People seem to be tired of WTF dominating the talk here, so now WTF and Marc Maron have their own dedicated thread.
― That's why they call me (Johnny Fever), Monday, 18 April 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
what up what the fuckers, what the fuckanettes, what the fuckanauts
― Mordy, Monday, 18 April 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
LOCK THE GATES
― That's why they call me (Johnny Fever), Monday, 18 April 2011 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
For serious, today's Bobcat Goldthwait episode was crazy good.
looking forward to it, he was really funny on the live episode he was on
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 18 April 2011 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
The Bobcat one is great because of Bobcat; I'm pretty much over Maron at this point. I figure if I listen to one a month from now on I won't want to strangle him.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 18 April 2011 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
What are some of the better episodes IYO? I tried the Janeane Garafolo one, which was pretty good, but then lost interest after playing the Sara Silverman ep in which she seemed about as bored with Maron as I was.
― i have a tbh (rip van wanko), Monday, 18 April 2011 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe I should revise my policy of choosing podcasts for babe factor.
― i have a tbh (rip van wanko), Monday, 18 April 2011 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
i think the louis ck episodes are generally seen as the best ones
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 18 April 2011 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
The Maria Bamford one is my favorite.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Monday, 18 April 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
^yah otm xxxp. maron was so hung up on the 'bobcat voice' character that it got p annoying
― johnny crunch, Monday, 18 April 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
recent good ones: dino stamatopolous, stephen tobolowsky, dave foley, most of the live ones
― adult music person (Jordan), Monday, 18 April 2011 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ maron and laura kightlinger deciding to call up lous ck in the middle of the podcast. so awkward (he picked up but was busy and annoyed, of course).
― adult music person (Jordan), Monday, 18 April 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
i have a dumb question
in the theme song, what is the thing that sounds like "and i'm not guilty here"?
i don't think that's what he's actually saying but it's what i always hear
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 18 April 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
Ed Helms playing bango! Mike DiStefano is essential listening. All the old school guys. Stewart Lee, duh, considering he is the greatest of all time. The Apatow ones.
― popular gay automobile (a hoy hoy), Monday, 18 April 2011 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
I can kind of get why Maron's persona is an obstacle for some people, but I've been a fan of the guy for so long that it's almost impossible to be annoyed by him now (though there are definitely still occasions where I'll be thinking "okay, let's move ahead...").
Some of my favorite guests have been Stephen Tobolowsky, Maria Bamford, Adam McKay, Louis C.K., Judd Apatow, and Patrice O'Neal.
― That's why they call me (Johnny Fever), Monday, 18 April 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
n/a do you mean El Chupacabra saying Double-U Tee Eff?
― popular gay automobile (a hoy hoy), Monday, 18 April 2011 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
ha ha maybe? it seems odd that i would be that far off but ???
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 18 April 2011 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
Dino stamatopolous one was alltime classic and listening to it got me into Moral Orel which is beyond brilliant. Also Starburns.
― Mordy, Monday, 18 April 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
the Pardo one was great. funny and a lot of great nuggets about how comics approach their craft.
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 18 April 2011 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
Loved, loved loved Bobcat today. The stuff about his Dad, his crazy biker brother, Kurt...love him. Maron doesnt grate on me anymore, I tend to focus on the guest
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
The joke about Michael Jordan's dad and Kurt the only one laughing-- A+
― President Keyes, Monday, 18 April 2011 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
Also loved the reason he's called Bobcat (basically as an FU to someone else).
― That's why they call me (Johnny Fever), Monday, 18 April 2011 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
I loved the story about their idea for the All Apologies video idea, with JFK assassination and the pie, and the tour manager saying they can't be in the same room anymore.
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
Wasn't Kurt really into SNL, at least as a teenager?
― President Keyes, Monday, 18 April 2011 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
My all-time favorite wtfs:
Louis CKPaul ScheerMaria Bamford road tripJaneane GarofaloStephen TobolowskyJoe Mande
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 23:18 (twelve years ago) link
Enjoyed Laura Kightlinger confirming what I thought about Todd Barry (funny but he goes to far in dealing with hecklers to the detriment of the rest of his set, or at least he has the 2 times I've seen him in person). Enjoyed the Robin Williams and Carl LaBove episodes a lot, and his subtle skewering of Bobby Slayton was great.
Anyone other than me pay to upgrade the app? Only really worth it to be able to listen to the old episodes.
― Bryan, Monday, 18 April 2011 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
Ed Helms seems like a sweet dude, but I think because of that, he didn't really gel with Maron, who seems to need his guests to be more darkly confessional to fully engage with them. Also Helms seemed sort of surprised that Maron hadn't seen Cedar Rapids and didn't know what it was about.
― jaymc, Monday, 18 April 2011 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
I got to listen to most of the old ones before he created the app, so just use the app for the new eps now
Robin Williams was great, i forgot that one.
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
otm. also helms doesn't really seem comfortable talking about himself at all.xpost
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 18 April 2011 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah Ed Helm is a sweetheart
Yeah, that was my Ed Helms takeaway. He's uneasy talking about himself (and at least 10 minutes before the interview was over, I was hoping they'd take a break so he could go outside and get some fresh, non cat-infected air).
― That's why they call me (Johnny Fever), Monday, 18 April 2011 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
Laura Kightlinger's childhood sitch = whoa! She seems like a bro, though, and I'd kick it with her.
― That's why they call me (Johnny Fever), Monday, 18 April 2011 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
Just heard Marc Maron on the CBC lately and that spurred me to download a bunch of these and have been enjoying what I've heard though my big complaint is the sheer amount of often-pointless yammer at the beginning of each episode.
The Louis CK ones aren't available in the iTunes feed (they just fell off the bottom I guess) but you can still download them if you search for them in the cached versions using Google search.
― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 18 April 2011 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
Fast forward
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Monday, 18 April 2011 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
Anyone who's just now getting acquainted with Maron needs to hear his Not Sold Out stand-up album from 2002. The ones since then have also been funny, if slightly more self-loathing, but the set that comprises Not Sold Out is masterful.
― That's why they call me (Johnny Fever), Monday, 18 April 2011 23:52 (twelve years ago) link
Fast forward― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic)
Yeah, I guess. Might get to that. I find that I'm listening to a lot of these when my hands are incapacitated (cooking or something) so not always an option, and thankfully so far it hasn't been TOO irksome. Though we'll see after I have 20 of them under my belt!
― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 00:19 (twelve years ago) link
seems like a sweet dude, but I think because of that, he didn't really gel with Maron, who seems to need his guests to be more darkly confessional to fully engage with them.
I was suprised at how well the Stephen Tobolowsky ep went because of this - Maron didn't dig for any of the painful stuff Tobolowsky's talked about, but just let himself get caught up in the guest's storytelling ability and say some "wow"s at his IRL bloozzzz-rock encounters
― Hypermotard: (sic), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 03:15 (twelve years ago) link
My favorite ep so far was W. Kamau Bell & Dwayne Kennedy talking about race and comedy. I could've listened to a couple more hours of that.
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 06:43 (twelve years ago) link
Patrice Oneal & Mike DeStefano (RIP) are the 2 best I've heard.
― gr8080, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 06:54 (twelve years ago) link
have no idea what greg fleet looks like i just assume hes superhans from peep show
― johnny crunch, Monday, 25 April 2011 12:28 (twelve years ago) link
he kinda looks like a middle-aged smackie whinnyingly asking you to lennim twenty bucks
― Unusatralian (sic), Monday, 25 April 2011 12:52 (twelve years ago) link
The two-parter with Mencia is sort of different from the rest of the podcast but is AMAZING -- Marc Maron, Comedy Detective, and the case of the Ripped-Off Jokes -- the whole thing has the intensity of those scenes in the interrogation room from Homicide: Life On The Street
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 25 April 2011 13:19 (twelve years ago) link
live wtf from brooklyn was very funny especially chuck klosterman.
― Michael B, Monday, 25 April 2011 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
Greg Fleet on today! <3
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 25 April 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
Oh no, Andy Dick on Thursday. I may skip that one.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 25 April 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that's going to be weird and awkward... I may have to listen in stages
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 25 April 2011 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
I still blame him indirectly for Phil Hartman's death, so unless his hour with Marc is some kind of self-flagellating apology fest, I'm not interested.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 25 April 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, and I've heard icky stories of him crashing high school proms and shit...dude is not right
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 25 April 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
remember maron saying andy dick was someone he didnt have time for as he wouldnt take responsibility for his actions (think it was on joe rogans interview)
― Michael B, Monday, 25 April 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
the great thing about Maron is you have to believe he'll confront Dick about all that stuff. he's not an obsequious kind of guy
― Mordy, Monday, 25 April 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah that's the thing with Maron's guests -- if I don't know them or dont' like them, Maron's the reason I listen.
Though I have to say there's something about Joe Rogan I really don't like.
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 25 April 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
(lol apropo of nothing)
I haven't listened to the Rogan ep yet, even though it's been downloaded.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 25 April 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
― Mordy, Monday, April 25, 2011 1:00 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
OTM. The deeper he went into the Gallagher and Mencia interview, the more I thought, "Any other interviewer would have stopped five questions ago."
― Funky Mustard (People It's Bad) (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 25 April 2011 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
*interviewS
Apparently Andy Dick is still staggering about the wilds of Portland, as the Bridgetown Comedy Fest organizer announced from the stage last night that no one knew where the hell he was, he had missed his flight, and if anybody sees him, please to DM the organizer on Twitter, etc.
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Monday, 25 April 2011 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
What a champ, that guy.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 25 April 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
Oh Andy.
Maybe it's just me...but the Rogan interview didn't feel real to me. He was open and talked about his life and whatever but his tone, the way he responded to questioning, he just felt very closed off and like he was tolerating Maron and not actually participating fully. Or something. Maybe I just don't like Rogan.
