Steve Buscemi

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 11 February 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Steve Buscemi! The best ever. Steve joins us to talk about the latest season of his hit TBS show Miracle Workers, now in its second season. The anthology series steps back into the Dark Ages for season 2 with Steve playing a peasant with a name we can't say on NPR. Let's just say he's a guy named after his occupation and he makes his living shoveling the kind of stuff that usually rolls down hill. The show is created by Simon Rich and co stars Daniel Radcliffe with guests appearances by Peter Serafinowicz and Chris Parnell. Steve chats with us about what it's like to play a "Sweatpants god," dying on screen dozens of times, and how his father shaped his career in the civil services as well as acting. Plus, he'll talk to us about trying his hand at stand-up as an eighteen year old kid from Long Island.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.8	I'm Jesse Thorn, it's Bullseye.
0:13.8	I guess Steve Bussemi doesn't need that much of an introduction. He is one of the most memorable
0:18.8	actors ever. He's had hundreds of parts, leading parts and stuff like reservoir dogs, ghost
0:25.8	world, boardwalk, and pyre. Iconic supporting parts in Fargo, the sopranos, and, of course,
0:30.8	30 raw. So we'll skip the long intro and talk about his newest work. It's a TV show called Miracle Workers,
0:37.8	a comedy created by the hilarious Simon D. Warrant.
0:40.8	Iconic supporting parts in Fargo, the sopranos, and, of course, 30 raw. So we'll skip the long intro
0:42.8	and talk about his newest work. It's a TV show called Miracle Workers, a comedy created
0:47.8	by the hilarious Simon Rich, the same person behind Man Seeking Woman and a bunch of brilliantly
0:52.8	written works you might have seen in The New Yorker, or on one of his many books, or heard
0:57.8	on this show. Each season, Miracle Workers tells a different story with the same cast. Season
1:04.8	1 was set in heaven, which is run kind of like a soulless mega corporation with an absentee
1:09.8	CEO. Steve played God. Literally God.
1:14.8	I don't want to do this anymore. Tell mom and dad what a cow is. It's like a big dog you can drink from.
1:21.8	And what's a dog? A small cow you can be friends with. Tell them about giraffes. What's a giraffe?
1:29.8	It's just a tall dog. Flouter. Speak up. Tall dog with a leg for a neck.
1:37.8	Season 2 takes place in the Dark Ages. In fact, that's what it's called, Miracle Workers Dark Ages.
1:44.8	Steve Bussemi plays a peasant named Edward, whose last name we cannot say on the radio.
1:50.8	That's because it describes his profession. He scoops up human waste with a shovel.
1:56.8	Shoveler is actually the second word in his last name, and I bet you can guess the first.
2:03.8	Let's hear a clip from the show. In this bit, Ed is training his daughter in the family business.
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