was sooooo awesome!! I can't believe I actually got to see Peter Sagal, and Carl Kasell, and Mo Rocca, and Tom Bodett, and Paula Poundstone. LIVE!! It was amazing and so funny. I was laughing the entire time.
So, if you have no idea what I'm talking about, you should go online, find your local NPR station, and listen to the show Wait Wait Don't Tell Me this weekend. Or you could download the podcast. It's a really funny show about odd and not so odd news from the past week. It is the "oddly informative weekly radio show." They went to Berkeley today and are here again tomorrow for a taping of another show airing later on in the year.
It was really interesting going to a taping of a show. There is so much more that goes on behind the scenes that gets edited out, and it's not until you go to a taping that you realize how hard editing is and making everything flow correctly. They also did this understandable, but still bizarre thing at the very end where they had the host, Peter Sagal, redo all the lines that were unclear. The famous guest that they have on everyshow to play "Not My Job" was mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade. She was a pretty good guest-star. It was funny cause they were calling for her to come onto the stage, and they didn't know where she was, and she turned out to be in the audience listening to the show. haha. It was a lot of fun listening to the interview with her though, especially when she started talking about the old days of fur-wearing, fruit plate throwing divas.
I hope they come back soon! Listen to this week's episode!
