Comedian Eddie Pepitone

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🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Veteran comedian Eddie Pepitone loves turning our expectations on their head. He's a working man's comedian with a set that perfectly melds the impassioned righteous rage of Lewis Black with the more understated observations of a comedian like Steven Wright. These days, due to the global pandemic, he's taken his act digital: live streams, video conferences, etc. His latest special, taped before the shutdown, is called "For The Masses." It's a special that fits the moment: Eddie sees all the scary, horrible and confusing stuff happening in the world, and helps us find joy in the absurdity of it all. It's also very funny. Eddie joins guest host Julie Klausner to discuss how comedy helped prepare him for the tribulations of 2020, fighting his addiction to bad news and his writing process for his new special. Plus, he'll pitch us his version of La La Land 2!

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:20.3	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:22.5	Eddie Pappetown is our first guest this week being interviewed by Julie Clousner, a terrific
0:27.3	writer-performer and podcaster.
0:29.8	Eddie is a stand-up comment, a veteran stand-up comment.
0:33.3	He's been performing since 1984.
0:36.0	He was born in Brooklyn, raised on Staten Island, his dad's Italian, his mom's Jewish.
0:41.3	He's got the accent to prove it.
0:43.1	And if you hadn't seen Eddie live before, you might start to make some assumptions about
0:47.2	his act.
0:48.2	Maybe you'd imagine he yells a lot, that he says, men these days aren't tough like they
0:53.0	used to be, that kind of comment.
0:55.0	He's kind of guy who says he tells it like it is, sorry if you're offended.
0:59.2	But Eddie Pappetown is not that kind of comment.
1:02.3	And said he kind of subverts that person.
1:05.1	He yells, yes.
1:07.5	But more often than not, he yells something absurd, like he'll go on a fever-pitch rant
1:12.7	about, I don't know, magicians.
1:15.7	How they're a waste of time and they're dumb liars with stringy hair.
1:20.2	He'll shout, he'll scream, just as you think he's about to run out of breath, he turns
1:24.4	on a dime, he'll move on to a new topic, cool as a cucumber.
1:27.8	It's really something to watch.
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