I'm Rico Gagliano. I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. And you know, each week on the dinner

party download, we'd speak to the brightest stars, turn people on to what's happening in music,

movies, food. Also, we would provide very terrible dad jokes for you. That's right. You're welcome

everybody. But do you know everyone's favorite segment? The song

we would play at the end. No, I think that was your favorite because it meant the show was over and you could go home and eat sheetcake.

That's true. Nope. I'm talking about the etiquette segment in which. And we figure that is because in this modern moment, it feels like we could all use a little guidance on how to be civilized adults. And what do you know? That is the subject of our new book, Brunches Hell, How to Save the World by throwing a dinner party. Wait a second. Are you talking about the one that's available in stores now? That is the very one. Go figure.

So as a companion to the book, we thought we would compile the etiquette segments that inspired

it into a little mini series, and we're calling it how to behave.

And for the second installment of that series, all our guest advice givers are comedians.

Who can be surprisingly wise when they're not busting our chops.

Later in this episode, we'll hear from the hilarious and very shalty Billy Eichner of the TV shows Billy on the Street and difficult people.

Plus, Lady Dynamite herself, Maria Bamford, along with her mom.

But let's kick things off with Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen.

All right.

They are writers, producers, and stars of the sketch comedy show Portlandia,

in which, of course, they lampoon the town of Portland, Oregon,

and the post-liberal art grad types who live there.

The show's final season launches in January.

When we met with Carrie and Fred, Brendan posed them our first listener question.

This question comes from Kay.

Kay writes, I'm engaged in planning a wedding.

My future husband and I do not wish to have children there as neither of us...

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