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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Comedy: Karen Kilgariff

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

NPR

Society & Culture

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2010

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Standup comedy from Karen Kilgariff. Kilgariff was head writer of Ellen, and a castmember on Mr. Show.

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0:00.0

Comedian Karen Kilgarif was a cast member on the HBO series Mr. Show and the head writer of Ellen

0:07.2

She performed for us in front of a live audience at last night a benefit for art share Los Angeles presented by the sound of young America

0:15.7

Let's go to the stage and comedy from Karen Kilgarif

0:23.0

Hi, thank you all for coming out here

0:26.5

Um, did anyone here see uh, that we are the world video that they made?

0:35.3

Did anyone watch that?

0:38.4

Did anyone make it or

0:41.1

because

0:43.1

I watched it, you know to see if I could make some jokes about it and

0:47.4

But I will say this, you know, it's pretty amazing that that's the way things are now that something really horrible happens on one part of the world

0:53.8

And then somewhere else a bunch of super rich people get together and like we'll get all our money together

0:59.3

And we'll take every veils as money and we'll send to you a bunch of money and it's all gonna work out great

1:03.1

That's really nice and they you know

1:05.2

That's what that's what celebrities do they you know get high-powered people that people will pay for

1:10.3

You know to listen to or watch or whatever and you know that's that's effective

1:14.7

I think that's positive and so that's what they did with the we are the world

1:18.2

They got the biggest names in music

1:21.3

The huge is you know people you know people that people would pay for

1:25.6

To come out and record this song

1:28.3

And it's just like the we are the world from the 80s exactly

1:31.4

So I'm watching the video and of course all that in mind the first person that comes on the screen when the song starts just in Bieber

1:41.1

The huge is name and music today. I mean

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