Pamela Adlon & James Acaster

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

The talents of Pamela Adlon are many. First, she's an incredible voice actress who's worked on literally dozens of shows. You probably know her best as Bobby from King of the Hill, though, where she was brilliant. Then there's her work on live action TV - she starred on prestige shows like Californication and Louie. And now, she co-created and stars in her own show: Better Things, which wrapped up its second season last year. You'll also hear from up and coming comic James Acaster - he's a regular on British TV and he's just now starting to make a splash over here with his hilarious **four hour long** comedy special on Netflix. The outshot is back next week!

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:13.2	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:15.8	Pamela Adlon, creator and star of FX is Better Things, the voice of Bobby Hill and more,
0:22.0	got an early start in her career in show business.
0:25.3	When she was about 12, she decided she wanted to act and she didn't ask permission from
0:29.3	her mom and dad, really.
0:30.6	She just did it.
0:32.2	She actually literally got the phone book, looked up an agent, made an appointment, and then
0:37.8	a couple days later, there she was, standing in an office doing her first ever cold read.
0:44.2	Yes, she had me read a tide commercial and it was like one of those like, this kid's
0:51.6	a star.
0:52.6	You know, like she like put her feet up on the desk and said, I want to sign her and…
0:56.8	Was she smoking?
0:58.1	I feel like she was.
1:00.1	I feel, yeah, maybe.
1:03.0	It's Bullseye.
1:11.5	This week Pamela Adlon, her show Better Things on FX is coming back for a third season and
1:16.8	she'll tell me all about that.
1:18.7	She was also the voice of Bobby Hill and one of my favorite shows King of the Hill, one
1:23.5	of her best ever roles a job she loved.
1:26.7	But part because she could keep things fresh.
1:29.0	And so there was one year where I said to Greg Daniels, can Bobby not say fruit pie like
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