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Wait Wait Invites a Guest to Excel at Someone Else's Job
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NPR's Wait Wait was live in Chicago with host Peter Sagal, guest Sterlin Harjo and panelists Brian Babylon, Adam Felber and Joyelle Nicole Johnson. Harjo appeared for the show's Not My Job segment, part of its mix of comedy and quiz questions. The live setting puts the familiar panel format in front of an audience, with the host and panelists turning the week's material into jokes and questions. Harjo's guest appearance gives the program a visitor whose work is the reason for the invitation, even as the segment's title promises a detour away from it. That is a useful arrangement for a comedy quiz. A guest does not have to arrive as an authority on every subject, and the panel gets room to be funny while navigating the questions. The audience, in turn, gets the pleasure of hearing knowledgeable people operate outside their usual territory. Most workplaces reward a person for sticking to the job description. This one gives the guest a microphone, a quiz and an official invitation to wander away from it.
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