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It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.

My guest William H. Macy really made his name with a standout performance in the movie Fargo,

but he's backed that up with a career playing modest, economical, subtle characters.

That is until he was cast as Frank Gallagher on the Showtime series, Shameless.

It's been a caution doing this thing.

I'm a Lutheran kid from Western Maryland and I read these scripts and I think, Mother

of God, what are you talking about?

I'm not the stuff they have my character do.

Today, today I had two scenes.

I bed down these two women.

They're my age and they're large and it was...

It's a weird ass way to make a living.

It's Bullseye.

Coming up, I'll talk about improv with Brian Husky and Matt Walsh.

Part of the show was introducing this act that we claim is really good, but then when

we come on stage, we're completely terrible.

Part of the bit was we had my father came out as JD Salinger when he was alive.

He took an audience of 2,000 people in Central Park and since I am JD Salinger, I don't

come out of my house for anything except for this next act.

I'm not kidding you, after the show, people wanted his autograph.

I'm logging, he signed like five autographs and he's like, I'm signing as JD Salinger,

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