Maria Bamford & Wanda Sykes

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2016

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Maria Bamford sits down with Jesse to talk about her own experiences as a patient of various Los Angeles mental health facilities, finding love and marriage and how wanting to work less proved to be a good career move. Her new show, Lady Dynamite will be available for streaming on Netflix from May 20th. You can find out more about her upcoming tour dates by visiting her website at mariabamford.com. Later, Wanda Sykes joined Jesse to talk about transitioning from a career with the NSA to stand-up comedy, coming out "accidentally" during a rally against California's Proposition 8 and why she believes that Bob Hope could have been the perfect super spy. Wanda Sykes is beginning her tour this month, which includes recording dates for her next comedy special. Find out more by visiting her website at wandasykes.com. In his Outshot Jesse talks about his affinity for the music of Black Moth Super Rainbow - an experimental band that declined a request to appear on Bullseye to promote their 2009 album, Eating Us.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:13.0	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:14.8	So we haven't established a link between comedy and national security, but maybe there
0:19.5	is one.
0:20.5	And you know, Wanda Sykes worked for the NSA before she went in to stand up?
0:25.6	But other comedians might be privy to government secrets.
0:30.1	What if Bob Hope?
0:31.1	What if he were like a super spy?
0:33.5	You know, think about all the countries he got to go to and places he performed.
0:37.9	What if he was real?
0:38.9	The whole comedian thing was a roost and he was really a spy.
0:44.9	I mean, that is really putting in some work on your cover, like if you're Bob Hope.
0:49.1	Yeah, but think about the comedy really wasn't that sharp.
0:53.0	So maybe he was like the reason.
0:58.1	How has this got this famous?
1:00.3	I think if definitely if you're my generation, you grew up wondering why people liked Bob
1:05.0	Hope.
1:06.0	Exactly.
1:07.0	Yeah.
1:08.0	Oh, it was a government sponsored initiative.
1:10.0	Yes.
1:11.0	All propaganda.
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