Current:Home > My'Wait Wait' for Jan. 14, 2023: With Not My Job guest George Saunders -VitalEdge Finance Pro
'Wait Wait' for Jan. 14, 2023: With Not My Job guest George Saunders
View
Date:2025-04-16 11:34:20
This week's show was recorded at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago, with host Peter Sagal, official judge and scorekeeper Bill Kurtis, Not My Job guest George Saunders and panelists Paula Poundstone, Peter Grosz and Emmy Blotnick. Click the audio link above to hear the whole show.
Who's Bill This Time
The Long Island Liar; Biden Confidential; The Prince of Grievances
Panel Questions
A Board Game Gets A Lot Less Boring
Bluff The Listener
Our panelists read three stories about butt dials gone wrong, only one of which is true.
Not My Job: Author George Saunders answers three questions about court stories
George Saunders is one of the world's most celebrated authors, who just published a new collection of short stories. We ask him three questions about court stories — real-life lawsuits.
Panel Questions
A New Dating Nuisance; The Apex Predator with an A Plus Mind; The Express Yourself Lane
Limericks
Bill reads three news-related limericks: A Glamourous Shortage; Our Pantries Are Trying to Kill Us; Don't Leave Fido on Read
Lightning Fill In The Blank
All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.
Predictions
Our panelists predict, after finding those classified documents, what's the next thing they'll find in President Biden's garage.
veryGood! (86416)
Related
- Romantasy reigns on spicy BookTok: Recommendations from the internet’s favorite genre
- You Have to See Harry Shum Jr.'s Fashion Nod to Everything Everywhere at 2023 SAG Awards
- These Cast Reunions at the 2023 SAG Awards Will Have You in Your Feels
- China dismisses reported U.S. concern over spying cargo cranes as overly paranoid
- Messi injury update: Ankle 'better every day' but Inter Miami star yet to play Leagues Cup
- John Goodman tells us the dark secret behind all his lovable characters
- Ed Sheeran reveals his wife was diagnosed with a tumor while pregnant
- The final season of the hit BBC crime series 'Happy Valley' has come to the U.S.
- 'Stranger Things' prequel 'The First Shadow' is headed to Broadway
- Ozempic-like weight loss drug Wegovy coming to the U.K. market, and it will cost a fraction of what Americans pay
Ranking
- What to watch: O Jolie night
- Ukrainian troops describe vicious battle for Bakhmut as Russian forces accused of a brutal execution
- 'Rich White Men' reinforces the argument that inequality harms us all
- Central Park birder Christian Cooper on being 'a Black man in the natural world'
- A Mississippi company is sentenced for mislabeling cheap seafood as premium local fish
- Dwyane Wade Thanks Daughter Zaya For Making Him a Better Human at 2023 NAACP Image Awards
- Iran announces first arrests over mysterious poisonings of hundreds of schoolgirls
- Central Park birder Christian Cooper on being 'a Black man in the natural world'
Recommendation
Blake Lively’s Inner Circle Shares Rare Insight on Her Life as a Mom to 4 Kids
The Most Glamorous Couples at the SAG Awards Will Make Your Heart Melt
3 new books in translation blend liberation with darkness
SAG Awards 2023 Winners: See the Complete List
A steeplechase record at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Then a proposal. (He said yes.)
In a climate rife with hate, Elliot Page says 'the time felt right' to tell his story
Wanda Sykes stands in solidarity with Hollywood writers: 'We can't back down'
4 Americans missing after they were kidnapped in Mexican border city, FBI says