On this week’s ‘Not My Job’ segment of the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, the guest contestants are legendary athletes, soccer’s Megan Rapinoe and the WNBA’s Sue Bird. Their conversation with guest host Dulcé Sloan is sort of fun, though thin and a bit cutesy in large part because interviewing is not the strong suit of the enthusiastic Ms. Sloan. However, eventually the panelists get involved and things get more lively.
This is the full Wait, Wait… broadcast, but you can jump directly to the “Not My Job” segment, it starts just before the 18:00 mark.
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On this week’s Naked Lunch podcast, co-hosts Phil Rosenthal and David Wild has a sort of double feature. As they first, “First, Phil and David recap the 67th Annual Grammys with Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes who gave the uplifting opening performance of Randy Newman's ‘I Love L.A.’ with his brother Griffin Goldsmith and an all-star band of Grammy winners, including past ‘Naked Lunch’ guests Brad Paisley and Sheryl Crow, as well as John Legend, Brittany Howard and St. Vincent. Then, it's Part 2 of Phil and David's live "Naked Lunch" with Paul Reiser, host of the 37th Annual Grammy Awards in 1995, recorded January 25, 2025 at the iconic Palace of Fine Arts Theatre as part of SF Sketchfest -- The San Francisco Comedy Festival. This is just an absolutely wonderful video and emotional on many levels. I don’t want to say too much but will set it up briefly. It comes from the Australia version of The Voice, in 2023. A father auditions with his family watching in the wings. He does nicely, but doesn’t get a chair to turn. In talking with the judges, he mentioned that he came on the show to inspire his 21-year-old daughter not to be discouraged by some hurdles she’d hit – and the judges actually push the daughter to audition. And…well, there’s just so much that’s great in this. All I’ll add is that throughout the 19-minute video, keep your eyes on the judges who are terrific. Okay, and always watch the dad, too. A top contender for Father of the Year Down Under. On this week’s ‘Not My Job’ segment of the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, the guest contestant is Kara Jackson, who was named America’s Youth Poet Laureate and later wrote songs, performing at festivals, including Glastonbury. She also played on a T-ball team in Oak Park, Illinois, that host Peter Sagal coached. She’s low-key, insightful and thoughtfully humorous, particularly when she and Sagal look back at her early work as a teenager.
This is the full Wait, Wait… broadcast, but you can jump directly to the “Not My Job” segment, it starts around the 18:30 mark. On this week’s Naked Lunch podcast, co-hosts Phil Rosenthal and David Wild write that they “joyfully welcome three-peat ‘Naked Lunch’ sensation Paul Reiser as their featured guest for a very special and very funny live episode recorded January 25th at the iconic Palace of Fine Arts Theatre as part of SF Sketchfest -- The San Francisco Comedy Festival."
For the “Mystery Guest” segment on What’s My Line?” the contestant is Ethel Merman. This comes from the later color-version of the show with Larry Blyden as the host. The rules are a little different for the Mystery Guest, so it’s not as fun – the panelists only have a couple minutes to make their guesses, which rushes things. (On the original series, they could take around six minutes or so at times.) And they really do a poor job here, inexplicably not asking the most basic question after learning that she sings – “Would we know you from night clubs? Or the stage? Or movies?” But the fun here is Merman putting on an unexpectedly fun, disguised voice and being bemused as their guesses keep getting “No’s” from her. By the way, worth noting that panelist Alan Alda starred in a Broadway musical with host Blyden, doing The Apple Tree together, a show written by Harnick & Bock, who did Fiddler on the Roof. |
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