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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

H. Jon Benjamin & Sara Driver

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Fans of Bob's Burgers, Archer, Home Movies and Dr. Katz, rejoice! Jesse's talking with the incomparable H. Jon Benjamin this week. With lead roles in some of the most popular comedies of all time, it's hard to call Jon a failure. But he doesn't really mind the label. In fact, he just wrote a book called "Failure is an Option: An Attempted Memoir." In it, he recounts his shortcomings in excruciating detail and how, wouldn't you know it, a lot of those failures opened the door to success: failures in family, in work, in serving fajitas. It's a very self-deprecating, self-aware memoir. And since it's written by H. Jon Benjamin, it's also really, really funny. Then, a talk about the gritty golden days of the New York City art scene with filmmaker Sara Driver. Driver just made a new documentary - it's called "Boom For Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat." It's a story about one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century and the art community he came up in. Driver lived in that same community and talked with dozens of other people from New York's art scene to tell a totally unique, hypnotizing story. Finally: the outshot is a little different this week. But it won't leave you hungry!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.

0:12.6

It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.

0:14.9

Ask pretty much anybody who works in show business.

0:17.4

They'll tell you the same thing.

0:19.0

None of them had parents who really planned on their kids going into the arts.

0:24.6

Each John Benjamin's parents did neither.

0:26.7

In fact, in his case, there was a whole Benjamin family business.

0:31.3

He inherited his, that was a family business, which ended with me.

0:36.5

I guess I was the one who was going to take over.

0:41.0

Then I went into comedy.

0:45.4

So I killed that business.

0:48.0

I destroyed him.

0:49.6

I win.

0:51.2

It's Bullseye.

0:54.6

This week, H. John Benjamin, a voice of Bob from Bob's Berger, Sterling Archer from Archer,

1:05.5

and a bunch of other stuff.

1:07.3

He's got a new book out, he'll talk with me about that.

1:09.5

He's worked on so many great TV shows and the beauty of Fatherhood.

1:13.5

I had a really, like, allergic reaction to being a father for a couple of years.

1:22.8

And for that, I forgive him.

1:24.6

Then Sarah Driver, she just directed a new documentary called Boom for Real, the late teenage

1:30.1

years of Jommie Shalboschia.

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