Michigan Public Speaker Series - An evening with Peter Sagal - 1/23/24

Michigan Public Speaker Series - An evening with Peter Sagal - 1/23/24
Michigan Public's April Baer (Stateside host) will be chatting with Peter Sagal about what it takes to do a show like "Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me", his favorite guests, how they keep it funny every week and more! Plus, you'll have the chance to ask Peter questions during this live stream event.
In 1997, Peter Sagal, who had never had, or even dreamed of a career in radio, got a call from a friend telling him about a new show at NPR, which was looking for "funny people who read a lot of newspapers." He auditioned and appeared as a panelist on the first broadcast of Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me! in January of 1998, and moved to Chicago become the host in May, alongside the original judge and scorekeeper, Carl Kasell
In the 25 years since, he has traveled the country with the show, playing in venues such as the Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park, Red Rocks, Tanglewood, the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, and Carnegie Hall. He's interviewed two Presidents; a number of Nobel Prize winners; astronauts and rocket scientists; musicians Elvis Costello, Yo Yo Ma, and Ice Cube; actors Tom Hanks and Scarlett Johansson; and many, many others. Wait, Wait has grown from 50,000 weekly listeners on nine stations at its launch to over five million listeners on more than 700 stations, making it the mostlistened-to hour in public radio. In 2008, he accepted a Peabody Award on behalf of the panelists, crew, and producers of this show.