Shantira Jackson
Appearances
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WWDTM: Lauren Graham
The room with the antique furniture placard changed from a Renaissance revival room to skip this room. You can't even sit on any of the couches. Throughout the day, docents were finding and removing the placards display after display. When asked why she did it, the girls said that at school they were learning how the best art is honest art.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Lauren Graham
And also, I just lied and said I had permission to do this.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Lauren Graham
I'm really upset about this. This is like, I have such fond memories of me and my cousin screaming at each other over that money. Yeah. Like, I just, that's how you like learn how to count and decide whether or not being a landlord is a good thing.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Lauren Graham
I hate banana bread. You do? I do not like it. I like bananas. I don't like bananas in stuff. Sorry. Roy, how do you feel about banana bread?
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Lauren Graham
Well, if you put it like that, I'll probably eat that too.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Lauren Graham
The logic is, it's a boy, and he's a teenager, and he made a big mistake.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Lauren Graham
A teenage girl would have had too much stuff. She would have been like, I had to leave one of my bags on the top of the mountain.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Lauren Graham
I think I'm just, like, turning into my dad, because I'll be like, $40, I can make my own yogurt for half that price.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Lauren Graham
No spines, just tops and bottom covers so you can read everything like an accordion.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Lauren Graham
Yeah, the me who agreed to go is very different than the me that needs to leave. That's true. You ask me in the daytime, you want me to leave at night.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Lauren Graham
Then they just talk to a suburban mom. My grandma's been buying candles for Christmas for the last 30 years. Everybody goes to TJ Maxx and is like, your cousin will like this towel in six months.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Lauren Graham
She gives it to them. I don't know if they want it.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Lauren Graham
I lived on a cruise ship. I worked on a cruise ship for 18 weeks. 18 weeks.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Lauren Graham
And let me tell you, you couldn't pay me a million dollars to go be living on a cruise ship for that long. Shantira, what were you doing? I was doing comedy, you guys. And you know what? It was easy. Everybody's drunk. I've never been funnier.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Lauren Graham
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, or as his friends like to call him, The Met, has a long history of displaying beautiful art pieces and welcoming children of all ages. One day, a docent brought his daughter to work, only to immediately lose her. The girl had been to the museum hundreds of times, and she decided it was time to put her own spin on the exhibits.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Lauren Graham
One by one, she went around replacing the placards that give details about the art in the rooms with her own handwritten, honest reviews. The Egyptian room, originally known as the Temple of Dinder, was replaced with a placard that said, this stuff in here is pretty cool, but don't forget about what happened in the mummy. Be chill in here.