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On National Public Radio's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, the series was the subject of the "Not My Job" segment with actor and novelist Harry Shearer. show on November 18, 2006. During the spring of 1980, Shearer had appeared as Carl Sagan on Saturday Night Live's spoof, "Pink Lady and Carl" with Gilda Radner and Laraine Newman playing the singing duo and Paul Shaffer as special guest star Marvin Hamlisch.
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