Bullseye With Jesse Thorn

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Sinopse

Bullseye from NPR is your curated guide to culture. Jesse Thorn hosts in-depth interviews with brilliant creators, culture picks from our favorite critics and irreverent original comedy. Bullseye has been featured in Time, The New York Times, GQ and McSweeney's, which called it "the kind of show people listen to in a more perfect world." (Formerly known as The Sound of Young America.)

Episódios

  • Noz's Rap Picks

    22/03/2011 Duração: 12min

    Noz, of the hip-hop blog Cocaine Blunts, shares some of his favorite new tracks.

  • Comedy: Craig Rowin

    20/03/2011 Duração: 04min

    Craig Rowin has a proposition for all you millionaires out there.

  • Greg Mottola

    10/03/2011 Duração: 59min

    Greg Mottola is the director behind Superbad and Adventureland, and has also directed episodes of Arrested Development and Undeclared. His new film Paul is out March 18th, and stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

  • Bill Hader

    08/03/2011 Duração: 40min

    Bill Hader is an actor and cast member on Saturday Night Live, where he's been known for his great impressions as well as beloved recurring characters like Stefon and Vinny Vedecci. He's also been in several of the most successful comedies of the past few years, including Superbad, Tropic Thunder and Knocked Up. You can see him in a new alien-comedy movie with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost called Paul.

  • Phil Collins: The Song That Changed My Life

    06/03/2011 Duração: 04min

    Phil Collins chose She Loves You by The Beatles as the song that changed his life for our ongoing series.

  • Scott Thompson

    03/03/2011 Duração: 48min

    An actor and comedian best known for his work in the Canadian sketch group The Kids in the Hall, Scott Thompson recently released his first graphic novel based on one of his characters, Danny Husk.

  • Weird Al Yankovic

    28/02/2011 Duração: 50min

    Weird Al Yankovic is the undisputed king of parody music and the all-time bestselling accordionist. His new children's book is When I Grow Up. His new album is due this summer.

  • Live from SF Sketchfest

    16/02/2011 Duração: 58min

    Comedy from Baron Vaughn and Kasper Hauser plus interviews with Bobcat Goldthwait and Steve Dildarian and music from John Vanderslice from our live show at the San Francisco Sketchfest comedy festival.

  • A Thousand Clowns

    13/02/2011 Duração: 43min

    Jesse's live conversation at the Cinefamily in Los Angeles with Barry Gordon, the then-15-year-old star of the film A Thousand Clowns. Released in 1965 and now out-of-print, A Thousand Clowns co-stars Jason Robards as Murray, a comedy writer who struggles to come to terms with growing up – something he must do if he wants to stop child protective services from taking away his adopted son Nick.

  • Dick Cavett

    10/02/2011 Duração: 29min

    Dick Cavett is best known as a talk show host who spoke with (and listened to) some of America's most celebrated entertainers. With a playful yet sophisticated wit, he hosted The Dick Cavett Show, which aired on ABC and on PBS from the late 60s to the early 80s. He currently writes an opinion blog for the New York Times. In his newest book, Talk Show, he tells some of his best stories about his time as an interviewer and host.

  • Bill Carter: The War for Late Night

    07/02/2011 Duração: 42min

    Bill Carter is the author of two books about the politics and people of late night television, and a media reporter for the New York Times. His most recent book is The War for Late Night, a thoughtful and exciting behind-the-scenes look at the Sturm und Drang of the late night wars over Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien, and The Tonight Show.

  • Daryl Hall

    04/02/2011 Duração: 31min

    Daryl Hall is a singer, songwriter and producer. He's best known as the lead singer and co-founder of Hall & Oates, who have sold more albums than any other duo in music history. His current project is a monthly web video series of his collaborations with other musicians, called "Live from Daryl's House".

  • The Song That Changed My Life: Chuck Brown

    02/02/2011 Duração: 03min

    Chuck Brown is known as "The Godfather of Go-Go", a genre of very danceable funk music that he helped originate in Washington, D.C. in the 1970s. His newest release is a 3-disc set called "We Got This". He spoke to us about a song that changed his life.

  • Mavis Staples

    31/01/2011 Duração: 44min

    Mavis Staples is a legendary R&B and gospel singer. She began singing as part of a family gospel group formed by her father called The Staple Singers. Her newest album, produced by Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, is called You Are Not Alone.

  • Comedy: Cream and Jordan Ranks America

    28/01/2011 Duração: 06min

    First, "Ragtag", a sketch from LA-based comedy group Cream; then a monthly wrap-up of what's up and what's down with Jordan Morris for "Jordan Ranks America".

  • Adam Reed

    26/01/2011 Duração: 25min

    Adam Reed is a writer, director, producer and voice actor. He was the co-creator of the Adult Swim animated series Sealab 2021 and Frisky Dingo. He's also the mind behind the FX show Archer, which is entering its second season.

  • Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein of "Portlandia"

    23/01/2011 Duração: 28min

    Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein are the stars of a new TV show on IFC called "Portlandia", an affectionate skewering of the young people's bohemian paradise that is Portland, Oregon.

  • Comedy: Superego

    18/01/2011 Duração: 04min

    Heartlines, the late night call-in request show — "turn on your heartlight and send out a heartline."

  • David Rakoff

    10/01/2011 Duração: 25min

    David Rakoff is an essayist, journalist, and a regular contributor to This American Life. His latest book is a collection of essays called Half Empty, on taking down optimism and championing pessimism.

  • Comedy: Maria Bamford at Laugh Night

    05/01/2011 Duração: 11min

    A standup set from one of our comedy heroes, Maria Bamford. Recorded at our last Laugh Night, a benefit for Art Share in Los Angeles.

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