Episode 316: The 2015 Icebreaker Episode
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2015
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Witness the 2015 all-joke extravaganza! Per DPD tradition, we’ve crammed a year’s worth of so-bad-they’re-good icebreakers into one nifty little package. You’ll hear enough lightbulb-changing jokes to last you a lifetime, along with witty one-liners and groaners, from guests including Adam Scott, Marion Cotillard, Joe Manganiello, Tracee Ellis Ross, Oscar the Grouch, Jenny Slate, David […]
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| 0:00.0 | My opening joke in the mountains, the Borsch belt, the worst joke ever. |
| 0:07.0 | I get on stage and I'd say, good evening ladies and Jews, I don't know with that. |
| 0:15.0 | Then I'd say, I met a girl last night that was so skinny. I mean, this girl was so thin. I mean, we're talking |
| 0:22.0 | skinny here. I introduce her to the matri-D at the restaurant, and he says, check your umbrella. |
| 0:28.8 | That's how skinny this girl was. |
| 0:34.4 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. And I'm Rico Gagliano. |
| 0:38.0 | Welcome to a special edition of the dinner party download, |
| 0:41.0 | the show that helps you win this week's dinner parties. |
| 0:43.4 | You just heard the great Mel Brooks tell a not-so-great joke to break the ice. |
| 0:47.7 | Classically a not-so-great joke. |
| 0:49.2 | Yes. |
| 0:49.9 | And there's plenty more of that to come because this is our annual all icebreaker show. |
| 0:54.5 | That's right. Every week on the show we somehow convinced the likes of David Dukovny, |
| 0:58.5 | Jeffrey Tambor, Corntucker, and Bill Nye, the Science Guy, to regale us with punty tales about various types of people walking in the bars, |
| 1:06.0 | knock knocking on doors and screwing in light bulbs. And once a year we gather them all together into a groan-tastic audio package just for you. |
| 1:12.6 | Some are funny, most or not, but there are definitely a lot of them. |
| 1:16.6 | Here to get us started is the star of the CW series Jane the Virgin, Golden Globe-winning |
| 1:20.6 | actress Gina Rodriguez. |
| 1:22.6 | Enjoy. |
| 1:23.6 | Okay, here's my joke. |
| 1:24.6 | What did one math book say to the other? I got problems. Here's my joke. What did one math book say to the other? |
| 1:29.0 | I got problems. |
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