Nikki Glaser and Dave Holmes

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2016

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Nikki Glaser is a comedian and host of the Comedy Central series Not Safe with Nikki Glaser. Nikki sits down with Jesse to talk about developing her Comedy Central show with her boyfriend, even when they were in the middle of a breakup. Dave Holmes is a comedian, writer at large for Esquire Magazine, and host of Maximum Fun's very own podcast International Waters. Jesse is joined by Dave to talk about growing up gay in the 80s with no real role models to look up to. They also discuss working for MTV, self-acceptance and his new book, Party of One: A Memoir in 21 Songs. Jesse tells us why the Olympics is such a beautiful sports event, even for people that don't like sports.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.7	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:14.5	When was the last time you found yourself in a fancy Manhattan restaurant talking about
0:20.0	the intimate details of your sex life over lunch with friends?
0:25.9	Never.
0:26.9	Right?
0:27.9	When my guest Nikki Glazer started developing her show Not Safe, she thought there might be
0:32.0	a better way for women to talk about sex on TV.
0:36.4	What we are trying to avoid was the sex show with a bunch of women like sipping wine,
0:41.6	being like girl, naughty, you know, like a bunch of Samantha's or whatever.
0:46.0	I didn't want it to be that and I didn't want people to be able to write it off as like,
0:49.4	oh, it's just too female or whatever.
0:52.3	To be fair, it is pretty naughty.
0:55.0	It's Bullseye.
0:57.9	Coming up, I'll talk to Nikki Glazer about her show Not Safe.
1:05.8	It's a comedy show.
1:06.8	She wants you to laugh.
1:08.4	But she also kind of wants to liberate you.
1:12.0	We want people to learn something from the show and to take away that you shouldn't be
1:15.4	ashamed about what you're into unless it like, you know, hurts people.
1:19.8	She makes the show with her boyfriend and she'll tell me about why she is so compelled
1:24.0	to reveal intimate details of her life that literally in the middle of them making the
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