Comic and actor J.B. Smoove

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 16 July 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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*A heads up to listeners, this episode contains many censored expletives throughout the interview.* J.B. Smoove is without a doubt one of the funniest people we've ever had on Bullseye. He got his start in television as one of the stars of Def Comedy Jam in the mid-90's. In the early aughts, he became a writer on Saturday Night Live. But, he's probably best known for his role as Leon on Curb Your Enthusiasm. J.B. joins us to talk about his time on SNL. We'll hear about a few of his favorite sketches that never made it to air. He'll also talk about his work on Curb Your Enthusiasm, and why he always goes to an audition in character. Plus, he'll tell us about the time he told Howard Stern, and we quote: "You can't eat spaghetti on an open patio." Join us to learn exactly what he means!

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.8	It's Bullseye.
0:13.8	It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorn. My guest is JB Smooth. Heads up to listeners. There are
0:25.8	a lot of expletives in this episode of Bullseye. So you are going to hear this sound a lot.
0:32.8	A whole lot. Our apologies. We tried to slump down and it didn't work.
0:40.0	JB Smooth is without a doubt one of the funniest people I have ever met or for that matter
0:45.4	seen on screen. He's best known as Leon on curb your enthusiasm. But it's also worth
0:51.4	taking the time to see him in basically anything he has ever done. I am D.B. Lisson with about
0:58.4	75 acting credits and it might be worth going through and watching every single one of them
1:04.4	as soon as I'm done recording this episode. But even with all those credits, JB hits the
1:09.9	road when he can to work on his stand up. He's touring the country now. Here's a clip
1:14.2	from his stand up special on Comedy Central. This is how I do it.
1:18.7	I played my first villain. Did this movie I played a villain? Some cool about being an
1:25.7	a**. What's that? Do things that will. Do you know what I mean? Do things that will.
1:31.7	What I'm going to do? I'm going to be talking about this like pile drive somebody anytime I want it to.
1:36.7	You know what I mean? Yeah, I gave you a five. You gave me a chance for a one.
1:48.7	You're looking at that pile of ones. You see a five. No, no, no, no, no, no, come on,
1:54.7	dog. Come on, man. Take the pile of ones and get my change back. Okay.
2:08.7	Ha ha ha. Oh, man, you were a**. Oh, man, you're getting my
2:14.7	change back. You got me tripping up in here.
2:25.7	The unmistakable sound of JB smooth delivering a pile drive. Nothing better than a good
2:30.7	pile drive. Welcome to the show, JB. I'm so happy to have you on the show.
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