NPR Game Show Host Goes On String of Pope Jokes, Starting with He's a 'Gay Icon'

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March 19, 2012

NPR Game Show Host Goes On String of Pope Jokes, Starting with He's a 'Gay Icon'
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NPR's weekend game show "Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me!" usually saves most of its topical humor for supposed White House drunk George W. Bush or Dick Cheney the Grim Reaper for all the usual smug-liberal laugh lines. On Saturday, host Peter Sagal went on an extended comedy routine with five jokes mocking Pope Benedict XVI, beginning with the notion that he's "another famous gay icon."

03/19/12 5:34 AM

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