Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Stats Page
Show Details: December 2017
2017-12-02
- First: Negin Farsad 17 (3 / 7)
- Second: Luke Burbank 10 (2 / 4)
- Third: Hari Kondabolu 4 (2 / 1)
There was much chanting of "Luuuuuuke!" by the audience at the Moore Theatre when Luke was introduced on the panel and some of the inter-segment transitions.
2017-12-09
- First: Faith Salie 13 (3 / 5)
- Second: Paula Poundstone 12 (2 / 5)
- Third: P.J. O'Rourke 10 (2 / 4)
All three questions about actors method acting were about actor Shia LaBeouf. The correct answers for the Not My Job were, in order: A, B and C.
After Faith Salie answered her Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank questions, Bill Kurtis said that she only answered five correct. According to the number of bell dings given for Faith Salie's Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank answers and Peter Sagal's responses after Faith gave her answers, Faith answered six questions correct. Faith should have had a total of 15 points instead of 13. The score listed reflects the official record as stated by Bill Kurtis.
2017-12-16
- First: Negin Farsad 17 (5 / 6)
- Second Tied: Mo Rocca 12 (2 / 5)
- Second Tied: Tom Bodett 12 (2 / 5)
- Katy Tur 3
Bill Kurtis was bleeped when giving the theme for the Bluff the Listener segment. While telling her Bluff story, Negin Farsad started to list off guillotine-related pun names for various recipes that could be prepared with a kitchen guillotine and then said, "This is so stupid"
2017-12-23
- First: Roxanne Roberts 16 (4 / 6)
- Second: Peter Grosz 15 (3 / 6)
- Third: Alonzo Bodden 12 (2 / 5)
2017-12-30
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- Mavis Staples 2
- Lars Ulrich 2
- Ina Garten 2
- Stephen Colbert 3 *
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! taped two shows while in San Francisco, California on August 10th and 11th. The Bluff the Listener and the Not My Job segments included on this Best Of show comes from the show that taped on August 11th.
Normally, the chosen bluff and the correct bluff from Bluff the Listener segments re-aired on Best Of shows do not get noted in the Stats Page database. In this case, the Bluff the Listener segment was not aired as part of a regular Wait Wait show, I have noted the chosen and correct bluff information for this show.
The first segment features Tom Hanks as guest host on the show that aired on 2017-01-14.
Mo Rocca tried to persuade Lars Ulrich to change his choice for the first Not My Job question. Lars asked the audience for help and many of them shouted out "B"; but, Lars stuck with "A", which was not correct. Mo said, "It's not that" after Peter Sagal read the second option for the second question. The audience was split on which answer they thought was correct. And, before Lars started to come up with an answer for the third question, the audience started outing out answers, many agreeing on "B".