Bruce McCulloch

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Bruce McCulloch is one of the founding members of the legendary Canadian sketch comedy team The Kids in the Hall. He starred in the eponymous TV show that aired for five seasons in both Canada and the U.S., and the follow-up movie Brain Candy. Earlier this year, Bruce rejoined his original KITH crew for their return to TV on Amazon Prime. Bruce also spends his time working behind the camera. He's directed sketches, music videos for bands like Tragically Hip, and his most recent project: Tallboyz. Tallboyz is a sketch comedy TV show featuring four young and talented Canadian comedians. Bruce joins Bullseye to talk about his trajectory from being a young punk in Calgary that got into bar fights to a beloved fixture in the sketch comedy world.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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0:16.6	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of Maximum Fun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:36.3	It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne. My first guest this week is the great Bruce McCullough.
0:42.3	Bruce is, of course, one of the founding members of the comedy team, The Kids in the Hall.
0:46.9	Legends of 1990s weirdo sketch comedy. You remember him as unforgettable characters like
0:53.4	Cabbagehead, Gavin, Tammy, and of course, Kathy.
0:58.0	What are you doing, Kath?
1:00.0	Well, I'm going to go to one of those popular movies with Jill Betty and Beth.
1:03.0	Oh, yeah.
1:04.0	Then afterwards, go three ways on a large pizza, and maybe watch a couple of hours of TV.
1:09.0	Oh, great. You want to come?
1:11.6	Oh, no. I've seen everything.
1:14.6	Yeah.
1:16.6	Caff, I really wish we did more, you know?
1:18.6	Yep. Used our free time, better, plan more things to do.
1:20.6	Yeah.
1:21.6	Sometimes it feels like our lives are passing us by, and we're not even in them.
1:26.6	Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So do you want to come? Oh, no, thanks. like our lives are passing us by, and we're not even in them.
1:28.2	Yeah.
1:29.4	Yeah. Yeah.
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