Oh and he would spout these random little lectures about bizarre pseudo-science that made me actually yell at my car stereo at one point AGGH YOU ARE SO FULL OF SHIT and then I had to stop listening for a little while because i'm crazy :)
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 25 April 2011 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe Marc is secretly working through the entire cast of Newsradio. Can't wait for him to talk to Stephen Root!
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 25 April 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
the Joe Rogan interview was (another) one that made me think "Marc has some deep, DEEP issues"
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Monday, 25 April 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
andy dick interview has the potential to be amazing
― adult music person (Jordan), Monday, 25 April 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
But if it was a cavalcade of batshittery, wouldn't Maron be hyping it as such? He did with Gallagher, and I haven't heard a peep about Dick on the latest WTFs (unless it's on today's, in which case I'll stop talking now).
― Funky Mustard (People It's Bad) (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 25 April 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
I actually liked the Rogan interview! I don't like him as a comedian or actor but he seemed a lot more thoughtful guy than I expected, and like I think I said on the comedy podcast thread, Maron was being pretty annoying in that interview. He seemed to have all these preconceived notions about who Rogan is (basically a really aggro dude) and then wouldn't back off from those notions no matter how many times Rogan denied them, which isn't really great interviewing technique. Rogan did creep me out when he was talking about all the steroids he does.
I want Maura Tierney to start doing standup so she can be a guest.
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 25 April 2011 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
Bobcat Goldthwait episode was one of the best of the recent batch btw.
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 25 April 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
could listen to 5 more podcasts of Bobcat. Love him.
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 25 April 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 25 April 2011 17:47 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
wtf?
― popular gay automobile (a hoy hoy), Monday, 25 April 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
Hartman's friend and former SNL colleague Jon Lovitz has accused Hartman's former NewsRadio co-star Andy Dick of re-introducing Brynn to cocaine, causing her to relapse and suffer a nervous breakdown. Dick claims to have known nothing of her condition.[48] In 2006, Lovitz claimed that Dick had approached him at a restaurant and said, "I put the Phil Hartman hex on you; you're the next one to die."[49][50] The following year at the Laugh Factory comedy club in Los Angeles, Lovitz and Dick had a further altercation over the issue.[50] Dick does not believe he is at fault in relation to Hartman's death.[48]
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Monday, 25 April 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
I've heard Dick questioned about Brynn Hartman before, and he just bounces into five minutes of "I didn't go to her house and put a GUN in her hand and tell her SHOOT PHIL, I wouldn't do that. She was MENTALLY ILL, that's not the cocaine's fault. I didn't know she had a problem with coke, or I wouldn't have given her any. Oh maybe I would have, I was on coke, hahahahaha. Of course' it's a tragedy but you can't dwell on these things. Whatever! I do what I like!"
― Unusatralian (sic), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
I know it's an integral part of his personality, but I'm getting weary of the "problems" Maron has with almost any comedy that didn't spring from exactly the same place as he did, or with comedy scenes he feels excluded from. This episode he didn't "get" absurd humor--which is okay. But he's always lightly dissing alt comedy and nerd comedy, has said he doesn't understand British comedy. He rarely has black comics on the show, possibly because stand-up is pretty segregated and he never plays the same clubs as those guys. (I'm pretty sure I've heard him scoff a few times when young stand-ups talk about Chris Rock being their main inspiration.) The only people he likes seem to be the ones who gave him breaks (like Conan), who came up in his era or before him, or younger comics who praise him.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 13:36 (twelve years ago) link
I dunno, I was listening to the Aziz Ansari WTF last night, and they definitely didn't come from the same place (couldn't have -- Ansari is about 20 years younger than Maron). And Ansari wasn't praising Maron to the skies or anything.
― Funky Mustard (People It's Bad) (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
yeah but didn't have some thing where he thought Aziz was going to be arrogant?
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 13:45 (twelve years ago) link
He always ends up coming to a resolution with his guests on the show, but then he regresses again. He'll get along with some alt type comics, but then a few weeks later he's back to talking about how he feels excluded from the alt scene. It gets to seem like schtick--he has to have a problem with each guest that can be worked out on the show.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
The point is he is capable if turning the corner, and he is getting better at being less combative. But at some point, it is still his show and it will always be about him to a certain extent. Maybe Maron just isnt your bag
― VegemiteGrrl, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, but I took that as more "He's so famous so young so quickly!" rather than jealousy. I do get what you're saying about the conflicts he invents or imagines (or doesn't), but I guess I find that appealing. He's going through the same personality-navigation that every working comic is, but is open and honest about it.
― Funky Mustard (People It's Bad) (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
it is funny to me how he has that bit or at least line abt richard lewis's act 20 yrs later being the same whining, etc & his reaction of "so you havent worked out any of this?"
...which is funny but maron p consistently has the same perspective too & is stuck in it in a v similar way
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
x-post no the shows are entertaining, but it sometimes grates to hear someone being close-minded about genres of comedy, or anything. I do admire his attempts to get over it though.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 13:58 (twelve years ago) link
I agree that he definitely has that schtick of placing himself in opposition to his guest and then building to a resolution. I think maybe this started with Louis CK, where it was a genuine progression, but since then he's kind of forced it sometimes, it can seem very artificial. Even as a schtick, I think it works for some guests, gets them to talk about stuff they wouldn't normally talk about. The problem is when it doesn't work but Maron refuses to change his style or strategy to fit the situation.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
Wasn't it Aziz he talks to about Chris Rock being a v. funny influence? And they discuss how odd it is when he does shows trying to work out his next routine without doing it 'Chris Rock style'?
I generally agree that Maron has a limited view of what comedy he likes but when something from outside that hits him, he can't shut up about it. I mean I am about as big a Stewart Lee mark as there is but stfu about dude already in every single podcast.
― popular gay automobile (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
I also think he is starting to be better about opening up to his trad. idea of comedy. Like discussing stuff with whoever it was who wrote Night Of The Musuem and understanding that it isn't some sort of way to attack his perceived notion of real comedy but as a well-paid job for dudes trying to make a film that entertains children. And I think as the show goes on and he's already interviewed all his buddies he'll start to open up more - hell you can see that with things like Gallagher.
― popular gay automobile (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
He said on twitter a couple weeks ago that he's trying to arrange a Chris Rock interview. Who knows if it will happen or not, but it would be nice to finally put that to bed.
Really hoping there's a surprise Chappelle interview at some point (maybe #200), but that's a pipe dream.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
Isn't any Chappelle interview with anyone in the outside world a pipe dream?
― popular gay automobile (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
Probably, but when was the last time he was interviewed only about his standup (which is presumably/hopefully what Maron would focus on)?
― Funky Mustard (People It's Bad) (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
He's not a recluse by any means. Chappelle still does impromptu sets at clubs around the country, but he hasn't done any media for years.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
x-post He already went after Tom Lennon a little bit months ago about writing Night at the Museum and Herbie, so I guess he got it out of his system by the time he had Lennon's writing partner on.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
Really? Cool, I thought he was a hardcore recluse.
― popular gay automobile (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
Ha! I didn't know about this:
In April 2007, Chappelle set a stand-up endurance record at the Laugh Factory Sunset Strip comedy club, beating comedian Dane Cook's record of 3 hours and 50 minutes. In December of the same year, Chappelle broke his own record with a time of 6 hours and 12 minutes. Cook took the record again in January 2008, with a time of 7 hours.[28] On November 19, 2009 Chappelle performed at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles, where it was speculated that he would aim to take back the record. However, he was disqualified according to the club owner, after he left the stage, five hours into his routine.[29]
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
Jeffrey Ross said on Bill Simmons podcast that Chappelle had been appearing in LA on the reg, late at night just working out material
Would love a Chris Rock wtf. Or Chappelle.
― VegemiteGrrl, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
And they discuss how odd it is when he does shows trying to work out his next routine without doing it 'Chris Rock style'
this was kind of amazing to me. i would love to see a chris rock set where he is intentionally dead pan, trying out the words without any kind of funny delivery.
― adult music person (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
I felt like Andy Dick filibustered a lot during that interview. If I knew nothing about Dick I probably would have enjoyed it more as a bunch of crazy sex & addiction stories--but he went all Andy-so-innocent during the Phil Hartman part & called his assistant. It reminded me of Mencia & his defensiveness.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 28 April 2011 13:15 (twelve years ago) link
I'm 10 minutes into the interview and I've already paused 3 times for a "I dont know if I can do this" break.
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 28 April 2011 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
Does Andy Dick talk about jerking off as a 12 year old in every interview he does? Probably a bit too late for him to try telling jokes, I guess.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 28 April 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
nope. he talks about another 12 yr old jerking him off.
― adult music person (Jordan), Thursday, 28 April 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
The bit I liked best was Andy Dick laying into his 'birth' father for wanting to get back in touch because of his money, then claiming to have offered any woman that he got pregnant financial support to make up for the fact he couldn't parent any resulting child, and then further making it clear that despite the fact he was only in his own children's lives until the age of five, he still paid his way.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 28 April 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
the australia stand-up clip he played recently where he called out the heckler was some srs lulz
― Mordy, Thursday, 28 April 2011 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that was pretty good. his heckler stories are always great...cool to hear a live clip!
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 28 April 2011 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
i was really fine w/ andy dick on this idk i dont have any neg feelings built up abt him and get maybe a little that hes like proactively trying 2 play the sympathy card here & cotton favor & knows maron has a p huge audience but i truly felt some sympathy 4 the dude! altho of course hes brought everything on himself & earned the rep as a fuckup
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 28 April 2011 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
he creeps me right the fuck out...I still havent finished listening yet
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 28 April 2011 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
meh, hes just a messed up dude. not like im ever gonna go see him or anything but thats mostly cuz i dont really think hes funny and nvr have
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 28 April 2011 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
I did end up really liking the Andy Dick episode after my initial misgivings. Much as I wanted Maron to go at him more, in the end I was kind of touched by Maron's genuine affection for him. I mean, he is still a fuckup, no question...but kind of fucking sad to know that he knows he is fucked up but that he doesn't want to deprive himself. I dunno. It was like hearing Maron interview his fuckup kid brother or something...he tried to act like "Andy Dick" for a while at first and the way Maron just let it go right by, not even call him on his crazy outbursts and weird pervy statements, it was a good way to get to something that was closer to the real Andy. Or something like him. I dunno. I definitely came away with a different impression.
also Sue Costello was great. Got a bit selfhelpy at times, some of the therapy-language gets a bit much for me, but her message, her journey really hit home for me. Should send the whole interview to my Mum, lol.
