Michael Ian Black and Tom Bissell

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2012

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Michael Ian Black talks about his memoir: "You're Not Doing It Right: Tales of Marriage, Sex, Death, and Other Humiliations". Plus, Black explains why he started compulsively Googling the phrase "Fat Kevin Federline". The writer Tom Bissell recalls his path to creative success ... and why that road probably doesn't exist anymore. And comedian Pete Holmes reveals the thing that really ticks him off: a bad sandwich.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Evan from SilverSpring, Maryland.
0:02.3	I'm Nicole from Toronto.
0:03.8	I'm Jake from Chattanooga.
0:05.7	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is produced independently and supported by listeners like you and me.
0:10.7	You should support the show, like I did.
0:12.9	It's easy.
0:13.7	Just so that maximum fun.org flash donate.
0:16.7	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:17.7	Comedian Michael Ian Black has a new memoir.
0:20.2	Up until now, Black had been known on screen for being kind of...
0:25.2	I don't know.
0:26.9	Smarmy, which works in sketch comedy or when you're talking head on VH1.
0:33.7	I have a knack for saying awful things.
0:37.9	And I'm happy with that.
0:39.5	But it is not the totality of how I want to present myself to the world.
0:44.8	It can feel a little bit limiting.
0:47.3	It can feel a little bit constraining.
0:49.1	And part of the reason that I wrote this book
0:54.5	was to start dismantling that persona.
0:57.5	It's Bullseye.
1:05.5	This week, Michael Ian Black talks about his memoir.
1:08.6	You're not doing it right.
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