16 Facts About Peter Sagal

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Peter Daniel Sagal was born on January 31,1965 and is an American humorist, writer, and host of the National Public Radio game show Wait Wait.

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Peter Sagal spent a summer as a journalist for Cycle, a now defunct motorcycle magazine.

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Peter Sagal then moved to New York to pursue a theater writing career In 1998, he moved to the Chicago area, when he became the host of NPR's Wait Wait.

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Peter Sagal was literary manager for the now-defunct Los Angeles Theater Center, a stage director, an actor, a playwright and a screenwriter, and an extra in a Michael Jackson video.

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Peter Sagal has been a journalist, an essayist, a humorist, a travel writer, and an author.

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Peter Sagal has written several plays that have been performed across the United States and internationally.

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Peter Sagal voiced Clown's Joy in the 2015 animated movie Inside Out.

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8.

Peter Sagal appeared as himself in the "Pay Pal" episode of the animated television series The Simpsons.

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Peter Sagal has appeared in three television specials based on his radio show: Wait Wait.

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Peter Sagal has written for The New York Times Magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Houston Chronicle, and Time magazine.

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Peter Sagal discovered that Palmer did not direct the pornography movies attributed to her, and that she was a front for her pornographer boyfriend.

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For instance, in December of 2014, Peter Sagal attempted a joke about a Diocese of Brooklyn Christmas ad depicting a young woman taking a selfie with a picture of Jesus.

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O'Reilly stated that if Peter Sagal's comment was salacious he should be fired.

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Peter Sagal was married to Beth Albrecht from 1994 until their divorce in 2013.

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Peter Sagal has three children from his first marriage and two from his second marriage.

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Peter Sagal was a longtime resident of the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, though he moved to Highland Park, Illinois in 2022.