Bonnie Hunt

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Bonnie Hunt has done it all. And she is extremely good at, well, all of it. She's a comedian, an actor, a TV host, a writer and a director. Her first ever part was in Rain Man, and since then she's starred in films like Jumanji (1995), had parts in three sitcoms in the 90s, and hosted her own talk show in the 2000s. Bonnie has also created several hit TV shows and directed movies. Her latest endeavor is a family TV series called Amber Brown, which is now streaming on Apple TV Plus. It's based on the Paula Danziger book of the same name. Bonnie Hunt joins Bullseye to talk about the new show and why she thought it was important to make an understated kid's series. She also talks about how she discovered improv in Chicago, and how she managed to combine it with her day job as a nurse. Plus, she talks about The Bonnie Hunt Show and what made it so unique.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:22.5	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:25.0	Bonnie Hunt is my guest this week. She's a comedian, an actor, a TV host, a writer, a director.
0:32.0	Bonnie Hunt has done all of it and she is extremely good at all of it.
0:38.0	I mean, acting? There's Jumanji, Jerry McGuire, she would buy the dozen, a bunch of Pixar movies.
0:45.0	Her first ever movie part was in Rain Man, not bad.
1:15.0	Bonnie starred in three sitcoms in the 90s and in the early 2000s, she hosted the Bonnie Hunt show,
1:28.0	a profoundly underrated and super funny daytime talk show.
1:33.0	One of her favorite recurring guests was her mom, Alice.
1:38.0	Alice, do you have a joke you like to tell?
1:41.0	Oh no, my dad used to get so frustrated with my mom and tell her joke because she'd always do the bunch line first.
1:48.0	Oh, she said...
1:50.0	Okay, the nurse says to the doctor.
1:52.0	Oh, oh, oh, oh.
1:53.0	The doctor, there's a man's...
1:54.0	Wait, mom, I'm impressed, the nursing joke.
1:56.0	All right, go ahead.
1:57.0	Are you listening?
1:58.0	Yes.
1:59.0	Okay, the nurse says to the doctor, there's a man in the waiting room with a class I named Brown.
2:05.0	And the doctor says, what does he call his other eye?
2:12.0	Should I repeat it?
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