Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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NPR's weekly news quiz hosted by Peter Sagal. Have a laugh and test your knowledge with today's funniest comedians and a celebrity guest.

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Recent Episodes
  • WWDTM: Austan Goolsbee
    Apr 12, 2025 – 47:06
  • HTDE: Study Break with Jason Isaacs of "The White Lotus"
    Apr 10, 2025 – 02:05
  • WWDTM: Sterling K. Brown
    Apr 5, 2025 – 47:01
  • WWDTM: Eric Idle, Bridget Everett + Jeff Hiller, and more!
    Mar 29, 2025 – 46:58
  • WWDTM: Moe Wagner
    Mar 22, 2025 – 46:59
  • WWDTM: Amanda Seyfried
    Mar 15, 2025 – 47:02
  • WWDTM: Lauren Graham
    Mar 8, 2025 – 46:50
  • WWDTM: Roy Wood, Jr.
    Mar 1, 2025 – 47:16
  • WWDTM: Billy Porter, Mark Ronson, Tara Dower, and more!
    Feb 22, 2025 – 47:09
  • WWDTM: GWAR
    Feb 15, 2025 – 48:07
  • WWDTM: Vanessa bayer
    Feb 8, 2025 – 47:20
  • WWDTM: Amber Maykut
    Feb 1, 2025 – 46:35
  • WWDTM: mxmtoon
    Jan 25, 2025 – 47:32
  • WWDTM: Rose Matafeo
    Jan 18, 2025 – 47:21
  • HTDE: Heckling, Yawning, and Imitating, with James Austin Johnson and Patton Oswalt
    Jan 15, 2025 – 28:16
  • WWDTM: Josh Gad
    Jan 11, 2025 – 47:06
  • WWDTM: Happy New Year Edition!
    Jan 4, 2025 – 47:18
  • HTDE: Don't Get in the Fridge, with Jesse Eisenberg
    Jan 1, 2025 – 25:28
  • WWDTM: One Last Gift to Unwrap
    Dec 28, 2024 – 49:01
  • WWDTM: Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone
    Dec 21, 2024 – 49:01
  • WWDTM: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
    Dec 14, 2024 – 49:11
  • HTDE: The Perfect Christmas Present with James Patterson and Gillian Flynn
    Dec 11, 2024 – 21:05
  • WWDTM: Jim Gaffigan
    Dec 7, 2024 – 49:14
  • WWDTM: Thanksgiving Edition!
    Nov 30, 2024 – 49:22
  • HTDE: The Friendliest Sound in the World, with Olympic medalist Molly Seidel
    Nov 27, 2024 – 23:13
  • WWDTM: Bridget Everett and Jeff Hiller
    Nov 23, 2024 – 47:21
  • WWDTM: Governor Whitmer
    Nov 16, 2024 – 47:13
  • HTDE: Yes We Pecan, with Martha Stewart
    Nov 13, 2024 – 16:06
  • WWDTM: Tara Dower
    Nov 9, 2024 – 47:51
  • WWDTM: Brian Jordan Alvarez
    Nov 2, 2024 – 47:16
  • HTDE: Josh Gad defeats earworms, and we make a pitch to Pete Buttigieg
    Oct 30, 2024 – 22:09
  • WWDTM: Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe
    Oct 26, 2024 – 46:58
  • WWDTM: Instant Nostalgia Edition
    Oct 19, 2024 – 47:08
  • HTDE: Maury Povich and Sleeping Between the Pretties
    Oct 16, 2024 – 23:28
  • WWDTM: Eric Idle
    Oct 12, 2024 – 47:46
  • WWDTM: Kara Jackson
    Oct 5, 2024 – 47:22
  • HTDE: Peter Sagal the Sausage
    Oct 2, 2024 – 24:02
  • WWDTM: Dionne Warwick
    Sep 28, 2024 – 47:10
  • WWTDM: Gary Oldman
    Sep 21, 2024 – 48:01
  • HTDE: Tom Hanks, Hot Dogs and Chimp Butts
    Sep 18, 2024 – 22:01
  • WWDTM: Jay Pharoah
    Sep 14, 2024 – 47:00
  • WWDTM: John Leguizamo
    Sep 7, 2024 – 47:28
  • HTDE: Haircuts in Space, Tutus, and the Nasal Ranger
    Sep 4, 2024 – 20:07
  • WWDTM: Nate Berkus
    Aug 31, 2024 – 47:37
  • How To Do Everything is BACK!
