'Party Down' co-creators, Rob Thomas and John Enbom

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Party Down is a show with a simple premise. It's about a group of actors, writers and creative types who work at a catering company called Party Down. Most of the catering employees have big dreams, but to pay the bills they're sort of stuck at the company. To make matters worse, the employees often get involved into some truly absurd and wacky situations. The first two seasons of the show ran more than 10 years ago, but the show is back for a third season. On the latest episode of Bullseye, we're joined by of the co-creators of Party Down, Rob Thomas and John Enbom. They join us to talk about the latest season of the show, and what it was like to revisit the characters after all these years. Plus, they get into why they believed so deeply in the show even when several network executives told them it would never work.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:20.5	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:22.2	My first guests this week are Rob Thomas and John N. Bond.
0:26.3	With some friends, they created the TV show Party Down.
0:29.9	Now if you're not familiar with Party Down, it's a show with a pretty simple premise.
0:34.3	It's about a group of actors and writers, creative types.
0:39.3	Only they don't work acting and writing.
0:42.3	They work at a catering company Party Down.
0:46.3	Every episode of the show is a different party, singles mixers, celebrity birthdays, super
0:51.9	sweet 16s.
0:53.7	And every week, the Party Down employees get into a mess.
0:58.3	Usually a pathetic mess.
1:01.1	Party Down ran almost 15 years ago and the third season just premiered.
1:06.4	All these years later, there are some new faces on the team, but mostly things are the
1:11.6	same.
1:12.6	Or actually things are worse.
1:15.7	I mean, what's sadder than a failing actor passing out canopies?
1:20.0	The same failing actor passing out canopies, only it's 12 years later.
1:25.0	The cast of Party Down, or of course, not failed actors.
1:28.9	Somewhere stars before the show's first run, several have become stars since Adam Scott,
1:34.8	Mick and Malale, Jane Lynch, Lizzie Kaplan, pretty much all of them are back.
1:40.4	Season 3 kicks off with a reunion.
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