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🗓️ 5 December 2023
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0:00.0 | Bullseye with I'm Jesse Thorn. |
0:21.0 | Ask just about any comedian in the last 20 years to name their influences. |
0:29.0 | Maybe ask a hundred of them. |
0:32.0 | Make one of those word clouds from 2011. |
0:34.8 | The name that you will see over and over again. |
0:37.7 | Big, big letters in that word cloud, |
0:40.3 | Stephen Wright. Go see him on stage. |
0:44.0 | It is joke after joke after joke, |
0:46.0 | but not rat a tat-tat like an old Borshbelt comic. |
0:50.0 | In fact, the opposite. |
0:51.0 | Slow, steady, sometimes surreal. |
0:55.0 | Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. When I die I'm going to leave my body to science fiction. |
1:07.0 | That's that classic Stephen Wright deadpan, a voice that has served him well not only as a stand-up but also as an actor, like in Reservoir Dogs. |
1:20.0 | That was the Partridge Families. Doesn't somebody want to be wanted? |
1:25.0 | Followed by Edison Lighthouse's love grows where my Rosemary goes. |
1:30.0 | As K Billy's super sounds of the 70s weekend just keeps on trucking. |
1:35.0 | Lately Wright has been changing things up a little. |
1:40.0 | He just wrote a novel, his first, it's called Harold. Harold's a book about a |
1:46.4 | seven-year-old boy. It's not really a coming-of-age story or anything like that. In fact, it's |
1:52.4 | pretty light on plot. Instead, it's an interior monologue, a day in the life of a dreamer. |
2:00.0 | The kind you've got to imagine the author was when he was young. |
2:03.5 | It's a beautiful and hilarious book and I am so glad to get to talk with the great Stephen Wright. |
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