    Aug 27, 2024 – 02:49
  • WWDTM: Diane Lane
    Aug 24, 2024 – 47:34
  • Wait Wait DNC Dispatch #3
    Aug 23, 2024 – 12:04
  • Wait Wait DNC Dispatch #2
    Aug 22, 2024 – 13:47
  • BONUS: Wait Wait DNC Dispatch #1
    Aug 20, 2024 – 13:36
  • WWDTM: The Calm Before the Storm
    Aug 17, 2024 – 48:11
Recent Reviews
  • cntrybmpkn
    TIG!!!! 🤘🏼
    Listening to the Sterling K. Brown episode and have to say: I listen to the show regularly but Tig Notaro just brings something very special to the banter. I hope she is on every show from now on!!!
  • Ronnie Shu
    💖
    Always love the show! Favorite episode is the one with Tig Notaro, I hope she'll be back!! Maybe some other Handsome cohosts too!
  • Aridivaa
    No just no
    This is so stupid like bro
  • Noisychef
    I just can’t listen anymore.
    Unfortunately I can’t listen to Wait Wait anymore. Since Trump’s election I stay away from news that relates to him or his SS Chief. It’s too depressing. I doubt the podcast will stop stories about him because it’s too big a target for humor and so much of the news is inundated with the topic but it’s just not funny anymore for me. I wish them the best of luck . Perhaps I can listen again in 2029 if they’re not imprisoned for being dissidents.
  • Thehonestreviewer2341
    Getting midder and more mediocre
    What happened to the original jokes and humor of comedians like maz jobrani and hari condobolu? It’s now just celebrities stating their opinions on things people don’t care about.
  • Susie385651
    Amanda Seyfried
    That woman came out to play. Nailed it. Have her back as often as possible please. Thanks
  • Where is Waldo
    Pencils!!
    I was searching for a correction or comment link I could use, but this is as good as it gets. I would expect Peter to be old enough to remember that people chewed on their pencils when they did crossword puzzles.
  • Caramel Toby
    THE standard
    The winner is… the listener. Always.
  • gilieguy
    Really love this show!
    So entertaining!
  • 2!6538$
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  • Cluttershark
    Best part of Saturday
    Thank you for your entertaining and educational podcast. I can’t wait to listen every week.
  • Todd's kids
    Dog Slop
    I remember back when it was good, now it's a propaganda, slandering load of wank
  • k unicorn gliter
    This is GREAT!
    I love this podcast SO much! I love how the hosts always bring laughter to the room. 😄 I’m 10 yrs old and my parents don’t want me listening to political stuff, but… I still listen EVERY WEEK. 😂 ⭐️ THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO MPR! ⭐️ - Kali.L From Chicago, Illinois!
  • Shrooms69
    Yapping
    Good show! Entertaining to listen to at work but Peter segal sure does interrupt and speak over his guests a lot.
  • MaryAnn3427
    Hateful racists
    No thanks. Thought this was a fun quiz show, but it’s just Marxist, racist, American-hating propaganda.
  • Nprstan
    Make Chioki I’Anson announcer!
    I’ve been listening to WWTDM every week since I was a kid and it’s my favorite podcast. I love Peter Sagal’s humor and interviewing style. And hands down, Chioki is my favorite announcer! I wish he would be there full-time.
  • JS from NYC
    best show but worst episode
    Without Peter, the 2/8 show was like a bunch of dopey teens acting like morons with their sound effects and carrying on - this is the first show in about 20 years where I gave up 15 min in. Please come back Peter! We need an adult back in the room.
  • SnoopyWatch
    Great show
    Peter is a pro. Bill is fantastic. Guests are great. Just skip the episodes that Negin Farsad hosts. Absolutely horrible, poorly timed attempts at humor. Dulcé is obnoxiously loud, I think she blew the speakers out in my car with her exaggerated cackling.
