Eugene Levy from "Schitt's Creek," "American Pie" and more

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 13 August 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Eugene Levy is hands down one of the funniest people in history. The Canadian-born actor and funnyman got his start in the world of improv when he joined Chicago's Second City. His first big break was on the Canadian sketch show SCTV, where he played a variety of roles. He later began collaborating with fellow improv mockumentarian Christopher Guest. Eugene joins Bullseye to talk about the very funny SCTV sketch that inspired Saturday Night Live's Norm McDonald and his work on all eight of the American Pie movies. You read that right. Eight! Plus, he'll talk to us about what it's like working with his son Dan on their hit show Schitt's Creek, now in its fifth season.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:08.2	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:13.2	Now if you know Eugene Levy, you know that one of his standout roles was in American
0:17.5	Pie.
0:18.5	It was back in 1999.
0:20.3	Fun fact, he is actually the only actor to be in all eight, eight of the movies in the
0:25.0	entire American Pie franchise.
0:28.0	In those movies, he plays the dad of Jason Biggs, who's the main character, and it was
0:32.5	an iconic role for Eugene Levy.
0:35.6	And really he is perfect for it.
0:37.4	I mean, I can't see anyone else blending straight face tumor and humanity in the way that
0:42.6	Eugene does.
0:43.9	But here's the thing, originally, he didn't even want to do it.
0:47.1	I credit my man, my then manager, who must have called me like eight, ten times just
0:52.8	to say, you should take the meeting.
0:55.2	You're the only adult in the movie.
0:56.8	That's what it came down to.
0:58.6	So I went down and I met Paul and Chris Whites.
1:01.3	So they said, well, you know what?
1:03.0	Now, they're shooting like in two weeks.
1:06.0	They said, well, next come in on Saturday.
1:08.1	Would you be willing to come in on Saturday with Jason Biggs, who's playing your son, and
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