This article was originally just Wait Wait Bill Kurtis Voice Lines but since Bill Kurtis retired, I wanted to track another kind of subject for the radio show (Wait Wait Don't Tell Me on NPR).

The most significant aspect of the show is being a quiz about that week's news with different kinds of rounds throughout. Some of the news stories they quiz about, however, are much sillier than the others. I wanted to build a list of the sillier news stories they mention that I found interesting enough to look up (and therefore not an exhaustive), and link to articles about those subjects. “PW?” denotes whether the referenced article is paywalled.

I'm not sure how well I will be able to keep up with this, but here's a dabbling attempt.

On the NPR show Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me, announcer Bill Kurtis opens each show introducing him self, and then saying something about himself, like “the voice so smooth” followed by a clever remark. This is a collection of those lines. Not all of the actual show dates are listed, because sometimes there is a guest announcer who is not Bill; these are just Bill's lines. Also, just reading the text of these lines don't do the performance proper justice. The actual delivery is most of the greatness of them

The celebrity guests labeled “-highlight reel-” are episodes which have no celeb booking to interview, so they just showcase past celeb interviews instead of the normal format, but they still do a unique intro for this list to track