Jemaine Clement & Jonathan Ames

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2016

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Comedian Jemaine Clement tells Jesse about growing up in New Zealand, being mixed race, and his time as a member of Flight of the Conchords, the hit HBO comedy duo. Then, TV writer and novelist Jonathan Ames joins the show. Ames is the mind behind the new Starz' series Blunt Talk and HBO's Bored to Death.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:08.1	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:13.6	My guest-traumane climate was nominated for an Emmy for his HBO show Flight of the Concords.
0:19.4	As is often the case with comedians, his love of comedy started in elementary school.
0:25.1	Me and a friend changed the words to a jingle about bacon and we made it all about genitalia.
0:36.4	And that was dizzying.
0:40.3	For both of us.
0:41.3	Yeah, it was just so hilarious to us.
0:45.5	It's Bullseye.
0:53.5	I'll talk to you again about working on the film People Places Things.
0:57.1	It's about a graphic novelist trying to get through a hard breakup.
1:01.1	Plenty of humor in the script.
1:02.1	There's a lot of sadness in there too.
1:04.3	Even up to the first day of shooting and someone on the crew asked, is this a comedy or drama?
1:09.3	And Jim Strasse the drink is just hit.
1:11.7	I don't know.
1:12.7	And so that was the perfect answer for me.
1:16.5	Later on, I'll sit down with Jonathan Ames, he's the creator of the Star series Blunt Talk.
1:21.5	It's more of a novelist than a showrunner.
1:23.5	He'll tell me about the emotional cost of having to work on a TV show, the whole bunch of people.
1:28.5	I did cry one time this season and I became catatonic.
1:32.1	There was a moment of stress and I lost all mobility.
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