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Wake Up Barstool

Wake Up Barstool is a daily two-hour sports talk show on FS1, premiered September 2, 2025, hosted by rotating Barstool Sports personalities including Dave Portnoy, Big Cat, and PFT Commenter, born from a 2025 Barstool–Fox Sports partnership.

Wake Up Dead Man

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery is Rian Johnson's 2025 third Benoit Blanc film, starring Daniel Craig, Josh O'Connor, and Josh Brolin in a church-set locked-room murder mystery released by Netflix.

Wake Up Sid

Wake Up Sid (वेक अप सिड) is a 2009 Hindi coming-of-age film, Ayan Mukerji's directorial debut, starring Ranbir Kapoor and Konkona Sen Sharma; produced by Dharma Productions, released 2 October 2009, a Semi-Hit grossing ₹27.95 cr net in India.

Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie

Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie (2004) is a direct-to-video alternative cut of Anchorman, built by Adam McKay from outtakes and a cut terrorist-group subplot, released with Anchorman DVDs.

Wakfu (TV series)

Wakfu, also known as Wakfu: The Animated Series, is a French animated series by Ankama Animations. It follows Yugo, an orphan who discovers his powers and searches for his family.

Waking Life

Waking Life (2001) is Richard Linklater's rotoscope-animated drama starring Wiley Wiggins as a man in a lucid dream, animated with Bob Sabiston's Rotoshop software; released by Fox Searchlight, grossing $2.9M, scoring 81% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Waking Ned

Waking Ned, released in the US as Waking Ned Devine, is Kirk Jones's 1998 debut comedy in which two elderly Irish villagers impersonate a friend who died of shock after winning a nearly £7 million lottery jackpot, filmed on the Isle of Man.

Waking the Dead (TV series)

Waking the Dead: BBC One British police procedural crime drama (2000–2011) created by Barbara Machin; 92 episodes, 9 series; Trevor Eve as DSU Peter Boyd leading a London cold-case unit; spin-off The Body Farm.

Waking the Fallen

Waking the Fallen is Avenged Sevenfold's second studio album, released August 26, 2003 on Hopeless Records. The melodic metalcore record, first with Synyster Gates and Johnny Christ, produced by Andrew Murdock, went RIAA platinum in 2021.

Wakizashi

Wakizashi (脇差, わきざし): Japanese short sword with a 30–60 cm blade, worn with the katana as the daishō pair; Edo-period samurai status sword, seppuku blade, forged like katana, regulated under Japan's Firearms and Swords Control Law.

Wakokin baka

Wakokin baka, Hausa for oral songs, is the tradition of orally composed Hausa poetry and song, one of two Hausa poetic traditions alongside written poetry.

Wakokin gargajiya

Wakokin gargajiya, Hausa for traditional songs, are the oral and written songs of the Hausa people of northern Nigeria, spanning praise poetry, satire, and didactic verse.

Wakokin siyasa

Wakokin siyasa are Hausa-language political songs, descended from the praise singing of Hausa griots, used to praise or attack politicians and parties during elections in northern Nigeria.

Wakokin yabo

Wakokin yabo, Hausa praise songs, are a traditional poetry form in which a singer praises a patron's status or worth; court singers serve an Emir while freelancers sing for anyone.

Walang Sugat

Walang Sugat, an 1898 Tagalog sarswela by Severino Reyes with music by Fulgencio Tolentino, premiered June 14, 1902 at Teatro Libertad, Manila. Depicting lovers Julia and Tenyong during the 1896 Philippine Revolution, it founded the sarswela's Manila dominance and inspired the PETA musical Walang Aray.

Walda Heywat

Walda Heywat (Wäldä Ḥəywät) was a seventeenth-century Ethiopian philosopher, the student of Zara Yacob, and author of the Hatata Walda Heywat, a precursor of written philosophy in Ethiopia.

Waldbühne (Berlin open-air)

The Waldbühne is an open-air amphitheatre in a wooded hollow near Berlin's Olympiastadion, built for the 1936 Olympics and seating about 22,000. It is Germany's largest natural theater.

Waldemar Bastos

Waldemar Bastos (1954–2020) was an Angolan singer-songwriter and guitarist who blended afropop with fado and Brazilian influences; he defected into exile in 1982 and broke through internationally with Pretaluz (1998).

Waldemar Dalenogare Neto

Waldemar Dalenogare Neto, known as Dalenogare, is a Brazilian film critic, historian, and professor from Porto Alegre; first South American member of the Critics Choice Association (2020) and creator of the YouTube channel Dalenogare Críticas.

Walden

Walden; or, Life in the Woods is Henry David Thoreau's 1854 account of living two years, two months, and two days in a cabin at Walden Pond on Emerson's land, a foundational text of American environmentalism and Transcendentalism.

Walden Media

Walden Media (Walden Media, LLC) is an American independent film studio founded in 2000 by Micheal Flaherty and Cary Granat, owned by Philip Anschutz via Anschutz Film Group, known for The Chronicles of Narnia films, Holes, Bridge to Terabithia, The Baby-Sitters Club, and the Walden Pond Press imprint.

Wale (rapper)

Wale (Olubowale Victor Akintimehin, born 1984) is a Washington, D.C. rapper known for go-go-influenced hip-hop, Seinfeld-themed mixtapes, and Billboard 200 No. 1 albums The Gifted and The Album About Nothing.

Waleed Zuaiter

Waleed Zuaiter (born 1971, Sacramento) is a Palestinian-American actor and producer who played Agent Rami in and produced the Oscar-nominated Omar, led Baghdad Central, and played Koba in Gangs of London.

Wales Millennium Centre

Wales Millennium Centre (Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru) is Wales' national performing arts centre in Cardiff Bay, opened November 2004; home of Welsh National Opera and seven other resident companies in a slate and bronze-steel building by Jonathan Adams.

Walid Toufic

Walid Toufic (وليد توفيق), born Walid Toutounji in 1954 in Tripoli, Lebanon, is a Lebanese singer and oud player known for the party staple 'Enzel Ya Gameel'.

Walk Among Us

Walk Among Us is the debut full-length studio album by the American horror punk band the Misfits. Released in 1982, it was recorded in New Jersey.

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is a 2007 American comedy film parodying musical biopics, starring John C. Reilly as fictional rock legend Dewey Cox.

Walk Like an Egyptian

Walk Like an Egyptian is a 1986 hit by The Bangles, written by Liam Sternberg and produced by David Kahne for Different Light; it topped the US Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks, peaked at number 3 in the UK, and popularized a stiff-armed dance pose.

Walk of Fame (song)

Walk of Fame is a 2025 song by Miley Cyrus featuring Brittany Howard, track 9 on Something Beautiful, a six-minute disco-rock/hi-NRG single released May 28, 2025 on Columbia.

Walk of Punishment

Walk of Punishment is the third episode of Game of Thrones season 3, the 23rd overall, aired April 14, 2013, written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss and directed by Benioff, first showrunner-directed episode, ending with Jaime Lannister's hand severed.