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(0)Peter Sagal
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Publication Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Somewhere, somebody is having more fun than you are.
Orso everyone believes. Peter Sagal, a mild-mannered, Harvard-educated radio host-the man who puts the second "l" in "vanilla"-decided to find out if it's true. From strip clubs to gambling halls to swingers clubs to porn sets and back to the strip clubs (but only because he left his glasses there), Sagal explores what the sinful folk do, how much they pay for the privilege, and how exactly they...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Publication Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The author, the host of NPR's "Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!" and columnist for "Runner's World," shares stories, advice, lessons, and warnings from his experiences.
Peter Sagal, the host of NPR's Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me! and a popular columnist for Runner's World, shares lessons, stories, advice, and warnings gleaned from running the equivalent of once around the earth. At the verge of turning forty, Peter Sagal--brainiac Harvard grad, short...
Author
Publication Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The first Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me! collection focused on the best of the Not My Job segment of the program. This second collection skims the cream off the entire archive of the show, with selections from Who's Carl This Time? Lightning Fill in the Blank, The Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job! and more. Panelists include author and humorist Roy Blount Jr., author and radio anomaly Tom Bodett, syndicated advice columnist Amy Dickinson (Ask...
Author
Publication Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Stories from the National Public Radio archives celebrate moms and motherhood. Stories so compelling you'll stay in your car to hear them through - even if you're sitting in your own driveway. Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me! host Peter Sagal captures your attention with colorful tales for and about moms. Heard on All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, News best of stories so that you are never more than a play away from a Driveway Moment.
Author
Publication Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Billy Collins, U. S. poet laureate from 2001 to 2003, plays a game called, I can feel it coming in the air tonight, in which he responds to questions about musician Phil Collins. Al Gore tries to match his former boss' mastery of the My Little Pony children's show in a game called Maybe you can beat Bill Clinton at this. Olympian Jackie Joyner-Kersee rhymes with cursy, so she is invited to play a game called May Thunder Blast Your Head! about curses...
Author
Publication Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Celebrity guests are put on the spot in the popular Not My Job segment of the Peabody award-winning NPR radio show. Each week, two million listeners tune into Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me! to test their knowledge of the week's dumbest news against some of the best and brightest panelists including author and humorist Roy Blount Jr., author and radio anomaly Tom Bodett, syndicated advice columnist Amy Dickinson (Ask Amy), Atlantic Monthly journalist...
Author
Publication Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Each week, more than three million listeners tune into Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me! to test their knowledge of the week's news. In the popular Not My Job segment, a celebrity guest must answer three questions on a topic totally outside his or her area of expertise. The topic seems random but is thoughtfully skewed. Because Henry Winkler played Fonzie on Happy Days, host Peter Sagal asks him about Ponzi schemes. For indie rock singer Neko Case, the...
Author
Publication Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Wait Wait. . . Don't Tell Me! is NPR's weekly hour-long quiz program. Each week on the radio listeners test their knowledge against a panel of the best and brightest in the news and entertainment world: Adam Felber; Roy Blount, Jr. ; Paula Poundstone; Mo Rocca; Roxanne Roberts; Charlie Pierce; and others. This two-disk set features highlights from the popular Not My Job segment of the show, during which celebrity guest contestants answer questions...
13) Denial
Author
Publication Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In a contest of intellect and wills, Abby Gersten, a tenacious civil liberties attorney, defends a right-wing Holocaust denier, arguing her case against a young, committed Jewish federal prosecutor. But Abby may have to sacrifice everything to prove that truth and justice do not always go hand in hand.
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Publication Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Looking for an alternative to the seriously reliable, soothing yet informative sound of NPR? Try NPR! Prepare to be surprised by this collection of interviews with some of the funniest personalities on the planet, and by the memorable, unbelievable news that delights NPR listeners on the 1st of April each year. Interviews include: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Groucho Marx, Ernie Kovacs, Stepin Fetchit, Sid Caesar, Lucille Ball, Carl...
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