History YMMV / WaitWaitDontTellMe

** Maeve Higgins appears to never actually keep up with the news, which causes her to do terribly, given that Wait Wait is a ''news'' quiz show. She is the first panelist to have gotten '''all 8''' of the Lightning Fill in the Blank questions wrong.

** Maeve Higgins appears to never actually keep up with the news, which causes her to do terribly, given that Wait Wait is a ''news'' quiz show. She is the first panelist to have gotten '''all 8''' of the Lightning Fill in the Blank questions,

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Frequent panelist Paula Poundstone is either the world's funniest comedian, or someone whose voice is so annoying that listeners turn off the volume until she's done talking.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Early in 2016, one of the panelists joked that Donald Trump's ego was so big that he'd simply declare himself president if he lost. Weeks before the election, Trump began to hammer the idea that he'd contest the election if he lost.
** Even worse, after he lost in 2020, Trump refused to acknowledge that he had lost, filing lawsuits and calling state Attorneys General to ask for help "finding" votes, which led to the Jan. 6 riots and Trump being impeached a second time. As of May 2021, Trump is still refusing to acknowledge his loss.

* GeniusBonus: The February 18, 2017 show had a rabbi from New York State as the "Who's Bill This Time?" contestant. Peter, [[YouHaveToHaveJews who is also Jewish]], immediately points out that the rabbi responds to the question about his first quotation [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsa#In_Judaism with another question]].

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Frequent panelist Paula Poundstone is either the world's funniest comedian, or someone whose voice is so annoying that listeners turn off the volume until she's done talking. Adding in Creator/BobcatGoldthwait as an occasional panelist also divided fans, and don't think Bobcat wasn't aware of it.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Frequent panelist Paula Poundstone is either the world's funniest comedian, or someone whose voice is so annoying that listeners turn off the volume until she's done talking.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: frequent panelist Paula Poundstone is either the world's funniest comedian, or someone whose voice is so annoying that listeners turn off the volume until she's done talking.

* InternetBackdraft:
** The show stirred up some flames when, in a Bluff the Listener Challenge about {{Periphery Demographic}}s, Peter basically called [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic bronies]] dorks with no social life. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome The next week, they apologised by having Bill Clinton answer questions about the show for Not My Job.]]
** After Mo Rocca expressed his dislike of homemade knitted sweaters, irate knitters responded (see HomemadeSweaterFromHell on the main page). This caused the other panelists to [[RetroactiveWish try and provoke similar outrage for things they "hated."]]
--> "You know what I can't stand? ''Bricks of gold!''"

** After Mo Rocca expressed his dislike of homemade knitted sweaters, irate knitters responded by sending him loads of sweaters. This caused the other panelists to [[RetroactiveWish try and provoke similar outrage for things they "hated."]]

* BaseBreakingCharacter: frequent panelist Paul Poundstone is either the world's funniest comedian, or someone whose voice is so annoying that listeners turn off the volume until she's done talking.

** The show stirred up some flames when, in a Bluff the Listener Challenge about {{Periphery Demographic}}s, Peter basically called [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic bronies]] dorks with no social life. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome The next week, they apologised by having Bill Clinton answer questions about the show for Not My Job.]]

** After Mo Rocca expressed his dislike of homemade knitted sweaters, irate knitters responded by sending him loads of sweaters. This caused the other panelists to try and provoke similar outrage for things they "hated."

* InternetBackdraft: The show stirred up some flames when, in a Bluff the Listener Challenge about {{Periphery Demographic}}s, Peter basically called [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic bronies]] dorks with no social life. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome The next week, they apologised by having Bill Clinton answer questions about the show for Not My Job.]]

* InternetBackdraft: The show stirred up some flames when, in a Bluff the Listener Challenge about {{Periphery Demographic}}s, Peter basically called [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic bronies]] dorks with no social life. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome The next week, they apologised by having Bill Clinton answer questions about the show for Not My Job.]]

* InternetBackdraft: The show stirred up some flames when, in a Bluff the Listener Challenge about {{Periphery Demographic}}s, Peter basically called [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic bronies]] dorks with no social life. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome The next week, they apologised by having Bill Clinton answer questions about the show for Not My Job.]]

* DudeNotFunny: When Hawaiian singer Don Ho passed away, Peter made a joke about his grandkids being "nappy-bottomed Hos" shortly after the Don Imus incident. Needless to say, it didn't go over very well with the audience.
** Another example happened after the child air-traffic controller, Peter Sagal listed other times children have controlled air traffic, which included the landing of the US Air flight in the Hudson River.
** Mo Rocca had this happen when he once complained about he didn't like [[HomemadeSweaterFromHell hand-knitted sweaters]] because they literally rubbed him the wrong way. Needless to say, that didn't go well with many knitters; they sent loads of hand-knitted sweaters as a retort.
*** This actually got followed up on ''CBS Sunday Morning'' (Mo Rocca is also a contributor to Creator/{{CBS}}' ''Series/SixtyMinutes'' program), where they did a behind-the-scenes of the "controversy".
*** This later got a callback when Mo recounted the incident and the other panelists started listing things that they "hated."
---> "You know what I can't stand? ''Bricks of gold!''"

** Mo Rocca had this happen when he once complained about he didn't like hand-knitted sweaters because they literally rubbed him the wrong way. Needless to say, that didn't go well with many knitters; they sent loads of hand-knitted sweaters as a retort.

*** This actually got followed up on ''CBS Sunday Morning'' (Mo Rocca is also a contributor to Creator/{{CBS}}' ''[[SixtyMinutes 60 Minutes]]'' program), where they did a behind-the-scenes of the "controversy".

*** This actually got followed up on ''CBS Sunday Morning'' (Mo Rocca is also a contributor to {{CBS}}' ''[[SixtyMinutes 60 Minutes]]'' program), where they did a behind-the-scenes of the "controversy".

* InternetBackdraft: The show stirred up some flames when, in a Bluff the Listener Challenge about {{Periphery Demographic}}s, Peter basically called [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic bronies]] dorks with no social life. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome The next week, they apologised by having Bill Clinton answer questions about the show for Not My Job.]]