Megan Mullally & Tracee Ellis Ross

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2018

⏱️ 75 minutes

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It's Emmy season! Bullseye brings you two talented, fascinating Emmy nominees this week. First up: Megan Mullally! One of the best in the game. Like, maybe you're a fan of Parks and Recreation. She played Tammy, the ex-wife of Ron Swanson. She's a kind of menacing, toxic seductress. Or maybe you saw her on Childrens Hospital, or 30 Rock, or heard her on Bob's Burgers (she plays Gayle). But, she's best known for her role as Karen Walker on the groundbreaking sitcom Will & Grace. She was just nominated for what could end up being her *third* Emmy for her role on the show. Then, a special treat: Karen Tongson, professor and panelist on our sister show Pop Rocket, talks with the one and only Tracee Ellis Ross. Tracee is nominated in the best actress category for her role on ABC's Blackish - she plays Rainbow Johnson (aka Bow) on the show. She and Karen go deep into her work acting and directing Blackish. Plus, her relationship with her mom... Diana Ross. Diana Ross! Finally, Jesse tells you about one of the most charming people who ever lived. And she's got a book and documentary to prove it.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.9	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:14.6	Sometimes being a star takes work.
0:16.7	I mean, it always takes work.
0:18.3	But there's a good number of actors and artists out there who have to work really hard at
0:22.6	it.
0:23.6	And they never realize they can actually become the thing they dreamed of until, you know,
0:28.4	they've already become that thing.
0:31.2	Then there's performers like Megan Malali.
0:33.8	She said she was born, yes, literally born to be in show business.
0:39.5	I kind of get the impression that you committed to being an entertainer at the age of like
0:47.0	one and a half and never relented.
0:50.4	One and a half days and my mother's whim.
0:53.8	Yeah, no, there was no other.
0:58.8	I, you know, I've said it before and I'll say it again that I came out of the womb in
1:04.4	a top hat and tap shoes.
1:06.5	It's Bullseye.
1:08.7	Coming up, Megan Malali.
1:16.3	Among a bunch of other things on her resume, she plays Karen on Will and Grace.
1:20.8	You know, the drunk socialite with the high pitched, slightly grading voice.
1:25.9	She gets a lot of work these days and she says that's in part thanks to taking an approach
1:30.0	to roles that's, I guess you could call less risky.
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