Celebrity guests are put on the spot in the popular âNot My Jobâ segment of the Peabody award-winning NPR radio show.
Each week, two million listeners tune into Wait Wait . . . Donât Tell Me! to test their knowledge of the weekâs dumbest news against some of the best and brightestâpanelists including author and humorist Roy Blount Jr., author and radio anomaly Tom Bodett, syndicated advice columnist Amy Dickinson (âAsk Amyâ), Atlantic Monthly journalist P.J. OâRourke, Washington Post columnist Roxanne Roberts, and other know-it-alls.
Always a high point of the show, âNot My Jobâ features a celebrity guest who must answer questions on a topic totally outside his or her area of expertise. Guests must also contend with not-so-helpful interjections from host Peter Sagal and the panelists, with hilarious results. Comedians Stephen Colbert (The Colbert Report) and Denis Leary (Rescue Me), actors Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek), Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother) and Carrie Fisher, musicians Mavis Staples and Moby, Southern cook and restaurateur Paula Deen, and high-wire artist Philippe Petit (Man on Wire) are just a few of the stars who find themselves under the heat of the Not My Job spotlight.