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Michael Showalter on 'Spoiler Alert,' 'Wet Hot American Summer' and more

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Wet Hot American Summer, Roger Ebert, Virginia Heffernan, and Steve Martin.

I didn't realize how weird it was. Like airplane is how many jokes can you make? Which is, I mean airplane is perfect. No, not a word bad said to me about airplane. And Steve Martin is as much as he was making fun of zeniness. He had a certain kind of zenness that people could just take at face and enjoy on that basis. That's what we were doing. But yeah, never for me, it never felt good to have that kind of polarizing. It's like you don't know yourself.

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