Roy Wood Jr. & Peter Serafinowicz

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week, we're talking with two *very* funny people. First: Roy Wood Jr. Roy's a correspondent on the Daily Show these days, but the road he took to get there is fascinating. Roy produced, wrote and hosted on a grab bag of different radio shows, first in his hometown of Birmingham, AL, then in Los Angeles. He's also a standup with his own weird, kind of brilliant form of truth-telling. Don't miss this one. Then, actor/director/writer Peter Serafinowicz. He's got a starring role on Amazon's The Tick but Lord alive, what a career he's had! He's a music video director, co-creator of some of England's weirdest (and funniest) comedy shows - he also did the voice of Darth Maul in the phantom menace. Remember that? Finally, if you ever found yourself falling in love with a team because of their goofy logo, have we got a blog for you!

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:13.4	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:15.6	Roy Wood Jr. is a comedian.
0:17.7	You've probably seen him as a correspondent on the Daily Show.
0:21.1	And I guess you could say he took kind of an odd pass to get there.
0:24.4	I mean, he's done comedy pretty much his entire life.
0:28.0	But he majored in broadcast journalism and for a while it was looking like that was
0:32.0	going to be his career.
0:33.0	He was a real regular radio host.
0:35.4	He was a reporter doing the news, which isn't an easy industry to crack when you spend
0:40.3	every free minute of your time doing stand up.
0:43.0	The problem I had in college graduating my last two years of school I spent on the road
0:48.0	as a comic.
0:49.4	My first two years of comedy I was still in college.
0:51.6	So when I graduated I had no experience in my field, not even an internship.
0:56.4	So you can't just walk into a newspaper or a radio station and go, hey, I like to write
1:02.4	articles.
1:04.1	Do you have any articles?
1:05.5	No.
1:06.5	I was in Missouri telling jokes for $30.
1:09.8	It's Bullseye.
1:11.8	It's coming up, Roy Wood Jr. talks with me about going from being a radio DJ to being
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