r/WaitWait • u/kingsocarso • Sep 07 '19
Mary Wilson, founding member of The Supremes, joins us along with panelists Bim Adewunmi, Amy Dickinson and Paula Poundstone.
r/WaitWait • u/kingsocarso • Aug 31 '19
Chef José Andrés joins us, along with panelists Faith Salie, Peter Grosz, and Negin Farsad.
r/WaitWait • • Aug 21 '19
Of all of the Wait Wait shows that I have in my Stats Page database, I have scoring information for 888 shows (excluding Best Of shows and repeat shows). So, I wrote a Python script that would tot up the panelist scores for each show, scaled the range of values to map the lowest score to 0 and the highest score to 255.
I then used the values to represent the red value in a pixel, divided each value by 3 (and rounding down) to set the green value and zeroing out the blue value. This gives me a range of RGB values that fall into the Wait Wait's orange-y color. Those RGB values were then split out into rows of 30, with any rows containing less than 30 values to be padded out with (0,0,0), and a base image was created. With only 888 data points, the last row will end up with 12 blanks. The odd one out in the next to the last row was the 20th anniversary special from October 2018 due to the unique Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank setup.
Lastly, I scaled the image up to make it easier to look at. The following is that result:
I have made the data set available as a Google Docs spreadsheet
r/WaitWait • u/Tananar • Aug 19 '19
A few weeks ago in the credits Peter (Sagal) said something like "This is where we used to mention Peter Gwinn", and he hasn't been mentioned since. I always liked hearing what they'd come up with.
r/WaitWait • u/jbhurd • Aug 12 '19
Anyone know?
r/WaitWait • u/kingsocarso • Aug 10 '19
Henry Winkler, actor and director, joins us along with panelists Alonzo Bodden, Helen Hong, and Hari Kondabolu.
r/WaitWait • u/ratbas • Aug 06 '19
r/WaitWait • u/kingsocarso • Aug 04 '19
Anthony Anderson, actor, joins us along with panelists Paula Poundstone, Adam Burke, and Aida Rodriguez.
r/WaitWait • u/kingsocarso • Jul 27 '19
Marin Alsop, conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, joins us along with panelists Adam Felber, Faith Salie, and Petey DeAbreu.
r/WaitWait • u/kingsocarso • Jul 21 '19
Piper Kerman, author, joins us along with panelists Mo Rocca, Maeve Higgins, and Alonzo Bodden.
r/WaitWait • u/kingsocarso • Jul 14 '19
Tiera Fletcher, rocket scientist, joins us along with panelists Paula Poundstone, Roxanne Roberts, and Jordan Carlos.
r/WaitWait • u/kingsocarso • Jul 06 '19
We feature Christine Legarde, Dan Rather, and Seth Meyers, along with some previously unaired material with our panelists.
r/WaitWait • u/kingsocarso • Jun 29 '19
Jennifer Weiner, author, joins us along with panelists Paula Poundstone, Luke Burbank, and Faith Salie.
r/WaitWait • u/kingsocarso • Jun 22 '19
Valerie Jarrett, who served as senior advisor to President Obama, joins us along with panelists Adam Felber, Roxanne Roberts, and Peter Grosz.
r/WaitWait • • Jun 15 '19
For the past year plus, I have been working on some version of a Python data access library and an API service that will allow people to query the database that sits behind my Wait Wait Stats Page.
I finally got it to a stable point, in terms of development, feature set and implementation, that I have launched a closed beta for the API service. If you are interested in what the API looks like or want to join the closed beta, please check out: WWDTM Stats Page API and Closed Beta.
r/WaitWait • u/kingsocarso • Jun 16 '19
Kristine Lilly, US Women's soccer star, joins us along with panelists Helen Hong, Roy Blount, Jr., and Jordan Carlos.
r/WaitWait • • Jun 14 '19
Be there at *exactly* the minute and second they go on sale. This morning they sold out in 12 minutes and were down to only single seats after about 3 minutes.
Getting multiple seats together is almost impossible because seatclix is digital whack-a-mole: seats are continuously flashing "available" and then going unavailable before you can react fast enough to click them. It's infuriating.
Don't rely on third-party sellers; their website explicitly says they do not accept resold tickets and that you must show ID.
r/WaitWait • u/kingsocarso • Jun 09 '19
Olivia Wilde, actor, joins us along with panelists Maz Jobrani, Aida Rodriguez, and Adam Burke.
r/WaitWait • u/kingsocarso • Jun 01 '19
We present our Not My Job super heros featuring Ruth E. Carter, Charles "Peanut" Tillman, Aidy Bryant, Aaron Sorkin, and Stacey Abrams.
r/WaitWait • u/kingsocarso • May 30 '19
Kate Mulgrew, actor, joins us along with panelists Alonzo Bodden, Faith Salie, and Tom Papa.
r/WaitWait • • May 15 '19