― VegemiteGrrl, Saturday, 7 May 2011 03:35 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know who she is but Sue Costello's laugh gave me tingly feelings, the good kind. She was a bit self-helpy, yeah, but I liked her.
― popular gay automobile (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 7 May 2011 06:14 (twelve years ago) link
her laugh was terrific, I agree totally.
― VegemiteGrrl, Saturday, 7 May 2011 06:21 (twelve years ago) link
Winters interview was great
― President Keyes, Monday, 9 May 2011 13:23 (twelve years ago) link
Man, just listened to the Tobolowsky, and his stories of hanging out with the Vaughan Bros. are great. Totally weird he was there at so many important junctures (at least as far as Stevie Ray and Jimmy Vaughan go).
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 May 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
Damn, that Jonathan Winters episode was like a big comfy blanket. He was so great! And Maron was really good with him. Excellent episode, for sure.
― VegemiteGrrl, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 02:55 (twelve years ago) link
Eddie Pepitone made me legit lul on the recent live ep
― Mordy, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 03:15 (twelve years ago) link
Winters was the total opposite of the bitter old showbiz vet. Cool to see someone able to amuse himself with his own talent.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 13:25 (twelve years ago) link
That crazy zookeeper character made me lolol
― VegemiteGrrl, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
this is kind of illuminating/sad, from that ny mag louis ck article:
(I ask him about whether he and Maron are back in touch after years of estrangement, and he says they are, now and then. “I tell him I’m happy to sit down anytime for a real conversation, but he just wants me to do the podcast again. It’s a little weird.”)
― adult music person (Jordan), Monday, 16 May 2011 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
hah
― public anime #1 (Princess TamTam), Monday, 16 May 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
he called Louis from the podcast recently -- they've got a weird relationship for sure
― Mordy, Monday, 16 May 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
like, i don't just blame Maron. Louis CK is clearly a pretty weird guy too.
Sounds like an Apatow movie waiting to happen
― President Keyes, Monday, 16 May 2011 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
anyone worthwhile is prob somewhat weird
― D-40, Monday, 16 May 2011 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
its my only hope
Coming to public radio!
http://www.maximumfun.org/2011/05/17/wtf-public-radio-show
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
"...Night Of The Musuem and understanding that it (is) a well-paid job for dudes trying to make a film that entertains children."
Once upon a time this could be done artfully, but now United States of Low Expectations.
― the gay bloggers are onto the faggot tweets (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 May 2011 02:24 (twelve years ago) link
shit movies were better in your day huh
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 19 May 2011 02:52 (twelve years ago) link
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
― the gay bloggers are onto the faggot tweets (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 May 2011 02:54 (twelve years ago) link
wow, the re-recorded bumper sounds terribly limp (at the end of the Apatow segment in polyp's link)
― special midget status (sic), Thursday, 19 May 2011 06:58 (twelve years ago) link
Shandling episode is GREAT!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 May 2011 08:15 (twelve years ago) link
Also, I now have a crush on Sue Costello.
(Caught up on several shows over the last couple days.)
loved Shandling...especially the way he tries to help Maron.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 26 May 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
shandling episode was good, such a funny weird dudesteve byrne came off like an ignorant republican asshole
― mizzell, Thursday, 26 May 2011 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i didnt warm to steve byrne. the dane cook story was funny though.
― Michael B, Thursday, 26 May 2011 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
true, that was good
― mizzell, Thursday, 26 May 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
I didnt like Byrne at all.Also Carlin's wife gave me weird vibes...loved the stories but she was a little odd
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 26 May 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
I've never heard the entire Dane Cook episode but in that clip he came across as such a douche, not able to laugh at himself at all and very concerned about Setting the Record Straight.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 26 May 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
The Phil Rosenthal episode was very skippable.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 26 May 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
I'm torn on Cook...I think Maron was kind of a dick, but Cook did feel kind of distant or guarded, and Maron was maybe trying to lighten him upI felt like I understood Cook a little better though...I still dont like him but I'm glad he opened up a little, even if it wasnt quite what I wanted
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 26 May 2011 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
Rosenthal is a boring interview, yeah, but I still kind of want to see his docucomedy.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 27 May 2011 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
And I agree that the Sally Wade ep was weird. I'd nodded off for a couple minutes toward the end and her crying woke me up.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 27 May 2011 03:40 (twelve years ago) link
The Jupiter thing got way more serious than I banked on
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 May 2011 03:41 (twelve years ago) link
It was cool as a concept & very Carlin...but from her it was oddly intense
Wonder what her standup comedy was like? o_O
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 May 2011 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I'm glad she's chosen to share all this stuff, but her personality is such that it's probably just more enjoyable to thumb through the book than to hear her speak about it.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 27 May 2011 03:45 (twelve years ago) link
^^^
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 May 2011 04:03 (twelve years ago) link
i'm sure it's a horrible thing to think but i was kinda disappointed Carlin had a relationship with her. and the Jupiter alien letters stuff... well, I guess even brilliant ppl have embarrassing corny personal lives.
― Mordy, Friday, 27 May 2011 04:10 (twelve years ago) link
rosenthal was nice butnice like an uncle you are cool with sharing 10 minutes with every couple of months.
shandling trying to bring down america was o_O
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Friday, 27 May 2011 05:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://splitsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Fozziewtf.jpg
― rockapads, Sunday, 29 May 2011 07:48 (twelve years ago) link
Feels that way sometimes.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 29 May 2011 07:54 (twelve years ago) link
needs a bubble between the last two where he talks at length about his own relationship with his father
― Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, 29 May 2011 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
Maron is live in studio on the Best Show tonight. FYI!
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
cool!
Really enjoyed the Harmon interview. He seems like a very cool, genuine guy. And the self-doubt makes him more likeable to me, like oh hey I feel like that all the time & have done fuckall...makes me realize I really am the only obstacle to me doing cool things :)
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
every ilx person should call into the best show tonight 9pm est
― dell (del), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
Was kind of enjoying the pretense that Scharpling actually had a problem with Maron.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
wth i didn't even read this thread but just trampled in here . so marc maron is on the best show tonight? crazy. ok fuck it i'm totally calling in. and i'm not even a marc maron person by any means god said it, i believe it, that settles it.
― dell (del), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
Ask him if those Ray Romano calls are staged.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
I thought the Ray Romano call during the Rosenthal episode had to have been staged because Romano was worried about spoilers for his TV show when Maron never actually said, "This conversation is being broadcast for WTF."
― jaymc, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe he assumed it would be broadcast for WTF. Probably a fair assumption considering who Maron is.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
True.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
The Ray Romano calls were clearly a bit.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 00:56 (twelve years ago) link
You'd think, but Louis CK claimed that Maron ambush calls him.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
But that was during the actual show, with another guest in the garage. The Romano calls were during the little "sponsored" period where the only objective is to push Men of a Certain Age.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 01:16 (twelve years ago) link
true, but Maron also seems to take enough pride in his rep as a "straight shooter" that i can't imagine he'd mock up so much how random the call was ("should i call him?" "i'll call him." "is it okay i used your cell #?" "are you sure?" "that went well. i'll be calling him again.") just for the advertising. it's possible, but I guess I've really bought his persona as authentic.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
(nb authentic as convincing not some benjaminian authenticity etc etc)
― Mordy, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 01:20 (twelve years ago) link
See? From the get-go, I read it exactly opposite. Maron's self aware enough to actually caricature his own schtick when it comes to advertising for a sponsor. The fact that Ray played along as though he was reading from a script cemented it for me.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 01:23 (twelve years ago) link
The show always goes in this order:
Today's show is sponsored by ______.Music/introLong monologue bitSponsored bitInterviewExit
The Romano calls very clearly took place in the sponsored bit all three times they happened.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
In the early WTF days Maron used to do more bits, where he'd talk to some comic doing a character--like the racist self help guy who wanted black people to "lighten up" like Obama's father had.
But the Romano bits seemed betrayals of the rep Maron has built for himself since then--and I'm specifically thinking about how they mirror the call to Louis CK, which was clearly authentic. They really bug me.
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 01:39 (twelve years ago) link
If it was an attempt to caricature his own shtick, it was really poorly communicated. He sounded like he was trying to sincerely sell the call as authentic.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
Brian Posehn seems like a total sweetheart.
― jaymc, Thursday, 9 June 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
yea hes a delight. i didnt know he worked on metalocalypse but of course that fits perfectly
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
I want Brian to have his own podcast. Every time Marc interrupted I wanted to smack him.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
Every time Marc interrupted I wanted to smack him.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:18 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
thread descrip
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
romano calls were a bit, clearly. also, they were hideous.
liked his conversation w harmon; they complemented each other well.
also maron was sweet with carlin's widow.
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
Oh boy that last call to Ray, bit or not, just gave me the CREEPS.
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
I'd never heard of Iris Bahr or seen her in anything, but really enjoyed that interview.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
its amazing how much we are all addicted to listening to this podcast yet find maron a whiny twat at the same time. i think he still makes a good interviewer though.
― Michael B, Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
xxp yeah, I was gonna say, if they were bits, Maron is a really talented actor. that last call was supremely uncomfortable. ray seemed legitimately confused about how to deal with maron and maron kinda seemed like a socially inept psycho.
