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11:00 am
Sat March 3, 2012

Limericks

Carl reads three news-related limericks: Shhhh!, Like Amazon For the Heartbroken, oPads.

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6:39 pm
Fri February 24, 2012

Actor John Leguizamo Plays Not My Job

Credit Stephen Lovekin / Getty Images for Twentieth Century Fox

To start off spring training, we've invited actor John Leguizamo to play a game called "This Game Comes With a Shard of Brittle Gum." Three questions about baseball cards — invented in their modern form 60 years ago by Topps.

This segment was originally broadcast on Feb. 19, 2011.

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6:37 pm
Fri February 24, 2012

Actress Lucy Lawless Plays Not My Job

Lucy Lawless is kind of like King Midas, but for nerds: pretty much every sci-fi or fantasy thing she touches turns to gold. Xena: Warrior Princess and Battlestar Galactica are true classics — the kinds of programs nerds will tell their children about ... if they ever manage to reproduce.

Lawless is starring in the new Starz program Spartacus: Blood and Sand, which guarantees that pasty people will be dressing up as its characters at conventions for decades to come.

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6:35 pm
Fri February 24, 2012

Actress Lisa Kudrow Plays Not My Job

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Kudrow is best known for her role as Phoebe on Friends — the show that inspired thousands to move to New York City, where enormous apartments are ubiquitous! And cheap!

We've invited Kudrow to play a game called "I so won't be there for you!" Three questions about enemies.

This segment was originally broadcast on March 5, 2011.

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6:35 pm
Fri February 24, 2012

Pee-wee Herman Plays Not My Job

Credit Herman World

Thirty years ago, an actor in Los Angeles was doing sketch comedy and came up with a bizarre character sporting a tight gray suit, a little red tie and slicked back hair ... and America met Pee-wee Herman. Reubens recently brought the character from his Saturday morning TV show to Broadway in The Pee-wee Herman Show.

Ruebens may be the most famous Pee-wee, but he isn't the only one. We've invited him to answer three questions about the other peewees of the world.

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