Catherine O'Hara, star of Schitt's Creek

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 29 September 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Catherine O'Hara is a comedy legend. Her work embodies a particularly special brand of comic absurdity. She helped launch SCTV alongside other burgeoning comedy greats like John Candy and Eugene Levy. She went on to star in some huge blockbuster comedies: Beetlejuice. Home Alone. Best in Show. At the Emmy awards a few weeks ago Schitt's Creek swept the comedy category. Catherine won a much-deserved Emmy for her lead role on the show. We're taking a moment to celebrate her Emmy win by revisiting our conversation from 2013. When Catherine joined us she talked to us about creating memorable characters with her longtime friend and collaborator Eugene Levy, and her own secret comedic formula.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:10.8	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:21.4	I'm not going to spend a lot of time introducing my guest, it's Catherine O'Hara, who's
0:26.4	a senior in Beetlejuice and home alone in pretty much every Christopher Guest movie.
0:30.8	She is and this is not an exaggeration one of the funniest people alive.
0:35.8	Recently, Catherine won a much deserved Emmy for her lead role on the TV show Shits Creek
0:40.2	that's SCH-I-TT.
0:42.6	By the way, it's a show about a wealthy family, the Roses, who are forced to relocate to a
0:48.4	tiny rural town after losing their entire fortune.
0:52.0	For all of its six seasons, Catherine played Moira Rose, mother to David and Alexis, wife
0:57.4	to Johnny Rose, played by Eugene Levin.
1:00.0	She was, of course, terrific on the show.
1:02.0	Moira.
1:03.0	Moira.
1:04.0	Oh no.
1:05.0	I just finally cried myself to sleep.
1:08.4	The bed soaking wet.
1:09.4	Is it blood?
1:10.4	No, there's a gleeke in the ceiling, there's a brown disgusting drop coming up.
1:17.4	Oh my god.
1:18.4	I can't do it.
1:19.4	This place is a dump, it's a dump.
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