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Music It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne. My first guest this week is George Lopez. He's George Lopez, stand-up comic who's been at it just about as long as I have been alive.

Since the 90s, he's been a sitcom fixture.

First is the goofy, lovable classic sitcom dad on George Lopez, which ran for six seasons on ABC.

Then in Lopez, where he played a stand-up comic, who also

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