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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Aisha Tyler, David Hornsby, Jordan Ranks America, The AV Club

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

NPR

Society & Culture

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2012

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Aisha Tyler funnels her childhood outsider-y experiences toward comedy and performance. She's on the animated FX show Archer. David Hornsby talks about building comedic stories from his real life relationships. His new animated FX show is called Unsupervised. Plus, the AV Club shares their recommendations and Jordan Morris puts America in its place ... by ranking everything.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Jay from San Diego. I'm Chase from Seattle. I'm Jamie from New York City

0:05.0

Bullseye with Jesse Thorne is produced independently and supported by listeners like you and me. You should support the show like I did

0:11.2

It's easy just visit maximumfund.org slash donate

0:15.7

I'm Jesse Thorne. You know, sometimes the experience that pushes a performer towards show business happens early

0:22.0

Imagine if you will being six feet tall by third grade. So essentially being like a living

0:27.0

Maypole and who by the way kids did dance around me in a circle

0:31.6

Multiplications multiple occasions even not even on May 1st. Just any it's a good day to dance around a maple

0:37.2

But it also made me relatively confident which is weird because I guess I just felt like nothing worse gonna happen than this

0:43.8

It's Bullseye

0:46.6

This week Iisha Tyler from that most tremendous of television programs archer

0:58.2

Bullseye correspondent Jordan Morris puts America in its place literally by ranking things and

1:04.8

David Mornsby talks about playing a defrocked

1:07.8

Priest turned drug addict on its always sunny in Philadelphia and now a

1:13.2

Surprisingly altruistic teenager on his new animated show unsupervised

1:17.6

It's the good stuff and just the good stuff in pop culture this week on bullseye. Let's go

1:25.2

Let's kick things off with some culture recommendations from our friends at the AV Club this week

1:30.5

Joining me are Scott Tobias and Genevieve Kosny in Chicago

1:34.6

Scott, what have you got for us? My my pick is the new film we need to talk about Kevin

1:38.6

It's directed by Lynn Ramsey and it's based on a novel by Lionel Schreiver

1:43.0

About a woman who's dealing with the aftermath of her son's a Columbine-like school massacre

1:49.4

Though the film and the book reference Columbine the most troubling aspect of both maybe their portraits of maternal ambivalence

1:55.9

This is this is a child she does not want

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