John Cameron Mitchell: Getting Shrill

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4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Writer and performer John Cameron Mitchell talks about portraying a nightmarish boss in Hulu's comedy Shrill, Hedwig and the Angry Inch's enduring legacy, and working with Patti LuPone on his new musical podcast. Then, Mitchell plays a game called "We're Going to Make You Sing," where he's quizzed on 1970s glam and punk that inspired Hedwig. Plus, contestants must reimagine literary romances as flirty text exchanges.

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0:00.0	From NPR and WNYC coming to you from the Bell House in beautiful Brooklyn, New York,
0:09.0	it's NPR's hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia, Aspian Other.
0:14.0	I'm Jonathan Colton, now here's your host, O'Fearah Eisenberg.
0:20.0	Hey everybody, how's it going?
0:28.0	We have an amazing show, I'm really happy to be here with you.
0:34.0	We have four brilliant contestants.
0:37.0	They are currently backstage wishing they would have accepted the Xanax that was offered to them by their co-worker.
0:43.0	Soon they'll be up here playing some nerdy games and one of them will be our big winner
0:48.0	and our special guest is the amazing John Cameron Mitchell everybody.
0:54.0	Yeah, John Cameron Mitchell wrote and starred in Headwig and the Angry Inch.
1:01.0	Yes, John Cameron Mitchell has appeared in Girls, Shrill, he directed an episode of Glow.
1:09.0	Yeah, let's just take a minute to commend him for having his hands in every television show
1:14.0	that has inspired a woman to down three glasses of Shira's and get in the fight with her boyfriend.
1:23.0	I love this trend right now in television where the titles are all about reclaiming female centered insults,
1:29.0	like we've got Shrill, Crazy X Girlfriend, insecure, stay tuned for my upcoming buddy comedy,
1:35.0	called Moody and Smile More.
1:40.0	Vocal Fry and Up Speak.
1:44.0	Or the animated series Smokey Eyes and Like.
1:51.0	That's my favorite.
1:52.0	I didn't know this but John Cameron Mitchell was also the voice of Sydney the animated kangaroo for the snack Dunkerous.
2:00.0	Yeah, who here remembers Dunkerous?
2:04.0	Yeah, yes, so if you don't know there were these little package of cookies that you dunked in another little package of icing,
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