Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.

I'm Jesse Thorn. Have you seen it's always sunny in Philadelphia?

Caitlin Olson plays a character named Sweet D. There's a scene where D startles and honestly

I don't even remember why. Runs out of a store. Excuse me.

And it runs straight into a car parked on the sidewalk. Headfirst.

It's like a beautiful ballet move.

Thank you. Thank you. I was very proud of that.

I even managed to make canyons have it. I have convincingly running into a parked car

at first. You just do it and hope that people laugh.

I hope that nothing breaks again. It's Bullseye.

Coming up I'll talk to Caitlin Olson.

Your character, these self-obsession, evilness, stupidity absolutely keeps pace with the milk

in your face. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you.

She and I will talk about morally broken comedy characters and whether it's a good idea

to fall in love with the creator of the TV show on which you act.

Then later I'll talk to Jeff Chang. About 10 years ago he wrote Can't Stop Won't Stop

a History of the Hip Hop Generation. It won the American Book Award in 2005.

His newest now in paperback is Who We Be, the colorization of America.

In some ways it's a follow up to the last one. It's about how art in America shapes and is

shaped by race. You could have this word diversity and it's become another sort of word for

them as opposed to all of us together which I think is what diversity was supposed to mean

in the first place. He says that Americans of different backgrounds have grown closer over

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