Peter Sagal

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Peter Daniel Sagal (born January 31, 1965) is an American humorist, author, and host of the National Public Radio game show Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! Peter Sagal stars in PBS' special Constitution USA.

Early life, family and education

Sagal was born in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, son of Matthew and Reeva Sagal. Matthew was a telecommunications executive, and Reeva was a schoolteacher who became a stay-at-home parent.

Sagal is a 1987 graduate of Harvard College, where a college roommate was future Wall Street Journal reporter Jess M. Bravin. They were chosen to write "Between the Sheiks" together and were given the opportunity to write the Hasty Pudding script. At Harvard, Peter explored English literature. While there, he wrote and directed several student theater productions. He also spent a summer as a writer for Cycle, a now defunct motorcycle magazine.

Personal life

Sagal was married to Beth Albrecht from 1994 to her divorce in 2013. He married Mary Filler in 2018. He has three children through Albrecht's history, and in early 2021, he was congratulated on the birth of their child through his relationship with Filler. They live in Highland Park, Illinois.

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Career

Sagal pursued a variety of careers after graduating from Harvard, none related to literature or writing. He appeared on the game show Jeopardy while living in Los Angeles! In April 1988, he came in second, a second place finish.

Sagal migrated to New York to pursue a theater writing career in 1998. Wait Wait! Don't Tell Me! This is a news quiz show.

He was the literary manager for the now-defunct Los Angeles Theater Center, a stage director, an actor, a screenwriter, and an extra in a Michael Jackson film. He has also worked as a journalist, an essayist, a travel blogger, and an author. Sagal has written several plays that have been staged around the United States and internationally. Some have also appeared on radio plays or podcasts.

Sagal has written screenplays, one for a 1996 science fiction/mature arts drama called Savage, and another for Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, a 2004 sequel to the original Dirty Dancing film that Sagal said has no resemblance to the poorly received film.

In addition, Sagal has written for television shows, including, "Intuitive," in which Sagal has also written for television shows.

Both Wait Wait pilots are based on the NPR/WBEZ Chicago news quiz radio show that Sagal hosts.

In the 2015 animated film Inside Out, Sagal sang of Clown's Joy.

In the "Pay Pal" episode of the animated television series The Simpsons, he appeared as himself. Lisa and Tumi were listening to an episode of Wait Waiting... Don't Tell Me! Carl Kasell, Sagal, and announcer Carl Kasell appear.

In three television specials based on his radio show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! (2008) Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me! A Royal Pain in the News (2011) – Wait, Don't Tell Me Live! (2013).

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Sagal, a marathon runner, contributes to the Road Scholar column in Runner's World magazine. He has also contributed to The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Houston Chronicle, and Time magazine.

Don't Tell Me About Sagal and the Waiting... To The Salt, NPR's food blog, the team created a feature called Sandwich Monday. The Wait Wait team has eaten a new and different kind of sandwich for lunch every Monday. One of the team members will write a tongue-in-cheek blog post describing the dish. The sandwiches were featured on Fritos-topped Papa John's pizza, latke double-down, Passover Sandwich, Passover Sandwich, and Burger King's YUMBO.

Sagal was hired to ghostwrite an autobiography of 1970s pornography director Gail Palmer while living in Minneapolis in the early 1990s. Sagal discovered that Palmer did not have the pornographic films attributed to her, and that she was a front for her pornographer boyfriend. Oricum, Peter wrote the book. Palmer, on the other hand, did not accept the book, and it has not been published.

The Book of Vice, a Sagal's Book of Vice, was published in October 2007 by HarperCollins: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do It): The Book of Vice was published in September 2007. Sagal revisits the Gail Palmer incident, claiming that his exposure to the porn industry aided in his writing Book of Vice. "Book of Vice," a "incredible, harmlessly prurient glimpse at the banality of ordinary people's strange and bizarre pleasures," according to Publishers Weekly.

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