  • A.M Sherman
    Incredible
    This show is just an amazing collection of all the weeks news, posted by Peter Sejal, and a bunch of hilarious comedians with just the funniest content. If you don’t believe this, just listen to it give it a little if you don’t like it you don’t like it. But at least try it cause it is amazing(in my opinion) into all of those saying, these comedians are screechy,get your speakers fixed, because they are usually the funniest
  • DrDK2
    Stick With Stand Ups
    I have listened to WWDTM for decades, so I was intrigued to hear you had a “TikTok host” on your panel this week. Sorry to say, she fell flat. Please stick with the stand ups.
  • mike raphone hog
    Highbrow stuff
    I try to listen to every show, but my rule is to tune out after the first, fart joke, vomit reference or “sausage” joke. Needless to say I rarely get through the first segment or two. Thanks NPR for contributing to the dumbing down of America with your fourth rate fourth grade humor. Actually, I take that back, after seeing who just got elected, fourth grade is probably more of a smartening up than a dumbing down. Doesn’t matter anyway, I doubt anyone who voted for him listens to NPR at all, it would be too hard to spell.
  • oakboundbooks
    it's an amusing show
    every episode when the host receives a call from a listener i can imagine denizens of the person's place of residence holding their breaths wondering "will he give our beloved hometown his almighty stamp of approval - 'i've heard of it, nice place!' - or the dreaded 'unfamiliar, when is this backwoods nowheresville to be found prey tell'" otherwise it is a good, original format, well produced.
  • gjduuyfgh
    Dulce Sloan is awful
    Please get rid of shrieking Dulce. It’s unlistenable when she is on
  • Yam Mar
    Leftist Slant
    A show that offers a somewhat quick review of the week’s news, though often interrupted by plugs promoting Leftist politicians and Leftist agendas by the program’s staff and guests. Lately (October 2024), this show is promoting groomers and a sexual political agenda. In November 2024, the host referenced the F-bomb in a description of the Republican Party’s favorable results in the election. In another episode, a panelist is apparently a groomer. In the same month, the two guests of the show were part of a grooming-promoting TV series. And WWDTM chose to have grooming as an affirmation portion of their Thanksgiving special. WWDTM, we just want to laugh about the news. We do not need a sexual political agenda foisted on us weekly or every other week.
  • Dayfd
    Great Show, not crazy about the extras
    I love this show. Intelligent, witty, clever and spontaneous. My only gripe is the intermixi g of the episodes with bonus material. I appreciate the extras but when I'm driving, I don't want those extras messing up my pod cast play list. We need a way to separate them so I can choose what I listen to instead of having to fumble with the controls whilst driving. Can we do this?
  • Numidia124
    Defund NPR
    Defund NPR!
  • srbuffalo
    Please stop putting other shows in the feed
    I’m a long time listener and love the show. Please stop putting other shows in the feed on a weekly basis. Put an episode in once in a while and if they’re good enough they’ll stand on their own.
  • 🫣🫣🫣 concerned citizen
    Voice over for Negin?
    Love the show! Love almost all the hosts. But please, please voice over Negin Farsad. I truly feel bad saying it, but it’s like nails on a chalk board & I dramatically wanna stick a nice pic in my ear drum. And it’s such a bummer to not be able to listen to so many episodes because of their voice. I’m sure they are an incredible person, but …
  • Chilled Curmudgeon
    Love the show
    One star because now I’m getting episodes of other shows in addition to the show I subscribed to. I was annoyed when I thought it was a one-off teaser episode. This week is the.. third, maybe fourth? Fire Chad or Suzy or whoever in marketing for this one. I may just drop the subscription if it continues.
  • ZUU Mel
    Pecan
    Years ago a friend from Louisana told me a Pee can is what you sit on, it’s a pahcan.
  • LivingAbroad45
    Dulcé Sloan guest host
    I’m a weekly listener. Fun show, however Dulcé Sloan is an annoying host. Had to stop listening about half way in.
  • Ib Beijjng
    Dulce Sloan ‘s high pitch screeching kind of hard to listen to.
    Enjoy the show usually and her humor but hard to take her over the top voice for the entirety of the show
  • Jazzmine2023
    Luv wait wait
    NPR’s Wait Wait Don't Tell Me is a beloved show I catch each week & have seen in person! A funny imaginative show each week. On the radio & as a podcast!
