If you’re like me, then you listen to a lot of NPR. Every Saturday at 1100, my radio turns on to listen to the crazy mechanics “Click & Clack” on Car Talk followed by Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me! at noon¹. Wait, Wait…, a weekly news quiz show, is a great way to pull some humor out of both the mundane and the off-beat news of the week wherein everyone’s ultimate goal is to get Carl Kasell’s voice on their home answering machine. Yesterday, Peter Segal, the host of the show, announced that Wait, Wait… has decided to enter the blogosphere.

We’ve been following this “web-log” thing for a while… waiting to see if it was just another one of those internet² fads, like dancing babies or keyboard cats or histories of dance. Dances. But it seems to be sticking, so we here at Wait, Wait thought it would be worth a try.

I’m intrigued. It’ll be another outlet for news humor that for one reason or another didn’t make it to air; a supplement between doses of Peter Segal, Mo Rocca, Paula Poundstone, Amy Dickinson, and all the other panelists.

You can also keep up with the Wait, Wait… crew on Twitter via @waitwait³.

1. I’m a member of NPR member station WBUR 90.9 Boston [↩]
2. Sic. The pedant in me wants to point out that Internet should be capitalized. [↩]
3. Various panelist Twitter accounts: @morocca, @paulapoundstone, @askingamy, @TomBodett, @KyrieMeMo, @adameft, and @petersagal [↩]