Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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NPR's weekly news quiz hosted by Peter Sagal. Have a laugh and test your knowledge with today's funniest comedians and a celebrity guest.Hate free content? Try a subscription to Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!+. Your subscription supports public radio and unlocks fun bonus episodes along with sponsor-free listening. Learn more at https://plus.npr.org/waitwait

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  • awise111
    Great podcast!
    Especially enjoy Paula Poundstone !!!
  • ToneDeafRabbitt
    More WWDTM. More Peter.
    I have listened to this show faithfully for over 15 years. I now listen to the new ones and go back and listen to old ones. I love that the podcast allows me to do this. I do not like the little add-on shows. Sorry, but I don’t find them clever, insightful or funny. The show, however, is all those things. Peter, I don’t want to pile on, but I would like to see two shows a week from you and the crew. I know you have it in you. This would be of value to listeners and I am sure your subs would skyrocket if you made the additional show an exclusive to members. Anyway, love the show. I miss Carl but love Bill too. Love the guests and the callers. I’m sure the production crew works very hard on every show. You all do such a great job. 👏🏼
  • Your Mom's my Dad
    Soon!
    He’s become a liaBILLity, it’s Bill Curtis!
  • Freeskatercd33
    This is amazing
    I have loved this podcast since I was a little kid (I am 12 now)
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  • KHASL
    Back in Baby’s Arms
    Look, we love this show for its reliability. It’s comforting in this chaotic world. Karen Chee was great! I love Maeve. And Bill Curtis! There couldn’t have been a better person to inherit the role.
  • thathirt
    Good stuff
    Always entertaining!
  • let my dad be on the show
    The best podcast please let my dad be on the show
    The best podcast please let my dad be on the show his number is 1 630 349 9097 please please please
  • TBDxTBD
    Why Butler and no Helen Joyce?
    “Wait, wait” pretends to be “fair and balanced” and make equal fun of both Right and Left. They never make fun of men wearing womanface or mansplaining women. They invited they/them Judith Butler on the show but are too misogynistic to invite an apologetically female PhD in Mathematics Helen Joyce.
  • bennett_Dinosaur
    Goodbye NPR
    It hasn’t been a secret with this show for a while that conservative thoughts are mocked at NPR. But it was tolerated for the sake of Peter’s wit and Maeve Higgins’ charm, not to mention the interesting stories. After the hire of their new CEO and everything surrounding Uri Berliner's exposé, I’m not sure I can stomach any of it. NPR does not trust its listeners to use their brains concerning the news. It is a propaganda machine that receives tax dollar funding. I think that should bother anyone, regardless of political leanings.
  • Adam123467
    Perfect
    Awsome I love it
  • these mortals
    Maeve
    Maeve is almost single handedly keeping this ship afloat at this point. (Dulce also a welcome presence). Otherwise the humor feels increasingly stale, and the politics and worldviews increasingly dated and shortsighted. Longtime and semi-loyal listener with much love for the show, but think it is in need of some growing pains.
  • 123454567ű9io0oHow’dIDoThat?
    More Maeve
    More Maeve please I want more Maeve Higgins
  • 😞😚🤩😙😞😞😒
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    i love u paula poundstone
  • @TheGirlPie
    Even better with Andy Richter!
    As an original fan since’98, I’m listening to Andy Richter fill in for Bill on 3/16/24 and, no offense, but I want Andy to stay! Peter is fabulous with Andy’s energy— not having to deal with the bloated arrogance of ‘Bill’s character’ makes for a lighter, fresher, more entertaining show. Thanks WWDTM, thanks Peter, thanks Andy!
  • A would-be pulse fan
    Love the show.
    Have listened for years and look forward to it every week…don’t think I’ve missed any. Have a great Paula story…on the other hand , Maeve’s no-nothing comedy just isn’t funny. :-(
  • I-just-want-my-movie
    Perfection
    32 years of listening Forever in love
  • Royce1629
    I laugh out loud every episode!
    Definitely one of my favorite game shows of all time! I have to verify some of the stories, because they sound almost too ridiculous to be true, but they are almost always depressingly real. The host and guests do a fantastic job of making the weekly news a little bit less scary, and a lot funnier!
  • Sleepyhead 123ejdvx
    Amazing❤️
    Da Best
  • Cake spink478
    WWDTM
    I Love Your Show 😛🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
  • 45732120978
    Exceptional!
    Love the show for car rides and bedtime. Love Maeve Higgins, Paula Poundstone, and Dulce Sloan especially.
  • guy about to delete this app
    Love the show
    Great guests. Great celebrity players. Dulce Sloan though makes this really hard to listen to. She’s just not funny or clever. Less of her please.
  • Hasil69
    Used to be great .. now Shameful
    Used to love this show..regular listenener.. Absolutely mortified at the disregard for Jimmy Carter NOT FUNNY. Not comedy at all. I gave it more time and was shocked at the classless “comedy” coming out. Fully dissatisfied and very let down. So trashy. What a sad day Major let down. Find some class.
  • Reasonable liberal
    Great Show
    Dulce can be a bit much. This week was especially so
  • Vali333
    Love love
    Love when Tom Papa fills in for Peter. He’s great!!
