Jeff Hiller on 'Somebody Somewhere'

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Jeff Hiller is an actor and comedian. Alongside Bridget Everett he stars in the HBO comedy Somebody Somewhere. The series just wrapped its third and final season. Hiller joins us on Bullseye to talk about the show. We also get into Hiller's time as a teacher and performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater in New York. He talks about what he learned there, what he loved about it and what frustrated him most about the experience.

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0:36.9	Hey!
0:37.2	Hey! It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne. Have you seen somebody somewhere? It's a comedy just wrapped its third and final season on HBO. It takes place in Manhattan, Kansas. Centers around two people,
0:57.4	Sam, played by Bridget Everett, and her best friend, Joel, played by my guest, Jeff Hiller.
1:03.7	Sam and Joel have both lived in Manhattan, basically their whole lives. And they also don't feel
1:10.7	perfectly at home there. Like it is their home,
1:14.0	but Sam dreams of singing for a living. And Joel runs, well, basically a sort of queer
1:22.6	cabaret out of the multi-purpose room at the church. And on somebody somewhere, they just kind of work through that stuff.
1:31.9	It is a quiet show, a grounded show, a very beautiful show.
1:35.8	It is also a very, very funny show with multiple diarrhea jokes, as in this clip from the show's pilot, Sam starts the show working for a standardized testing company, sort of like grading SATs.
1:52.4	She's reading prompts and answers, and one of the answers reminds her of her sister who died just before the show begins.
2:00.6	Sam gets worked up and walks off with tears
2:03.0	in her eyes. Joel, who she doesn't really know, follows her outside, introduces himself
2:08.9	and offers some comfort. She was a few years ahead of us, right? I'm sorry, I didn't realize that
2:17.2	we went to high school together.
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