Peter Sagal
Peter Sagal is an American author, screenwriter, and radio host. He is not to be confused with the similar name director Peter Segal.
Life
Sagal, who hails from Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, studied at Harvard University. He then made his way into various occupations. He worked as a stage director, agent and editor for various publications, including the Chicago Tribune. His best known work as a screenwriter is the script for the film Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights, which he has repeatedly stated in interviews to have originally written a script that described the events of the Cuban Revolution from the perspective of a young American woman, and that the script then its policy focus undressed and was supplemented by a dance theme.
Since 1998, Sagal hosts the show Wait Wait ... Do not Tell Me, the (NPR ) weekly from the U.S. radio station National Public Radio - will be broadcast - the American counterpart to the radio in Germany about. The program that achieved at the time (2011) a rate of about 3.5 million listeners, provides a humorous confrontations with the news topics of the past week shows To this end Sagal and a panel of three comedians changing several candidates who live on the Studio must be switched, as well as a celebrity guest in the context of different quizzes questions about issues that were in the past week in the media spotlight. In addition to direct question-and- answer sessions there are, for example, a round in which the candidate has to fill in the missing words in comical limericks, and a multiple-choice round, in which the candidate is presented with three crazy stories and must decide what has it really happened and what inventions. Underpinning the Games of conversations Sagals with his callers and an interview with the celebrity guest and humorous comments from its panel. Among the celebrity guests on the program in the past included, among others, Barack Obama, Dick Van Dyke, Michael Moore, Seth McFarlane, Salman Rushdie, Brian Williams and Tom Hanks.
2007 Sagals premiered Drama denial at the Metropolitan Playhouse in New York.
- The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things ( and How to Do Them ), Harper Collins 2007.