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It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorn. I guess Jason Cedacus wanted to be a professional basketball

player when he was a kid and was almost kind of sort of on his way to becoming one. A few

years later he wound up getting cast on Saturday Night Live. But between those ambitions he

dreamt of joining a different group. But I was also wanting to be a blue man at that

point. Like I was enamored with the show. Like somebody head was shaved. You know, like

I was like, you know, was that a requirement of the show? No, I just, you know, I just,

I think at that point I had a head short hair in my whole life through basketball and

I grew it out. This is just like Jason Schwartzman wearing a blue blazer to his rush for

audition. Just making a, you know, I was going to dress for the job you want, right?

It's Bullseye.

Coming up, I'll talk to aspiring blue man group member Jason Cedacus. He said his school

basketball coach could see his potential even back when he was a kid. And when I say see

his potential, I mean see that his potential lay somewhere other than basketball. You know,

you kind of knew that it wasn't going to last just because I didn't have the, it wasn't

where my love was. My love was sort of shifting. You would make fun of me because I found

speech and debate. Hey, how's that little acting thing going on?

Then later I'll talk to the comedian Paul F. Tomkins. His TV show No You Shut Up sees

him co-star and improvise with a cast of Jim Henson puppets. The difficulty in improvising

with puppets is that their eyes are not real. So you missed just a lot of the cues that

people will give you that indicate I'm going to jump in here or you can tell that I am

mad or you can tell that I'm happy or whatever. Plus the author Sarah Val tells us why she wishes

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