List of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! episodes (2025)

The following is a list of episodes of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, NPR's news panel game, that aired during 2025.^[1] All episodes, unless otherwise indicated, feature Peter Sagal as host and Bill Kurtis as announcer/scorekeeper, and originate from the Studebaker Theatre at Chicago's Fine Arts Building. Dates indicated are the episodes' original Saturday air dates, and the job titles and backgrounds of the guests reflect their status and positions at the time of their appearance. On some occasions, member stations alter the episodes for their donation drive breaks, which only impact the show's airing within their broadcast area.

Contents

• Top
• January
• February
• March
• April
• May
• June
• July
• August
• September
• October
• November
• December

January

Date	Guest	Panelists	Notes
January 4	Unaired segments from previous episodes "Best of 2024" encores featuring actress/singer Renée Elise Goldsberry, rapper Danny Brown, economic historian Claudia Goldin, Top Chef host Kristen Kish, and CBS NFL studio analyst Bill Cowher
January 11[2]	Actor Josh Gad	Negin Farsad, Rachel Coster, Josh Gondelman
January 18	Comedian/actress Rose Matafeo	Maz Jobrani, Alzo Slade, Helen Hong	Guest announcer/scorekeeper Chioke I'Anson[3]
January 25[4]	Singer-songwriter/Youtuber mxmtoon	Paula Poundstone, Hari Kondabolu, Faith Salie

February

Date	Guest	Panelists	Notes
February 1[5]	Taxidermist Amber Maykut	Adam Felber, Joyelle Nicole Johnson, Rekha Shankar	Guest announcer/scorekeeper Chioke I'Anson[3]
February 8[6]	Actress/comedian Vanessa Bayer	Peter Grosz, Shantira Jackson, Rachel Feinstein	Guest host Tom Papa[6] Guest announcer/scorekeeper Chioke I'Anson
February 15[7]	Mike Derks & Mike Bishop, members of heavy metal band Gwar	Negin Farsad, Alzo Slade, Adam Burke	Show recorded in Richmond, VA (Altria Theater) Guest announcer/scorekeeper Chioke I'Anson[3]
February 22	Unaired segments from previous episodes "Not My Job" encores featuring actors John Leguizamo & James Marsden, musician Mark Ronson, ultramarathoner Tara Dower, and actor/singer Billy Porter		Guest host Tom Papa Guest announcer/scorekeeper Chioke I'Anson

March

Date	Guest	Panelists	Notes
March 1[8]	Comedian/actor Roy Wood Jr.	Helen Hong, Paula Poundstone, Tom Bodett
March 8[9]	Actress Lauren Graham	Faith Salie, Shantira Jackson, Roy Blount Jr.
March 15[10]	Actress Amanda Seyfried	Emmy Blotnick, Peter Grosz, Fortune Feimster
March 22[11]	Orlando Magic center Moe Wagner	Eugene Cordero, Paula Poundstone, Alonzo Bodden	Show recorded in Orlando, FL (Walt Disney Theater)
March 29	"Not My Job" encores featuring actress Diane Lane, actor/comedians Eric Idle, Bridget Everett, & Jeff Hiller, and musicians Christian McBride & Kathleen Hanna

April

Date	Guest	Panelists	Notes
April 5[12]	Actor Sterling K. Brown	Negin Farsad, Josh Gondelman, Tig Notaro
April 12	Austan Goolsbee, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago	Shane O'Neill, Rachel Coster, Peter Grosz
April 19[13]	Comedian/actor Lewis Black	Alonzo Bodden, Adam Burke, Dulcé Sloan	Show recorded in Durham, NC (DPAC)
April 26[14]	Actor Brian Tyree Henry	Negin Farsad, Luke Burbank, Brian Babylon	Guest host Karen Chee

May

Date	Guest	Panelists	Notes
May 3[15]	Actress/writer Natasha Rothwell	Joyelle Nicole Johnson, Peter Grosz, Hari Kondabolu
May 10[16]	Actor/singer Nathan Lane	Shantira Jackson, Luke Burbank, Roy Blount Jr.	Guest announcer/scorekeeper Alzo Slade
May 17	"Not My Job" encores featuring actor Josh Gad, singer–songwriter/former National Youth Poet Laureate Kara Jackson, musician Mike Derks & Mike Bishop of Gwar, taxidermist Amber Maykut and governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer
May 24[17]	Actress/comedian Ego Nwodim	Tom Papa, Hari Kondabolu, Dulcé Sloan
May 31[18]	Former Boston Red Sox left fielder/hitter Jim Rice	Maz Jobrani, Joyelle Nicole Johnson, Adam Felber	Show recorded in Boston, MA (Wang Theatre)

June

Date	Guest	Panelists	Notes
June 7[19]	Jeff Gordon, vice-chairman of Hendrick Motorsports and former NASCAR champion	Adam Burke, Negin Farsad, Zach Zimmerman
June 14[20]	Actor Chris Perfetti	Luke Burbank, Alonzo Bodden, Joyelle Nicole Johnson	Guest host Negin Farsad
June 21[21]	Olympic sabre fencing medalist Ibtihaj Muhammad	Hari Kondabolu, Rachel Coster, Jeff Hiller
June 28[22]	Actress/singer Anna Kendrick	Paula Poundstone, Karen Chee, Josh Gondelman	Show recorded in Portland, ME (Merrill Auditorium)

July

Date	Guest	Panelists	Notes
July 5	"Not My Job" encores featuring actress Amanda Seyfried & Lauren Graham, comedians Roy Wood Jr. & Jim Gaffigan and singer-songwriter/YouTuber mxmtoon
July 12[23]	Iowa Hawkeyes women's basketball head coach Jan Jensen	Emmy Blotnick, Hari Kondabolu, Faith Salie	Show recorded in Des Moines, IA (Des Moines Civic Center)
July 19	TBA	TBA, TBA, TBA
July 26	TBA	TBA, TBA, TBA

August

Date	Guest	Panelists	Notes
August 2	TBA	TBA, TBA, TBA	Show recorded in Salt Lake City, UT (Abravanel Hall)[24]
August 9	TBA	TBA, TBA, TBA
August 16	"Not My Job" encores
August 23	"Not My Job" encores
August 30	TBA	TBA, TBA, TBA	Show recorded in Lenox, MA (Tanglewood)

September

Date	Guest	Panelists	Notes
September 6	TBA	TBA, TBA, TBA
September 13	TBA	TBA, TBA, TBA
September 20	TBA	TBA, TBA, TBA	Show recorded in Location TBA
September 27	TBA	TBA, TBA, TBA