― Mordy, Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
Ha, I chose not to listen to that one, since her Svetlana character kind of annoyed me whenever I saw commercials for her DirecTV show at the movie theater.
― jaymc, Thursday, 9 June 2011 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
Or HDNet, rather.
I've not heard of half these people - or more - he interviews, but the Iris Bahr interview was a good one.
― Hippocratic Oaf (DavidM), Thursday, 9 June 2011 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
Loved the Posehn interview. He's such a good dude.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 10 June 2011 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
i like Maron as a standup and the podcast obviously has good guests but skimming this thread all of you guys already seem so sick of him/it that i'm like yeah i guess i don't need to check this out
― some dude, Friday, 10 June 2011 12:51 (twelve years ago) link
i had a lot more enthusiasm for the show when i was going thru the whole back catlogue of eps so i'd say try that, though i doubt theyre free anymore (most used to be linked from wikipedia)
― johnny crunch, Friday, 10 June 2011 13:03 (twelve years ago) link
nah man, it's fantastic
― all cats are gay (sic), Friday, 10 June 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, seriously. Even if it isn't always consistently great, it's great most of the time. I daresay it's some of the more important work being done in the comedy world ATM. And I personally think Maron's preamble is a pretty essential part the overall show. Dude's working on himself, and it ain't always a pretty picture, but he's always engaging and usually pretty damn funny about it, to boot. I like knowing what's going on in his head.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 10 June 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
Maron is very engaging and part of what makes him engaging is all the stuff that we're discussing here. I get annoyed at him plenty but that's definitely part of what makes him interesting.
― Mordy, Friday, 10 June 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
Lol yeah al the show is usually awesome, if youre already a fan of him I see zero reason for you to ignore this
― lebroner (D-40), Friday, 10 June 2011 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
It works because all comics seem to share the same set of neuroses/horror stories/insecurity/disdain for mankind and/or each other. Put them together and the shit comes out.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 10 June 2011 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
i'm sorry if it seemed like i was asking to be convinced -- trust me if i ever get to a point in my life where i want to listen to a podcast, that will probably be the one. reading this thread is just kind of a bummer because every fan of it seems to hate Maron as an interviewer.
― some dude, Friday, 10 June 2011 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
That's... Exactly the opposite of true. It's just the kind of style that becomes easy to caricature over time. But if this is like your thing w ilx bookmarks where you won't listen to a podcast for inscrutable some dudeian reasons, then nev mind
― lebroner (D-40), Friday, 10 June 2011 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
he is actually not that terrible an interviewer. it's just his own personal hangups, quirks & shit that he'll interject can really grate sometimes
i also feel like guests are being less candid lately (idk say since the nyt article) and are now specifically coming on with a thing to promote
― johnny crunch, Friday, 10 June 2011 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
i'm just hesitant to give up any of my ever-shrinking window of time in which i can listen to music to internet talk shows, sorry if that's inscrutable
― some dude, Friday, 10 June 2011 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
reading this thread is just kind of a bummer because every fan of it seems to hate Maron as an interviewer.
He is an EXCELLENT interviewer
It's the open-emotional-wound stuff that often fills up the Maron preambles that makes him such a great interviewer too: his experience of 12-stepping a) makes him process-oriented w/r/t human foibles and motivations, so he approaches that stuff in a deeper way than 99.87% of all interviewers in the world, and b) gives him some sometimes-facile but v effective shortcuts for asking ppl about personal shit. And his own wide-openness makes people respond in kind - he's not a smarmy Entertainment Reporter, or a local radio person who skimmed your wikipedia entry while you were in the elevator, he's a charming fuck-up who'd genuinely interested in you. And hell, he's so open about his problems and flaws, and how they inform his creativity, what do you have to lose by not trying to talk on that level too?
― all cats are gay (sic), Friday, 10 June 2011 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
The only problem I really have with Marc is that when he encounters a person who didn't have a fucked up childhood or bizarre relationship with his/her parents, he a) doesn't know how to act and b) pushes for dirt where they likely isn't any. Ed Helms was a good example of this.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 10 June 2011 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
the Helms one was great for how they related by jamming on banjo and gtr instead
― all cats are gay (sic), Friday, 10 June 2011 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i know that the cliche about every comedian having some dark past or personal issues is a cliche because it's so often true but i feel like it can be this really reductive lens to look at things through and i'm more interested in hearing comics talk shop and break down why things are funny than their psychological motivation for being funny or w/e
― some dude, Saturday, 11 June 2011 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
theres def a lot of that talk in these shows
― lebroner (D-40), Saturday, 11 June 2011 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
yep. the personal shit is Maron's method of approach, not his objective: the conversations are about career and creativity.
― all cats are gay (sic), Saturday, 11 June 2011 00:36 (twelve years ago) link
and there's something about his personality and his style where even though he's ridiculously narcissistic, sometimes to the point of distraction, he'll just hone in and ask a question that just drives to the heart of the conversation, sometimes repeatedly in the same conversation. Like with Dan Harmon. I didn't walk away with a ton of understanding of his work on Community, but I came away with an understanding of the person. And there's not a lot of interviews that give you that. We sort of go in wanting information, wanting the muscle on the bone and we walk away with the marrow. And I think what's great is that Maron doesn't always know that he's doing that. I think if he knew he'd be Charlie fucking Rose and would be a terrifying mechagodzilla interviewer, but while he's self-effacing enough and paranoid enough to not know how good he is, I think it's real gift.
Though I will say as a lifelong question asker and someone who loves to get stories out of people, the way he goes about it can drive me completely round the bend, and it took me a long time to get past that. Just the moments where he chooses to come in on a question, or cutting someone off when they're talking, or not asking a followup question on an interesting tidbit because he's in his head thinking about his next question...that does take some getting used to. But the time spent with him is worth it. He's changed SO much from those first episodes.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 June 2011 02:28 (twelve years ago) link
Definitely in the Harmon interview you saw the best of the Maron technique, in that I knew that if anyone else (say Chris Harwick) were the interviewer it would just be about how cool this or that episode of Community was, or how awesome Abed or Troy is. And even as a fan of that show I saw how Maron was able to pull more interesting stuff out by not being a fan-boy, but by being a perhaps slightly jealous more seasoned show-biz dude asking what he was interested in. That Harmon rose to the challenge made him more interesting.
― President Keyes, Sunday, 12 June 2011 03:09 (twelve years ago) link
Hardwick, or whatever he call he-self
― President Keyes, Sunday, 12 June 2011 03:11 (twelve years ago) link
he changed his name to Gang Starrdwyck after Guru died
― some dude, Sunday, 12 June 2011 03:25 (twelve years ago) link
Hardwick: So, how about that paintball episode? Harmon: Well, we really set out to...Hardwick: That episode was IN SANE !
― all cats are gay (sic), Sunday, 12 June 2011 08:54 (twelve years ago) link
― all cats are gay (sic), Friday, June 10, 2011 8:36 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark
yeah otm - as far as talking shop goes, this is as good as it gets
― (.づ☀‿☀)づ ~da post-modernist struggle~ (.づ☀‿☀)づ (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 12 June 2011 09:08 (twelve years ago) link
Oh boy that last call to Ray, bit or not, just gave me the CREEPS.― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Thursday, June 9, 2011 3:48 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalinkxxp yeah, I was gonna say, if they were bits, Maron is a really talented actor. that last call was supremely uncomfortable. ray seemed legitimately confused about how to deal with maron and maron kinda seemed like a socially inept psycho.― Mordy, Thursday, June 9, 2011 7:45 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark
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― Mordy, Thursday, June 9, 2011 7:45 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark
srsly holy fuck that last call was sooooo awful
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 12 June 2011 09:19 (twelve years ago) link
So happy Amy Poehler is on the show today!!! Listening now.
― Alpaca Lips (Johnny Fever), Monday, 13 June 2011 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
his experience of 12-stepping a) makes him process-oriented w/r/t human foibles and motivations, so he approaches that stuff in a deeper way than 99.87% of all interviewers in the world
it's the strong whiff of therapy that turns me off, frankly. i don't think it makes his interviews "deep" (necessarily), but like many therapy addicts i think it does mean he projects his own issues onto everyone he meets
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 June 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
i mean i dunno - maybe he's never actually had a therapist but he certainly uses the podcast as a therapeutic medium for himself. and like, that's his prerogative but maybe after listening to him for an hour he could send me a check for $100 like other therapists get
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 June 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
sounds like ur projecting ur issues with therapy addicts
― (.づ☀‿☀)づ ~da post-modernist struggle~ (.づ☀‿☀)づ (Princess TamTam), Monday, 13 June 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
Just listened to an episode for the first time, the Garry Shandling one, and loved it. Definitely has the therapy side, which I love, because it gets around comics having to be "on."
― 27 Dresses, 13 Assassins (Eazy), Monday, 13 June 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
You def picked a good one to begin with.
― Alpaca Lips (Johnny Fever), Monday, 13 June 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
if anyones curious like i was, here is the story jill soloway was talking abt, reads a lot like palahniuk
http://www.corpse.org/archives/issue_10/ficciones/soloway.html
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 16 June 2011 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
are the last couple episodes worth listening to? don't really care about the guests, so i haven't bothered.
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
basically, no. i think the larry miller one was one of the first i turned off early
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, larry miller seemed annoying. the jimmy fallon one was OK
― Darin, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
Only made it 20 minutes into the Thune one. Don't know Thune and Marc was being a dick.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
guys you should listen to things maybe you can ~~~learn something~~~
― jeff, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
I dug the Thune episode. I don't think Maron was being a dick so much as that's just how comedians are around each other, which Thune acknowledged/understood -- he didn't seem put out/upset by Maron's dickishness at all, and Maron copped to it anyway. And the way Maron tackled the "guitar comic" thing was kind of fascinating, especially how the two of them tried to spell out their problems with and/or attraction to that approach.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
The Thune episode was one of favorites recently. Listening to Maron grapple with Thune's Christianity was pretty interesting.
