Fred Willard & David Gordon Green

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2013

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

If a director is looking for the perfect guy to play an oblivious, cocky buffoon then Fred Willard is their man. Jesse talks to Fred about his entire career, and finds out why he turned down the lead in the movie Airplane! Then later Jesse talks to David Gordon Green. He's directed everything from pensive, dramatic movies like All The Real Girls to huge stoner-action comedies like Pineapple Express. His new movie, Prince Avalanche exists somewhere in between. Plus, Pitchfork's Ian Cohen recommends a couple of great new heavy rock records, we share an episode from Nate DiMeo's The Memory Palace, and Jesse talks about his favorite Robin Thicke record. Yes. He has a favorite Robin Thicke record. It's great, too.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Gina from Madison, Wisconsin.
0:02.6	I'm Jennifer from Bethel Park, PA.
0:04.8	Hey, I'm Alex from Rochester, New York.
0:07.1	Both I with Jessie Thorn is produced independently
0:10.0	and supported by listeners like you and me.
0:12.5	You should support the show like I did.
0:14.2	Just visit maximumfund.org slash donate.
0:18.4	Thank you.
0:19.6	I'm Jessie Thorn.
0:20.8	When Christopher Guest asked Fred Willard
0:22.9	to appear in waiting for Guffman, Guest had a surprise for him.
0:26.3	He told me the idea.
0:28.0	And he says, there's no script.
0:29.3	It's going to be improvised.
0:30.4	And I said, oh, boy, isn't that wonderful?
0:32.0	No script, no annoying lines to remember.
0:34.2	I said, I was walking back to the car.
0:35.3	I said, wait a minute.
0:36.2	I'm going to have to come up with all the lines.
0:38.2	It's Bullseye.
0:46.2	Coming up, my conversation with Fred Willard.
0:48.8	If a director is looking for the perfect guy to play
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