Ep 76: Distant Father's Day

International Waters

Maximum Fun

Quiz, Trivia, Society & Culture, Pop Culture, Comedy, Improv

4.7 • 782 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Aparna Nancherla, Jonathan Van Ness, Phill Jupitus and Shappi Khorsandi join host, Dave Holmes to quiz about Daleks, soccer, "meatlegging" and musicals. Aparna Nancherla wants to plug her new comedy album, Just Putting It Out There and recommends Jaqueline Novak's book How to Weep in Public: Feeble Offerings on Depression from One Who Knows. Jonathan Van Ness wants to plug his Funny or Die series Gay of Thrones and his own MaxFun podcast Getting Curious. Jonathan recommends The Great British Baking Show which runs on PBS and Netflix. Phill Jupitus is playing Bottom in The Theatre Royal Bath's upcoming production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and re-joins the cast of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang later this summer. Phill recommends the Essays of E. B. White and The Great British Sewing Bee. Shappi Khorsandi wants to plug her new novel Nina is Not OK. You can find Shappi's live gig dates here. Shappi recommends the work of British comic novelist, Sue Townsend. A good place to start is The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4. Dave Holmes is on Twitter @DaveHolmes and hosts his live quiz show, The Friday Forty at LA’s Meltdown Theatre on the second Friday of every month. Dave's new book Party of One is available for pre-sale now. You can let us know what you think of International Waters and suggest guests through our Facebook group or on Twitter. Written by Sarah Morgan and Riley Silverman. Recorded at GuiltFreePost in London by John Purcell Shackleton and at MaxFunHQ in Los Angeles. Produced by Jennifer Marmor and Colin Anderson.

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0:00.0	Hey there, folks. I'm Dave Holmes. Welcome to International Waters, the transatlantic panel show that pits British and American comedians against each other in a pop culture battle royale.
0:08.5	This is going out on Wednesday, the 15th, something like that. Just days after what happened in Orlando, it seems like every time I go into record, we're recovering from something.
0:18.6	And I usually don't address it. But I saw a video today of a vigil for one of the people who died who worked at the Harry Potter ride.
0:26.7	He'd worked a fucking roller coaster and went out to have a fucking drink and a twirl and got shot to death.
0:33.3	And so did many, many other people.
0:34.6	And there are still many, many people in the hospital.
0:37.5	And in times like this,
0:40.2	laughing and smiling and dancing and smooching
0:43.5	are fucking acts of political provocation, right?
0:46.8	So let's do that.
0:48.0	That's the only thing that we can do is have a fucking laugh.
0:51.2	So let's do that now.
0:52.7	You're listening to International Waters.
1:21.7	Music have a fucking laugh. So let's do that now. You're listening to International Waters. Playing for the country that is still trying to shake Piers Morgan like a whiny bout of flu.
1:25.3	From QI and live at the Apollo, she is comedian, Shappi Corse Handy.
1:29.5	And you're swinging by on your way to a show, right?
1:34.1	Yes, I have a show called Oh my country, beginning at the Soho Theater tonight. Oh, my God. That's some wordplay.
1:36.2	And so you're on your way there, so you're not drinking.
1:39.8	I'm not drinking, but you know what? When it's here, what can I do?
1:43.0	Yes. I'm a comedian, not a social worker.
1:46.1	Yes.
1:46.8	Put that shit.
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