May 12, 2006
First Anniversary of Live Tapings of "Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me!"
Chicagoist is a huge fan of our own homegrown media industry. We like the original stuff that comes out of this city and telling our folks things like how we walk through Gotham City on our way to work and visit County General every time we have a boo-boo.
So, as always, it was a lot of fun to sit in on last night's taping of "Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me". Host Peter Sagal informed the crowd that exactly one year prior to yesterday, the show moved out of the studio and into the Bank One Chase Auditorium to be taped in front of a live audience. Joining Sagal was the regular scorekeeper and announcer Carl Kasell and panelists Roy Blount Jr., Paula Poundstone, and Adam Felber. About halfway through the show, "DaVinci Code" star Tom Hanks phoned in to to talk about Sony's relentless promotion of his new film, how he's a sore loser, and how little he knew about Marlon Brando's fat ass.
As usual, the show was a hoot and we enjoyed the segues from the weekly NSA scandal to Poundstone's Betty Ford clinic for drunk monkeys. And being the first birthday of the live show, cake was served afterward. While the cake went pretty quickly, listeners at home can catch the airing of the show tomorrow morning on 91.5 FM or listen to the show online from the show's website.
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Chris, Give it up. You gave essentially the same post six months ago. "Wait Wait Dont Tell Me" is STILL the same boring repetitive drivel that it has always been.
Are you some sort of shill? Or do you just have a hard time expanding your horizions?
I can't wait for next November and your inevitable post on "The first anniversary of my first post on 'Wait Wait Dont Tell Me.'"
I can't wait for next November and your inevitable post on "The first anniversary of my first post on 'Wait Wait Dont Tell Me.'"
Great idea. I've marked the date on the calendar.
Oh, and thanks for sticking around and reading since November. It really means a lot that someone takes the time to read and comment.
I loved it when Paula said it only took three weeks of fundraising for NPR to spring for the cake!
DTMADTM - You're an idiot. Enjoy listenting to Mancow, who's always original and insightful.
Chris - I think it's a bit misleading to say that Tom Hanks identified himself as a 'sore loser.' He discussed how he was very competitive when it comes to games because of his siblings. Not quite the same thing.
Wait Wait Fan - you're right on the "sore loser" bit. So, my apologies. He didn't say that himself, but rather talked about how one was either the winner (and the taunter) or the loser (and the taunted). I don't exactly remember the particular phrase used, so please forgive me.
Wait Wait Fan: Who/what the hell is "Mancow"?
This "Wait, Wait" show is typical of the white-bread banality that makes NPR so tiresome and anti-public.
It is great to see non-commercial radio stretch the boundaries of the mainstream by engaging with such figures of the avant garde as Tom Hanks, Paula Poundstone and Roy Blount, Jr.
Their monotonous musings are barely worth piping through the mall PA system at the Streets of Woodfield, let alone wasting airtime on a suposedly "public" radio station.
"Don't Tell Me": Suppose you're the director of the show in two weeks. Who do you line up to be the guests?
Chris, I would cancel the show. Saturday mornings in Chicago already has the best show in radio: WNUR's This is Hell with host Chuck Mertz
Chris, thanks for your continued suppport of the show. Just like you swoon for hometown media, we're suckers for that hometown bloggy love.
DTMADTM: Dude, it's cool. You don't like us. Fortunately, enough people do to keep my family in diapers and Fritos while I do this fun job. But not everybody's going to thrill to it, we know. Let there be space in our togetherness, you walk your path, we'll walk ours, etc.
Although come on down, sometime. It's really fun in person. Sometimes, we even swear.