Episode 343: The ALL-TV Episode
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2016
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Encore Broadcast: It’s a special “ALL-TV” Episode, featuring big talent from the small screen! Ellie Kemper of “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” smiles into the void… T.J. Miller (“Silicon Valley”) recommends wedding gifts for the budget-minded (just make sure you have your tetanus shot)… “Orange is the New Black” star Uzo Aduba invites Shakespeare to the slammer… […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:05.0 | Here's a joke for you. What do you call a man with nobody and just a nose? |
| 0:10.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:12.0 | Nobody knows. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Rico Gagliano, and from APM, American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party Download, |
| 0:24.2 | the culture show that gives you an edge in your weekend conversation. |
| 0:27.3 | You just get a joke from Tatiana Muzlani. |
| 0:29.3 | That'll help break the ice. |
| 0:30.9 | She just won her first Emmy last weekend for her starring role on the show Orphan Black, |
| 0:35.6 | which makes her just the person to kick off this, |
| 0:38.0 | our annual all-TV episode. |
| 0:40.0 | Yes, as we bathe in the afterglow of last weekend's Emmy Awards and look forward to the launch |
| 0:45.3 | of 4,000 new TV shows for the fall season. |
| 0:48.9 | We've compiled our favorite conversations with giants of the small screen. |
| 0:52.4 | And to kick things off, here's Norman Lear, producer of some of the most groundbreaking TV in history, including all in the family, telling us about the first time he got addicted to the tube just after World War II. |
| 1:03.0 | Yes, my wife, my wife, with a child, and I drove out to California. |
| 1:07.2 | I was going to look for work as a publicist. |
| 1:10.7 | And the only person we knew who had a television set was an uncle who was living here. |
| 1:15.8 | We used to go over to Uncle Isles to watch Milton Burrell. |
| 1:19.0 | Of course. |
| 1:19.7 | The great Milton Burrell. |
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