Peter Sagal NPR, Biography, Age, Height, Family, Wife, Children, Salary and Net Worth

Peter Sagal Biography

Peter Sagal is an American humorist, radio personality, playwriter, screenwriter, and also champion of fourteen marathons across the United States. Sagal currently serves as the host of, one of the most popular shows on public radio known as Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me at NPR news since May 1998.

Sagal has served as a literary manager for a regional theater, a stage director, an actor, an extra in a Michael Jackson video, a travel writer, an essayist, a ghostwriter for a former adult film impresario, and a staff writer for a motorcycle magazine. He has been the author of numerous plays that have been performed in all theaters within the country and abroad. He has also written a number of screenplays, including Savage, a cheesy vehicle for obscure French kickboxer Olivier Gruner, and Cuba Mine.

Peter Sagal Age

Sagal is 58 years old as of the year 2023, he was born Peter Daniel Sagal on January 31st, 1965, in Berkeley Height, New Jersey, United States of America. His birthday is on January 31st every year. Sagal is an American by nationality and he belongs to white ethnicity.

Peter Sagal Height

Sagal stands at a height of 6 feet (1.83 m).

Peter Sagal Education

Sagal attended and graduated from Governor Livingston Regional High School. He later joined Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he studied literature as well as journalism course and graduated in 1987 with a master’s degree. He wrote and trained other students in Theatre Productions.

Peter Sagal Family, Siblings

Sagal was born and raised by his parents Reeva Sagal (mother) who was a school teacher and Matthew his father, was a telecommunications executive. He grew up alongside her two brothers, Douglas older brother, and Roger the last born.

Peter Sagal Career

After graduating from Harvard, Sagal worked in a variety of fields, all of which were related to theater or writing. In April 1988, while living in Los Angeles, he competed on the game show Jeopardy! and came in second place.

Sagal then relocated to New York to pursue a career as a theater writer. He went to the Chicago area in 1998 and became the host of NPR’s news quiz program Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!

He was a stage director, actor, dramatist, and screenwriter for the now-defunct Los Angeles Theater Center, as well as an extra in a Michael Jackson video. He’s worked as a journalist, essayist, humorist, travel writer, and author, among other things.