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(Huffington Post) Spiffy Put your pants on, Carl Kasell. "Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me" is headed for TV   (huffingtonpost.com) divider line 62
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Rain-Monkey [TotalFark]
2011-11-16 07:31:13 PM
For reals?

I love that show!!!

Oh, it's on the BBC. No wonder. They play stuff that is actually interesting.
 
MmmCrime [TotalFark]
2011-11-16 08:01:41 PM
I, for one, cannot wait
 
bigpeeler [TotalFark]
2011-11-16 08:04:26 PM
That's great but please...PLEASE...keep these two morons off TV.

i40.tinypic.com
 
Knara
2011-11-16 08:32:49 PM
I think this will ruin the charm of the show.

It's always super bizarre to see the people who actually own the disembodied voices you've been listening to for years.
 
FerneJohn
2011-11-16 08:35:24 PM
Awesome. I listen to it every week. My only complaint is that Paula Poundstone isn't on the panel nearly enough.

bigpeeler: That's great but please...PLEASE...keep these two morons off TV.

[i40.tinypic.com image 344x400]

I like them in small doses. Their laughing until they snort makes me queasy though.
 
Knobbs
2011-11-16 08:40:16 PM
I listen to a lot of public radio, and this show is farking AWFUL. Totally devoid of humor.
 
sage37
2011-11-16 08:44:34 PM
I saw Wait, Wait live a few months ago... Love the show, but I don't see how it would make for good TV.
 
FerneJohn
2011-11-16 08:44:40 PM
Knobbs: I listen to a lot of public radio, and this show is farking AWFUL. Totally devoid of humor.

Link (new window)
 
Really I'm Black
2011-11-16 08:48:12 PM
you know, i used to love that show, but lately i've been getting the feeling that segal has been mailing it it. plus his smug factor has been incredibly irritating.

i dunno, maybe its just me. i still really enjoy it tho.
 
Loucifer
2011-11-16 08:51:12 PM
Knobbs: I listen to a lot of public radio, and this show is farking AWFUL. Totally devoid of humor.

The show is very good. Therefore, you suck.
 
kyrg
2011-11-16 08:52:04 PM
I bet the 8 people who watch Al Gores channel would be glued to their futons is it was on there.
 
Three Crooked Squirrels [TotalFark]
2011-11-16 08:58:53 PM
I work about a 70 hour week. If I'm driving around on a weekend morning and this is on, I am in the car alone, going to do something mindless like buy some weed-killer at the Ace Hardware. It's one of the only times during the week I am alone and doing something mindless. You better believe I take the long way there and back. Letting my mind melt to this stuff is better than what I'd done all week, and its better than what I'm probably going to have to do later that afternoon.

But, I probably won't tune in on TV. Just seems to me it wasn't meant for that media.

Also, I really want Carl Kassell voice on my home answering machine, but I've never actually called in. Also, I've never submitted an answer to Will Shortz's weekly puzzle, even on the rare occasion that I figure it out. Those are the two things I'd love to be on NPR for, but I can't win if I don't play, I guess.

/Long, irrelevant and uninspired post is long, irrelevant and uninspired.
 
Bagelox-99
2011-11-16 09:05:15 PM
burndownblog.files.wordpress.com

I love the show, but these folks personify the old expression, "faces made for radio." Peter in particular looks like a mad scientist's lab assistant. ("Peter! Bring me the bucket of eyeballs!" "Yes maaahster.")
 
Bagelox-99
2011-11-16 09:09:37 PM
Er uh. Splainin is due y'all.

Peter (Igor) is in the center of pic.
Carl Kasell, or Kassel, or Karl Cassell, or howeverthefark he spells it is far left, looking like he's been in the radio game since the days of ratcheting teletype machines and ribbon mics as big as your head.
Roxanne Roberts is teh chyk, Adam Felber felbing away 2nd from r, and far r, PJ O'Rourke, full of himself and good whiskey.
 
cameroncrazy1984 [TotalFark]
2011-11-16 09:14:55 PM
Knobbs: I listen to a lot of public radio, and this show is farking AWFUL. Totally devoid of humor.

