Bill Hader on Barry, Saturday Night Live and more
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
NPR
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm Jesse Thorn. It's Bullseye. |
| 0:23.2 | My guest is Bill Hayden, who talked last year. |
| 0:26.4 | Of course, you know him from his time on Saturday Night Live. |
| 0:29.4 | He's an impressions whiz. He did a mean Vincent Price. |
| 0:32.6 | He also did a great job of justifying doing Vincent Price on network television in the 21st century. |
| 0:38.4 | But his most famous character was Stefan from Weekend Update. |
| 0:42.4 | I mean, you remember Stefan, right? |
| 0:44.4 | New York's hottest club is Taked. |
| 0:46.4 | Nightlife designer, Tranny Griffith, is back with an all-new club that answers the question, |
| 0:51.4 | Huh? |
| 0:53.4 | Don't look for a bouncer. There isn't one. |
| 0:56.4 | Instead, the door is guarded by 10 jacked homeless guys and old fashioned bathing suits. |
| 1:01.4 | He left the show in 2013 and went on to perform in movies like Train Rec, Inside Out, |
| 1:09.4 | and the Smash Head Sausage Party. |
| 1:11.4 | Along with Fred Armason, he also stars in the IFC show Documentary Now. |
| 1:16.4 | His latest project is a TV show called Barry, which is about to kick off his second season. |
| 1:22.4 | Hater stars, as the show's title character, Barry Birkman. |
| 1:26.4 | Barry is an ex-marine, turned low-rent Hitman in Ohio, turned a spiring actor in LA. |
| 1:33.4 | It's a brilliant and also matting show. |
| 1:36.4 | It's funny, but dark. Over and over, Barry tries to settle down to lead something like a normal life, |
| 1:43.4 | but over and over his past rises to the surface. |
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