Peter Sagal Biography
Peter Sagal is an American humorist, writer, and host of the National Public Radio game show Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! and the PBS documentary Constitution USA with Peter Sagal.
How old is Peter Sagal? – Age
He is 59 years old as of 31 January 2024. He was born in 1965in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, United States. His real name is Peter Daniel Sagal
Peter Sagal Family – Education
Sagal grew up in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, as the son of Matthew and Reeva Sagal, both Jewish. Matthew was a telecoms executive, and Reeva was a teacher who later became a stay-at-home mother. Sagal graduated from Harvard College in 1987, and one of her college roommates was future Wall Street Journal correspondent Jess M. Bravin.
Peter Sagal Wife – Children
Sagal’s marriage lasted from 1994 till his divorce in 2013. In 2018, he married Mara Filler. He has two children from his second marriage and three from his first marriage.
Peter Sagal Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $500,000.
Peter Sagal Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!
Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! is a weekly satire broadcast on NPR hosted by comedian Dan Coffey. It premiered in January 1998 and has since become one of the network’s most popular shows, with approximately three million listeners across 520 public radio stations and a million people listening to the podcast each month. The show received a 2007 Peabody Award in 2008 for providing a lighthearted alternative to news and commentary.
However, the event sparked outrage in 2014 when comic Jarl Mohn tried a joke on a Diocese of Brooklyn Christmas ad, which was chastised by Bill O’Reilly and Dallas First Baptist Church senior pastor Robert Jeffress. Jarl Mohn, NPR President and CEO, defended the show’s purpose of making people laugh and expressed sadness that it did not succeed in this occasion.
Peter Sagal Career
In the wake of moving on from Harvard, Sagal sought after a few distinct occupations, all associated with the theater or composing. While living in Los Angeles, he showed up as a contender on the game show Peril! in April 1988, in which he set second.
Sagal then, at that point, moved to New York to seek after a performance center composing profession In 1998, he moved to the Chicago region, when he turned into the host of NPR’s Stand by Pause… Try not to Tell Me! news test program.
He was scholarly supervisor for the now-old Los Angeles Theater Center, a phase chief, an entertainer, a writer and a screenwriter, and an extra in a Michael Jackson video. He has likewise been a columnist, a writer, a comedian, a movement essayist, and a writer. Sagal has composed a few plays that have been performed across the US and globally.
Sagal has composed screenplays, one for a 1996 sci-fi/combative techniques spine chiller, Savage, one more for Grimy Moving: Havana Evenings, a 2004 spin-off of the first Messy Moving, adjusted from his screenplay Cuba Mine, which Sagal said looks similar to the inadequately gotten film. Sagal had a short voice appearance as Jokester’s Happiness in the 2015 energized film Back to front.
He showed up as himself in the “Pay Buddy” episode of the enlivened TV series The Simpsons. In that episode characters Lisa and Tumi stood by listening to an episode of Stand by Pause… Try not to Tell Me! including Sagal and host Carl Kasell.
Sagal has showed up in three TV specials in light of his public broadcast: Stand by Pause… Try not to Tell Me! (2008), Stand by Pause… Try not to Tell Me!: A Serious Aggravation in the News (2011), and Stand by Stand by Don’t Tell Me Live! (2013). A sprinter of long distance races, Sagal composes the Street Researcher segment for Sprinter’s Reality magazine. He has additionally composed for The New York Times Magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Houston Annal, and Time magazine.
Sagal and the Stand by Pause… Try not to Tell Me! group contributed an element called Sandwich Monday to The Salt, NPR’s food blog. For a long time, every Monday the Stand by Stand by group ate a new and different sort of sandwich for lunch. Then one of the colleagues would compose a flippant blog entry portraying the food. Sandwiches included Fritos-bested Daddy John’s pizza, latke twofold down, Passover Sandwich, and Burger Ruler’s YUMBO