List of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! episodes (2016)

The following is a list of episodes of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, NPR's news panel game, that aired during 2016.^[1] All episodes, unless otherwise indicated, are hosted by Peter Sagal with announcer/scorekeeper Bill Kurtis, and originate at Chicago's Chase Auditorium. Job titles and backgrounds of the guests reflect their status at the time of their appearance.

January

Date	Guest	Panelists	Notes
January 2	"Best of" episode, featuring comedians Richard Lewis and Jenny Slate and writer/producer Matthew Weiner
January 9	Rapper/actor/producer Ice Cube	Greg Proops, Amy Dickinson, Roy Blount, Jr.
January 16	Actress/singer/dancer Sutton Foster	Bobcat Goldthwait, Roxanne Roberts, Mo Rocca	Guest host Mike Pesca
January 23	United States Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez	Paula Poundstone, Luke Burbank, Faith Salie
January 30	Actor Richard Dreyfuss	Peter Grosz, Shelby Fero, Tom Bodett	Guest host Mike Pesca

February

Date	Guest	Panelists	Notes
February 6	Actress Lena Headey	Alonzo Bodden, Roy Blount, Jr., Helen Hong
February 13	Film/TV producers/directors Mark and Jay Duplass	Maz Jobrani, Roxanne Roberts, Mo Rocca
February 20	"Best of" episode featuring French chef Jacques Pépin, hip-hop artist Chance the Rapper, and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson
February 27	Singer Trisha Yearwood	Paula Poundstone, Roy Blount, Jr., Faith Salie	Show recorded at Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA

March

Date	Guest	Panelists	Notes
March 5	U.S. Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey	Adam Burke, Roxanne Roberts, Bobcat Goldthwait
March 12	Singer Josh Groban	Faith Salie, Mo Rocca, Paula Poundstone	Show recorded at Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, NY
March 19	Actor Andre Royo	Peter Grosz, Marina Franklin, Tom Bodett
March 26	Jazz musician Esperanza Spalding	Luke Burbank, Roxanne Roberts, Roy Blount, Jr.

April

Date	Guest	Panelists	Notes
April 2	Author R. L. Stine	Alonzo Bodden, Amy Dickinson, Adam Felber
April 9	Reality TV personalities Drew Scott and Jonathan Scott	Peter Grosz, Paula Poundstone, Tom Bodett
April 16	NASCAR driver Matt Kenseth	Mo Rocca, Roxanne Roberts, Luke Burbank	Show recorded at Riverside Theater in Milwaukee, WI
April 23	"Best of" episode featuring U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, singer Trisha Yearwood, rapper Ice Cube, and motivational speaker Tony Robbins
April 30	Journalist Lesley Stahl	Adam Burke, Faith Salie, Alonzo Bodden

May

Date	Guest	Panelists	Notes
May 7
May 14
May 21
May 28

June

Date	Guest	Panelists	Notes
June 4
June 11
June 18
June 25

July

Date	Guest	Panelists	Notes
July 2
July 9
July 16
July 23
July 30

August

Date	Guest	Panelists	Notes
August 6
August 13
August 20
August 27

September

Date	Guest	Panelists	Notes
September 3
September 10
September 17
September 24

October

Date	Guest	Panelists	Notes
October 1
October 8
October 15
October 22
October 29

November

Date	Guest	Panelists	Notes
November 5
November 12
November 19
November 26

December

Date	Guest	Panelists	Notes
December 3
December 10
December 17
December 24
December 31

References

↑ "wait wait...don't tell me! archive". npr.org NPR:National Public Radio. pbs.org. Retrieved 2014-02-01.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

Episodes by Year	1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Hosts	Peter Sagal (current) Dan Coffey (1998)

Official Judge and Scorekeeper	Bill Kurtis (current) Carl Kasell (1998-2014)

Panelists	Roy Blount, Jr. Tom Bodett Luke Burbank Amy Dickinson Sue Ellicott Adam Felber Kyrie O'Connor P.J. O'Rourke Charlie Pierce Paula Poundstone Paul Provenza Roxanne Roberts Mo Rocca Alison Stewart

Guest Hosts	Luke Burbank Drew Carey Adam Felber Peter Grosz Mike Pesca Richard Sher

NPR

Productions	All Songs Considered All Things Considered Ask Me Another Here and Now Morning Edition Planet Money Snap Judgment TED Radio Hour The Thistle & Shamrock Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Weekend Edition

Distributions	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn Car Talk (reruns only since 2012) The Diane Rehm Show Fresh Air From the Top Intelligence Squared US Latino USA Mountain Stage Only a Game On Point On the Media Piano Jazz Radiolab State of the Re:Union StoryCorps World Cafe

Current personalities	Noah Adams Tom Ashbrook Melissa Block Dee Dee Bridgewater Audie Cornish Corey Flintoff Bob Garfield Brooke Gladstone Terry Gross Maria Hinojosa Jeremy Hobson Steve Inskeep Bill Kurtis Tom and Ray Magliozzi Michel Martin Bob Mondello Renée Montagne Michele Norris Sylvia Poggioli Arun Rath Guy Raz Diane Rehm Fiona Ritchie Peter Sagal Ari Shapiro Robert Siegel Scott Simon Lakshmi Singh Susan Stamberg Nina Totenberg Robin Young

Former personalities	Margot Adler Madeleine Brand Alex Chadwick Farai Chideya Neal Conan Bob Edwards Ira Flatow Liane Hansen Carl Kasell Ketzel Levine Marian McPartland Ken Rudin Daniel Schorr Andrea Seabrook Alison Stewart Ray Suarez Juan Williams Nancy Wilson Craig Windham

Former productions	Bryant Park Project Day to Day Earplay Jazz Profiles News & Notes NPR Playhouse Talk of the Nation Tell Me More

See also	Ahora American Public Media NPR stations NPR Music NPR controversies Public Radio Satellite System Pacifica Radio Public Radio International

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