  • Impossnaame
    The highlight of my week
    Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me is the high light of my week. I have been an enthusiastic listener for years. The conversation and guests are always interesting and the comedy has me laughing out loud!! Keep up the great work. BUT PLEASE GET RID OF How To Do Everything. PLEASE remove it from the WWDTM feed ASAP. It is not smart or useful or entertaining. The episode about tooth brushes etc was completely ridiculous and a waste of time. Not funny, not clever and incredibly irritating I will never get that time back! I would ordinarily never consider writing a bad review. But this episode was so horrible, I just had to write it.
  • mooglitz
    HTDE is PAINFUL
    Please, I beg of you, make this a separate feed or mercy kill it
  • jba314
    Look Forward to This Show Each Week!
    Peter’s smarts, Bill’s sultry voice and the panelists’ comedic spins offer a unique twist on current events. So fun!
  • Cuisinefielder
    Funny show
    Great show with topical humor on the latest news including funny news stories
  • MAD AMERICAN 🇺🇸🦅
    Talk Tuah better
    Talk tuah is way better not only is Talk tuah way better than this trash it also makes the best experience in your life. There’s nothing like listening to the talk tuah podcast, eating a lunchly, and having a prime to wash it all down.
  • Vali333
    WWTDM??
    Shouldn’t it be WWDTM??
  • Merman22
    I hate this show
    Something about it. It’s not funny but everyone is laughing too hard. Enjoy if you can!
  • Mr.sus form rainforest
    Misspelled the title
    It isn’t “WWTDM” it is “WWDTM” a lot of things about the episode on September 21 2024 is not regular in a bad way
  • $limmtimm
    Longtime fan disappointed in current direction
    I LOVE this show. Like, I’ve been a consistent listener every weekend for almost 2 decades. But the last year or two of episodes have been concerning to me — I love most of the panelists, especially Tom Papa, Negin Farsad, and Alonzo Bodden, but Peter Sagal has become strangely rude to many of the call-in guests (and not in a funny way) and talks over many of the celebrity guests. In a recent show with Gary Oldman, he barely let Oldman talk or show any of his personality. Sagal also was rude to a woman who called in who had a name from a song, and when he asked her if she was named after the song, she gave a long answer about why she WASN’T, and he replied by saying that she should just say she WAS because people would get bored of her real story. That episode left a very bad taste in my mouth and it’s been hard to move past that. I would love to see someone else take the reins of the show, such as Tom Papa or Negin Farsad — who are incredible guest hosts — and hear more from Chioke I’Anson as an alternating moderator with Bill Kurtis.
  • BKWcbc
    Apologize to Mr. Babylon!
    As a fellow BRIAN, the misspelling of his name as BRAIN in the episode description should have been caught by editors.
  • Micah8024
    5 stars!
    I look forward to this pod every week, thanks for the laughs!
  • rgunther
    Wait Wait … Stop stuffing the feed!
    Wait Wait is one of my favorite shows. But I stopped subscribing when NPR stuffed Everyone and their Mom in the same feed. It was pretty clear from other reviews that listeners didn’t want this. I didn’t want it. A different show belongs in its own feed—not here. When NPR finally dropped it, I resubscribed. But now NPR is polluting the feed again with How To Do Everything. Again: different show…put it in its own feed. Meanwhile, I’m unsubscribing. Again.
  • ALibralMiget
    I’ll listen if there’s Mo Rocca
    He’s really the only thing I enjoy about the show at this point. I hate Joyelle in particular
  • Scapester
    My favorite show
    I have been listening to this show since 2005. It’s our staple family show that we listen to every Sunday morning .
  • Banananananananana09
    Excellent show
    This is a great show with funny panelists and smart guests. I miss the days of Paula Poundstone, Alonzo Boden, and Roy Blount Jr. being on regularly, but it’s still fun and informative. Thank you for the weekly entertainment!
  • 543yz
    Dispatches from the DNC were a waste of time
    and resources although Emma Choi was pretty charming and funny. Why did her voice sound better on the tape from the convention center then when she appears on the show.
  • Cob96
    Less Than Topical Lately
    For a topical news quiz show there seem to be a lot of “best of” compilations. What, are you guys on the John Oliver schedule? WWDTM used to be habitual listening, but you have cured me of that habit going forward.
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