Cameron Esposito & Rhea Butcher, Jeff Garlin

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butler met at a comedy night in Chicago five years ago. Rhea was new to comedy and still had a day job. Cameron had been a working comedian for almost a decade. They hit it off, fell in love, moved to LA, got married and started a stand up night called "Put Your Hands Together". Last year they were asked by the Seeso network to make a stand up series based on "Put Your Hands together". It ended up morphing into the show they made, a sitcom called "Take My Wife". The show mirrors their lives in almost every way. Cameron and Rhea sit down with Jesse to talk about the good and bad of making a show based on your lives and marriage. Although he is probably best known for his role on Curb Your Enthusiasm, Jeff Garlin has a very prolific career. He came in to tell us about the craziest night of his career for our new segment "The craziest @#$% day of your career". Jesse tells us about a movie with a beautiful lack of ambition. The taking of Pelham 123.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:14.0	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:16.0	Are you married?
0:17.4	Can you imagine spending all of your life with somebody?
0:20.7	I mean, not the length of your life, but every single part of your life with somebody?
0:26.8	I guess Cameron Espicito and Rhea Butcher, the married stars and creators of the show, take
0:31.7	my wife, can.
0:33.7	First we started working together, then we started dating, then we were moving to LA, then
0:36.7	we were engaged, then we were getting married, then we were making television shows, and
0:39.1	we were touring.
0:40.1	It's really been a very rapid pace that we have been keeping in both our personal life
0:45.6	and also our professional life and those things happen to both be shared.
0:50.2	She sounds exhausting.
0:52.2	It's Bullseye.
0:57.8	Coming up, I'll talk to Cameron Espicito and Rhea Butcher.
1:03.0	Their show Take My Wife came out on C-Show in August.
1:06.6	They created the show, they star in it, they're the executive producers, and they wrote a bunch
1:10.7	of the episodes.
1:11.7	It's a ton of work, but Cameron says that it's worth sharing their lives.
1:18.4	Being queer in this country has changed so dramatically during the time that I've been
1:21.8	doing this job.
1:22.9	And I really feel like a part of that is people being out and talking positively about
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