Chris Gethard & Lawrence Weschler

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2012

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

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 some all-time TV picks from Erik Adams and Claire Zulkey, and pop culture advice from My Brother, My Brother and Me. [Episode originally aired January 2012]

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm D.W. from Houston.
0:01.7	I'm Catercarts from Minneapolis.
0:03.7	I'm Jamie from New York City.
0:05.6	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is produced independently and supported by listeners like you and me.
0:10.2	You should support the show like I did.
0:11.9	It's easy.
0:12.5	This is at MaximumFun.org slash donate.
0:16.8	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:18.1	One of my guests on the show this week is Chris Getherd.
0:21.2	He isn't super famous.
0:22.3	He is super funny.
0:24.4	For a while, he did a stage show at this underground comedy theater in New York.
0:29.6	It's literally underground.
0:32.2	The show's biggest moment came when Chris put a video on YouTube asking P Diddy to stop by.
0:39.2	Then P Diddy saw the video and did you want to hear the craziest thing that was that happened with him?
0:44.9	No, of course I don't want to.
0:46.5	Sure, let's just move on then.
0:48.7	Oh, right, all right.
0:51.2	His assistant before the show was like, hey, at the UCB, do you guys have any TVs or computers?
0:56.5	And I was like, yeah, we have all that.
0:58.2	Why?
0:59.3	And she's like, well, there's this weird thing with Diddy where sometimes when he looks at a TV or a computer, it breaks.
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