Christopher Guest & Dan Kennedy

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2013

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Christopher Guest talks about the origins of his signature style of parodic filmmaking. He'll also talk about why music pops up in his movies so much. Guest explored folk music in A Mighty Wind and community musical theater in Waiting For Guffman. His new TV show on HBO is called Family Tree. After that, Dan Kennedy will talk about his new novel American Spirit. Plus, the AV Club tells us about the new Mikal Cronin and Vampire Weekend records, and Nick Krill from the Spinto Band reveals the song that changed his life.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Ellen from Jacksonville, Florida.
0:02.2	Hey, I'm Cody from Emory, Alberta.
0:04.3	I'm Eric from Nashville.
0:05.9	Both I with Jesse Thornitz produced independently and supported by listeners like you and me.
0:10.3	You should support the show like I did.
0:11.9	Just visit maximumfund.org slash donate.
0:16.4	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:18.3	This story is going to sound fake, but it's real.
0:21.1	When Christopher Gast was trying to make his first movie, the big picture,
0:25.4	he had to pitch it out to a Hollywood executive.
0:28.2	And the head of the studio, no names will be mentioned.
0:32.9	This was a late in the afternoon meeting and he fell asleep during the pitch.
0:38.3	And I thought, wow, I thought, you know, I'm not to be arrogant, but I'm kind of good at this.
0:45.2	I can do voices and I can sort of make this maybe interesting, but apparently not.
0:50.6	So he was asleep, then he woke up and I continued and then he fell asleep again.
0:57.9	And he woke up and this is completely true.
1:00.8	He said, um, let's do it.
1:03.1	Anyway, uh, Gast decided to go with a different studio.
1:06.8	It's Bullseye.
1:14.7	Coming up, I talked to Christopher Gast about his signature style of filmmaking,
1:18.5	unscripted faux documentaries that parody very specific set cultures.
1:23.4	And we'll talk about music.
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