"Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!" Pamphlet Edits

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taoino f a nationally roadcast adio---h;D.f -ttrunni"rlFT;-T66@e6*

mounts more effective ffense hanthe Bears, nd unlike he Cubs,

somebody n our side lwaYs ins.EverY eek,we try to be unnY nd

irreverent bout he week's ews, ut f, . there's obody here o laugh t t,dida oke eally appen? oyou're ot usta member f he audience.. ' ou're he y

most mportant artof the show.fi-

Think fus on stage s he ra ined olphins , ndyourself sthe rainers.Youraughs, heers, tc. re ike he bitsof

herr ing , ndwe ' l lump and do l ips o get hem. here retwo and halfmi l l ion eople ho ' l l e is teninghis

weekend, nd hey're epending n you o keep s honest.

And stick round fterwardsor our egular and A,andto say hello: e're lways hrilled o findout what

you eally ook ike.

We're elighted ou're ere'

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Inaddition o theirglamorous oleswith NPR. he WaitWait...Don'tTellMe!gang ount mong heir anks

A$0tlll]t10515opu arauthors,ou nalists, ctors

magicians, ewscastersfnd venanextra n a Michael ackson ideo.

.."ooo( peleliagal was,prior o becoming ost offf i fuon ' tTel l Me!n1998,n wargn=

winningplaywright, screenwriter,journalist, theater irector, iterarymanager t a major egional heater, nactor, writerat a motorcycle aga ine/and an extra n a MichaelJackson ideo. eis he author of TheBookof Vice: aughtyThings nd How o DoThem, rom HarperCpllins.

CarlKasell s an all-around enius nd greatguy.Hehas also een a newscaster or NPR'sdailynewsmagazine orning dition' ince tsinception n 1979.Millions f Americansawaken o his newscasts n MorningEdition',heard t the op of the hour everyweekdayon public adio tations ationwide.veteran roadcaster, asellaunched is adiocareermore han 50years go.Hesometimesmoonlights sa magician.


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Roy Blount, Jr. s he author of 20 books, most ecently ong Time eaving:Dispatches romUpSoufh, nd ncluding eet n he Street: ambles roundNew

Orleans, obertE.Lee, f OnlyYouKnewHowMuch Smell You,RoyBlount's ook of^

--southernHumor nd BeSweet: Conditional ove torv. odestv side, lount as /oto

f.l''''don. more different hinqs han anv other humorist-rtoV6iili-fi6urnaiisi{ffifiTiilAV+

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Tom Bodett eft a promislng areer uilding ouses 5 years go o becomewriterand subsequently commentator n AllThings onsidered. long-time

Alaskan, odettnow ives n Vqgront where he weathels_SIgbUU-bgIICLAO-"3e{9 certain ays. he author f wYorkTimes,The

@and the BobEdwards houzon MRadio.His oice as

AmyDickinsonwrites he syndicated dvice olumn Ask my" or TheChicagoTri-

g bune, ollowingn the ootsteps f the egendary nn Landers.hehas alsowritten

+--.-ffiT-tme, Esquire) nd O magazines, hehas contributed adiostories o NPR ro-1off iyears]andWa5anorigina | ' 'castmember ' , for thepi |otofWait

Wait...Don'tTell e!in 1998; ltimately hewas offered ob as Roxanne oberts'radio tunt ouble.

Paula Poundstone onders Photo Credit: errySchulman)


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Adam Felberwrites nd performs or screens f allsizes nd esolution ,and _^- ^spends lmost very ighton some tage r another. e comprises xactly nel

halfof the rwinSmallsrio,a sketch omedy uo.Hiswriting redits nclude BS'sWishbone ndMTV's ewSpyGroove. is irst screenplay, Women AreFrom,"scurrently n development t Paramount/ TVFilms. elber asbeen mprovisingcomedy llover he world or he past 15years, ut he can quit any ime he wantsto.

KyrieO'Connor s deputy managing ditor/features t the Houston hronicle ndwriterof hedailyblogMeMoon heHousfon hroniclewebsite.efore etoming,,-1a Texan y choice n 2003, hewas assista t managing ditor/features tf;-e

-i+4,9HartfordCourantinConnecticut. erarticles nd book eviews ave ppiared n

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newspapers ationwide, nd n Cornmonweal agazine. he evotes er ime Lo o -tending n epileptic 20-lb. hocolate ab, upporting bad soy atte one s1ffidownloading ransgressiveingtones nto her celly. he s aesthetically ut notmorally pposed o the nside-out eese's eanut utter up.

P.J.O'Rourke s a correspondent or lhe Weekty tandard, tlantic onthtyandaMencken esearch ellow t he Cato nstitute. Hehas been a ournalist or 38

years nd has overed ews vents n more han 40 countries. r.O'Rourkes heauthorof 2books,including arliamentofWhores,AlltheTroubleintheWorld,EatheRich nd,most ecently, nTheWealthof ations. ewas Editor-in-Chieff the 'Notional ampoon rom 1978 o 1981 and a foreign orrespondentfor olling tonemagazinerom 1985 o 2001.

Charles P. Pierce s a staff writerat lhe BostonGlobeMagazlne nd a ContributingWriter o Esquire, nd he has been a panelist n WWDTM ince he show's aunch n1998.He began is professional areer s a forest anger n he employ f theCommonwealth f Massachusetts, here he earned ow o retrieve isposablediapers rorn rees o he raccoons ouldn't hoke o death on them. He s he ^^,author of four book. Hisnext one, QIOT l@: HOWSTUPIDITYECAM - W)VIRTUEINTHELANDOFT , will bepublished n June f 2009 y BroadwayBooks. n t, surprisingly,e does not explain hy people hrowdisposable iapersinto rees n he irst place. ome uestions rebeyond uman understanding.