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
uh "my favorites"
Thune was good. Maron is funny with his laser-focus on religion, he's like an alien from outer-space trying to understand a foreign thing. I like it. And cool of Thune to talk about it so openly.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
I kinda liked the Larry Miller ep. :/
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
It got a little uncomfortable when they talked about Thune meeting his wife.
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 23:28 (twelve years ago) link
Larry Miller was okay, but when the interviewee has his/her own podcast, I feel like it goes too smoothly.
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
True. It wasnt revelatory but I do like the way Miller tells stories.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
I guess I just have mixed feelings about Miller in general esp after finding out he was a contributing writer for the Weekly Standard.
― Darin, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 23:33 (twelve years ago) link
Well, they say that a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged (though Miller didn't take the usual attitude.)
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
interview w/Maron on the onion av club today:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/marc-maron,58554/
― Darin, Thursday, 7 July 2011 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
Today's WTF was pretty hard to listen to.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 7 July 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
I've got about six shows to catch up on including today's, so thanks for the (totally conflicting) pointers, folks! :)
― Alpaca Lips (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 7 July 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
It's podcasts like this that keep me from TV entirely.
― Lazy Lay (Eazy), Thursday, 7 July 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
By hard to listen to I meant raw.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 7 July 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
I cried for an hour afterwards...dug up some stuff I hadn't thought about in a long time. Yeah. Really tough going but god he's so likeable, I really do hope that he stays okay. What a fucking story.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 July 2011 03:01 (twelve years ago) link
The Patton Oswalt one is so layered and fascinating, with the undercurrents of competition, jealousy, success, etc.
― Lazy Lay (Eazy), Friday, 8 July 2011 03:36 (twelve years ago) link
DRUDGE SIRENS
Do not listen to the Todd Hanson episode in public, especially at work like I did, or p much anywhere which isn't a dark room, alone, with a box of tissues and a phone that can be used to call a best friend
― � (a hoy hoy), Monday, 11 July 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
I somehow managed to be finishing the second half driving down the freeway home from work. WALL OF TEARS ;_;
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 06:00 (twelve years ago) link
omg I wept like a baby during that Hanson interview esp when he starts talking about his cats. I was impressed w/Maron's restraint during the interview honestly.
― Darin, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 06:08 (twelve years ago) link
it's funny that he's having guests now who kind of resent going to do the show (or are at least skeptical), but pretty obviously have been put up to it by their agents because the podcast has gotten so popular.
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
just downloaded my first episode, gallagher.
― van ingalls wilder (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
not a great first choice - go grab i think Maria Bamford is a pretty excellent introduction. Or Louis CK, Patton Oswalt... somewhere where the interviewee and Maron have some history, and they get into it.
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
Who do you have in mind exactly? It does seem like within the last few months, there are more guests who are openly plugging something.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
Richard Lewis and Paul Reiser both seemed like they had no idea what the show was
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
yup, i was thinking of those two in particular.
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, any time a guest is surprised that Maron "hasn't done his research," it's a tip-off that they don't know how the show works.
Also, I think Reiser mispronounced "Maron."
― jaymc, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
Gallagher certainly seemed to fit that description too -- it seemed like he had no idea who Maron was
― Mordy, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
I've only listened to one and it was the Gallagher one. I was expecting some sort of nervous "edgy" confrontational style of interview and it wasn't that at all. Pleasantly surprised.
Haven't listened to any others though.
― (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
it seemed like he had no idea where he was
― jack-off all trade, masturbate nuns (sic), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
btw the live one with jon benjamin was great
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
maron was pretty good on bill maher -- that is just a weird set up where they slide in a comedian or otherwise less political guest -- like kevin smith did it and was just awful
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
It's pretty bad when Shandling does it too.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
boy gallagher is a shithead
― van ingalls wilder (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
Richard Lewis was hard to listen to for me, but I sort of liked the Reiser ep. He's full of himself for no good reason, but it was a solid conversation. Lewis on the other hand just seemed sad and confrontational. Maron kept having to backtrack and apologize because of how he worded stuff and how Lewis reacted to it.
Loved the Benjamin and Katz reunion.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
HOLY FUCK I just today got around to hearing the Todd Hanson one (I'd been stockpiling eps for a roadtrip). Still gutted a few hours later.
Caught up on some older ones I'd not listened to as well: Doug Benson (fun!), Kevin Smith (fun!), Joe Rogan (ponderous), Greg Fitzsimmons (funny but also "eh"), Bobby Lee (o_O), Jimmy Fallon (people had said this one was boring, but I'm a Fallon stan now so I thought it was great if a bit fluffy).
But DAMN, Todd Hanson.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 24 July 2011 03:32 (twelve years ago) link
im not a huge demitri martin fan but this is the best ep of wtf in a while imo
― johnny crunch, Monday, 25 July 2011 12:38 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't know who D.Martin was before this episode. Is he funny? Seems really boring here.
― President Keyes, Monday, 25 July 2011 13:21 (twelve years ago) link
paul reiser was a bore
― Michael B, Monday, 25 July 2011 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
i dont find him that funny tbh, but i have a bunch of friends that do. tbf i havent paid attn to him in a while.
idk i liked how thoughtful & candid he was, seemed honest & unpretentious
― johnny crunch, Monday, 25 July 2011 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
richard lewis sounded drunk. i mean im sure he wasnt, probably just tired.
― Michael B, Monday, 25 July 2011 13:31 (twelve years ago) link
richard lewis was crazy!
― Mordy, Monday, 25 July 2011 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
This should be etched on his tombstone.
Likewise.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 25 July 2011 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, the Todd Hanson. I used to very casually know Todd, and we still have a few friends in common, but not so many that I'd given him much thought in years. But as I was listening to this heartwrenching stuff, a lot of stories came flooding back to me of Todd's past issues and dealings with debilitating depression and the like. Harrowing stuff.
A friend of mine interviewed Richard Lewis last week. He (my friend) was sick and told Lewis as much, and Lewis apparently responded, hey, don't worry about it, I'll handle this. And proceeded to talk and monologue about his life for over an hour, pausing every few minutes to make sure my friend was still there/alive.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
Richard Lewis sounds like a pretty standup guy.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, I know next to nothing about Demetri Martin, but I really enjoyed that episode. Just a good, interesting conversation.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
totally
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
I find WTF totally compelling. Marc Maron lives just a few blocks from me and I often see him at my morning coffee place. I always want to say something to him but it's usually pretty early and he is sitting alone and probably waiting for the caffeine to kick in, so I chicken out. Last week there was a huge pile of wtfpod stickers left in there which I guess he dropped off. They were cute.
Also, I like his new glasses.
― Patrice Leclerc Delacroix Poussin (admrl), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
Just listened to the pre-interview bit of the Reiser episode. lol @ "The Google"
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
from what I've heard so far, his interviews with female guests have been wayyyy more interesting than male guests
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
I've been wondering if I should see Maron in Chicago next week. The thing is, I like him as an interviewer, but I'm not so sure I like him as a stand-up. I would see a live WTF in a heartbeat, though.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
You should go see that jazz trumpeter/optometrist!
― jaymc, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
it's weird that after listening to countless hours of wtf i don't have a sense of what his stand-up is actually like. i mean, i certainly have an idea in my head of what it's like from hearing him talk about it, but i haven't heard any of it (all the madison shows were sold out).
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
Well, I've seen him do appearances on Conan and Ferguson. But I also have to imagine that a headlining show for him is somewhat different from a four-minute TV routine.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
His Not Sold Out cd is fantastic. One of my favorite stand-up sets/albums ever. But the two cds since then have been a little tough to get through. He was definitely not in a good place in life when those were recorded, though, and he seems to be less grumpy/introspective now (if that seems possible), so I'd definitely be up for seeing him live.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
His standup is very conversational & natural, I really enjoyed it. A lot if it is expanded off pre-interview WTF but still really funny. He did a pretty amazing bit about a fight with his girlfriend that made me cry a little even as I was laughing.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
I always want to say something to him but it's usually pretty early and he is sitting alone and probably waiting for the caffeine to kick in, so I chicken out.
idk man, given the choice I'd say hello before he shits his pants
― naked hdsl (sic), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
yes maybe
― Patrice Leclerc Delacroix Poussin (admrl), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
i've been watching maron on cable specials since the 90s, always thought he was a v good comic. kind of funny to me that he's achieved such a following as an interviewer now.
― some dude, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
Saw one of the Madison shows and it was highly worthwhile. As you might expect his act is not heavy on the jokes. Fair amount of audience work. Completely in keeping with the podcast.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, that sounds promising then!
― jaymc, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 04:41 (twelve years ago) link
He just killed on Jimmy Fallon. (Not stand-up, regular guest segment.)
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 05:40 (twelve years ago) link
I watched the Green Room episode with Maron, Shandling, Apatow and others last night. He's gold on that, and getting to see some of his body language during interactions and lulls there, where's he's not interlocutor nor compere - and reading lots into it because of how well I "know" him from WTF - makes me wonder how much of that might come through all the time, and what was just because he wasn't in 'charge'
― naked hdsl (sic), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 06:13 (twelve years ago) link
Maron's on the Slate Culture Gabfest this week.
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 09:45 (twelve years ago) link
Just watched the Green Room episode. Based on the size of the avi, I was expecting it to be an hour. It was only 30 minutes. Feel slightly cheated, particularly because Bo Burnham wasted valuable time playing his dumb song.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 28 July 2011 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
yeah the show comes and goes very quickly, especially since you just know they edited down from a much longer bull session
― some dude, Thursday, 28 July 2011 02:21 (twelve years ago) link
I listened to the Dmitri Martin episode today...that was a really good, natural conversation. No real bombs dropped, but just engaging and interesting.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 July 2011 02:27 (twelve years ago) link
now i'm imagining marc maron as funkmaster flex
― some dude, Thursday, 28 July 2011 02:32 (twelve years ago) link
D. Martin did a good Adam Carolla episode too.
― porkpie cokeheads (Eazy), Thursday, 28 July 2011 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
I'm 20 minutes into the Dice Clay one, and Dice is already repeating his stories, which are about how great he is, and Maron is giggling in adoring, unchallenging delight like he always does with someone who was working when he was a doorman. Is it worth listening to any more, or skipping to the bit with his son?
