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Live Long and Wait, Wait

Each week, “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” has a celebrity or newsmaker guest for its “Not My Job” segment. This week, for that segment, they made a logical choice. An extremely logical choice.

‘Wait, Wait’ headed for TV?

Peter Sagal and Tom Bodett have both blogged about the taping of this weekend’s Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me, which was supposed to be a triumphant reprise of a well-attended outdoor show from last year. Instead, it turned into a rain-soaked badge of honor for the faithful few who attended during a downpour. (Sagal even invoked my favorite bit of Shakespeare, the Agincourt speech from Shakespeare’s Henry V.)

I listened to the show this morning, and it is, in fact, a good one.

What neither man blogged about is the possibility that “Wait, Wait” may soon have a TV version.

Wait, wait, don’t profile them

“CBS News Sunday Morning” did a profile of that radio show I’m always yammering about:

Jesse on NPR

One of the regular parts of “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me!” is the “Bluff The Listener” game where each of the three celebrity panelists tells a story about an outlandish event from the week’s news — but only one of the stories actually happened, and the contestant must guess which one it is.

As host Peter Sagal recalled this week, 10 years ago — not long after the show had gone on the air — one story on the “Bluff The Listener” game was a real doozy — the outlandish tale that a professional wrestler was going to run for governor of Minnesota.

The reason Sagal told that story was to announce that the guest on this week’s “Not My Job” segment would be … the man who not only ran for but won that office. I’m not necessarily a big Jesse Ventura fan, but I have to say he was a fun guest. And this week’s panel — Roy Blount Jr., P.J. O’Rourke and Amy Dickinson — was in top form as well.

Sagal sounds off

Here’s a great interview with Peter Sagal, host of the Peabody Award-winning “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me!”

Will they get Carl Kasell’s voice on their answering machine?

“Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me,” about which I often gush in this space, has also impressed someone else:

The Peabody Award judges.

Host Peter Sagal is understandably proud.

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