You've never listened to Wait Wait, I take it?
 
theorellior [TotalFark]
2011-11-16 09:15:55 PM
Hmmmm, lack of pants trifecta in play.
 
sinanju
2011-11-16 09:25:58 PM
There are a number of British shows that do similar funny news round-up panels. The panels are always smart and funny, and rarely pretty. It may not work for the American public at large, but it will do very well with BBCA's viewers.
 
jvl
2011-11-16 09:27:55 PM
bigpeeler: That's great but please...PLEASE...keep these two morons off TV.

They already did a Nova episode, a cartoon series, and cameoed in Pixar's "Cars."

And they're not morons. Trust me: if you know anything about Cars, some of their answers to seemingly impossible questions are sheer genius.
 
Bagelox-99
2011-11-16 09:32:04 PM
sinanju: The panels are always smart and funny, and rarely pretty.

I like to think we in the USA do them one better. Our smart and funny people are not only not pretty, they tend to inspire involuntary revulsion at sight. Anyone with a halfway tolerable personal appearance tends to get sucked right up in the media machine, where every last bit of insight and fresh take is washed out of their brains by trained professionals.
 
jaytkay
2011-11-16 09:43:59 PM
I was in the audience last week so I'm getting a kick out of these replies. (YAY Chainlink Chicago for getting the tickets!)

lh3.googleusercontent.com

/ Amy Dickinson is cute
// Tom Bodett, too


lh5.googleusercontent.com
 
EmmaLou
2011-11-16 09:48:57 PM
bigpeeler: That's great but please...PLEASE...keep these two morons off TV.

[i40.tinypic.com image 344x400]

Shut up, I like Click and Clack....now the Splendid Table makes me feel stabby.
 
Uzzah
2011-11-16 10:00:22 PM
Bagelox-99: [burndownblog.files.wordpress.com image 600x280]

I love the show, but these folks personify the old expression, "faces made for radio." Peter in particular

I was in a focus group that watched a test episode they did, and I made that exact comment in response to a question like "what did you think of the host?". Then I felt bad that he might be a producer and was watching from behind the two-way glass.

Then again, I was the only one in the group that had even heard of the radio show (much less being a big fan). One guy complained that "having scores that don't really matter is just ripping off 'Whose Line Is It Anyway'."
 
sinanju
2011-11-16 10:01:15 PM
jaytkay: I was in the audience last week so I'm getting a kick out of these replies. (YAY Chainlink Chicago for getting the tickets!)

[lh3.googleusercontent.com image 640x480]

/ Amy Dickinson is cute
// Tom Bodett, too


[lh5.googleusercontent.com image 640x480]

We saw it in Boston several years ago as my birthday present. We sat next to Sue Ellicott at dinner -- a rare pretty news quiz panelist.
 
cryinoutloud
2011-11-16 10:03:14 PM
Oooooh aaaaah.
 
cryinoutloud
2011-11-16 10:06:20 PM
jvl: bigpeeler: That's great but please...PLEASE...keep these two morons off TV.
They already did a Nova episode, a cartoon series, and cameoed in Pixar's "Cars."
And they're not morons. Trust me: if you know anything about Cars, some of their answers to seemingly impossible questions are sheer genius.

I used to listen to their show every week, and the hyena laughter never bothered me at all, although it seems to be a common complaint. And I learned a lot about cars.
 
Balchinian
2011-11-16 10:15:05 PM
It is flat, stilted, and full of people who, if they were checkout clerks at the grocery store, would make you choose another lane.

It is perfect...for British television.

/Have a comma.
//Take 2, they're small.
 
Mayhem of the Black Underclass
2011-11-16 10:23:19 PM
Knobbs: I listen to a lot of public radio, and this show is farking AWFUL. Totally devoid of humor.

