Jena Friedman, comedian & host of Adult Swim's Soft Focus

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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WARNING: This episode contains some discussion of difficult topics. We cover sexual assault, miscarriage, violence against women and more. If you're sensitive to these kinds of topics, we figured we'd give you a heads up. Our guest is Jena Friedman. She's a comic, a filmmaker, and a writer. She created and hosts a show on Adult Swim. It's called Soft Focus. It's really funny, just like her all of her comedy, but it also talks about some very difficult, sometimes painful topics. It's satire that cuts deep. Jesse talks with her about the show, about her earlier work on the Daily Show, and her practice of incorporating hard to talk about stuff into her comedy.

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0:00.0	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:02.0	Quick heads up before we get into this interview.
0:04.6	My next guest and I talk a little bit
0:06.4	about sexual assault, about violence and miscarriage
0:09.2	and some other uncomfortable topics,
0:11.1	and how they fit into the world of comedy today.
0:13.2	And there's a little bit of graphic language as well.
0:15.4	This, nothing super explicit,
0:17.6	but if you or somebody that you're listening to,
0:20.0	this with might be sensitive to any of those things,
0:22.6	we just wanted to let you know.
0:26.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production
0:28.4	of MaximumHun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:37.6	I'm Jesse Thorn, it's Bullseye.
0:46.6	My guest, Jennifer Eatman.
0:48.7	She's a comic, a writer, and a producer.
0:51.1	She got her start writing for David Letterman.
0:53.4	Then she moved on to the daily show
0:54.8	where she was a field producer,
0:56.1	producing some of the show's best pieces
0:58.1	with correspondence like Samantha B and Al Madrigal.
1:01.9	These days, Jenna hosts this show on Adult Swimming.
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