Nick Kroll and John Mulaney & Airto Moreira

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

NPR

Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2016

⏱️ 64 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

John Mulaney and Nick Kroll are well seasoned comedians who have made a name for themselves in many different forms of media. Jesse sits down with Mulaney and Kroll to discuss their new broadway play, Oh, Hello, the downfall of Mulaney, and how they created their favorite alter ego's, Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland. Mulaney and Kroll star as George St. Geegland and Gil Faizon respectively in their new show on Broadway called, Oh, Hello. Airto Moreira is a Brazilian born Jazz percussionist and drummer. He has worked as a professional musician since the age of 13, moving to New York in the late 1960's where he helped develop the "Jazz Fusion" genre of music. He sits down with Jesse to talk about Brazilian percussion methods, his move to America, and his experience playing with Miles Davis and other great Jazz legends. Jesse talks about Brooklyn based rapper Desiigner's newest single "Tiimmy Turner." The track combines melody, rapping, and auto-tune to create a very unique Southern Trap record.

See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.

NPR Privacy Policy

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.0	These guys came up in a time of both getting credit for being feminists while talking
0:18.5	down to women and cheating on them constantly.
0:22.7	They just kind of had it all and their experts.
0:26.4	And you're not guaranteed the title of expert by just being a straight white man.
0:32.9	That's John Mulaney, straight white man, describing Gil Faisan and George St. Gieglund.
0:38.6	He created the characters with another comedian, Nick Kroll.
0:42.1	It was sort of an inside joke.
0:43.8	They are super specific.
0:46.3	If you want to imagine the kind of guys they are, think of like an Elliott Gould character
0:51.0	in a movie or somebody who's just on the periphery of an apartment party in a Woody Allen
0:57.5	movie from the late 70s or just listen to the way that George St. Gieglund describes
1:03.6	the way that he dresses.
1:05.3	Maybe you can imagine him slouched back into chair, peering at you over some dime store
1:12.2	glasses.
1:13.2	The way I describe my clothing is wool kimonos.
1:17.6	So large shoulder blazers.
1:21.3	And it's all, you don't realize this.
1:22.9	People are so stupid except me.
1:25.1	When you get carpet laid, they cut some off and you can make clothes out of it.
1:29.0	And he'd choose it from the hospital.
1:30.3	My shoes are from the hospital.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NPR, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of NPR and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.