Bashir Salahuddin on Sherman's Showcase and South Side

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 11 November 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Bashir Salahuddin is a comedy actor and writer. Alongside his friend and longtime collaborator Diallo Riddle, he co-created the shows South Side and Sherman's Showcase. South Side is a very funny sitcom that follows the stories of everyday people living on Chicago's South Side. The other show they created is Sherman's Showcase. The show's sort of like a sketch show, but with a unique format that's comparable to a variety show. Bashir Salahuddin stops by Bullseye to talk about Sherman's Showcase, and shares how it draws inspiration from shows like Soul Train and The Muppet Show. He also talks about meeting Riddle while in an acapella group at Harvard. Plus, Bashir shares how casting real Chicagoans in South Side has helped make the series even more hilarious.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:22.8	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:25.1	So there is a show that I love on TV right now called Sherman's Showcase.
0:30.4	It was co-created by my guest, Bashir Salahuddin, and Diallo Riddle, his friend and longtime
0:36.6	collaborator.
0:37.8	They are also the stars of the show.
0:40.0	Bashir and Diallo went to Harvard together.
0:42.9	They worked together as writers on late night with Jimmy Fallon, then they left to do their
0:47.2	own stuff.
0:49.0	One of those projects was Southside, a sitcom which is set in Chicago, and stars Riddle
0:55.5	and Salahuddin among others.
0:57.7	It is so great.
0:59.6	It's really funny and we'll talk about it in a bit.
1:02.4	The other project, Sherman's Showcase, and as I was saying, I love Sherman's Showcase.
1:09.7	You could probably call it a sketch show, but it has a very unique format.
1:14.6	It's pretty unusual in the world of sketch shows.
1:17.7	It basically takes the form of a variety show.
1:21.8	Definitely very informed by Soul Train.
1:24.7	There are also notes of the Muppets, and I guess maybe something like laugh in.
1:30.2	Bashir stars on the show as Sherman McDaniels, who has been hosting Sherman's Showcase
1:35.4	for nearly 40 years.
1:38.0	Every episode looks back on some of the show's greatest hits, musical numbers, clips from
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