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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

David Wain, The AV Club, and Jordan Ranks America

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 β€’ 2.6K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 21 February 2012

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

This week David Wain makes the successful leap from cultiest-of-cult comedy to the mainstream multiplex – and keeps things super funny. Correspondant Jordan Morris ranks all of the things in America because we told him to. Plus, the AV Club offers some of their all-time favorite culture picks, and Jesse talks about his JAM β€” DJ Quick's Pitch In Ona Party.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Jay from San Diego. I'm Chase from Seattle. I'm Jamie from New York City

0:05.0

Bullseye with Jesse Thorne is produced independently and supported by listeners like you and me. You should support the show like I did

0:11.2

It's easy just visit maximum fun dot org slash donate

0:16.0

I'm Jesse Thorne my guest is David Wayne who directed wet hot American summer

0:20.5

It's a movie that I have watched a

0:23.1

Ridiculous number of times. I love it. There are thousands of people like me around the world

0:29.5

Maybe hundreds of thousands the critics didn't agree like

0:35.0

And I just think

0:37.0

A lot of the critics that just weren't keying into it just through their hands in the air

0:41.1

I'm just like this sucks. I'm not only does it suck. I'm hostile to it

0:45.9

I'm just like I don't even know to say in fact years later

0:49.9

We were putting together another project and we had a financier ready to go and at the last minute in the 11th hour

0:55.8

The guy the head of the company finally watched wet hot American summer and he shut down the whole thing

1:01.5

Because he was like you guys I was all set to do this. I thought your script was awesome, but you're clearly not funny

1:08.1

And you you guys have no idea how to make comedy because I watched wet hot American summer

1:13.2

And it's just you know, okay

1:15.7

It's Bullseye

1:18.7

You

1:23.6

This week David Wayne makes the successful leap from the cultiest of cult comedies to the mainstream

1:29.9

Multiplex and keeps things super funny

1:32.7

Correspondent Jordan Morris ranks all of the things in America because we made him and I talk about my jam

1:39.7

DJ Quicks pitch in on a party the good stuff this week and every week on Bullseye. Let's go

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