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I'm Jesse Thorn. A lawyer, a writer, a psychiatrist, and a Stanford theater professor

got together to write a humor book about earning your MBA on the toilet. The original like

goal was that no person could learn one meaningful thing from this book. That would have to be like a

certainty of it. But that didn't turn out to be the most useful way to write. It's Bullseye.

Coming up, Rob Bedaker and James Richmith are half of the comedy group Casper Housing.

They'll talk about how they balance comedy with full-time jobs, how they pick their jokes

democratically, and why they chose the Bay Area over fame in Hollywood. If you stay in San

Francisco as a as a comedian, you're making a very specific choice. Then a look back at the life

of David Rackoff. For years when he was still an aspiring writer, David was just the funny guy in

the office. It is a strange position to be in because as you walk away from breaking up a group of

people who say, God, you're so funny, all you can think is, God, I hate myself. David Rackoff's new

book was released posthumously this month to reflect outplay excerpts from our past conversations.

I wanted more than anything in my life to have a creative life. And I say it with no trace of

disingenuousness that I am really the luckiest person in North America.

And the editors of the new film site The Dissolve recommend a couple of new movies for you.

Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine and the Disturbing Sudo Documentary, The Act of Killing.

Plus, I'll talk about Elliot Gould's turn as a 50s war hero set a drift in 1970s LA

in Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye. That's all coming up on Bullseye. Let's go.

It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn. Casper Houser may be the only comedy group with a book

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