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Why public radio. Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of maximum fun.org and is distributed

by NPR. I'm Jesse Thorn. It's easy when the holidays roll around to put a nice seepia tone on

that time of year. You think back to your childhood holidays and the bad stuff that happened,

the disappointing gifts, family fights. We'd all kind of get washed out with that warm loving glow.

Maybe your memory of Christmas is passed a bit more like Andy Richter's. The ones that I really remember

my stepfather had a plumbing business. So we had some

Christmas that were just an orgy of consumerism and then a compliment. You know, and then the next year

it would be sort of like, wow. Santa's had had it rough this year, I guess. North Pole wasn't getting

any shipments. Oh, it's bullseye. Coming up, Andy Richter talks about family, holidays, and more.

He'll also confirm what you probably knew already. Charlie Brown, Christmas special is a total bummer.

And so many of the jokes are like, the punchline is like, well, I have hope and excitement. Oh, yeah.

Then I'll talk with Jane Lynch, the comedian and actress from Glee and Best in Show and all that

other stuff. She has a new Christmas album that just came out. She likes to holiday plenty now,

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