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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

David Cross, Tavi Gevinson & Pharoahe Monch

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

NPR

Society & Culture

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2015

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Interviews with David Cross of Mr. Show and W/Bob & David and Tavi Gevinson of Rookie Magazine, plus comedy from Aparna Nancherla and music from Pharoahe Monch and DJ Boogie Blind. This show was recorded at The Bell House in Brooklyn, New York.

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0:00.0

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.

0:13.4

It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.

0:15.8

We just finished our Bullseye world tour of several American cities and it went great.

0:21.0

We ate filly cheese steaks, we ate Baltimore crabs, I visited the world's best vintage

0:25.6

menswear store in Boston.

0:28.0

I was feeling pretty good.

0:29.8

But then when we got on stage in New York and comedian David Cross sat down across from

0:35.7

me, well I don't know.

0:38.2

He looked a little I guess a little worse for where?

0:41.0

Why is your arm in his sling?

0:42.4

I had shoulder surgery.

0:45.2

Yeah.

0:46.2

It was elective, you know.

0:50.4

You get to an age and you're like, you look in the mirror like, my shoulders.

0:59.1

So yeah, I wanted to spruce him up for Christmas and get some real Christmas shoulders.

1:10.4

It's Bullseye.

1:18.9

Coming up we'll hear my conversation with David Cross.

1:21.6

He'll tell me about the differences between the first TV show he created with Bob Odin

1:25.7

Kurt, Mr. Show and their new series with Bob and David.

1:29.7

David says that 15 years or so of working in television has changed his approach to writing

1:35.0

sketch comedy.

1:36.0

Well, we were doing Mr. Show and you'd write something and okay and then he falls out of

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