It's fark for the smug intelligentsia.
 
cameroncrazy1984 [TotalFark]
2011-11-16 10:23:28 PM
Balchinian: It is flat, stilted, and full of people who, if they were checkout clerks at the grocery store, would make you choose another lane.

It is perfect...for British television.

/Have a comma.
//Take 2, they're small.

Stilted? Flat? You've never heard Bill Clinton being asked questions about My Little Pony, then. Oh my God. So funny.
 
Bermuda59
2011-11-16 10:28:29 PM
I went to see it live and the some of the best stuff never makes it on the show.
 
Rain-Monkey [TotalFark]
2011-11-16 10:32:22 PM
cameroncrazy1984: Stilted? Flat? You've never heard Bill Clinton being asked questions about My Little Pony, then. Oh my God. So funny.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaa!!! I heard that one! He was awesome!!
 
somemoron
2011-11-16 10:39:03 PM
EmmaLou: bigpeeler: That's great but please...PLEASE...keep these two morons off TV.

[i40.tinypic.com image 344x400]

Shut up, I like Click and Clack....now the Splendid Table makes me feel stabby.

I like Click and Clack too, BUT GODDAMN DO THEY EVER STOP CHORTLING!?! WTF, they could fit a whole 'nother phone call in if they'd just stop live-laugh-tracking every goddamn joke. And the credits at the end aren't cute anymore, either. Shorten it up, fit in more callers. Keep the puzzler though.

And Wait Wait is a great radio show as well, in part due to the campy smug. Sometimes it doesn't come off as funny, but it's got a pretty good success rate, in my book.
 
Devolving_Spud
2011-11-16 10:43:24 PM
bigpeeler: That's great but please...PLEASE...keep these two morons off TV.

They are very smart AND funny. They are everything Prairie Home Companion is not. IMO.
 
Really I'm Black
2011-11-16 10:44:20 PM
sinanju:
We saw it in Boston several years ago as my birthday present. We sat next to Sue Ellicott at dinner -- a rare pretty news quiz panelist.

she hasnt been on in ages.

id say faith salie is teh new hottie panelist.

graphics8.nytimes.com
 
blueyd1
2011-11-16 10:46:55 PM
Bagelox-99: Peter (Igor) is in the center of pic.

I always imagined that Peter looked like Alton Brown so this picture slightly disturbs me.
 
Dwight_Yeast
2011-11-16 10:51:53 PM
Is this going to be as successful as the Click and Clack animated series?
 
jaytkay
2011-11-16 10:55:16 PM
Dwight_Yeast: Is this going to be as successful as the Click and Clack animated series?

Or This American Life TV?

/ Great radio great TV
// Loves me some great radio
 
jaytkay
2011-11-16 10:56:24 PM
jaytkay: / Great radio great TV

I got filtered that was Great radio "does not equal" great TV
 
JosephFinn
2011-11-16 11:01:44 PM
cameroncrazy1984: Balchinian: It is flat, stilted, and full of people who, if they were checkout clerks at the grocery store, would make you choose another lane.

It is perfect...for British television.

/Have a comma.
//Take 2, they're small.

Stilted? Flat? You've never heard Bill Clinton being asked questions about My Little Pony, then. Oh my God. So funny.

And going 3/3! And then Neko Case and the pleasant surprise that she's a Civil War nut.
 
Bagelox-99
2011-11-16 11:39:55 PM
somemoron: EmmaLou: bigpeeler: That's great but please...PLEASE...keep these two morons off TV.

[i40.tinypic.com image 344x400]

Shut up, I like Click and Clack....now the Splendid Table makes me feel stabby.

I like Click and Clack too, BUT GODDAMN DO THEY EVER STOP CHORTLING!?! WTF, they could fit a whole 'nother phone call in if they'd just stop live-laugh-tracking every goddamn joke. And the credits at the end aren't cute anymore, either. Shorten it up, fit in more callers. Keep the puzzler though.

And Wait Wait is a great radio show as well, in part due to the campy smug. Sometimes it doesn't come off as funny, but it's got a pretty good success rate, in my book.

