Bullseye With Jesse Thorn

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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.)

Episodes

  • Comedy: Karen Kilgariff

    22/03/2010 Duration: 10min

    Standup comedy from Karen Kilgariff. Kilgariff was head writer of Ellen, and a castmember on Mr. Show.

  • Comedy: God's Pottery - Adoption

    19/03/2010 Duration: 08min

    Christian folk music duo God's Pottery teach us an important lesson about adoption through the medium of song.

  • Ian Roberts and Matt Walsh

    15/03/2010 Duration: 37min

    Ian Roberts and Matt Walsh are two of the founders of the Upright Citizens Brigade. They also have a new semi-improvised sitcom on Spike TV called "Players."

  • The AV Club

    12/03/2010 Duration: 15min

    Keith Phipps and Tasha Robinson from The AV Club join us again to recommend some of the best in overlooked pop culture.

  • Luis Guzman

    08/03/2010 Duration: 38min

    Luis Guzman is one of America's most succesful character actors. He's appeared in dozens of films and television series, from Short Eyes in the 1970s to Miami Vice in the 1980s to Carlito's Way, Boogie Nights and The Limey in the 1990s. Now he's featured on the new HBO show How To Make It In America.

  • Jordan Ranks America: February

    02/03/2010 Duration: 02min

    Jordan Morris tells you what's what once again.

  • Sundance: Jeffrey Blitz and Sean Welch

    25/02/2010 Duration: 35min

    Jeffrey Blitz and Sean Welch were nominated for an Oscar for their first documentary feature, Spellbound. Blitz went on to direct the fictional feature Rocket Science, as well as episodes of The Office. Now, Blitz and Welch have a new documentary, called Lucky, about lottery winners.

  • Sundance: Trevor Groth

    23/02/2010 Duration: 19min

    Trevor Groth is the director of programming at the Sundance Film Festival. He started at the festival as a teenaged volunteer, and has been charged with reinvigorating its rebellious spirit.

  • Sundance: Drunk History

    20/02/2010 Duration: 16min

    Derek Waters and Jeremy Konner are the creator and director of Drunk History, a series of shorts in which comedians get very, very drunk, then re-tell their favorite stories from history. The stories are re-enacted, with drunken narration and dialogue, by actors like Don Cheadle and Jack Black. It won the short film prize at Sundance.

  • Sundance: Biker Fox and Jeremy Lamberton

    17/02/2010 Duration: 20min

    Biker Fox is a cycling enthusiast and local legend in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Jeremy Lamberton is the director of a documentary feature about Biker and his eccentric lifestyle. The film premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City.

  • Sundance: Drake Doremus, Director of Douchebag

    15/02/2010 Duration: 18min

    Drake Doremus' second feature, Douchebag, premiered at Sundance 2010. It's about two brothers who hit the road before one's wedding. It was inspired by Doremus relationship with the editor of his first feature, who makes his acting debut in Douchebag.

  • Sundance: Boy's Taika Waititi and James Rolleston

    11/02/2010 Duration: 19min

    Taika Waititi is the writer, director and star of "Boy," which premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival. James Rolleston is his pre-teen co-star. The film, based on Waititi's Oscar-nominated short, is a funny and affecting coming-of-age story set in a rural New Zealand village. Waititi previously directed "Eagle vs. Shark."

  • Sundance: Kevin Kline

    08/02/2010 Duration: 38min

    Kevin Kline is one of America's greatest actors. He's one of the few to have won an Oscar for a comic role (his amazing turn in "A Fish Called Wanda"), and he's been acclaimed for his work in everything from contemporary drama to Shakespeare to light opera. We spoke with him at Sundance after the release of "

  • Sal Santana

    05/02/2010 Duration: 18min

    Salvador Santana is a keyboard player and singer-songwriter. His father is guitar legend Carlos Santana. He's just released a new LP, Keyboard City.

  • Loudon Wainwright III

    02/02/2010 Duration: 37min

    Loudon Wainwright III is an accomplished singer-songwriter, an occaisional actor, and the scion of a musical family. Three of his children - Martha Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright Roche are professional musicians.

  • The AV Club

    27/01/2010 Duration: 12min

    Tasha Robinson and Nathan Rabin of The AV Club join Jesse to recommend a few great films which are new to DVD.

  • Gahan Wilson

    20/01/2010 Duration: 22min

    Gahan Wilson is perhaps America's most legendary cartoonist. For more than 50 years, his distinctively twisted single-panel cartoons have appeared in magazines like Playboy and The New Yorker.

  • Jane Espenson

    19/01/2010 Duration: 20min

    TV writer Jane Espenson is executive producer of Caprica, a new series based in the Battlestar Galactica universe. She's also written for Ellen, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Gilmore Girls and more.

  • Elna Baker

    15/01/2010 Duration: 22min

    Elna Baker is a comedian and writer. Her memoir is "The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance."

  • Aziz Ansari

    11/01/2010 Duration: 29min

    Aziz Ansari is an actor and comedian. He's a regular on Parks and Recreation, and a member of the comedy group Human Giant. He's also been in films like Observe & Report and Funny People.

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