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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Nile Rodgers has been in the game for over fifty years. He’s a founding member of the band Chic, and he’s produced songs for some of the biggest names in music like Madonna, David Bowie and Daft Punk. On Bullseye, we’re looking back at our interview with Rodgers in 2011. He joined us to talk about his book, Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco and Destiny. Plus, his religious experience watching the band Roxy Music live for the first time.

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Singer-songwriter Devendra Banhart tells us about a beautiful, cinematic, heartbreaking song performed by the legendary Venezuelan singer Simón Díaz. He talks about the songs impact on him as a writer, performer, and a Venezuelan-American.

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George Wallace has been doing stand-up for almost 50 years. He came up in New York – his roommate was Jerry Seinfeld. Wallace’s humor, like Seinfeld’s, is observational. The stakes are usually pretty low, the punchlines and wordplay pretty frequent. Which is to say, a George Wallace joke from the ’80s can still kill today. The man is a legend and he joins us to talk about his decades long career as a stand-up comedian.

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Jillian and Mariko Tamaki are talented graphic novelists. And if you didn’t already know, the two are also cousins. They’ve collaborated on three projects so far that cover themes like sexual expression and queerness. Their latest is Roaming.. On Bullseye, they chat about the project and the art of under-explaining in comics. Plus, they reflect on what it was like to be thrust into a heated national censorship debate with the launch of their indie graphic novel, This One Summer.

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Daniel Clowes is an award-winning writer and comics artist. He’s the guy behind the Eight-Ball series and Ghost World. This year, he released a graphic novel inspired by his attempts to learn about the life of his late, largely absent mother. It’s called Monica. On Bullseye, he chats about the novel and the time he spent researching his family history. Plus, the things he learned about his mom that he can’t unlearn.

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His name is Will Oldham. You might know him better, though, as Bonnie “Prince” Billy or Palace or as half of the folk rock group Superwolves. His work has spanned three decades now and earlier this year he released his twenty-first Bonnie “Prince” Billy album. It’s called Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You. When we asked Oldham about the song that changed his life, he picked a spare, interior, haunting song. One that, we’ll admit, we hadn’t heard before – “Horses” by Sally Timms.

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Yes, Jack Handey is his real name. He’s one of the best to ever write for Saturday Night Live: Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, Giant Businessman, Toonces the Driving Cat, Deep Thoughts. In his post SNL career, Handey’s written more for the page. There’s his countless columns in the New Yorker and now, his latest novel: Escape from Hawaii: A Tropical Sequel. He talks about all that, plus we ask him (very nicely) about why he initially declined to come back on the show.

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Carla Fernández is a Mexico City based fashion designer who creates new clothes inspired by traditional, indigenous garments of Latin America. Her work is a revolutionary approach to fashion and is absolutely breathtaking. Carla joins us on Bullseye to talk about her “Manifesto de moda Mexicana,” thrift shopping and so much more.

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