Peter Sagal
Peter Sagal (born January 31, 1965 ) is an American author, screenwriter and radio host. He is not to be confused with the named director Peter Segal .
Life
Sagal, who is from Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, graduated from Harvard University. He then made his way through various professions. He worked as a stage director, agent and editor for a wide variety of publications, including the Chicago Tribune . His best-known work as a screenwriter is the script for the film Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights , where he has repeatedly stated in interviews that he originally wrote a screenplay that portrayed the events of the Cuban Revolution from the perspective of a young American woman, and that that The script was then stripped of its political focus and supplemented by a dance theme.
Since 1998 Sagal has hosted the show Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! which is broadcast weekly by the radio station National Public Radio (NPR) - roughly the US counterpart to Deutschlandfunk. The show, which currently (2011) has around 3.5 million listeners, deals in a humorous way with the news topics of the past week. For this purpose, Sagal and a panel of three changing comedians ask several candidates, who are switched live to the studio, as well as a prominent guest, as part of various quiz games, questions on topics that were in the focus of the media in the past week. In addition to direct question and answer sessions, there are e.g. B. a round in which the candidate has to fill in missing words in comical limericks, and a multiple-choice round in which the candidate is presented with three crazy stories and has to decide which of them actually happened and which are inventions. The games are flanked by talks Sagal with his callers and an interview with the prominent guest as well as humorous comments from his panel. Prominent guests on the show in the past have included Barack Obama , Dick Van Dyke , Michael Moore , Seth MacFarlane , Salman Rushdie , Brian Williams and Tom Hanks .
In 2007 Sagal's drama Denial premiered at the Metropolitan Playhouse in New York.
Books
- The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them) , Harpercollins 2007.
Web links
- Biography on the NPR website
- Peter Sagal in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sagal, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author, screenwriter, and radio host |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1965 |