Patton Oswalt & Fresh Off The Boat

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Comedian Patton Oswalt tells Jesse about the years he spent almost completely indoors - pitching failed sketches in writers rooms, going to the movies, and standing on stage every night. Later, Randall Park and Nahnatchka Khan, from ABC's Fresh Off the Boat talk about how the hit sitcom about a first generation Taiwanese American family came to be. Plus, Jesse talks about the Sly and the Family Stone record you absolutely need to hear.

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0:16.4	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:29.1	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:30.6	What makes somebody go into stand-up comedy?
0:32.8	Are they chasing the high of hearing a room full of laughter?
0:37.2	Pat Naswald says, yeah, but that's only part of it.
0:40.5	A heronatic does not set up the possibility of failure.
0:43.5	They are chasing the high, but a gambler, and I think to a much bigger extent, a comedian,
0:50.2	yes, we're chasing the high, but the high has no meaning unless we also chase the possibility
0:55.5	of a crashing, disastrous low.
0:59.8	That is the setup of the joke.
1:01.3	I'm setting this up, and then when I toss that punchline, it might not work.
1:05.5	I'm that's part of the thrill.
1:06.8	As we get addicted to both of those, it is a succulent.
1:12.0	All of your senses are amped up to 11 moment of life when you feel a room turn against
1:18.5	you or you use the wrong foot.
1:20.9	All that is just as memorable as when you kill.
1:24.5	It's bullseye.
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