Nicole Byer

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Nicole Byer is busy, in every sense of the word. She plays the role of headstrong Nicky on NBC's Grand Crew, a show about a group of wine-loving friends in Los Angeles who are doing their best to climb the career ladder, maintain relationships, and love each other. She's doing standup. She's co-hosting the show Wipeout with John Cena. She has four podcasts – Why Won't You Date Me, Newcomers, 90 Day Bae, and Best Friends! With Sasheer Zamata. In 2020, she published her first book "#VERYFAT#VERYBRAVE." She even plays Susie's mom in the upcoming Rugrats reboot! She's currently nominated for her third Emmy, for hosting Nailed It on Netflix.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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0:16.6	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of Maximum Fun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:35.9	It's Bolzai. I'm Jesse Thorne. Look, baking a cake is hard, especially if you're trying to make a pretty ornate cake that gives your local bakery a run for its money.
0:45.5	Exhibit A, the Great British Bake Off on Netflix. It's a reality competition show where the contestants spend years honing their craft,
1:00.2	making countless iterations of the same Black Forest mocha cream sponge thing.
1:05.7	On that show, if something in your cake is off even a little bit,
1:09.3	maybe there's too much lemon or too much cardamom,
1:14.2	maybe your mirror glaze never quite sets right. Well, bad news.
1:22.5	You're going home. Then there's Exhibit B. Nailed It, which is also on Netflix. Nailed It takes the same basic premise, bring people together in a big kitchen, have them make a big pretty cake. Only none of the people
1:29.0	know anything about baking or cooking. And instead of four hours, we give them 90 minutes. What could
1:37.2	possibly go wrong? The answer, of course, is everything, sad, droopy cupcakes that are barely baked, burnt fondant monstrosities,
1:47.6	ingredients materializing that were never in the recipe. Nailed it is a celebration of failure.
1:54.0	An ode to, well, at least you tried your best. Maybe that's good enough.
1:59.5	The baked goods are never pretty. The tone is never mean,
2:03.5	and the show is always very, very funny. Nicole Byer hosts nailed it. She's great at it. So great
2:10.1	she's been nominated twice for Emmy Awards. She's nominated again this year. This conversation
2:16.4	from last year was conducted by the one and only
2:18.9	Travelle Anderson. They're a veteran entertainment writer and the co-host of the Maximum Fun podcast,
2:24.4	Fanti. Before we kick things off, let's hear a clip from the show. This comes from the fifth
2:29.1	season of Nailed It, which implements a twist. The contestants are now working in pairs. It won't surprise you to
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