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Headline Game

PETER SAGAL, host:

Now, it's time for a little game we call...

CARL KASELL, host:

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

SAGAL: I love it when you put on your knickers in your little news boy cap. I do.

(Soundbite of laughter)

SAGAL: Panel, Carl is going to read each of you three headlines that we found in a newspaper or online. Only one of them though is real though. Pick that real one, you'll get a point a point.

Faith, this comes from the movie site "Rotten Tomatoes." Was it...

KASELL: Angelina Jolie to adopt Jennifer Aniston.

SAGAL: Or...

KASELL: Studios: We'll stop making crap when you stop paying to see it.

(Soundbite of laughter)

SAGAL: Or...

KASELL: "Thor" finishes on top of "Bridesmaids."

(Soundbite of laughter)

(Soundbite of applause)

Ms. FAITH SALIE (Contributor, "CBS Sunday Morning"): I like the image of three so I'm going with it.

SAGAL: You're right.

(Soundbite of bell)

SAGAL: It was a good weekend for Thor, and for Bridesmaids.

All right, Adam, from a Fox affiliate in New York, some animal news. Was it...

KASELL: A cute puppy causes acute injury.

SAGAL: Or...

KASELL: Alligator not expected at sentencing.

SAGAL: Or...

KASELL: Pony pilferer ponies up pilfered ponies.

(Soundbite of laughter)

Mr. ADAM FELBER (Writer, "Real Time with Bill Maher"): I'm going to go with the alligator.

SAGAL: Alligator not expected at sentencing. You're right. It was not there.

(Soundbite of bell)

(Soundbite of laughter)

SAGAL: Man was charged with keeping the gator as a pet illegally. The crime usually comes with a built-in punishment.

All right. Tom, this is from WYFF in South Carolina. This crime story...

KASELL: Man busted for impersonating a police officer by man impersonating a police officer.

(Soundbite of laughter)

SAGAL: Or...

KASELL: Strip search finds crack between buttocks.

(Soundbite of laughter)

Ms. SALIE: So.

SAGAL: Let me know if I can go on, Faith. I got one more.

(Soundbite of laughter)

SAGAL: Or...

KASELL: Man claiming to be the real son of Sam, actually son of man named Jerry.

(Soundbite of laughter)

Mr. TOM BODETT (Author and Humorist): Oh I'm going to have to go with the...

SAGAL: Do Faith a favor.

Mr. BODETT: The crack in the buttocks. Yeah.

(Soundbite of laughter)

Mr. BODETT: For two reasons. One is to so I don't want to let Faith up.

(Soundbite of laughter)

Mr. BODETT: And the other is because that's where cracks are.

SAGAL: Yeah. Sure.

(Soundbite of laughter)

SAGAL: That's one.

(Soundbite of bell)

SAGAL: The South Carolina deputy...

(Soundbite of applause)

Mr. BODETT: All guns are.

SAGAL: ...was surprised to find a bag of crack cocaine between the buttocks of thanks suspect. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

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