurtis say your name, you’ve either committed a horrific crime or you’re Will Ferrell. Bill is known at Tallgrass Beef Company, where he raises grass-fed cattle, for telling the animals a bedtime story every night.
Official judge and Scorekeeper of Wait Wait
Carl had a five-decade career in television and radio and was an all-around genius and pleasant guy. Carl accepted an unexpected comedy position after 30 years as a signature voice of NPR’s morning newscasts when he became the official judge and scorekeeper of Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! in January 1998. He was known as “Scorekeeper Emeritus” as of 2014, and he continued to leave personalized voice mail messages for the show’s winners.
By clicking on the link below, you can hear a few of them). Carl died in April of last year, at the age of 84, after a long fight with cancer. You may read about Peter’s admiration for him here and here. NPR’s Car Talk and Wait… is produced by Doug Berman, a Peabody Award-winning producer. For the past 30 years, he’s been on a one-man crusade to get NPR to loosen up. He worked as a news director for NPR affiliates WFCR in Amherst, Massachusetts, and WBUR in Boston before resigning his job to pursue this. Don’t tell me, don’t tell me! In the year 2000, Mike Danforth joined the show. During his time on the show, Mike has done everything from book guests to manage the limericist, negotiate venue contracts, host a podcast, and try to stop Peter Sagal from making fart jokes. Mike placed third in the 2018 Urban Prairie Waldorf School Pie Contest (Grown Ups Favorite).
She joined the show in 2015 after a lengthy and successful career as an artist who specialized in creating dog poo sculptures for museums and political collages for television. Jennifer, the only writer and editor of The Jennifer Mills News, which can be read without advertisements at jennifermillsnews.org, invented “Tady.” Mills has learned a lot while working at WWDTM, including Rick Rolling, cutting out a picture of Peter while he had pink eye, and utilizing Slack to connect with Peabody Award-winning Mike Danforth. Lillian stands about 5’10”.
Award-Winning Theatrical Sound Designer
After a long career as an award-winning theatrical sound designer and audio theatre producer, Robert Neuhaus discovered even more egos in Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! Since 1988, Robert has worked as a recording engineer for NPR’s Chicago Bureau, and he also moonlights as a storm and war builder for the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre.
Lorna White graduated from Illinois State University in 1984 and immediately began working for NPR in Washington, D.C. When she was hired as the engineer for NPR’s Chicago bureau in 1996, she returned to the Midwest. The wait has been on set since 1998 as the show’s technical director and keeper of the bleeps. Tom Hanks wrote a song about her, and she was the subject of it. Colin Miller does not write the butt jokes in Wait Wait; he merely ensures that they can be made. If the program were a touring band with millions of screaming fans around the country, he’d be the bassist. He would also work as a janitor, accountant, agent, and chef. He’s been dubbed a jack-of-all-trades, but the truth is that he’s never truly excelled in any one area. Colin was born into a family and has now started his own.
Gianna earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Western Michigan University before working as an intern in 2017. She’s packed over 1,000 gift bags, recorded over 1,000 reward voicemails, and even thrown in a joke or two (her personal favorite: “Arma-BILL-o”). She’s ready to take over the management of this home now that she’s returned to Chicago after a year in New York City making podcasts. Make yourself at home, but keep in mind that this is her home and there are rules to follow, so don’t break them.
Lillian “Tilly” King was hired as a full-time cast member in 2018 after a two-year apprenticeship at Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me! Lillian eats stew, updates Peter on which celebs are kissing, and slacks Jennifer Mills, the lone author, and editor of The Jennifer Mills News. Back in the day, she used to make borscht in Toronto, read Russian literature in Montreal, and jam on the guitar with her friends. Lillian stands 5’10” tall. Please see the following link for more information:
“Lil’ Peter” are ceramic Peter Sagal miniatures sculpted by Ian Chillag. He owns over 114 horses, ranging from “Scuba Peter” to “Sagasus,” a half-horse, half-Sagal hybrid. Ian’s miniatures will be available for purchase in the Wait Wait goods shop after the show. Don’t tell me, don’t tell me! In the year 2000, Mike Danforth joined the show. During his time on the show, Mike has done everything from book guests to manage the limericist, negotiate venue contracts, host a podcast, and try to stop Peter Sagal from making fart jokes. Mike placed third in the 2018 Urban Prairie Waldorf School Pie Contest (Grown Ups Favorite). It is transmitted by NPR in the United States, globally by NPR Worldwide, and on the Internet via podcast, and broadcast by member stations on weekends.
Wait, wait, wait. Don’t tell me that! It is normally filmed in front of a live audience in Chicago at the Chase Auditorium below the Chase Tower on Thursday nights. Until May 2005, the show was broadcast in one of Chicago Public Radio’s studios, with no audience and sometimes with one or two panelists calling from other places. The show most frequently travels to different cities in the United States and performs a road tour in front of a live audience for promotional and station-related purposes. In 2008, National Public Radio reached an agreement with CBS Entertainment to set up the Wait Wait Wait TV Pilot … Don’t tell me that! The pilot would be Peter Sagal and Carl Kasell, and the executive producer would be Doug Berman. The pilot had not been picked up for daily production.
