Chris Gethard, Lawrence Weschler, Andrew Noz and More

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2012

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Jesse interviews comedian Chris Gethard about booking P. Diddy at a tiny theater in New York. Lawrence Weschler talks about why CGI faces will never look quite right, and why humans are addicted to narrative. Plus rap picks from Andrew Noz and pop culture advice from My Brother, My Brother and Me.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm D.W. from Houston.
0:01.7	Hi, I'm Kristen from San Francisco.
0:04.3	Hi, I'm Graham from Vancouver, Canada.
0:08.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is produced independently and supported by listeners like you and me.
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0:19.0	Yes.
0:21.0	I'm Jesse Thorn. One of my guests this week on Bullseye is Chris Gether.
0:25.6	He isn't super famous or anything, but he's a very funny actor and comedian.
0:31.0	And for a while, he hosted a regular stage show at the UCB Theatre in New York.
0:35.8	The UCB is this, I don't know, a hundred or so dark theatre in a basement underneath a grocery store.
0:42.9	And then one night, he put a video on YouTube addressed to P. Diddy.
0:47.5	And a few tweets turned into a few dozen tweets, turned into a few hundred tweets,
0:53.2	which turned into P. Diddy showing up at the UCB Theatre to do Chris Gether's show.
0:59.5	You want to hear the craziest thing that happened with him?
1:02.3	No, of course I don't want to.
1:03.9	Sure, let's just move on then.
1:06.3	Oh, right, all right.
1:08.5	His assistant before the show was like, hey, at the UCB, do you guys have any TVs or computers?
1:13.9	And I was like, yeah, we have all that.
1:15.6	Why?
1:16.7	And she's like, well, there's this weird thing with Diddy where sometimes when he looks at a TV or a
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