― generous loller at dollies (sic), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 07:22 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, to me ADC is equivalent to Gallagher or worse, but Maron was starstruck so nothing interesting came of the interview.
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 13:08 (twelve years ago) link
What a missed opportunity that was. Dice needed to be called out on his sexism just like Gallagher was called out on his homophobia. And Keyes OTM: how is ADC not as much of a joke as Gallagher?
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 13:26 (twelve years ago) link
Dice's homophobia is grosser than Gallagher's, from what I've heard (have never heard anything of Gallagher material beyond WTF and that great review of his Spanish-language gig where he didn't bother to learn Spanish; heard some awful Dice stuff in high school)
― Circlejerk du Soleil (sic), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
the aubrey plaza one was pretty adorable (+ that crazy stroke story)
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I just finally started listening to this with the San Antonio one, which was nearly enough to make me give up on it straight away, but thankfully I hung around for the Plaza one and found out why these are pretty highly regarded.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
I dug the San Antonio one!
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 23:55 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I listened to about 15 minutes of San Antonio before throwing in the towel.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
I quit on the San Antonio one early too.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 18 August 2011 00:27 (twelve years ago) link
ADC is such a dick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5k-uH3kDOQ
― Michael B, Thursday, 18 August 2011 00:28 (twelve years ago) link
he's kept up his "I look exactly like John Travolta" concept by getting bald and fat, I see
― Circlejerk du Soleil (sic), Thursday, 18 August 2011 00:56 (twelve years ago) link
Pretty sure Gallagher is an honest to goodness right winger. Don't know about the Diceman.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 August 2011 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
Everyone who liked ADC when they were teenagers is just as embarrassed about that fact as those who once liked Gallagher. "Hey, I was 14; I thought anti-gay jokes/smashed fruit was funny!"
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 18 August 2011 02:31 (twelve years ago) link
man i think andrew dice clay has been a joke for the last two decades. maron takes him more seriously than most other people in the world.
― dylannn, Thursday, 18 August 2011 03:38 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgvQ8ahTnq8
1990
the interview-with-himself/birbiglia one is really great.
i thought i already knew him so well! but there are surprises here; it's a different voice, somehow.
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 18 August 2011 05:19 (twelve years ago) link
the aubrey plaza one was alright but I really hate how maron handles interviews
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 18 August 2011 05:20 (twelve years ago) link
Maron was extra-dickish in the Aubrey Plaza ep, but Plaza was more interesting than I would've guessed.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 18 August 2011 05:23 (twelve years ago) link
yea totally, the only time I've actually enjoyed his interviewing style is when for whatever reason the interviewer seems like they're completely breaking his spirit, which, I guess, is really only the patton oswalt one
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 18 August 2011 05:26 (twelve years ago) link
jimmy shubert one today is good & candid, just ramble-y rehashing of kinison days, etc
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 18 August 2011 12:41 (twelve years ago) link
I liked Aubrey Plaza's story of being an SNL intern, because my friend was also one back around 2001, and her experience sounds about the same--never really talking to anyone on the cast (though she says Tina Fey was nice to her), weird encounters with guest hosts (Ben Stiller made the staff stand outside in the cold during a promo shoot because he didn't like being watched, Lucy Lawless walking up and saying "Hi. Did you come in here off the street?)
― President Keyes, Thursday, 18 August 2011 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
In all fairness, Lawless said that to Elliott Smith, too.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 18 August 2011 23:33 (twelve years ago) link
Just bought a ticket for his Nashville show in September. YAY! Years of being a fan and I'm finally in a position to see him live. :D
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 18 August 2011 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
i had to stop the most recent live one three times, cause bob ducca was making me laugh so hard in public.
― mizzell, Friday, 19 August 2011 00:24 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, lots of stifled laughter in my office on Monday (I'm not the only person in there who listens to WTF).
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 19 August 2011 00:25 (twelve years ago) link
Dug up the early interview with Zach Galifanakis, and - novelty of the ludicrous narrated intro aside - this is awful. Zach's trying to give a good interview, and Marc's just totally distracted and I guess caught up in his own shit. Really interesting to reflect on his growth as an interviewer (esp with delicate subjects) not just through to "Marc today", but in terms of his middle-early period, even up to Louie CK.
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 25 August 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
feel like the dud-ness of the Galafianakis interview is mostly because it was done on a movie set between takes. hard to dig too deep into anything when there's constant interruption. i did lol at Zach telling Marc about funny situational jokes he's made and then realizing how silly that was and how he should make that guy one of his stand-up characters. "let me tell you about this joke i told these people once..."
― circa1916, Thursday, 25 August 2011 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
or more "let me tell you about how i made these people laugh with a joke once."
― circa1916, Thursday, 25 August 2011 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
i liked the zach g interview because it was really funny, but galifianakis is so married to his clown persona that i find it hard to imagine him giving a 'real talk' interview to maron anyway
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 25 August 2011 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
That happened during the period I wasn't following the show (I was there in the beginning when it was really sloppy, and then came back on board around the time of the Mencia shitstorm). Lots of old ones I need to hear at some point.
Stanhope was a pretty insubstantial interview today, yet a fun listen all the same.
Carol Liefer on Monday's show was pretty funny, because I'm so accustomed to hearing her be clean for tv, that hearing her drop an f-bomb or whatever was O_O
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 25 August 2011 23:57 (twelve years ago) link
i listened to the Gallagher interview the other day and almost had to turn it off. what a shrill, obnoxious idiot.
― circa1916, Friday, 26 August 2011 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
maron or gallagher?
― gay socialists smoking mushrooms with their illegal gardeners (a hoy hoy), Friday, 26 August 2011 05:24 (twelve years ago) link
i haven't listened to the wtf with bob ducca but if you enjoyed it, make sure you listen to the comedy death ray/comedy bang bang episodes where seth morris originated the bob ducca character. they are insanely hilarious.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 26 August 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHIegpSmIyw
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 26 August 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
I just listened to the recent live one with Bob Ducca doing a short bit, loved it. I'll have to check that one out.
Listening to WTF reminds me just how immensely fucked up comedians are.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 26 August 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
there is also a bob ducca podcast with very short episodes (i think just a few minutes) also available via earwolf - haven't checked these out yet either but i assume they're good
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 26 August 2011 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
ive been listening 2 old cdrs a lot this wk -- some of the 'would you rather' games kill me, like i have to pause & regroup
― johnny crunch, Friday, 26 August 2011 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
the Bob Ducca podcast annoyingly isn't available via Earwolf per se, they have to be individually downloaded from Soundcloud (if you don't use iTunes)
― rude ragga beats from the F. U. Schnickens (sic), Friday, 26 August 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
I think I prefer the Maron/Ducca interaction on the most recent live one to the CDR episodes, Maron's way of skirting around the hilarity of Ducca's sadness being preferable to Tig Notaro's kinda unnecessary interjections.
I do really like when he reads the poem "A Ship Called Hope", though.
Haven't liked the Ducca mini-podcasts much at all.
― boxall, Friday, 26 August 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
Seth Morris--the guy who does Bob Ducca--is in that WTF sitcom pilot iirc. Wonder why Maron hasn't interviewed Morris yet.
― President Keyes, Friday, 26 August 2011 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
Probably waiting until the pilot gets turned down so they'll have a lot more to talk about.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 26 August 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
Today's episode with Sudeikis was generally good, didn't realize that guy was such an ass.
JUST KIDDING. He's as nice here as you'd think he would be. Never knew he was Norm's nephew!
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
watching the joan rivers doc last night made me wish she'd do wtf
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Monday, 29 August 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, that would be great!
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
Jeselnik on Thursday...or, as I like to call him, creep who tried to bone my friend when she'd gotten drunk. WTF interviews even with people I don't like tend to be listenable, though, so I'm sure I'll tune in.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
Who would you like to hear interviewed on WTF? I'm waiting for Steven Wright, Nick Offerman, Andy Daly (non-live), Andy Zaltman...
― President Keyes, Monday, 29 August 2011 23:11 (twelve years ago) link
Emo PhilipsJerry SeinfeldTim AllenDick Van DykeBill CosbyWoody AllenCarol BurnettJulia Louis DreyfusLarry DavidRoseanne BarrPaula Poundstone
― polyphonic, Monday, 29 August 2011 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
CHAPELLEChris RockFeyMurphyFarrellwusshisname who did Arrested DevelopmentSchwaltwelderSome comedy prose writersA comic poet or two?Comedy playwrites?
― gay socialists smoking mushrooms with their illegal gardeners (a hoy hoy), Monday, 29 August 2011 23:18 (twelve years ago) link
Mitchell Hurwitz?
― Mordy, Monday, 29 August 2011 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
Bob Newhart
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 29 August 2011 23:28 (twelve years ago) link
personally i dont care so much about american comedy canon guys. Woody Allen would be sweet though.
Ian Hislop and other prominent Private Eye/satirical news types.
― gay socialists smoking mushrooms with their illegal gardeners (a hoy hoy), Monday, 29 August 2011 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
The show has become a de facto oral history of comedy, so fill in the gaps. It won't take forever.
I'd rather hear from any canonical figure instead of another interview with a yet another guy who did coke with Kinison.
