Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
Bullseye from NPR is your curated guide to culture. Jesse Thorn hosts in-depth interviews with brilliant creators, culture picks from our favorite critics and irreverent original comedy. Bullseye has been featured in Time, The New York Times, GQ and McSweeney's, which called it "the kind of show people listen to in a more perfect world." (Formerly known as The Sound of Young America.)

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Norman Lear, the Godfather of American sitcom, tells Jesse why he decided to make All In The Family and how he drew stories from his own life and those of his writers to bring real issues to TV comedy shows. Later, the star of HBO’s The Night Of and the upcoming Star Wars: Rogue One, Riz Ahmed explains why the British Asian experience made hip-hop so important to him as a kid and we hear some of his new Swet Shop Boys album, Cashmere. Plus Jesse explains why Blunt Talk his his favorite weird show on TV right now.

Direct download: Bullseye161025.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:47pm EDT

Interviews with Veep creator Armando Iannucci and the writer behind Sarah Jessica Parker's new HBO show, Sharon Horgan. Plus stand-up comedy from Josie Long and live music from Romare. Recorded live at the London Podcast Festival.

Direct download: Bullseye161018.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:23pm EDT

Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butler met at a comedy night in Chicago five years ago.  Rhea was new to comedy and still had a day job.  Cameron had been a working comedian for almost a decade.  They hit it off, fell in love, moved to LA, got married and started a stand up night called "Put Your Hands Together".  Last year they were asked by the Seeso network to make a stand up series based on "Put Your Hands together". It ended up morphing into the show they made, a sitcom called "Take My Wife".  The show mirrors their lives in almost every way.  Cameron and Rhea sit down with Jesse to talk about the good and bad of making a show based on your lives and marriage.

Although he is probably best known for his role on Curb Your Enthusiasm, Jeff Garlin has a very prolific career.  He came in to tell us about the craziest night of his career for our new segment "The craziest @#$% day of your career".

Jesse tells us about a movie with a beautiful lack of ambition.  The taking of Pelham 123.

Direct download: Bullseye161011.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:49pm EDT

Kaitlin Olson plays Sweet Dee on the long-running sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Dee is the only female member of "The Gang", a bunch of depraved, self-centered pals who run a bar. The Gang is constantly looking for ways to get rich quick, humiliate their enemies, get out of work, and prove once and for all the talent, charisma and brilliance they hold to be self-evident. In an unusual move for a solo female character, Dee doesn't serve to counterbalance the guys' bad behavior -- she absolutely matches their pace.
Olson talks to us about creating a more fully-fleshed character for Dee, how she came to comedy, and how she ended up dating (and marrying) her showrunner.

Jeff Chang talks to us about what diversity means to us today, the struggle for artists to defy racial categorization, and how and why corporations embraced multiculturalism.

Chang’s newest book- We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation- is an exploration of the current unrest abound in the United States through a series of essays.

Jesse also tells us about the life and legend of Andre the Giant.

Direct download: Bullseye161004.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:26pm EDT