Judy Greer & Ishmael Butler

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2015

⏱️ 59 minutes

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[r] Actress Judy Greer joins Jesse Thorn to talk about her roles in Archer and Arrested Development. Her book I Don't Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star charts life as a talented and prolific performer who's figured out you get to be funnier playing the best friend than the lead. Greer co-stars in the FX series Married, which returns for its second season this week. Later Jesse sits down with musician Ishmael Butler of Shabazz Palaces and Digable Planets, plus he'll explain the genius of Orson Welles' Touch of Evil.

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0:00.0	Hi I'm Ed from Highland, bullseye with Jesse Thorne is produced independently and supported
0:04.6	diet listeners like you and me.
0:06.9	You should support the show like I did.
0:09.1	Just visit maximum fund.org slash donate.
0:12.4	It's Boltsye, I'm Jesse Thorne. Judy Greer gets stopped on the street a lot.
0:16.5	Different people but always the same question. What do I know you from? She's an actor, so there are a lot of different answers.
0:25.0	Could be Arrested Development,
0:26.0	could be It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,
0:28.0	it could be a bunch of different movies.
0:31.0	People won't let you go, they really won't, they won't let you go.
0:33.0	They really won't.
0:34.4	They won't let you off the hook.
0:36.0	So she's developed a strategy.
0:37.8	She calls it fan profiling.
0:40.2	She'll explain it later, and she'll even fan profile me.
0:44.0	It's bullseye.
0:46.0	Coming up my conversation with Judy Greer, the reason people might not be able to place her is because
0:58.6	for almost all of her career she hasn't played the lead.
1:02.4	She's kind of come to terms with that.
1:04.6	The lead girl in the movie is never really that funny.
1:07.8	I mean, she doesn't get all the funny jokes
1:10.0	and she doesn't get to be weird and wacky
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