Amy Sedaris & Paul Reiser

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 10 September 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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We're replaying two recent favorites this week: first up, Amy Sedaris! Amy's made a career playing characters - and we say this with absolutely *zero* shade intended - people who are kind of grotesque and weird. The weirder and grosser the better - take Jerri Blank on Strangers with Candy or Mimi Kanasis on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, too. But on her show, At Home with Amy Sedaris, Amy pretty much plays herself. She talks with Jesse about how that's a transition out of her normal comfort zone. Also discussed: rabbits, monkfish, and girl scout badges! Then, Paul Reiser - the legendary standup and actor. You've seen him on Mad About You, Red Oaks and Whiplash and more. He also created the Hulu show There's Johnny. It takes place in the early 70s, behind the scene of the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Reiser knew Carson about as well as anybody could and dishes on what it was like appearing on his show almost a dozen times.

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0:00.0	This is Eric Glass.
0:01.5	On This American Life, we like stories that surprise you.
0:04.2	For instance, imagine finding a new hobby and realizing...
0:07.2	To do this hobby right, according to the ways of the masters,
0:11.7	there's a pretty good chance that you're going to have to bend the law to get the materials that you need.
0:16.6	If not, break it.
0:17.5	Yeah.
0:18.5	To break international laws.
0:20.7	Your life stories, really good ones.
0:23.0	This American Life.
0:25.5	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of maximum fun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:36.9	I'm Jesse Thorne. Amy Sedaris has made a career playing people who, how do I say this without coming off mean?
0:43.4	People who are kind of grotesque and weird. There's Jerry Blank from Strangers with Candy, a middle-aged high school student with an enormous overbite, very weird highlights, and some really intense mom jeans.
0:57.0	Or Mimi Canassas, the crazed socialite on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
1:01.8	But have you seen Amy Sedaris' latest show?
1:04.3	It's called At Home with Amy Sedaris.
1:06.5	It's kind of a fun house mirror version of a home cooking and crafting show.
1:10.3	And for the first time, Amy Sedaris plays Amy Sedaris in most of the show,
1:14.6	which is definitely not Amy Sedaris's comfort zone.
1:18.6	Because I have more fun playing characters, and I like playing ugly characters.
1:21.8	My favorite episode, one of my favorite episodes is entertaining for peanuts
1:25.7	where it's cooking on a budget.
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