I listen to the show every week and I did not care she was on. However, they did lead her to the right answers a couple times. I know they kind of do this on the show, but they did it even more with her. I think they thought she was an idiot.
If “The Soup” did not exist, I wouldn’t know who any of these kind of celebs are.
C’mon. You don’t have to be a fan of Kanye West but you should be aware of who he is.
I listen to WWDTM every week. I heard that show and enjoyed it. She did fine, IMHO.
That said, there’s very little Kardashian in my life so maybe I’m not as overexposed as some.
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But the people who commented on the Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me web page? They were not amused. They were clutching their pearls. Or they would be clutching their pearls if the creation of pearls didn’t rely so heavily on stressed-out oysters.
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Maybe the offended NPR royalty could’ve rattled their jewelry instead.
Rap isn’t music- ha-ha that’s edgy! :smack:
(Get off of your own lawn.)
Ironically, the main place I hear about her is WWDTM. They must average at least one (usually not very funny) Kardashian joke or story per show. Other than that or the covers of tabloids while I’m waiting in line at the register, I don’t really hear about her. So pretending like WWDTM is some sort of Kim free zone up till now seems kind of ironic.
Not all his music is rap. Some is regular pop.
Sounds like a very upscale brand of feminine hygiene products.
I get mad about anything that gives her more attention. I don’t understand why she would go on radio to promote her book of selfish … selfies. How will people know that it’s a lot of pics of cleavage and duckface?
Also, I have seen Kanye’s video for Bound2 with Kim. There was absolutely no talent involved in that horrorshow.
Rap is okay. I like the Beastie Boys, Eminem, and Vanilla Ice, and I hear Asher Roth is pretty good.
Trolling? Moi? 
She kind of joked about duckface, something like how there’s no duckface in the early pics and then there is and then it fades out. I can’t remember what the exact words were.
Yeah, but they lead a lot of people to the right answers, even people who are generally considered smart. She did fine in her interview, I thought. She doesn’t take herself all that seriously, and seemed like a pretty good sport considering how often the show makes fun of her.
I think this whole “outrage” is a tempest in a teapot. It’s not like “Wait, Wait…” is some kind of bastion of high culture. The same episode that had Kim Kardashian as a guest also had an extended segment in which Peter Grosz and Maz Jobrani discussed drinking camel piss.
And Kim is not up to those high standards? Please.
She certainly was an interesting and unexpected choice. As others have pointed out, the show has had a fair bit of Kardashian in it but none of it positive.
Her interview however was terrible. She was…kind of awful. I really wanted to like her since all I’d ever heard were mean jokes at her expense yet there she was on the show anyway, so one might presume a graciousness and depth of character, but NOPE.
She really reinforced the image of being dull, vapid, selfish, rude and dumb. She wasn’t funny-- the quoted part of the interview about the selfie sticks was like a desperate grab for anything funny from a dreary and awkward interview, and not actually funny on its own (although to be fair many things aren’t, comedy is all about timing). I felt bad for Pesca when she went on and on about how stupid the idea of naming the child South would be, really the stupidest idea ever. Really, more stupid than naming a child North? In a family that has embraced a name theme/pattern before? It was just incredibly rude to go on about it the way she did because she was essentially and very obviously calling Pesca stupid.
And…maybe because I am a hopeless liberal…I had expected some sort of acknowledgement of Caitlyn (sp?) Jenner and perhaps some endorsement/support statement (I don’t watch the show so I have no idea if that was a reasonable expectation) and I thought that was a pretty glaring omission from an interview-- especially when a guest has basically said you are the stupidest person ever, might as well go for it, man!–so there must have been some prior arrangement to that effect which again speaks volumes to the vapid solipsism of Kim.
And then there was her representation of repeatedly ignoring her husband’s one request for a housing amenity when money is clearly no object, just blah.
It was just a sad and alienating interview, and why Pesca regards it as some sort of booking triumph when apparently she is famous for being an attention whore, I don’t get it.
I wish Paula had been one of the panelists. Her lack of filter might have taken it all to more interesting directions.
She’s another variant of Duggar. And about as appealing.
I heard this week’s program. At the start of the show, Peter Sagle acknowledged the controversy, admitted that the critics had a point, and promised that the current episode would return to the intellectually stimulating and thoughtful discussions of the past.
And then the show was wall to wall fart jokes from beginning to end. :D:D:D:D
They attempt to lead pretty much everybody who misses one of the first two to the right answer. It’s not like they have to explain to the accountant why they’re giving away too many stuff animals.
I’m amused (and, by the way, Mike Pesca was not the one who made the decision to put her on the air and Peter Sagal has tweeted that he’d have loved to do the interview if he hadn’t been out that week) by the small (if less small than usual) vocal whiners.
The existence of Pop Culture Happy Hour must drive them absolutely insane.
Yeah, I don’t listen to Wait Wait, but here is a page with the shows from the last year, and the guests include Clay Aiken, Jeremy Piven, and Lance Bass. It doesn’t seem like some super high-brow thing. Was there any outrage when Jeremy Piven was on the show?
It’s fine if you don’t like the Kardashian family, or if you didn’t like the episode that she was on for WWDTM. But to act like she’s the downfall of the show is ridiculous.
Is that seriously what happened? That’s hilarious.
Why did you feel the need to politicize this story? There’s no mention of the word “liberals” in the article, so why did you think it was important to bring it in?
/liberal, doesn’t listen to NPR, only vaguely knows who the Kardashians are
What was his “one request” 
I haven’t read the comments discussed in this thread, but I suspect the outrage is due not to KK being “low-brow” as such, but instead to KK being a celeb ONLY because of her own self-promotion. And it’s aggravating to see Wait Wait aiding her by giving her yet another venue for this self-promotion.