Padma Lakshmi & Colin Quinn

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 21 November 2016

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Jesse talks to Colin Quinn about his time on Saturday Night Live and his new Netflix special, New York Story. Padma Lakshmi, host of Top Chef, model and author takes us deep into the world of spices and herbs. Plus, standup comedy from Sara Schaefer and more.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.0	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:14.9	Comedians never forget the first time they got in front of a bunch of people started
0:18.7	working out their act.
0:20.5	Colin Quinn, the stand-up and former Saturday Night Live star, has a great story.
0:26.1	He's off benign enough, he was in Times Square trying to get on stage at the improv.
0:30.6	He was drinking at the time.
0:32.5	You know, one thing leads to another and he gets arrested and the cops throw him in the
0:38.0	drunk tank.
0:39.0	So I'm going, let me go.
0:40.0	I got to do a comedy show.
0:41.0	I'm a comedian, and never done comedy.
0:43.2	But I had my little act.
0:44.5	So they said, you're a comedian, let's see, you're act.
0:46.6	I get up in front of 30 guys, I got locked up in Times Square, 15, 20 cops, whatever it
0:51.9	was.
0:52.9	I got a lot of people and I get up and start doing my jokes.
0:57.1	And after two minutes, one of the cops goes, well, we were going to let you go because
1:00.0	you said you were a comedian, but now we know you were lying.
1:03.2	It's Bullseye.
1:11.7	Coming up, I'll talk to Colin Quinn about his new show.
1:14.4	It's called New York Story.
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