Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, the hilarious authors of the #1 New York Times bestselling young adult novel BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, join Christopher & Eric for a fiery, no-holds-barred chat about witches, magic spells and the publishing industry! Find out which topic is the most mysterious. Kami also discusses her brand new book, UNMARKED, the second installment in The Legion Series. Critic-at-large Jordan Ampersand is back with another episode of WHAT’S SCIENCE?
Oct 06, 2014•59 min
You are the most important guest on this episode of The Dinner Party Show! Christopher and Eric take your questions and ask for your help in solving a Manhattan murder mystery. Who killed Chuck The Groundhog? Was it New York mayor Bill DeBlasio? The show's Party Line is full of crazy voicemails from the show's loyal listeners, a.k.a the "Party People". Things always get crazy when you're the guest.
Sep 29, 2014•58 min
Christopher and Eric offer up their highest hopes and dish out their worst fears for the new fall T.V. season. It’s the launch of an all new TDPS game called ‘Good, Better, Worst’. Listen to the synopsis, then Christopher and Eric's predictions for failure and/or success. It's a full hour of unmitigated TDPS snark, complete with some hilarious fake commercials for shows you won't have to watch this season. Thank God!
Sep 22, 2014•57 min
The third season begins! TDPS favorite Bryan Fuller is back. The creator of NBC's HANNIBAL, PUSHING DAISIES and DEAD LIKE ME invited Christopher and Eric to a special screening of his new ScyFy Channel movie HIGH MOON in the backyard of his home. They discuss the movie as well as Eric's problems with being outside for longer than five minutes. Christopher is giving away free electronic copies of his forthcoming supernatural thriller for 24 hours only…and he can't stop talking about it.
Sep 15, 2014•58 min
It’s time for AT THE TABLE 2, a special collection of highlights from some of our best celebrity interviews. Find out what scares #1 bestselling crime novelist Patricia Cornwell. Twitter phenomenon Caprice Crane recounts her run-ins with barn animals. Chaz Bono breaks new ground in the national conversation on transgender issues. The lovely Miss Coco Peru is startled by a probing question from Christopher. Dan Savage talks about the real meaning of “gay community”.
Sep 08, 2014•1 hr 14 min
Christopher and Eric present some of the most hilarious and entertaining highlights from their first celebrity interviews. Their special guests include world-famous novelist Anne Rice, famed prosecutor Marcia Clark, Broadway diva and T.V. star Laura Benanti and a special musical performance from comedian Alec Mapa. Along the way there's delicious dish about about FIFTY SHADES OF GREY author E.L. James and gorgeous actress/model Amber Heard. It's a sparkling buffet of celebrity treats. Also being...
Sep 01, 2014•53 min
Ms. JoNell Samms (a.k.a the voice of Eric Shaw Quinn), The Dinner Party Show’s resident “relationship expert, offers up her best advice on love, marriage and denial in this special greatest hits show, the latest installment in the TDPS Summer Vacation Series. Live and direct from Saint Etendre Parish, somewhere in the deep, deep, deep South, JoNell is a unique combination of clever and clueless whose homemade relationship advice can save any bad marriage, including her own.
Aug 25, 2014•1 hr 4 min
Host Jordan Ampersand and his drug-addled friends descend upon a glamorous L.A. shopping mall to explore the meaning of Christmas! They’re joined by Puffy The Christmas Elf and everyone learns an important lesson about dieting during the holidays. Episode 53 originally aired Sunday, December 22, 2014. Rebroadcast Sunday, August 20, 2014.
Aug 18, 2014•48 min
Live from center court at the Poison Creek Mall, relationship “expert” JoNell Samms is back for another ill-advised (and potentially dangerous) broadcast! She’s joined by the mall’s wacky support staff; Lupe, the mall manager who would love to see every show end in disaster, and Jim Bob, the maintenance director who can’t take a hint. And let’s not forget her special guests! The Rev. Graham Craquers is on hand to discuss the “right” kind of love, and the archery club from the local high school h...
Aug 18, 2014•42 min
One of The Dinner Party Show’s most beloved (and reviled) “special correspondents” stands trial for plotting an act of domestic terrorism (maybe). But ultimately, Jordan’s brains (or lack thereof) and moral fiber (or lack thereof) get entered into evidence in this highly unorthodox criminal proceeding which brings you the very best (or worst, depending on your point-of-view) of Jordan Ampersand’s catastrophic special reports for The Dinner Party Show.