Paula Poundstone, amous or her spontaneous it and off-kilter umor, er-forms egularly cross he country, ppearing n stage witha stool, ti915$g-.9*and a can of DietPepsi. She has earned wo Cable CE wards, n Emmyf-andheAmerican omedy ward or Best emale tand-Up. ll hat said, hespends he bulkof her ime with her children ge ,11 and 14, n Santa Monica, atifornia@n4she denies unky snacks, ries esperately o remember he oarts f speech nd - gexplains hat ife sn't lwaysair, ut hat ight now SThomas 's urn o use hepogo stick. hings ouldn't e better. hemaintains successful ebsite:paulapoundstone,com.


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Roxanne Roberts is co-author of The Washington Post's eliable ource olumn, thepaper's aily chronicle of Washington's -listers, owerbrokers nd assorted

scoundrels. he's worked as a ournalistfor 23 years overing White House statedinners, oxing smokers nd everything n between. She spends her ree ime (hal)attending o one teenage son and two Siamese ats.

Mo Rocca s a contributor to NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno. A former corre-spondent for The Daity Show with Jon Stewart and host of Bravo's Things Hate About

,t You, e appears requently on VH 's "l Love..l ' eries,MSNBC's ountdown with Keith-%r dhir main,Midirqniiffid a nd as a udge on ! o n Chef Ame ica. He's he host

of Animal Planet's Whoa! Sunday. Recently e wowed audiences n a small but

pivotal ole nTelemundo's it telenovela mor Descarado'Hisbook, IIThePresidents' efs blows the lid off the White House's deepest, darkest secret.

Paul Provenza has been on the cutting edge of comedy or the past decade.

,.- ]ffi confident)and always hallenging, aul's tand-up comedy has been{f"?ritr iiilacclaimed as bright, edgy and honest by ournalists rom coast o coast.

An accomplished omedian and cfassically rained actor, he has scored uccesses

Roxanne oberts nd Charlie ierce Photo redit: erry

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on television, he stage and virtuallyevery major comedy venue n North America.

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Doug Berman - Executive roducerDoug Berman s he Peabody ward-winning roducer f NPR's arTolk nd WaitWait... on'tTell e!For he ast 15years, e'sbeen on a one-man rusade o getNPR o lighten p. He was a news irector t NPRmember tations WFCRnAmherst, ass., ndWBURn Boston efore ivingup his egitimate areer or hisstuff.

Mike Danforth -Senior roducerM ke Da nforth oined WaitWa t...Don'tTellMe! n November f 2000, fter adistinguished enure t Prairie omeCompanion n his home state f Minnesota.His irst week was spent weeding hrough umerous anging had okes o findthe best nes.

He also utors he staff n Foley-like ocal ound ffects. nd doesnot ook ikeAndyDick. t all.

EmilyEcton - Assistant roducer

.i.,-.[can onlyassume, hen Emilywas standing n he WhiteHouse awn, ressed'' ^ in a 6-foothigh Arthur the PBS ardvark) ostume elping ynneCheney reside

over he Easter gg oll, he musthave aid o herself "Life an get no better hanthisl'Butshe was wrong!Soon fter, he eft he exciting orldof PBS gqliq

Relations nd moved erself, erstrangely quished-looking afland er dog,Binky, ut o Chicago o oin WaitWait, here he erves s he Official ealityTelevision xpert, Her irst book or young eaders, oots nd Pieces, ill bereleased yAladdin t the beginning f August.

Lorna White -Technical irectorLornaWhite iscovered ublic adio uringher college ears t llinois tateUniversity. fterannouncing lassical usic nd ecording ivemusic n between

classes, heset her sights n NPR n Washington, pparently pR's ersonnelDepartment as distracted nd hiredher n 1984. orna oonbegan erdisreputable areer f stalking arlKasell nd engineering etwork roqrams, g)inc luding orning d i t ion , t t h ings onsideredff i , 'shortly fter Carl inally iled he restraining rder, orna ransferred o NpR'sChicago ureau, ringing er NPR usband nd her NPR hild with her. hey ive nthe Chicago reawhere hey grow cats nd vegetables.

Robert Neuhaus -Technical irectorRobert onfesses o a decade-lonq nvolvement n

A-n---r : highlquality ecordings fdupe an unsuspect ing mericanto hinking t was hearing radi t ional pRprogramming. e's eally ery sorry. n hisdefense e would ike o pointout his

nrespectable workas an award-winning heatrical ound esigner nd audio he-

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--Don HallfAudience ervices/Eventsoordinator -5

Don s he Founding irector f Chicago'sringe roupof mad scientists tWNEPTheater here he has produced ver90 Chicago remiere lays nd events n thelast17years. Anactor, irector, laywright, logger,mproviserfandormerchicago Public chool thl8thgrade music eacher, e ucked nto his gig andcouldn't e happier f he won a 32-lb brick f delicious heese. dded o the plateshe spins orWWDTM,on s he Events oordinatoror Chicago ublicRadio ndproduces he Chicago ublicRadio

Anne Ca "= tbWait! inceSeptember f 2008, ftera summer pent pro-

ducing n ntern Edition roadcast orWBEZ nd 89.5Vocalo.org. he's graduateof the radioprogram t he Salt nstitute f Documentary tudiesn Portland,Maine.She lsohas an obsession ithdesignmagazines, nd knowsmore han s

O good or her about paintcolors nd kitchen ccessories. hewillorganize our- t1 . - l .1-_:11. . closetsl f given half a chance.

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