Big Boi from OutKast and Catherine O'Hara

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2013

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Actress Catherine O'Hara talks about her start with the Second City's SCTV, blockbuster success with Beetlejuice and Home Alone, and her perfect encapsulation of comic absurdity in Christopher Guest films like Waiting for Guffman and A Mighty Wind. But first, Jesse talks to Big Boi — one half of OutKast. The hip hop duo swung back and forth across the spectrum of popular music — zigging with cult favorites like "ATliens", and zagging with top 40 hits like "The Way You Move". Plus, pop culture advice from the hosts of My Brother, My Brother and Me.

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0:00.0	Hey gang!
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0:11.7	Again, that's maximumfund.org slash donate.
0:17.3	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:18.3	You might know Catherine O'Hara, that's CTV, the mom and home alone.
0:22.1	One of the best players in all those Christopher Guest movies, she is a total success, charming
0:26.8	and lovely as can be.
0:28.6	But when she was starting out, she was kind of different from other actors and comedians.
0:34.0	She wasn't really itching for work for one thing.
0:36.2	She quit SCTV, kind of on a whim, and at times she actually kind of actively avoided getting
0:45.6	work.
0:46.6	David Geffen got my home number and would call me at home, and I was like, who is this guy?
0:53.4	I said, I got this movie because he was one of the producers on Beetlejuice.
0:58.4	I got this movie and you should come and do, yeah, okay, I gotta go.
1:04.3	It's Bullseye.
1:12.2	This week, I talked to the actress Catherine O'Hara about her start on SCTV blockbuster
1:17.0	success with Beetlejuice in home alone and her perfect encapsulation of comic absurdity
1:22.3	and Christopher Guest movies like Waiting for Gotman and a Mighty Man.
1:26.4	When a doubt plain saying, good, nothing you say has to make sense.
1:30.5	You can't lose with stupid and cocky.
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