Aug 04, 2014•1 hr 8 min
When author panels at literary festivals degenerate into barroom brawls, TDPS is there to capture it all. It’s The Dinner Party Show’s SUMMER BOOK FESTIVAL, also bringing you excerpts from the latest audiobook bestsellers, including a thriller in which the author spends more time mentioning brand names than plot elements and a coming-of-age story about Southern women packed with every cliche south of the Mason Dixon line. It’s a scathing send up of books, the people who write them and the people...
Jul 28, 2014•59 min
Breck Artery has never met a piece of news he couldn’t break! The Dinner Party Show’s fairly imbalanced newsman finally gets his own greatest hits show. Join this tart-tongued, judgment-filled journalist (voiced by Eric Shaw Quinn) as he injects his personal opinion into just about every headline-making story from the past few years. Breck can’t figure out who he hates more: craven politicians, uninformed voters or the scandal-addicted media machine for which he works. One thing’s for sure. He’s...
Jul 21, 2014•52 min
Cruising for a bruising on the high seas with Jordan Ampersand and Eric Shaw Quinn Ahoy, crazies! Get ready to set sail (by accident) aboard the world’s worst cruise ship, the Fiesta Burrito. Before leaving town for a public appearance in New York City, TDPS co-host Christopher Rice hatches a secret plan to set Eric Shaw Quinn and critic-at-large Jordan Ampersand out to sea together. The disastrous results include a kiddie pool full of fake sharks and a cruise ship talent show featuring a bizarr...
Jul 14, 2014•38 min
The summer holidays go south. The Dinner Party Show LIVE from the Poison Creek Mall somewhere in the Deep, Deep South with your Guest Host JoNell Samms. It’s a Dinner Party Show special, live from center court at one of the worst shopping malls in the deep, deep, deep South, where your host, JoNell Samms fights off irate security guards, a water feature no one seems able to turn off, the blender at Orange Julius and critic-at-large Jordan Ampersand, whose interviews with various mall merchants t...
Jul 07, 2014•45 min
Christopher announces the publication date and publisher for his next supernatural thriller, THE VINES. (And Eric is forced to read the plot synopsis aloud to creepy music.) The final thrilling installment in Christopher’s interview with critically acclaimed thriller writer, Terry Hayes. Famed prosecutor and mystery novelist Marcia Clark is live in studio to discuss rampage killers and school shootings, the subject matter of her Rachel Knight mystery, THE COMPETITION. Hollywood has really glorif...
Jun 30, 2014•56 min
Zombie haiku! Crazy pick up lines. A MOMMY DEAREST reboot? A pill that might prevent new HIV infections. It’s all on the table on this edition of YOU’RE THE GUEST. Christopher and Eric field a deluge of voicemails from the show’s Party Line (323-PEZ-TDPS), and the resulting topics are far-reaching, wide-ranging and insanity-inducing. (Also, Christopher spends most of the show making every topic about him.)
Jun 23, 2014•55 min
Gun control. School bullying. When Christopher and Eric try to solve a problem, you might end up feeling better about the jerks who caused the problem to begin with. Enjoy your hosts' unsolicited advice to world leaders and find out why these two dudes deal mostly in fiction. This special edition includes an interview with screenwriter and author Terry Hayes, discussing his critically-acclaimed international thriller, I AM PILGRIM.
Jun 16, 2014•1 hr 1 min
A TDPS Mockumentary! Christopher and Eric allow a documentary crew to follow them after they’re invited to host a float in the L.A. Pride Parade. But when Christopher places their youngest and most reviled special correspondent, critic-at-large Jordan Ampersand, in charge of float construction disaster ensues. And it’s all caught on Internet radio. The result is AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH meets PARIS IS BURNING.
Jun 09, 2014•36 min
Should 8-year-old girls be given mink coats? Why are some journalists scrubbing parts of Maya Angelou’s obituary? These are just a few of the questions being served up on the latest edition of YOU’RE THE GUEST, a special episode of TDPS in which Christopher and Eric respond to voice messages and Facebook posts left by the show’s loyal Party People. (The show’s Party Line is always open at 323-PEZ-TDPS.)
