A couple weeks ago, author, actor, and humorist John Hodgman was the guest on NPR’s ‘Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!’ As I listened to John and host Peter Sagal, John’s simple, polite, and deadpan delivery of often ludicrous responses to Peter’s questions reminded me very strongly of an old comedy album of my dad’s that I listened to time and time again growing up, where ABC television announcer Ernie Anderson plays straight man to comedian Tim Conway in a series of interviews.