Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!

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Date: Thursday, May 2nd
(Select theater locations will present an additional showing on Tuesday, May 7th)

Time: 8:00pm ET/ 7:00pm CT and tape delayed to 7:00pm MT/ 8:00pm PT

Run Time: 120 minutes (approximately)

Ticketing: Tickets are available by clicking on the orange “Buy Tickets” button.  If online ticketing is not available for your location, you can purchase your tickets by visiting the box office at your local participating cinema.  A list of participating locations can be found on the Theater Locations tab. 

It’s Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me! like you’ve never seen it before! Because, well, normally you can’t see it…it’s a radio show.

A live staging of Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me! presented by NCM Fathom Events, NPR, WBEZ-Chicago, and BY Experience, will be beamed to select movie theaters across the country for the first time ever on Thursday, May 2nd, 2013. Host Peter Sagal and official judge and scorekeeper Carl Kasell will be joined by panelists Paula Poundstone, Mo Rocca and Tom Bodett to play the quiz in front of a live audience. PLUS multi-talented entertainer Steve Martin will be joining the cast to play the hugely popular segment “Not My Job!”

Carl reading limericks! Celebrity guests answering stupid questions! Faces made for radio! You’ve heard it in 1D, now see it live in glorious…2D.

Don’t miss Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! Live on the big screen on Thursday, May 2nd at 8:00pm ET/ 7:00pm CT and tape delayed to 7:00pm MT/ 8:00pm PT.

Select theater locations will present an additional showing on Tuesday, May 7th at 7:30PM (local time).

*Talent subject to change

About The Quiz

Now in its 15th season, the Peabody Award-winning Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! uses current stories (from the global to the ridiculous) for questions and comedy. Host Peter Sagal, along with official judge and scorekeeper Carl Kasell, leads a rotating panel of comedians, humorists and journalists, listener contestants and celebrity guests through a comic review of the week’s news. Contestants vie for the most coveted prize in all of public radio: a custom-recorded greeting by Kasell for their voicemail.

Each week, Sagal quizzes the panelists and listeners to determine just how closely they paid attention to the week's news. He serves up questions in all forms: lightning rounds, tape from NPR news shows, multiple choice, identify the “fake” stories, and fill-in-the-blank limericks. Listeners call 888-WAIT-WAIT for a chance to win the show’s coveted prize: a custom-recorded greeting by Carl Kasell for their home answering machine or voicemail.

One of the most popular segments is “Who's Carl This Time?,” in which Kasell recites quotes from the week’s newsmakers as contestants guess who he is impersonating. The show’s “Not My Job” segment, when famous people are quizzed on subjects about which they know absolutely nothing, has attracted such names as Tom Hanks, President Barack Obama (okay, he was a senator at the time), Martha Stewart, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and Alec Baldwin.

A rotating trio of witty panelists completes the Wait Wait team. They include author and humorist Roy Blount, Jr., advice columnist Amy Dickinson, Washington Post columnist Roxanne Roberts, writer and performer Adam Felber, author P.J. O’Rourke, comedian Paula Poundstone and humorist Mo Rocca.

Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! is a co-production of NPR and WBEZ. The program debuted nationally in 1998 and quickly established itself as a weekend favorite.

Visit the show’s Web site at waitwait.npr.org to take the weekly news quiz; download the weekly podcast or individual segments; and find a local station and broadcast time.

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