Maria Bamford and George Saunders

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2013

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

The writer George Saunders talks about his early creative challenges, the slight constant pressure of capitalism, and Tenth of December, his new book of short stories. Maria Bamford explains why she filmed her new comedy special in front of an audience of two (her parents), and why it's important to talk about scary stuff on stage. Plus, Jesse shares one of his favorite poems by William Carlos Williams.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Greg from Toronto.
0:02.2	I'm Claire from Pittsburgh.
0:03.7	I'm Lee from Fargo, North Dakota.
0:06.0	Well, I was Jesse Thorn,
0:07.3	is produced independently and supported by listeners like you and me.
0:10.7	You should support the show like I did,
0:12.3	just visit maximumfun.org-flash-donate.
0:16.4	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:18.1	Comedians are like flowers.
0:20.1	Some of them are sunflowers.
0:21.4	Everyone likes sunflowers.
0:22.8	They work pretty much everywhere.
0:24.9	But even a great sunflowers, you know,
0:28.8	pretty good.
0:30.0	I mean, it's a sunflower.
0:31.5	How great can it be?
0:32.7	Maria Bamford, though.
0:35.2	Maria Bamford is not a sunflower.
0:37.6	I think I may be the
0:39.3	orchid of comedy,
0:42.3	where you have to have this, you know, certain
0:46.0	temperature in the room and then get the right amount of moisture
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