Julia Sweeney on "SNL," "Work in Progress," "Shrill"

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 31 July 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Maximum Fun's Carrie Poppy (Oh No, Ross and Carrie!) interviews comic actor and writer Julia Sweeney! You probably saw Julia's work on Saturday Night Live in the early '90s alongside Chris Rock, Dana Carvey, and Chris Farley. These days, you can see her on Showtime's Work in Progress. In it, she plays a fictionalized version of herself who has to answer for the damage done by one of her most well known SNL characters: Pat. You can also catch her on the Hulu comedy Shrill. Julia plays Vera, mother to main character Annie. The show talks a lot about body image issues – and how family, especially our parents can sometimes exacerbate those feelings. Carrie Poppy chats with Julia about her work on stage. Plus, her complicated relationship with SNL's Pat and how they fit into Work in Progress. We also get into the type of mother she is in real life in relation to her character on Shrill.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:20.0	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:22.2	What follows is an interview conducted by Carrie Poppitt.
0:26.7	Carrie is of course the host of MaximumFun's own podcast Oh No Ross and Carrie.
0:31.7	In the show Carrie and her co-host Ross Blacher investigate spiritual and paranormal
0:37.1	claims in the best way they know how.
0:39.3	They try them out.
0:40.8	That means looking for ghosts or joining Scientology or trying out new age home remedies that are
0:46.2	slightly too gross to talk about on NPR.
0:50.4	One time my friend Jordan and I went on their show and we vaped essential oils.
0:55.8	It did not seem to have an effect on me.
0:58.0	A little coughing.
1:00.0	Carrie's guest on Bullseye this week, Julia Sweeney.
1:04.1	You probably know Julia Sweeney from her work on Saturday Night Live.
1:07.8	She was on the show for the first part of the 1990s.
1:10.8	She's followed that with other interesting works.
1:13.1	She's performed a series of monologues that talk about her life and her relationship with
1:17.1	religion in a funny honest way.
1:19.7	God said, Ha, might be the best known of them.
1:23.4	What she been up to since then, well she helped create a new show called Work in Progress,
1:27.8	which is airing on showtime, and she's in the comedy Shrill.
1:32.1	In it, Julia Sweeney plays Vera, the mother to the main character Annie played by Eddie
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