Originally Posted By alexbook My favorite radio show, "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!", has a slightly odd feature called "Not My Job." Famous people are invited on the show to answer a quiz about something unrelated to what they're famous for. This week's guest was Alan Menken, talking about bad ideas for children's toys: <a href="http://www.npr.org/2010/12/18/132155911/alan-menken-plays-not-my-job" target="_blank">http://www.npr.org/2010/12/18/...t-my-job</a> Back in October, they had Dick Van Dyke, and asked him about Dick Nixon, Chrysler vans, and dikes: <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130739954" target="_blank">http://www.npr.org/templates/s...30739954</a>
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Whoa. The Dick Van Dyke show had lyrics! And I sang them in my head, and they work with the melody. And Morey Amsterdam wrote them! That just blew my mind, man. And hearing DVD sing them, when you never even knew they existed, must have been a transcendent experience.
Originally Posted By JenniBarra I heard Alan Menken on "Wait Wait..." this morning. I think it's fun to get interesting background on whoever the guest for that segment happens to be.
