Episode notes
When you tune into Bullseye, you might come to expect interviews with different pop culture creators. This week, we’re breaking the format. It’s our annual end of year best stand-up comedy showcase!
We’re playing you some excerpts from the best stand up comedy of 2025. Our whole team has gone through hours and hours and hours of comedy albums – and today on Bullseye, we’re bringing bits from the best ones of the year.
This is, of course, stand-up comedy, so we wanted to also give a heads up that we have bleeped and edited out obscenities. There is also content you will hear that touches on some mature topics. Our list in order of appearance below:
Gianmarco Soresi – Thief of Joy (Live in San Francisco)
Josh Gondelman – Positive Reinforcement
Mohanad Elshieky – No Need to Address Me
Preacher Lawson – My Name Is Preacher
Gabby Gutierrez-Reed – Firecracker Comedy
Ian Karmel – Comfort Beyond God’s Foresight
In this episode...
Guests
- Liz Miele
- Andy Woodhull
- Gianmarco Soresi
- Josh Gondelman
- Mohanad Elshieky
- Robby Hoffman
- Dana Gould
- Preacher Lawson
- Aaron Weber
- Gabby Gutierrez-Reed
- Ian Edwards
- Ian Karmel
- Beth Stelling
- Jim Tews
- Fortune Feimster
About the show
Bullseye is a celebration of the best of arts and culture in public radio form. Host Jesse Thorn sifts the wheat from the chaff to bring you in-depth interviews with the most revered and revolutionary minds in our culture.
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.” Since April 2013, the show has been distributed by NPR.
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