Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John is sharing selections from the Off-Ramp vault to help you explore this imperfect paradise.
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The downloadable Dinner Party Download, with Rico Gagliano and Brendan Newnam, always features an "icebreaker," the joke that will help you on your way to becoming the life of the dinner party. The best part is that these are not just jokes, but the favorite jokes of people like The Watson Twins, Leslie Caron, Tom Jones, and Billy Bragg. These jokes have bona fides that guarantee your success, or at least an alibi. (Shrugging, nonchalantly, "Well, Tom Jones thought it was funny.") Now, for the first time, DPD collects these hilarititans together. Come inside to find out who is telling the jokes.
“Two deers” - The Watson Twins
“What is fate?” - MC Frontalot
“Descartes walks into a bar” - Abigail Chapin of The Chapin Sisters
“The butcher store” - Chad Brown aka The Lonesome Cowboy
“Two sausages” - Buck AE Down of The Mutaytor
“Huntin’ buddies” - Jere Cherryholmes of Cherryholmes
“The lifeguard & the hippie” - Christopher Owens of Girls
“How long have I got?” - Sam Amidon
“Cheeseburger, fries & a coke” - Music blogger Spencer Lee
“You can float around the building” - Aaron Britt
“You must be single” - Rich Fulcher
“Isle of Dogs” - Josie Long
“How many Freudians?” - Billy Bragg
“The vacuuming Buddhist” - Natasha Leggero
“A mainstream cloud” - Cass McCombs
“Fortunately there was a haystack” - Stewart Brand
“Funniest joke to Belgians” - MC Frontalot
“Frank Sinatra” - Black Francis of The Pixies
“The Churchgoing biker” - Jessica Hundley
“The Jewish mother” - Robert Zuckerman
“Big fat orange head” - Phil Hay
“I would never tell a joke” - Leslie Caron