So here's one for a dinner party.

It'll clear the table.

What do you do when you see a space, man?

I don't know.

You're parking it, man.

I'm Rico Galliano.

And 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 Hugh Bonneville,

aka Downton Abbey's Lord Grantham,

tell you a joke to break the ice,

and we hope you're ready for more of the same

because you're listening to our all icebreaker show.

That is correct.

This week we issued the 250th episode of our podcast, and we're celebrating by giving you this a semi-quincennial cavalcade of nonstop groans.

That's right. We are not joking around.

I mean, we are joking around, but we're serious about the cavalcade part. Somehow we persuaded folks like Carrie Brownstein, Tavi Gevinson, and filmmaker Baz Lorman, to tell us a bunch of jokes, and they are all compiled herein. Some are funny, most are not, but there are definitely a lot of them.

So let's get to it. We're starting with this one from two-time Oscar nominee, Jonah Hill.

Enjoy.

So two cupcakes are sitting in an oven, and one cupcake says to the other cupcake, man, it's hot in here.

And the other cupcake says, oh my God, it's a talking cupcake.

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