Sarah Jessica Parker & Chris Gethard

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Two favorites from the Bullseye archives this week. First up: Sarah Jessica Parker, from 2016. A fascinating, probing interview that covers her time on Divorce, Sex and the City, LA Story, even Square Pegs, her first ever starring TV role! Then, Chris Gethard. He's of course the host of the cult hit Chris Gethard show on TV. He's an actor, too - he played Ilana Glazer's boss on Broad City, among other roles. When they talked last year, Jesse and Chris went over one of his most compelling, personal projects he's ever taken on: a one man show called Career Suicide. Chris' show is a frank, specific and profoundly touching look at mental illness and how he succeeded in showbiz in spite of it. Finally: want to hear the sound of Dad-hood? Bring in the horns and fretless bass!

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:13.0	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:14.5	Before she was the star of HBO Sex in the City, Sarah Jessica Parker found a lot of work
0:20.5	doing pretty typical supporting roles.
0:22.6	Like a lot of actors, you know.
0:24.8	Not the woman in the romcom who gets married to her soulmate, the woman with whom that
0:29.9	woman dishes.
0:31.9	If you ask Sarah about it though, she'll tell it to you straight.
0:35.7	She wouldn't have had it any other way.
0:37.4	Maybe it's just the way I'm choosing to remember them, but those were always, for me, the
0:41.4	more interesting role anyway.
0:43.2	They weren't on screen as long and they never got to kiss anybody, but they always had
0:50.2	insight and they were a source of comfort and they were counsel and ears and eyes and
0:56.8	witness to.
0:58.6	And you always knew that if they could just survive until college, the world was going
1:05.0	to be their oyster.
1:06.6	And maybe that's because that's how I felt.
1:10.0	It's Bullseye.
1:11.0	It's coming up.
1:18.7	I'll talk to Sarah Jessica Parker about her role starring in the HBO series Divorce.
1:24.1	She'll tell me about where she got the inspiration to the show's tone.
1:28.1	The 70's cinema was the central inspiration for me.
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