This is just because you are part of the target demographic. Honestly, American culture has regressed to the point that anyone with any wit or sophistication is just as predictable as anyone else. They come from certain places, go to certain schools, follow certain careers, eat/watch/drink/wear certain things. There just aren't so many of them.
 
samimek
2011-11-17 12:02:46 AM
Three Crooked Squirrels: I work about a 70 hour week. If I'm driving around on a weekend morning and this is on, I am in the car alone, going to do something mindless like buy some weed-killer at the Ace Hardware. It's one of the only times during the week I am alone and doing something mindless. You better believe I take the long way there and back. Letting my mind melt to this stuff is better than what I'd done all week, and its better than what I'm probably going to have to do later that afternoon.

But, I probably won't tune in on TV. Just seems to me it wasn't meant for that media.

Also, I really want Carl Kassell voice on my home answering machine, but I've never actually called in. Also, I've never submitted an answer to Will Shortz's weekly puzzle, even on the rare occasion that I figure it out. Those are the two things I'd love to be on NPR for, but I can't win if I don't play, I guess.

/Long, irrelevant and uninspired post is long, irrelevant and uninspired.

My best time, too. Running errands to wait wait..
 
LockeOak
2011-11-17 12:25:16 AM
FerneJohn: Awesome. I listen to it every week. My only complaint is that Paula Poundstone isn't on the panel nearly enough.

s3.amazonaws.com

/I bit, good job
 
RyansPrivates
2011-11-17 12:39:49 AM
Why would I want to put my pants on Carl Kasell? Then I would be pantsless. Oh wait. There's a comma.

Still, I really would be scared Carl would look better in my pants than I do, and I am about half his age.
 
KelvinTheClown
2011-11-17 01:37:07 AM
Peter Sagal on Jeopardy in 1988 (video, new window)

Peter Sagal discusses how the screenplay he wrote about a young woman during the Cuban revolution became the movie...well, I won't spoil it, but listen to Act 3 (link to audio, new window)
 
jedzz
2011-11-17 02:39:39 AM
jaytkay: I was in the audience last week so I'm getting a kick out of these replies. (YAY Chainlink Chicago for getting the tickets!)

[lh3.googleusercontent.com image 640x480]

What is sitting on the small center stage table?
 
farkityfarker
2011-11-17 03:41:32 AM
It's dry, humorless, smug crap.

People only listen to it because it makes them feel better about themselves, because they think they're smart.
 
calm like a bomb
2011-11-17 04:41:12 AM
farkityfarker: It's dry, humorless, smug crap.

People only listen to it because it makes them feel better about themselves, because they think they're smart.

Sounds like somebody needs a hug.
 
Mr_H
2011-11-17 06:03:28 AM
I like this show, but I'm not sure how good it'd work as a TV show.

Now, Just a Minute (new window)would be a fun one to see on TV.
 
MissinLnk
2011-11-17 08:33:54 AM
jaytkay: I was in the audience last week so I'm getting a kick out of these replies. (YAY Chainlink Chicago for getting the tickets!)

[lh3.googleusercontent.com image 640x480]

/ Amy Dickinson is cute
// Tom Bodett, too


[lh5.googleusercontent.com image 640x480]

That's the Motel 6 guy? Huh, always figured he would look older than that.

/Love the song from those commercials.
 
Optimus Primate [TotalFark]
2011-11-17 08:36:33 AM
Someone above mentioned the constant "Chortling" on CAR TALK...I had the pleasure to get some "inside tours" at NPR/Tampa recently, which included access to the folks who edit Car Talk...it has been confirmed that a "bunch" of the chortling is, in fact, added in by editors as fluff-n-fill. Just FYI
 
Pants full of macaroni!! [TotalFark]
2011-11-17 08:53:28 AM
Great show, not sure it'll work on tv.

Bagelox-99: Adam Felber felbing away

This made me lol.

Really I'm Black: id say faith salie is teh new hottie panelist.

[graphics8.nytimes.com image 190x240]

Dayum. She's as prettyful as her voice.
 
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