Paul Feig and Ophira Eisenberg

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Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2013

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Director Paul Feig talks about being a child magician, an actor and stand-up, and what finally drove him behind the camera to direct film and television. Plus, he'll talk about his new movie The Heat, his last movie Bridesmaids, and why he likes watching women be funny. Then Ophira Eisenberg talks about why she used to date so much and so often. She's the host of NPR's Ask Me Another, and her memoir is called Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy. Plus, the New Yorker's TV critic Emily Nussbaum talks about a couple of her favorite new shows, and why you ought to check them out.

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0:50.0	Paul Feeck's career path has been a bit rocky.
0:54.0	The first studio film he directed was pretty much a flop.
0:57.0	His second didn't take in much cash either.
0:59.0	Well, I went hardcore into movie jail.
1:01.0	You know, there's this thing in Hollywood called movie jail,
1:03.0	which you have a movie comes out and it doesn't do well.
1:05.0	Then they don't let you make movies anymore.
1:07.0	So when you got the chance to make bridesmaids with Judd Apatow, the stakes were sky high.
1:13.0	All through that movie, I just kept referring to it as strike three.
1:16.0	You know, I just knew he's either going to work or I'm going to literally be just six feet under after this thing.
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