― polyphonic, Monday, 29 August 2011 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
this would be completely pointless, as Maron has no idea who they are, what they do, why it's funny, or any point of connection at all to their work
― rude ragga beats from the F. U. Schnickens (sic), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know if Sudeikis was blowing smoke or not, but I'd love to hear Maron interview Lorne Michaels. SNL topics never get old for me, but especially if they were to come from Lorne.
I'd secretly hoped #200 would be Chappelle. I imagine he'll be on the show at some point. Roseanne would be great too.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
IANUCCI: A lot of people think I'm so focussed on mocking news and media conventions because of a conscious and earned anger at the way information is twisted and devalued in our society, but really it's because a copy of The Sun blew into my pram when I was small and touched my genitals
― rude ragga beats from the F. U. Schnickens (sic), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
pfft if wtf was just shit american comics like maron i'd have stopped listening already. it is the people he isn't used to or do something different that have been the most fascinating imo. And I don't see why a British satirical news paper would be so different to the guy who did The Realist or Onion writers.
― gay socialists smoking mushrooms with their illegal gardeners (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:08 (twelve years ago) link
Maron has stated on numerous occasions that he appreciates but doesn't really "get" Brit humor. I doubt he's going to go out of his way to schedule interviews of that sort.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
After listening to Fitzsimmons on WTF, I actually started listening to selected episodes of his own show. The interview with Natalie Manes from Dixie Chicks last April was a) hilarious and b) O_O
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
yeah the point was not so much 'it has to be hislop' as his kin.
― gay socialists smoking mushrooms with their illegal gardeners (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
Just saying that I don't envision this podcast taking an international lean anytime in the near future, except for occasional live shows in other countries or impromptu interviews with new non-American comedian friends.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
hence me citing someone non-Hislop in my hilarious theoretical scenario hoy hoy
― rude ragga beats from the F. U. Schnickens (sic), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
i think ellen would be a good interview
― Mordy, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:44 (twelve years ago) link
I'd listen.
Hell, I'd even listen to a Leno interview, but I'd be flipping my iPod a bird the whole time.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
Leno would be must listen imo, assuming Maron doesn't get all polite
― Mordy, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
It'd be fun to hear how Leno would react if he somehow let himself get cornered. I don't think his people would let him anywhere near WTF, though.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
Letterman, on the other hand, wouldn't open up or be serious at all if he's not on his own turf. It would be a pointless interview.
Someday, someone will get a good interview out of him.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
do not understand american talkshow tradition but still wonder what happened to arsenio hall
― gay socialists smoking mushrooms with their illegal gardeners (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
and i obv only know arsenio hall for rap references
― gay socialists smoking mushrooms with their illegal gardeners (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
have you seen Larry Sanders?
― rude ragga beats from the F. U. Schnickens (sic), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
Arsenio situation isn't that complicated—a lot of the local tv affiliates that carried his show had to drop it when Letterman's show started on the national CBS network, and that essentially killed it off).
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:54 (twelve years ago) link
ok but then he disappeared for 15 years?
I have seen the first season of Larry Sanders but its the backstage stuff I find funny, monologues and selling any celebrities shit every day is just RMDE@USA.
― gay socialists smoking mushrooms with their illegal gardeners (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:58 (twelve years ago) link
He guest-hosted on Access Hollywood the other day and he legitimately looked like he hasn't aged at all. Very odd.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:59 (twelve years ago) link
Well yeah, I don't know where he's been really since 1994. Arsenio would be a great WTF interview.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
he did that Sammo Hung cop show, where halfway through they realised they should bring in a sidekick who could deliver some snappy dialogue, as the star couldn't actually speak English
presumably he went hiding for a bit after the talk show was axed, but also got paid enough for it that he's been able to live a comfortable middle-class life and doesn't have a desperate need to see his face on posters
― rude ragga beats from the F. U. Schnickens (sic), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 01:14 (twelve years ago) link
Offerman on Kevin Pollock's podcast is A++++. Check it out if you haven't yet.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
My WTF want list is...
Dennis MillerPaula PoundstoneBrett ButlerRichard BelzerDan AykroydSteven WrightJudy Tenuta
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 01:44 (twelve years ago) link
Would love an hour with Belzer!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 02:09 (twelve years ago) link
Dennis Miller would be an insane interview. Doubt it'll ever happen though.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 10:27 (twelve years ago) link
well maron is a fan of stewart lee so brit comedy isnt anathema to him. id love to hear him interview dylan moran.
― Michael B, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 10:53 (twelve years ago) link
Lee isn't exactly 'Brit Comedy' as 'Alt Brit Comedy'.
― gay socialists smoking mushrooms with their illegal gardeners (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 11:03 (twelve years ago) link
some of my favorite eps have been ones with guys i didn't really know about, like ron shock or eddie brill. i'll listen to any older guy who's been around the block a few times. albert brooks would be cool, or even jeff foxworthy or ron white. or judy tenuta.
― polyphonic, Monday, August 29, 2011 8:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
black dont crack
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 11:45 (twelve years ago) link
wrt leno i'd love to hear that ep, and i dont think maron would try to put the screws to him - i think he respects leno's old stand-up more than you guys do even if he isnt a fan of the tonight show, and i dont think it'd be hard for him to find a sympathetic angle
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 12:33 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i bet a leno interview would be fairly amicable. maron was raving about that war for late night book for weeks, and after reading it, i actually had a little more sympathy for leno. he's a hack but a hard-working hack and i can't really blame him personally for anything that happened with the conan debacle. plus maron is never a dick to the famous guests.
i've been open about not liking maron much as a personality/comedian so keep that in mind but the idea of the maron/wtf sitcom sounds pretty awful.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
do not understand american talkshow tradition but still wonder what happened to arsenio hall― gay socialists smoking mushrooms with their illegal gardeners (a hoy hoy), Monday, August 29, 2011 8:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
― gay socialists smoking mushrooms with their illegal gardeners (a hoy hoy), Monday, August 29, 2011 8:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
Bill Carter's book (The War For Late Night) is a decent resource for what happened/didn't happen to Arsenio. It's largely forgotten now, but Hall was consistently beating Carson in the ratings in major markets in the late 80s/early 90s -- in some cases, crushing him. The fact that he vanished soon after is some combination of bewildering and fucked up.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
The Late Shift is the one about Letterman/Carson/Leno/Arsenio, The War for Late Night is the newer one about Conan and Leno
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I'm still not very sold on Maron himself, he grates on me some times, particularly when he is doing his little pre-interview bits. But I do like how even the guests I couldn't really care less about turn out to be interesting listens. Like the recent Jimmy Shubert one was good, I liked hearing the stories about Kinison and Mitzi Shore between their fits of laughter. I figured I'd abandon that episode early.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
xp Oops, you're right, but War For Late Night does have a bit of Arsenio backstory.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
I would love a few more Australians next time he travels there likeWil AndersonPaul McDermottTony Martin
Def. would love ChappelleJoan Rivers would be killerRon White maybe, not for his comedy so much but just bc I hear a lot of comedians like himBrett Butler would be great
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
listening to sudeikis, seems like a super nice guy obv but as far as episodes goes it's a bit dull
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
a lorne michaels episode would be pretty interesting though. hoping richard lewis could persuade larry david to do it as well.
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
Larry the Cable Guy would be interesting, if he had the balls to not use his character for the interview.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think richard lewis cared about being on one way or the other
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
As much as I'd love to hear a Lorne Michaels interview, I get the feeling he'd just stonewall Maron when he tried to delve into anything interesting/controversial.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
Wil AndersonPaul McDermottTony Martin
Fleet made sense bcz they have common ground to connect on, even without having known each other before. Anderson has no darkness beyond the aching trials of being a sex symbol and doing the same material for 15 years, McDermott hasn't been a comedian since '94 and has never ever displayed any interest in deconstructing or elucidating his persona, and Tony... well, he's opened up about his hideous family history of late in his two books, but still only where he sees an external gag in it, not to ~share~ anything -- and Maron would have to dig into 25 years of material including around 200 hours of radio highlights to find a reason to interview him.
― rude ragga beats from the F. U. Schnickens (sic), Thursday, 1 September 2011 07:26 (twelve years ago) link
I bet Julia Sweeney would be good.
― jaymc, Thursday, 1 September 2011 12:09 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know, Stanhope's libertarian rambling revealed him to be kind of an asshole.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 1 September 2011 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
I knew that going in. I guess I just gave him a pass since it was altogether mild.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 1 September 2011 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I didn't really know Doug Stanhope apart from his Louie guest-spot, and the interview didn't make me want to get to know him further.
― jaymc, Thursday, 1 September 2011 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
same here (though i haven't seen the louie ep yet).
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Thursday, 1 September 2011 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
my #1 wtf wish is for him to pick off the rest of the kids in the hall
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Thursday, 1 September 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
is Stanhope the guy who pops up on Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe occasionally?
― gay socialists smoking mushrooms with their illegal gardeners (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 1 September 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
he is, a hoy hoy. im in two minds about stanhope, he can be a great stand-up but sometimes he can pander to his moronic audience too much.
― Michael B, Thursday, 1 September 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
I listened to that Nick Offerman interview (on the Kevin Pollack show) recommended upthread. Good interview. That podcast is weird: lots of famous guests, who get to talk for 2 or 3 hours, but the host is such a non-presence, and you really do have to skip the first 15 minute of name droppiness.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 15 September 2011 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
Yah, the Kevin Pollack show can be very hit or miss depending on the guest. He's great at keeping things moving but no surfaces are going to be peeled back.
Having said that, the Steven Tobolosky episode of the KP show may just be my fave podcast episode of anything
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 16 September 2011 08:09 (twelve years ago) link
ooh ty, I <3 the Tobolowsky Files
― robocop last year was a 'shop (sic), Friday, 16 September 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
I like the turn towards actor interviews this week! Jon Hamm (which was great) and Bryan Cranston (which I just began listening to) are, I hope, just the beginning of a new strand of WTF guests.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
one of marc's intros this week was so emasculating it was hard to listen to. like in one intro he talked about over obsessing about his body, about being too scared of dead animals to dispose of them himself, and about his fanboy crush on jon hamm.
