D'Arcy Carden

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 2 August 2022

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D'Arcy Carden joins Bullseye to talk about her newest project, A League of Their Own. Amazon's newest series is based on the 1992 movie of the same name. Like the movie, the show tells the story of The Rockford Peaches, an all-women professional baseball team in World War II. When the show begins, it's clear the Rockford Peaches face a tough season, filled with long bus rides, difficult player trades and all the other baggage of being a wartime baseball team. The show reunites Carden with her longtime improv collaborator Abbi Jacobson, who co-created and stars in the series. A League of Their Own debuts August 12 on Amazon Prime.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:11.2	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:22.9	Darcy Cardin's had a wild few years.
0:26.2	Maybe a decade ago she was doing improv a lot. She'd get smaller parts on TV shows like
0:31.7	Inside In The Schumer or V for Broad City. The last of those was created by her pal,
0:37.2	Abby Jacobson. She also worked as a nanny. Her boss for that job, by the way, was Bill
0:42.3	Hayder. In 2016 she got the part that would change her life. The all-knowing, all-seeing,
0:48.8	unfailingly cheerful assistant on the good place.
0:52.0	Here we are. Just press that button and it's goodbye, Janet.
0:58.0	Cheety, I can see that you're worried and I just want to assure you I am not human and
1:03.7	I cannot feel pain.
1:05.4	Ah, thank you, that helps.
1:06.7	However, I should warn you, I am programmed with a fail-safe measure. As you approach
1:11.3	the kill switch, I will begin to beg for my life. It's just there in case of an accidental
1:16.2	shutdown, but it will seem very real.
1:18.8	Cool, so who's doing this, me or you?
1:22.1	The good place was a success. Millions of viewers, 14 Emmy nominations, including one for
1:26.9	Darcy. And alongside the good place, Darcy started appearing on another, critically
1:32.2	acclaimed hit TV show, Barry. Created by N. Starring, her former boss, Bill Hayder. That show
1:38.0	just wrapped up its third season on HBO. Pretty soon you'll be able to see Darcy Carden
1:44.0	in a league of their own. It's a TV series based on the movie of the same name. And as in
1:49.1	the movie, the show tells the story of the Rockford Peaches and all women, professional baseball
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