Bullseye 2025 Holiday Spectacular: Lil Rel Howery, Micky Dolenz and Sy Smith

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🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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It’s the Bullseye Holiday Spectacular! We look back at some of our favorite holiday interviews from the past. We’ve got Lil Rel Howery, Micky Dolenz of the Monkees, and singer/songwriter Sy Smith!

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0:35.8	Oh, hi there. Happy holidays. Come in. Have a seat on the couch over there. Get cozy.
0:48.2	Want any eggnot? Warm cider. It's the Bullseye holiday special. I'm your host, Jesse Thorne.
0:55.9	We have a great show for you this year. Lots of holiday treats in store, some of our favorite holiday interviews from the past.
1:01.5	Let's start with an interview. The guest, Lil Rel Rel Howl Howl. He'd been a comic 15 plus years when he
1:07.7	got his big break. Get Out, the smash hit horror movie directed by Jordan Peel.
1:13.2	Rell played Rod, the protagonist's best friend. Since then, Rell has gotten his own sitcom, gotten more
1:20.5	new specials and parts and dozens of movies. This year, he's starring in the holiday rom-com,
1:26.3	Unexpected Christmas. When I talked with him in
1:29.5	2003, he had just finished dashing through the snow. That movie stars Ludacris as Eddie Garrick,
1:37.3	a social worker and father who dreads the holidays. Rell plays Nick, a jolly old man in a big
1:43.6	red suit, who may or may not be Santa Claus.
1:47.6	Here's a little bit from dashing through the snow.
1:50.2	The scenes early on in the movie.
1:52.0	Eddie is pet sitting for some friends.
1:54.2	He discovers Nick rummaging through his friend's fridge.
1:57.7	Hey, you hear me talking to you?
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