Episode 255: Steve Coogan, Hugh Bonneville, B.J. Novak, and “Broad City” BFFs

The Dinner Party Download

American Public Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2014

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week: Oscar nominee Steve Coogan (“Philomena,” this summer’s upcoming “The Trip to Italy”) meditates on condiments and dramedies … “The Monuments Men” star Hugh Bonneville – a.k.a. Lord Grantham on “Downton Abbey” - minds his manors … Former “The Office” employee B.J. Novak introduces us to Wikipedia Brown, Boy Detective … The BFFs behind Comedy […]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the dinner party download. This is your icebreaker.
0:05.0	So, yeah, so here's one for a dinner party.
0:09.0	It'll clear the table.
0:12.0	What do you do when you see a space man?
0:14.0	I don't know.
0:15.0	You're parking it, man.
0:17.0	I'm Rico Goliano.
0:22.4	I'm Brendan Francis Nune, and from APM American Public Media, this is the dinner party download,
0:28.1	the culture show that helps you win this week's dinner parties.
0:31.3	You just got a fine joke from actor Hugh Bonneville, aka Lord Grantham, from downtown
0:35.6	Abbey.
0:36.0	That'll help break the ice.
0:37.3	He also stars in the film Monuments Men, which just came out on DVD.
0:40.8	We will speak with him later.
0:42.0	Also coming up, Steve Coogan, star and writer of the Oscar-nominated film, Philomena,
0:46.7	reveals the secret of sanity.
0:49.0	Read the writing on the back of a sauce bottle.
0:51.3	It's cheaper than therapy.
0:52.3	That's true. And if that sounds familiar, it's because this is an encore broadcast of a show we first
0:57.1	aired back in February.
0:58.8	As at any dinner party, it began with small talk.
1:04.2	All week long, you've been hearing these headlines.
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