Wet Hot American Summer's David Wain & Michael Showalter
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
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4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2015
⏱️ 64 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Jeff from Seattle. |
| 0:02.0 | Bull Design Thorn is produced independently and supported by listeners like you and me now. |
| 0:07.8 | You should support the show like I just did. |
| 0:10.6 | Just visit maximum Fun.org. |
| 0:12.8 | Donate. You won't regret it. |
| 0:15.0 | It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne. |
| 0:18.0 | Starting with the state, moving on to Stella and their first movie, Wet Hot American Summer, |
| 0:23.5 | my guest David Wayne and Michael Show Walter |
| 0:25.7 | have spent their careers making weird comedy |
| 0:29.1 | and getting mixed reviews. |
| 0:31.7 | And that wasn't like on purpose. |
| 0:35.0 | We sort of thought we had sold out a little bit. |
| 0:38.0 | Right. |
| 0:39.0 | It wasn't that we had like fully sold out, but it was like we've really like watered it down you know like like like you know like like like |
| 0:47.3 | you know like we really did and and so you know it was like we couldn't sell out even if we tried because we tried |
| 0:57.1 | We tried really hard and then those reviews those first reviews came out about Stella and it was like this is the weirdest |
| 1:04.8 | show ever. It's bullsey. |
| 1:07.6 | Hey! Coming up, I'll talk to Wayne and Show Walter about reviving wet-hot American summer for the small screen |
| 1:19.4 | and pursuing a brand of comedy that isn't really like anything else. I always felt from the day I met |
| 1:26.1 | everyone else in the state that like there was like a cause here and cause was about |
| 1:31.3 | something about comedy that meant something real to me. |
| 1:34.0 | And I felt like throughout the failures, I never lost sight of that I think this is a special |
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