Chris Gethard, George Saunders, & DJ Jazzy Jeff

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2017

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Jesse talks about life and death with George Saunders, the brilliant author of the new novel Lincoln in the Bardo. But first, Chris Gethard comes by. He hosts Fusion's The Chris Gethard show and stars in Career Suicide, a one-man show debuting this week on HBO. Plus: DJ Jazzy Jeff tells us about the song that changed his life - it's a good one, too.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to Bullseye.
0:01.4	I want to tell you about a new way to get the news every morning.
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0:26.2	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:38.2	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:40.1	Chris Gatherard is a comedian.
0:42.1	He hosts the Chris Gatherard show, He Acts a Bit.
0:44.7	He's a kind of dude who isn't afraid to lay everything out on the table.
0:48.3	Like on his TV show, he'll do an hour of TV based on one gimmick and if it doesn't work,
0:54.0	he'll talk about how it failed.
0:56.0	If he's going through some stuff, he'll make it part of his act on stage.
1:00.0	Addiction, relationships, anxiety, even his psych meds.
1:03.8	One of the things that was very heartwarming for me was in the course of the show, I have
1:07.1	all stretched, I talk about the side effects of different medications that I've been on.
1:11.2	And on certain nights, there would be people who would sometimes a comedian will go out
1:17.3	and say like, like mention Toledo and then the people from Toledo start clapping.
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