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

It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.

Can you remember a moment in your childhood where you were doing something entirely

unselfconsciously and then somebody called you on it?

Or the first time you held back from expressing yourself because you were afraid you'd be

embarrassed?

My guest, Keegan Michael Keycan, but he says that experience made him a better actor.

I probably already did my 10,000 hours by the time I was 13.

I remember being in a neighbor's basement and I was downstairs dancing and I remember

to this day it's a childhood memory that I have feeling wonderfully free while I was

dancing and then someone came up to me and said, what are you doing?

What is something wrong with his child?

So it shut me down and then in your mind you start to put an encyclopedia, okay so I

better watch them because that was the most horrible feeling I've ever experienced emotionally.

So I better just figure out what they're doing and then do what they're doing.

And so yes, I think both Jordan and I are very facile at taking the cultural temperature

of a moment and figuring out how do we rise or lower to that temperature.

It's been the pathology's been useful.

It's Bullseye.

You might know Keegan Michael Keycan, the show team, Keel.

You might know him as President Obama's official anger translator Luther.

He's got a very specific opinion of how to deal with race, how to do the funniest thing,

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