Laurie Kilmartin and Throwing Shade

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 23 January 2017

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Laurie Kilmartin is a standup, she also writes for Conan O'Brien. On her new special, 45 Jokes About My Dead Dad, she talks about the loss of her father in a totally honest, touching, and funny way. Plus, comedians Erin Gibson and Bryan Safi on their new TV show, Throwing Shade and the Simpsons episode that tells you everything you need to know about the tech bubble.

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0:30.0	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:33.0	Lori Kilmartin is a stand-up comedian.
0:35.0	She writes on Conan.
0:37.0	She was on the road when she got the call that her dad was really, really sick.
0:43.0	Things weren't looking good.
0:45.0	She got on a plane.
0:46.0	She took time off of work.
0:48.0	She did everything that adult children are supposed to do in those situations.
0:52.0	But even as his health got worse, she started to realize.
0:57.0	Sometimes even when you're staring death right in the eye, funny stuff can happen.
1:02.0	We have this one piece of hospice video where my sister is sitting, my sister and I are sitting
1:07.0	next to my dad and she asks my dad, you know, what do you want your grandchildren to know?
1:12.0	You know, and my dad was sort of, you know, I look at that video and I'm like,
1:18.0	did he just realize then that he's dying?
1:21.0	It was very, it was very awkward and yet we wanted to hear what he had to say.
1:26.0	And then he was about to talk and it was hard for him to talk.
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