Robert Smigel & Gillian Jacobs

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week, writer and director Robert Smigel breaks down what really happened when he was showrunning "The Dana Carvey" show. Plus, he'll talk about so much more including his time on SNL, and his new movie "The Week Of" on Netflix. And probably his best known creation: Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. Then, Gillian Jacobs. You know her from her roles on "Community", "Girls," and "Love." She'll be in two upcoming films: "Life of the Party" and Netflix's "Ibiza." She keeps busy, but after working so hard these past few years, she tells Jesse why she's taken some time off for a little self-care.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.9	It's Bullseye.
0:13.9	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:14.9	Are you a fan of the Dana Carvey show?
0:17.2	It was a sketch comedy show hosted by Dana Carvey.
0:21.4	It ran for one season in 1996 on ABC, half a season, really.
0:27.8	Right after home improvement.
0:29.0	There's only eight episodes.
0:31.0	Part of the reason it didn't last very long was because for a show
0:35.6	airing on a Disney-owned network in primetime, it was very, very weird.
0:41.5	Weird than pretty much anything else on network TV and definitely 100%
0:46.4	too weird to follow home improvement.
0:49.5	And for that reason, it's become kind of a cult legend in a comedy world.
0:53.4	There was even a documentary about it recently on Hulu.
0:56.6	Robert Smigel was the show runner.
0:59.0	Here's what he thinks about it.
1:00.4	I actually heard someone Josh Greenbaum, the director, say,
1:03.4	you know, those guys stuck to their guns.
1:06.0	And if they hadn't, there's no way there would have been a documentary
1:09.5	about it 20 years later.
1:11.4	Nobody would be talking about it that way.
1:13.8	And I'm like, yeah, that's the goal of every show runner to make a show
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