End of year best comedy special

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2016

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Wrap up 2016 with a much needed laugh - it's Bullseye's proudest annual tradition - the End of Year Best Comedy Special. You'll hear some of the year's best standup: Maria Bamford, W. Kamau Bell, Cameron Esposito, and much more.

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0:00.0	Earlier this month at Suzy Susan tweeted, after downloading the NPR1 app after being told to for the
0:06.8	thousandth time by an NPR podcast, thank you, thank you, thank you, hashtag Insert Shamed Face
0:14.4	here. Don't wait like Suzy did. NPR1's ready to make driving clean the house or your post-holiday
0:21.1	escape better. Find NPR-O-N-E on your app store. Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production
0:29.7	of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:38.5	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn. Say what you will about last year. 2016 for all its ups and
0:44.3	downs was a great year for comedy. So when our team put their heads together to find the best comedy
0:50.6	albums of 2016, it wasn't easy. It was a lot of good stuff. But after we listened to hours and
0:57.2	hours and hours and hours of comedy records, we have done it. We have over a dozen comedians from
1:03.6	all over this great nation, folks like Cameron Espicito, Kyle Knain, Tignotaro, Kamal Bell,
1:09.5	and many many more. It's going to be a laugh riot. So funny that I am not embarrassed to have
1:16.4	just said the phrase, it's going to be a laugh riot. One last thing before we get started,
1:22.3	a disclaimer, we have bleeped out some swear words in these. But if you don't want to hear bleeps
1:27.4	or you've got kids in the car, you can't say we didn't warn you. Okay, let's do this. It's Bullseye.
1:41.3	It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorn. So the last time I talked on the show with Maria Bamford,
1:55.1	it was a couple of years ago, she just come out with one of the weirdest stand-up specials I'd
1:59.6	ever seen. She called it the special special special. She did the whole thing in her living room.
2:05.6	And the entire audience was her parents, just her mom and dad sitting there on the couch.
2:12.4	Since then she's gone on to much bigger things. She debuted her Netflix show Lady Dynamite.
2:18.5	Got a ton of praise from critics and with good reason, it's really, really, really funny. I mean,
2:24.3	I'm going to sit here and tell you I have seen a lot of comedy. My favorite stand-up comedian in
2:28.8	the world is Maria Bamford. Here she is on her new album, 20%. I've lived in Los Angeles for so
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