Jason Segel

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Jason Segel has had a lot of interesting roles over the years. He got his start on screen in his late teens on the short-lived cult tv show Freaks and Geeks. From there he starred in a bunch of other comedic roles including: How I Met Your Mother, Knocked Up, and Bad Teacher. His writing debut was Forgetting Sarah Marshall. In 2011, he revived The Muppets for a new generation. His latest show is kind of a departure from all that. AMC's Dispatches from Elsewhere follows the lives of a group of regular people who discover a hidden world. It's mysterious and strange – kinda silly, too. We'll talk with Jason about how he works humor into the tone of a show like Dispatches from Elsewhere. Plus, plenty of chat about Freak and Geeks, and what makes the Dracula song in Forgetting Sarah Marshall work.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Jesse, the founder of Max Fun coming to you from the microphone at my home office,
0:07.0	where I am socially segregating. So we promised you a Max Fun drive this week, but things haven't
0:15.3	exactly gone how we expected. So given the pandemic, we're going to postpone this year's drive.
0:23.4	Events are still fluid, so we're hesitant to give you specifics about new dates. Right now,
0:28.4	we have late April penciled into our calendars. We'll keep you posted about that. As it stands,
0:34.5	a lot of our drive machinery was already cranked up. So for one thing, you might hear a reference
0:39.7	or two to the drive in our shows, which might have been recorded before we made this decision.
0:45.4	And here are some good news. There's a bunch of great bonus content available for all of our Max Fun
0:51.8	members. If you're a member and you miss the email with instructions on how to listen, check your
0:56.1	spam folder or log in at maximumfund.org slash manage. Also at maximumfund.org slash manage,
1:05.6	you can change your membership if your circumstances have changed. We know this is a tough time for a lot
1:11.2	of people and we understand. You can also go to maximumfund.org slash join at any time if you'd like
1:18.4	to become a member. During the next couple of weeks, what would have been the drive, we are going
1:25.2	to do our best to be extra available to you. We've got some streaming events planned, some social
1:30.8	media stuff. We know a lot of folks are isolated right now and we want to help provide comfort in
1:36.4	the best ways that we know how. You can follow us on social media and we'll let you know what's up.
1:43.8	During this tough time, I have been feeling really grateful for my community of colleagues here
1:49.9	at Max Fun and for you, the folks who make our work possible. Goofy as that work may sometimes be.
1:59.5	Stay safe out there. We're thinking of you. Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of maximumfund.org
2:07.8	and is distributed by NPR. I'm Jesse Thorn. It's Bullseye.
2:20.4	Jason Siegel has had a lot of interesting roles over the years. He's usually the best friend
2:28.5	type. Maybe a little corny, always very endearing. He got his start on screen in his late teens.
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