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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Ellie Kemper & Flying Lotus

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week, two of our favorite Bullseye guests. First up: Ellie Kemper, star of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. If you haven't seen it, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt has a pretty unusual premise. A woman emerges from a mid-western bunker. She's been held captive there by a cultish kidnapper. She and her fellow captives are national news. So, she moves to New York, the one place she can think of where no one will care. The mix of characters and dense, super joke filled pace has earned Kimmy love from critics and a bunch of Emmy nominations - Ellie's up for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series this year. Then, Flying Lotus. Jesse talked with the musician back in 2010, he'd just released his third record, Los Angeles. Born Steven Ellison, he was at the head of a burgeoning beatmaking scene here in LA that would eventually leave a huge, lasting impact on pop and hip hop. Over the course of five records, dozens of collaborations, FlyLo has created lush, kind of psychedelic soundscapes. It's a little disorienting sometimes, but it's always gripping. Now, Ellison's directed his first ever film. It's called "Kuso," and it's probably one of the most intense, and frankly gross, movies to come out in the last few decades.

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0:00.0

Thanks for listening to Bullseye.

0:01.8

Start your day tomorrow with Up First,

0:03.6

the Morning News Podcast from NPR.

0:06.4

Apple Podcast reviewer Eve Bethel calls it,

0:09.2

can size and comprehensive,

0:11.0

I listen to Up First every morning on my walk to work.

0:13.8

It gives me a great summary of the top news stories

0:16.4

to keep my eye on during the day and the upcoming week.

0:20.1

Wake up with Up First tomorrow morning on the NPR-1 app

0:23.3

and wherever you listen to podcasts.

0:26.6

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org

0:31.2

and is distributed by NPR.

0:36.8

It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.

0:39.0

Tina Fey and Robert Karlock came up with the idea

0:41.8

of unbreakable chemist Schmidt with Ellie Kemper in mind.

0:45.4

When they did present the premise to me

0:48.4

that I was to play a cult victim who recently escaped

0:52.2

and was making a new go of it in New York,

0:55.5

I wasn't sure if they were serious

0:57.2

and because they are so smart, I thought,

1:00.3

this might be a test to see if I'm a dumb actor,

1:03.4

if I'm like a naive actor.

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