When's the last time you went to a dinner party?

How about the last time you hosted a dinner party?

Has it been a while?

Or is it something that you like to do regularly?

When I was growing up, it seemed like my parents had dinner parties pretty often.

They'd invite over some friends, usually another family that had kids around the same age as my brother, sister, and me.

And mom would cook a big dinner and we'd sit at the dining room table instead of the kitchen

table, and we'd use the fancy dishes that were reserved exclusively for company.

In fact, that's what my parents would call their guests, company.

They'd say things like, we've got company coming over next weekend.

There's actually a really funny bit by the American stand-up comedian Sebastian Maniskelko

about company coming over to his house when he was younger. By the way, a bit is what

stand-up comedians called jokes. And this bit really cracked me up and made me laugh really hard. And I know that comedy in a second language

can be one of the more difficult things to understand because of the speaking speed and the

cultural references and the slang that

comedians use, but if you're up for the challenge and you want to check out the

joke, you can find it on YouTube. Just search for the video called Doorbell. I think that's what the bit is called Doorbell and you'll be able to find it and I'll also make sure to leave a link to that joke in the description if you'd like to give it a listen and laugh along just like I did.

So I grew up with company coming over to my house fairly often but these days I don't

really host or entertain guests at all it's really really rare and to be honest

neither do my friends it's not like we don't want to see each other or spend time together or anything like that, but it's more like hosting a dinner party at your house is an awful lot of work.

Well last weekend my friends and I found a way to get together and have a dinner party

but no one was the host and everyone had a great time.

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