  • runtobewild
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  • drbjr2012
    Dulce Sloan is horrible
    Dulce Sloan’s opinions are idiotic and her voice and laughter make the episodes that she’s on unlistenable
  • Dragon#2012
    Awesome
    So great and funny! Love this show!!!Peter is the best!!!Also...STOP THE HATE COMMENTS!!!!!!!Stop hating on Dulce Sloan and Neguin Farsad!!!
  • Iatethelast mango inParis
    Jason Isbell extra ROCKS!
    I’ve loved WWDTM forever, but the Jason Isbell interview has to be my favorite. What a wonderful, self-depricatingly comedic human being.
  • Jba314
    Been resubscribed through Apple since October, 2023
    It’s now February, 2024. Insulted and annoyed by constant reminders in WWDTM feed to resubscribe. Would you please acknowledge my resubscription? We have been dealing with illness; I have tried to get this straightened out. The podcast brings us joy. We support it and NPR. Show becoming perfunctory and a little less clean than before, for my taste, anyway…mushrooms, Feb. 13th mistress day? And Negin…it’s all been said. Always disappointed when she’s on. Totally skip is she hosts. Cringeworthy, but don’t mean she’s unworthy. Would love more Peter, Roxanne, Mo Rocca, Paula, Faith, Maeve.
  • Pinky & The Brian
    NPR’s Crowning Jewel!!!!
    Super-dee-duper show! Bill Kurtis and Peter Sagal are so much more a humorous team than Karl Kasell and Peter ever were, and they still manage to take each day’s news to point out the incongruousness, interregnum, or irrationality. The guests add humor to the mix, and collectively, they are the most outstanding method to savor the day’s affairs. In my judgement, the Mo Rocca, Tom Papa, Maz Jobrani and Dulce Sloan episodes are the most impressive.
  • saljohar
    Listen every week
    Love this show! I do have to say, as a native Oregonian, that I think on the February 10 show in the Bluff the Listener game you meant “Hermiston,” not “Hermiton.” 🙂
  • The one who loves dolls
    I love this show!
    When I go to the car with my dad I always ask him to play Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me! It is such a funny show and not all shows make me laugh as hard as this one.🤪😜So I kindly thank Bill Curtis (idk if I spelled it right) And Peter Sycle (again,dont know if I spelled it right) For producing such a funny show. I like to guess answers abif I was one of the players. Again thank you for bringing fun into the world of podcasts. Also , I’m reading the reviews and many people are being hateful towards ningún farsad. So I kindly ask you to stop and ignore hate comments
  • checktest80
    Government
    propaganda
  • Andante'
    Wait wait
    Great show!!!!! Thank you. Excellent ! DDH
  • NPR in CR
    I love Dulce Sloan!
    In response to “Great Except . . .”: Dulce Sloan is such a great addition to the show.
  • Natronomatrix 3000
    Great, except…
    Please, no more Dolce Sloan! Just terrible whenever she speaks!
  • honolululistenet
    SOUND QUALITY
    Love the show …but the brassy sound tone and constant echo are unlistenable . Please fix the sound quality!!
  • JuniePrune
    Great show!
    I got hooked on this podcast years ago and never miss an episode.
  • Eringatang
    Perfection
    Peter iz funni
  • I so happy""..bb
    been there and done that for the next two years or three or five days I just wanted it out
    Jnjj
  • Epictea
    The claimed date published is incorrect
    The last episode was not available in app OR on wait wait’s own website until well after Dec 30. Please put the correct episode info
  • Martid1
    Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me
    I love your show! I look forward to each new episode. I would like to suggest you use Alonzo Slade as substitute host when Peter is away. Nicky Farsade is obnoxiously annoying and not funny at all. She reminds me of a hyperactive seven year old with an unpleasant voice. Otherwise thanks for being on the radio: a true breath of fresh air and something to make us laugh!
  • ecbpdx
    Chiming in on Chee…
    Please ask Karen Chee to tone down her delivery. She’s witty and a good host, but the grating squeals spoil the show. Add Neguin Farsad to that. Please, Guest Hosts, your listeners don’t want tinnitus.
  • Sir potato IV
    Amazing
    Actually really good and funny nice for car rides and stuff good overall especially with Paula poundstone
  • Dugmar
    Great show
    Peter is a pro. Bill is fantastic. Guests are great. Just skip the episodes that Negin Farsad hosts. Absolutely horrible, poorly timed attempts at humor.
  • pojklss
    Again?
    I’m sure Emma Choi is a delightful individual,but hosting is not her forte. As with her spin off show a little while back,her recent hosting of the regular show made it almost intolerable. Other than that the show as a whole still gets at least 4 stars from me
  • Pete Trg
    Diverting if snarky news roundup
    Paula’s a pro, Negin has to drop the radio voice, Luke should take over after Peter
  • Luczaza
    So witty!
    Improv humor is so funny, they are so clever and quick witted and intelligent, it cracks me up.
  • Fortnite_sweat43
    one of the best podcasts
    💯💯💯
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