Interview with Peter Sagal, host of NPR’s ‘Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me,’ taping Dec. 10 at Cobb Energy Centre
CREDIT: Stephen Ross
National Public Radio’s “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me” is one of those shows that has incredibly loyal fans, the ones who sold out the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre this Thursday, Dec. 10.
But the ever droll host Peter Sagal understands that his radio game show is hardly “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire.” And he’s perfectly content that way.
“Public radio fame is the best fame to have,” he said in a phone interview late last month. “ The people who know who you are are really great yet most people have no idea who you are.”
For those who aren’t familiar, “Wait Wait” is a live theater game show, taped weekly featuring a panel of regular contributors, a guest star and callers who get quizzed on various news events. Normally taped in Chicago Thursdays for airing on the weekend, the show goes on the road once a month and is coming to Atlanta for the first time.
“Atlanta has a strange role in our history,” Sagal said. “It was always the one that got …
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