List of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! episodes (2022)

The following is a list of episodes of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, NPR's news panel game, that aired during 2022.^[1] All episodes, unless otherwise indicated, feature host Peter Sagal and announcer/scorekeeper Bill Kurtis. Dates indicated are the episodes' original Saturday air dates. Job titles and backgrounds of the guests reflect their status at the time of their appearance.

Thru the week of June 4, unless otherwise indicated, Wait Wait episodes were produced through the facilities of the show's co-producer, WBEZ/Chicago, with participants joining the show through Zoom links. From the episode of June 11 onward, also unless otherwise indicated, episodes originated with live audiences from its new regular home, the Studebaker Theatre at Chicago's Fine Arts Building.^[2] (The program had originated from the Chase Auditorium from 2005 until just before the COVID-19 pandemic commenced in early 2020.)

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Date	Guest	Panelists	Notes
January 1	"Best of" episode featuring basketball stars Brook & Robin Lopez and actors André De Shields, Martin Short, & Jane Kaczmarek
January 8	Astronaut Woody Hoburg	Alonzo Bodden, Peter Grosz, Roxanne Roberts
January 15	Singer/songwriter Kacey Musgraves	Emmy Blotnick, Helen Hong, Maz Jobrani
January 22	Actor Brian Cox	Cristela Alonzo, Paula Poundstone, Mo Rocca
January 29	Playwright Jeremy O. Harris	Karen Chee, Josh Gondelman, Alzo Slade	Guest host Negin Farsad

Date	Guest	Panelists	Notes
February 5	Shermann "Dilla" Thomas, presenter of a TikTok series on Chicago's history^[3]	Adam Burke, Tom Papa, Paula Poundstone	Show recorded at Chicago's Harris Theater
February 12	Musician Patti Smith^[4]	Bobcat Goldthwait, Maeve Higgins, Hari Kondabolu
February 19	Novelist Marlon James	Negin Farsad, Peter Grosz, Ashley Ray	Includes tributes to panelist P. J. O'Rourke (d. February 15, 2022)
February 26	"Best of" episode featuring actor Ed Begley, Jr., journalist Yamiche Alcindor, chef Antoni Porowski, and rapper/actor RZA

Date	Guest	Panelists	Notes
March 5	Television personality Porsha Williams	Joel Kim Booster, Hari Kondabolu, Faith Salie	Show recorded in Atlanta, GA (Fox Theatre) Guest announcer/scorekeeper Chioke I'Anson
March 12	Bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor	Negin Farsad, Paula Poundstone, Alzo Slade
March 19	Actress Zazie Beetz	Roy Blount, Jr., Helen Hong, Mo Rocca
March 26	Historian Dan Snow	Emmy Blotnick, Luke Burbank, Roxanne Roberts

Date	Guest	Panelists	Notes
April 2	Musician Slash	Cristela Alonzo, Maeve Higgins, Tom Papa
April 9	Actor Matt Walsh	Alonzo Bodden, Karen Chee, Helen Hong	Show recorded at Chicago's Harris Theater
April 16	"Best of" episode featuring actors Bashir & Sultan Salahuddin, musicians Chance the Rapper & Michelle Zauner, and hockey star P. K. Subban
April 23	Actor/writer Stephen Merchant	Maz Jobrani, Ashley Ray, Faith Salie
April 30	Vermiculturist Myles Stubblefield	Maeve Higgins, Amy Dickinson, Alzo Slade	Show recorded in Buffalo, NY (Shea's Performing Arts Center)^[5]

Date	Guest	Panelists	Notes
May 7	Actor Adam Scott	Emmy Blotnick, Maz Jobrani, Paula Poundstone
May 14	Comedian/actress Hannah Einbinder	Peter Grosz, Laci Mosley, Faith Salie
May 21	Singer/actress Mandy Moore	Alonzo Bodden, Maeve Higgins, Tom Papa
May 28	Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor, co-hosts of the Ear Hustle podcast	Maz Jobrani, Paula Poundstone, Adam Burke	Show recorded in San Francisco, CA (Sydney Goldstein Theater)

List of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! episodes (2022)

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Date	Guest	Panelists	Notes
August 6	Comedian/writer Robin Thede	Adam Burke, Amy Dickinson, Hari Kondabolu	Guest host Negin Farsad
August 13	"Live and in-person" "best of" episode featuring actors Steve Buscemi, Aidy Bryant, Alan Cumming & Jeff Daniels and drummer Lars Ulrich
August 20	"Best of" episode featuring conductor Marin Alsop, choreographer Garth Fagan, drag performer Peaches Christ, and singers Renée Fleming & Josh Groban
August 27	Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from the District of Columbia Eleanor Holmes Norton	Alzo Slade, Roxanne Roberts, Tom Bodett	Show recorded in Vienna, VA (Wolf Trap)