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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Armando Iannucci and Billy Bragg

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

NPR

Society & Culture

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2017

⏱️ 84 minutes

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We're talking Veep this week with the HBO comedy's showrunner, Armando Iannucci, and its star, Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Iannucci talks about geeking out on American and British politics and recreating them on-screen. Then, Louis-Dreyfus talks about her days on Seinfeld and her favorite dirty phrase from Veep. Plus, British singer-songwriter Billy Bragg talks about the song that changed his life.

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0:36.8

I'm Jesse Thorn. I watched all of Seinfeld not that long ago from the pilot to the finale and

0:42.1

I will say now it totally holds up. And one of the best parts is watching Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine.

0:49.4

Now if you type Elaine Bennes, characters full name into Google, one of the first things you see

0:55.3

is a video clip of her dance. Her horrible, embarrassing, spastic dance.

1:02.4

It's more like a full body dry heave. Sit there using it.

1:06.8

And Julia Louis-Dreyfus came up with it herself.

1:09.6

I created it. Yeah, I did.

1:11.5

Did you like stand at home in front of a full-length mirror?

1:14.2

Yes. And just think which of these dance moves looks the worst?

1:18.0

Yeah, I remember my mom was staying with us at the time visiting and I came downstairs

1:21.5

to the kitchen and I said, okay, which looks worse? I had a couple of options and they all voted

1:27.2

for the one that you that you saw. But that said, I can't dance a little bit. So they couldn't play

1:33.0

the music when I was doing that because if they played music, it would be hard to fight the rhythm

1:38.3

of the music. You would accidentally start dancing properly. Yeah, kind of yes.

1:43.2

It's Bullseye.

1:46.1

On this show, we talked to Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She stars his vice president,

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