Wallace Shawn, Nick Lowe & Jay Baruchel

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2017

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Joining us this week is actor Wallace Shawn, whose many film credits include roles in The Princess Bride, the Toy Story films, and My Dinner with Andre. An accomplished playwright and author, Wallace talks to Jesse about his recent book, a long essay titled "Night Thoughts." But first: a visit from Canadian comedian and director Jay Baruchel. Jay talks about directing "Goon: Last of the Enforcers" and explains what makes the Canadian comedic sensibility so unique. Plus, English singer-songwriter Nick Lowe recalls the 1950s country and western song that changed his life. Finally, Jesse praises a story-driven video game that captures the loneliness and ambiguity of our lives.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to Bullseye. Start your day tomorrow with Up First, the Morning
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0:25.6	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org.
0:29.8	And is distributed by NPR.
0:37.2	I'm Jesse Thorn. Look, Americans are great at a lot of stuff. We got some cool cars.
0:43.4	We have hamburgers here. The St. Louis Arch, I like a lot. But when it comes to comedy,
0:49.4	Canada might have our number. Mr. Top 10 favorite comedians and I swear to God,
0:54.0	probably half of them were born in Canada. What's up with that?
0:58.5	Jay Barichels, a comic and an actor too. And wouldn't you know it? He's from Canada.
1:03.6	He was born in Montreal. And he has a theory about all this. We go up,
1:08.0	versed in all the same sources material that you guys do. Plus we grow up watching all these
1:12.8	British shows that you guys don't. And then we have our own **** as well. And so that's that Canadian
1:18.0	sense of humor. It's equal parts kind of quintessential American and British. It's equal parts
1:24.1	ad libby and Gilbert and Sullivan. This is Bullseye.
1:35.2	Coming up, Jay Barichels talks with me about being Canadian.
1:38.9	And about how growing up in Montreal means that more often than not, you're getting the
1:42.8	short end of the stack. Jay just directed his first feature film. It's called Goon.
1:47.6	Last of the enforcers. It's a sequel to a movie called Goon, which Jay wrote. And it's about
1:53.1	hockey, which Jay loves. I mean, he loves to watch it. And he also loves to write about it.
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