Lewis Black & Nikki Glaser and Sara Schaefer

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2013

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Hear Jesse's interview with one of comedy's greatest grumps: Lewis Black. He didn't become a stand-up until his mid-thirties. Find out why he left the theater for comedy and why he actually considers himself a family comic. The answer will surprise you. Then later, Jesse talks with Nikki Glaser and Sara Schaefer. They just started their second season hosting a talk show for MTV. They've both worked a lot of comedy clubs and comedy theaters for audiences of slightly drunk twenty- and thirty-somethings, so performing for a younger, MTV demographic is a new experience. Plus, Davy Rothbart of Found Magazine shares some of his newest discoveries, and Jesse reveals the TV food show that he actually really likes.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Ellen from Jacksonville, Florida.
0:02.2	Hey, I'm Cody from Emory, Alberta.
0:04.4	I'm Eric from Nashville.
0:06.0	Both I with Jesse Thornitz produced independently and supported by listeners like you and me.
0:10.4	You should support the show like I did.
0:11.9	Just visit maximumfund.org slash donate.
0:16.1	I'm Jesse Thorn, Lewis Black this week on the show.
0:19.2	How did you start your career in theater?
0:22.7	This was the hook was they usually have a talent show in high school.
0:27.2	You know, and usually the talent show is two old bitties in a attic going through pictures.
0:32.0	And then they someone sings a song and someone does a dance.
0:35.4	And it's just, you know, Lewis, I don't mean to interrupt your story.
0:38.6	But usually a talent show, I know the song in the dance part.
0:43.1	What is the two old bitties in an attic going through pictures?
0:46.2	That's not part of a talent show.
0:48.0	That is something that really is.
0:50.0	You've got to remember it's 1964.
0:53.1	It's 1966.
0:54.8	You know, seriously, we had two ants in an attic looking at pictures,
1:00.0	and that would be like the start off point.
1:02.4	Oh, it's like a comic.
1:03.5	It's like a sketch or something.
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