Eugene Levy, Kay Cannon & Alexander Payne

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Comedy nerds, rejoice! This week Jesse talks with Eugene Levy - the SCTV vet, co-creator of great Christopher Guest movies and American Pie star. Levy just wrapped up season 4 of his terrific CBC series Schitt's Creek. He talks about working with his son, who co-created the show with him, plus lots of great stories from SCTV's good old days! But first: legendary director Alexander Payne. One of the most charming and stylish dudes around. He talks about Downsizing, his latest film. Plus: writer and director Kay Cannon tells us about the Craziest ******* Day of Her Entire Career and Jesse tells you about the pathos and beauty behind the lost bird posters that used to dot San Francisco's Mission District.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.8	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn. It won't surprise you to learn that Alexander Payne, the
0:18.1	Oscar-winning writer and director, is a fan of movies. He's got a huge collection of
0:22.8	silent films he can quote the classics in the obscure cult favorites. He also has a six-month
0:28.3	old daughter, though. Don't worry, he's got a routine.
0:32.5	My wife likes to sleep in, so you know, to like eight or nine. So I've got the baby from
0:36.6	six to eight or nine and you know, I feed her and play and then we watch a movie. So I'm
0:41.6	happy to say that her first movie we carved through this week was The Dirty Doesn't.
0:46.1	And she loved it. She loved watching the Jerry's Get What was coming to him.
0:50.2	He's love a good shootout. It's Bullseye.
1:00.2	Coming up Alexander Payne, he'll talk with me about his movie downsizing, his childhood
1:05.8	obsession with films and descendants. Beautifully shot, nuanced and Academy Award-nominated
1:13.6	family drama.
1:14.6	And the number one question I got from reporters or journalists or whatever you call people
1:19.2	ask about film when you're done was how did you get George Clooney to run funny?
1:23.7	Just comes natural, I guess. Then a real treat. Eugene Levy, one of the funniest people
1:30.4	of all time. But ask him and he will say to you completely, sincerely, no false humility.
1:39.8	He doesn't see himself as funny.
1:41.7	When I'm around my funny friends, I'm laughing all the time. That's basically it. I do the
1:47.8	laughing, they do the comedy. I don't turn everything into a comedy bit. People that think
1:54.2	funny do that.
1:56.0	You'll also hear from another extraordinarily funny person, director Kay Cannon. She'll
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