A lawyer once told me a joke that was, which is too long to tell, it's not a good short joke,

but I was paying for his time, and he told me this joke two different times that I was with him.

And both times I sat through this seven-minute joke thinking about how much it was costing me.

I'm Rico Galliano. I'm Rico Galeano.

I'm Brendan Francis Nune.

Welcome to a special edition of the Dinner Party Download,

the show that helps you win this week's dinner parties.

You just heard acclaimed indie filmmaker Noah Bombach

tell you about a single expensive joke.

That is not going to be the problem today, though,

because to celebrate our recent 200th podcast, we are presenting you with a veritable onslaught of jokes

for the price of free. Yes, it's our bicentennial, yikes, all-icebreaker episode. Yay.

Dozens of miniature mirthful tales, as told to us by such luminaries as Brian Cranston, James

Franco, Alison Pill, the band Fun, and many more.

Some are funny, most are not.

Yeah.

But there are definitely a lot of them.

Starting with this one from comedian and co-creator of the TV series The Office, Stephen

Merchant.

Enjoy.

A comedian called Dan Ann Topolski won the funniest joke of the Edinburgh comedy fringe

with this joke. Hedgehogs, why can't they just share the hedge? What do you call a fish

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