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Wait Wait Brings Its Quiz to Kalamazoo
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NPR’s Wait Wait is live in Kalamazoo for its October 24 program, with Peter Sagal hosting and Daniel Vosovic appearing as the Not My Job guest. Rachel Coster, Peter Grosz and Shantira Jackson make up the panel. The announced lineup gives listeners a specific edition of the long-running news-comedy format, with a live setting adding the atmosphere of a shared room. The appeal is partly the combination of recognizable structure and changing participants. A recurring quiz can offer familiar expectations while letting a guest and panel supply the variations. There is no need to reinvent the entire program each week merely because the news has once again declined to behave sensibly. For live audio, the audience is more than an invisible consumption statistic. Its reactions become part of what listeners hear, making a nationally distributed program feel attached to an actual place and occasion. Kalamazoo supplies that occasion this week. The panel supplies the verbal labor. Everyone else gets the attractive arrangement of hearing informed people turn the week into comedy without personally having to remember every detail. It is a group project with an unusually merciful division of responsibilities for those listening at home.
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