From the archives. What I wrote previously was -- This week's contestant is Caroline Cassil from Sutherlin, Oregon. If you don't get the composer style within three seconds (and the specific piece it's based on), you're not trying. The hidden song is tougher. Until halfway through, when a passage leaps out. But they're very well interwoven, so you have to catch the passage. There's also a wonderful musical joke between the classical piece and the hidden tune.
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On this week's "Not My Job" segment of the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!, host Peter Sagal's guest contestant is Yassem Boussef. You will likely recognize him from his appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart -- in fact, he patterned his career after Stewart and was known as the "Jon Stewart of Egypt." That is, until the government got upset with his satire, and he ended up having to flee the country. He tells the story in brief during his funny, self-effacing and enthusiastic interview here.
There's a very nice documentary that recently was released about his career -- starting as a surgeon -- called Tickling Giants. I saw it a couple months ago, and thought it was quite well done. It drags in parts, but has a lot of wonderful footage and overall is fascinating, often very funny, and ultimately pointed in dealing with his hurdles. The guest contestant on this week's "Not My Job" segment of the NPR quiz show, Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!, is comedian-actress Aubrey Plaza. She's naturally shy during interviews, but host Peter Sagal is able to make this fun and often quite funny.
One difference this week. For whatever reason, the show didn't separate the "Not My Job" segment for download, so this is the full show show. For those interested in hearing what , Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me! all the way through -- hey, this is a perfect chance to do so. But if you want to only hear the quiz and interview, just jump to the Job 41:00 mark. It lasts about 10 minutes. (And a mea culpa. In an earlier version of this posting, I mentioned a surprising mistake by Peter Sagal. The mistake was mine. More an idiocy. Sagal is, of course, correct in noting that Donald Trump's first wife was "Ivana," and it's Ivanka who is the current White House hostess. Perhaps it was just my wishful thinking that things in the White House were not as they are...). This week's contestant is Deb Anderson from Robbinsdale, Minnesota. The hidden song should be pretty easy. The composer style, too -- but for me, it was a guess of one of a few, and I guessed wrong.
This week, we have a slightly different -- and much longer -- edition of NPR's quiz show, Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!. Instead of just a single "Not My Job" segment, here is a full-length "Best of..." show. This includes several "Not My Job" sequences, but also several sections with host Peter Sagal and the panelists with their own quizzes, including some material that didn't make it on the air.
This week's contestant is Kristen Zoetewey from Grand Rapids, Michigan. I had an odd result from the contest. When it finished, I had no clue. And yet I should have guessed the composer style because I like the composer a a lot. But no. As for the hidden song, I also had no clue -- though about the 3-minute mark there was a passage that sounded familiar, but I just couldn't place it. And even pianist Bruce Adolphe acknowledged that this was a difficult one, well-hidden. As he was talking though, it clicked in -- and before he even got to playing the piece again, I guessed it.
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