Jun 02, 2014•57 min
Christopher and Eric highlight the show’s gayest moments, including their gayest sketches, their gayest special correspondents and their gayest hopes for the big gay year ahead. This special episode is a perfect intro to The Dinner Party Show and all of its wacky servings, especially the gay ones.
May 27, 2014•53 min
One of our most controversial episodes to date. #1 bestselling author Steve Berry joins Christopher and Eric to discuss his brand new thriller THE LINCOLN MYTH. In the process he challenges popular assumptions about President Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. Download the episode and join the conversation on our Facebook page.
May 19, 2014•59 min
It’s another special edition of The Dinner Party Show’s popular series, LIVE FROM POISON CREEK, coming to you “live” from center court at the Poison Creek Mall somewhere in the deep, deep, deep, deep South. What exactly is a Mother’s Day Derby? Your host “relationship expert” Miss JoNell Samms invites the manager of a local house of ill repute to host a 43-year old local Mother’s Day tradition that’s shrouded in mystery and intrigue. Find out why JoNell has never heard of it before now, and why ...
May 12, 2014•37 min
Christopher and Eric hold a contest for which Party Person can leave the most embarrassing confession of drunken misbehavior on the show’s Party Line. The voting continues on their Facebook page, but meanwhile the boys are horrified by the entries and desperate to share them with you.
May 05, 2014•54 min
Bryan Fuller, the creator of NBC’s HANNIBAL, PUSHING DAISIES and DEAD LIKE ME, joins Christopher and Eric for a rousing hour of live conversation featuring penetrating questions about hair-care, cannibalism and the writing process from the show’s “Party People”.
Apr 28, 2014•58 min
Fairly imbalanced newsman Breck Artery has a shocking and revealing interview with the Easter Bunny. Bay Area culture critic Buzz Kilton attempts to pry open minds at a children’s Easter egg hunt. Author M.J. Rose is on hand to discuss her hypnotic new thriller, THE COLLECTOR OF DYING BREATHS, a story of poison, perfume and past lives. It’s all part of Christopher and Eric’s Easter Sunday Eggstravaganza.
Apr 21, 2014•53 min
Voicemails from the show’s Party People set the menu for this raucous live episode of TDPS. Christopher and Eric tackle campaign finance reform, gay romance novels and a very special question from the show’s (previously silent) sound editor, Brandon Griffith. A social media battle ensues between a shirtless picture of Christopher and an adorable kitten named Smaug. Will Smaug win and end up taking Christopher’s place as co-host? Download now to find out!
Apr 14, 2014•56 min
Jordan Ampersand is back and Villa Pastenso will never be the same! When the swimming pool at Eric Shaw Quinn’s historic West Hollywood apartment building is poisoned with a hallucinogenic drug, it's up to Eric and his merry band of entertainment industry has-beens to find out who's behind it. Could the culprit be Jordan Ampersand, currently working off his community service hours at West Hollywood City Hall after his catastrophic attempt to become Villa Pastenso’s building manager? Find out in ...
Apr 07, 2014•40 min
The party line’s been ringing off the hook so Christopher and Eric have devoted another entire show to your outrageous and inappropriate questions. Listen as Christopher “does a Meg Ryan”. Find out the strangest thing anyone’s said to Eric after sex. If you sent the kids out of the room for our last episode, don’t bring them back in until you’re done listening to this one as well.
Mar 31, 2014•58 min
Which question will Christopher and Eric refuse to answer? What’s too far? What’s not far enough? The Dinner Party Show’s brand new Party Line allows listeners to leave questions and comments about the show. (323-PEZ-TDPS) This week, Christopher and Eric hold a contest for the most inappropriate question. But along the way they give some shocking answers to a few questions you probably thought (or hoped) they didn’t have the guts to answer. Send the kids out of the room for this one, folks.
Mar 24, 2014•59 min
The show’s loyal listeners, the Party People, leave their birthday messages for Christopher and Eric on the show’s new “party line”, and the guys respond as they always do when everything’s about them - enthusiastically! But let’s not forget the show’s “special correspondents”, even though Christopher and Eric always try to do just that. They’ve got a special birthday surprise that has to be heard to be believed.
Mar 17, 2014•55 min
