JK Simmons & Solomon Georgio

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2017

⏱️ 71 minutes

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You know JK Simmons, right? He won an Academy Award for his role in the 2015 movie Whiplash. He's that Insurance guy in those ads. He played J Jonah Jameson in the Spiderman movies. Dude puts in work - there are 183 credits on his IMDB page right now and he isn't slowing down. He's starring in the new drama The Bachelors, which is out now. He'll talk with Jesse about all that stuff, plus, the J Jonah Jameson action figure (with Desk Pounding Action™). Then, Solomon Georgio. Solomon's a stand up from Seattle, via Fresno, via St. Louis, Via Sudan and then Ethiopia, where his parents are from. He's appeared on CONAN,The Meltdown with Jonah & Kumail, Comedy Central and more. Solomon's got a really unique presence on stage. Sometimes he's vulnerable and sincere, sure. But then he'll strike a pose and make an outrageous joke about his perfect thigh gap and like magic - you believe him. His debut record - Homonegro Superior, is out now.

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0:00.0	Hey gang, it's the holidays and so I want to take a second to let you know how important it is
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1:21.9	I'm Jesse Thorn. You know, JK Simmons, right? He has an Academy Award for Whiplash.
1:28.6	He's in a lot of insurance advertisements. I mean, he puts in the work. He has 183 credits on his
1:34.8	IMDB page right now. And he's not slowing down. If you want to see his breakthrough role, you have
1:39.9	to go back 20 years, 1997. He played Vernon Schillinger in Oz, the groundbreaking HBO prison drama.
1:48.3	His character was a neo-nazi. He killed guys, raped people, TV guide, called him one of the
1:54.8	nastiest villains of all time. And the thing about playing a super nasty neo-nazi prison overlord
2:01.3	on television is it's kind of hard not to take it home with you. You know, to show up at work and
2:07.2	play the head of the Aryan brotherhood in a maximum security prison, you know, was a real challenge.
2:14.8	And it was difficult to shake that off at the end of the day, especially since I've often saved
2:20.8	time by not removing the swastika tattoos so that it didn't have to put them on again the next day.
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