― Mordy, Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
i skip the intros now without even beginng to listen to them. find all of them hard to listen to.
― mizzell, Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
Lol I like them a lot, but then again I'm screwed up in a lot of the same ways so I just think it's nice to hear someone else say those things.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Thursday, 6 October 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
Hamm and Cranston may be "actors," but both of them have demonstrated pretty ace comedy chops. The Cranston interview is pretty fun.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 October 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
Cranston is such a natural storyteller. Hamm to a lesser degree, but Cranston, fuck he's like my Dad & his friends, just wind him up & watch him go. Great stuff.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
i loved the recent ira glass live one. ira has to be the only jew in the world who doesn't think about what food will make him poop better.
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
I just listened to the Cranston one at lunch, and man, I love that guy.
― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Thursday, 6 October 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
Are there Breaking Bad spoilers on the Cranston episode? I've still only seen the first few episodes.
― jaymc, Thursday, 6 October 2011 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
First few episodes of Breaking Bad, that is.
― jaymc, Thursday, 6 October 2011 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
There are enough spoilers, or intimations of spoilers, that I would just avoid.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 October 2011 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, that's what I figured, thanks.
― jaymc, Thursday, 6 October 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
so we just skipping over lisa lampanelli hmmmm lol. she kinda conforms to the best-case-scenario of what i thought she was really like as a person and their rapport and comedy shoptalk made for a damn good show
― tremendoid, Thursday, 6 October 2011 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
thought the jon hamm show was boring but i never watched mad men
― tremendoid, Thursday, 6 October 2011 23:18 (twelve years ago) link
I love Mad Men and Jon Hamm, but I have to admit that that episode mostly coasted on Hamm's general likeability.
― jaymc, Thursday, 6 October 2011 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
Didn't intentionally skip over Lisa's episode, thread-wise. I just didn't think about posting when she was on. You're right, though. I like her a lot more now after her convo with Maron than I did before I heard it.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 6 October 2011 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
I turned off her episode.
― polyphonic, Friday, 7 October 2011 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
xp i was just playing i heard it by 'accident' anyway. my sensibilities are back safely under glass
― tremendoid, Friday, 7 October 2011 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
The Lampanelli one weirded me out when she asked "Do you think I'll go down in history as one of the all time greats?" and I was asking, "Who the heck are you?"
― President Keyes, Friday, 7 October 2011 01:01 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't even listen to that one because I think Lampanelli's gross.
― DaTruf (Nicole), Friday, 7 October 2011 01:12 (twelve years ago) link
all time great what? comedy central roasters?
― Mordy, Friday, 7 October 2011 01:21 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I don't get her.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 October 2011 01:24 (twelve years ago) link
I saw some slivers of humanity in her, so whatever. I liked it and liked her on the show.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 7 October 2011 01:26 (twelve years ago) link
yeah and marc toootally bs'ed her w/o skipping a beat the way one enthusiastically says YES i WILL be at yr party next week
― tremendoid, Friday, 7 October 2011 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2011/10/07/marc_maron_louis_c_k_patton_oswalt_talk_about_their_weight.html
― Mordy, Saturday, 8 October 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
Lampanelli (who I like anyway) was another good piece in the mosaic that is Marc Maron facing his past. It's what makes this podcast a little like an HBO serial. He talked in one or two earlier podcasts about how angry she was when she was teaching, and so now she gets her say.
― per metal injection (Eazy), Saturday, 8 October 2011 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
that's the flimsiest excuse for a thinkpiece ever. "what, 3 neurotic, self-deprecating comedians all made jokes about being in bad shape? I SMELL A TREND COMING ON!"
just imagine if that writer ever discovers jim gaffigan
xpost
― shiroimarkershoes (some dude), Saturday, 8 October 2011 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
I've only ever heard of Lisa Lampanelli bcz of the first time she was on WTF
― front-man for British post-punk turned pop chart-topper’s, Scritti Polliti (sic), Sunday, 9 October 2011 00:32 (twelve years ago) link
I only heard of her recently when watching clips of the disastrous Chevy Chase roast.
― per metal injection (Eazy), Sunday, 9 October 2011 03:50 (twelve years ago) link
everything i've heard by lampanelli was so painfully unfunny it made me feel embarrassed for her
― Like Iraq (latebloomer), Sunday, 9 October 2011 04:26 (twelve years ago) link
Not for all tastes, but
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvvNpcTHoXQ
― per metal injection (Eazy), Sunday, 9 October 2011 04:48 (twelve years ago) link
listened to the Lampanelli ep this afternoon and loooooool at her plaintively asking if Maron believes that she'll be thought of as "one of the greats" after she dies
― front-man for British post-punk turned pop chart-topper’s, Scritti Polliti (sic), Sunday, 9 October 2011 10:19 (twelve years ago) link
i guess comedians love her? idgi
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 9 October 2011 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
the norm interview was totally endearing
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Thursday, 20 October 2011 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, Norm was great classic WTF.
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 20 October 2011 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
he still creeps me out
― mizzell, Thursday, 20 October 2011 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
norm or marc?
― the men who glare at stoats (sic), Thursday, 20 October 2011 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
norm
― mizzell, Thursday, 20 October 2011 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
Loved the Norm interview. Thought the spirituality discussion was fascinating...when Maron had been talking about Evangelicals earlier in the interview and Norm steered him off I was like, huh, I didn't know Norm was religious...so it was cool to hear him talk about that. Fucking great conversation between the two of them though. Found Norm very loveable.
Hannibal Burress interview was pretty cool too. He's such a happy, chill kinda dude.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 October 2011 01:42 (twelve years ago) link
listened to the stanhope interview last night and wow he comes off as a dick
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Friday, 21 October 2011 06:07 (twelve years ago) link
Elaborate? That interview barely left an impression on me. I thought it just sounded like two friends hanging out.
― polyphonic, Friday, 21 October 2011 06:54 (twelve years ago) link
all that libertarian 'hey fuck children and paying taxes and anything else in this world but myself but i'm not selfish honest. also i do jokes about rape fist fucking a girl in their cunt but i don't find it funny'
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Friday, 21 October 2011 12:54 (twelve years ago) link
Carrot Top's Yes Man pretty much ruined that interview.
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 00:32 (twelve years ago) link
agree that guy was horrible but it was prob not going anywhere interesting anyway
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 00:44 (twelve years ago) link
Right? I didn't imagine it was going to be anything but superficial, but why the hell did his opener/friend have to defend his honor every five minutes like his mother?
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 01:32 (twelve years ago) link
It was kinda hard to listen to, the level of awkwardness. Co-dependent relationship 101.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
The only thing I could think of to explain it is that Carrot Top has one hell of a temper. I mean, why else would this dude be smoothing shit over every 10 seconds. Reminded me of the way I was with my Mum when I was a kid.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
I can see that, but I never thought Marc was veering towards being a dick in the interview (except for when dude's prop jokes flatlined in the car on the way over). Carrot Top seemed perfectly at ease taking a few jabs and carrying on. Friend dude probably has some issues of his own.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 01:43 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah that might be more of it. I agre, I didn't get a dickish vibe from Maron either. But there was an awful lot of scurrying going on. Fuckin weird is what that whole thing was.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
the norm interview was fucking great. maybe the funniest ep i've heard, but really penetrating too. loved when they tore into roasts.
― The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
Carrot Top's pal interrupted too much. Couldn't take it.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, October 20, 2011 9:42 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark
I haven't heard this ep but saw Norm live over the summer and he slipped a lot of stuff in his act that made it clear that he's pretty religious, yeah.
Hung out with HB for a bit last year after a show. He got wasted and dished on 30 Rock cast. He was great and indeed very chill and happy.
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
Was irrationally hoping that Hannibal would mention that I booked him at a variety show I hosted back in 2004.
― A Lip in the Blandscape (jaymc), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe it's in the bonus material for premium subscribers :)
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 23:59 (twelve years ago) link
That Steve Almond interview was okay, though he has mostly ILM-unfriendly opinions.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 27 October 2011 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
Not even sure who that dude is, so I haven't gotten around to it yet.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 27 October 2011 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
He's a fiction writer, though he also has a book about rock music. And he doesn't like marketing.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 27 October 2011 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
I still don't know who he is even after reading his Wikipedia page.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 27 October 2011 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
And he sneered about Marc getting dragged to an Iron Maiden show.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 27 October 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
almond's a p big idiot, one of those writers who teaches at different writing conferences
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 27 October 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
the one thing I read of his was about how great the foo fighters are in a southwest airlines magazine
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 27 October 2011 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
hah. his stuff against marketing just comes off as juvenile imo
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 27 October 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
Uh oh. Iron Maiden sneering? Maybe I'll wait til i'm calm & sleepy to listen.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 October 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
x-post Yeah, I was thinking, "Are you 20 years old?"
― President Keyes, Thursday, 27 October 2011 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
10 minutes in, and I already want to punch this asshole.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 27 October 2011 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
uh oh
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 October 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i think i'm just skipping wtf this week
― this is unusual for batman. (Jordan), Thursday, 27 October 2011 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
I'll try it tomorrow but it sounds iffy
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 October 2011 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
Almond is lame, too much on a poor man's David Foster Wallace thing, but Maron is at least engaged in this one 9as opposed to the Carrot Top fiasco), and he has to try to defend his love for the fucking Keith Richards autobio (even though I hate Almond's take on the Stones.)
― President Keyes, Thursday, 27 October 2011 22:35 (twelve years ago) link
haha, when maron is riding to carrot top's house and the dude is describing all these racist prop comedy bits, the flipdown "black guy" mask, the angry birds border jumper sombrero.... it's breathtaking.
― dylannn, Friday, 28 October 2011 04:34 (twelve years ago) link
wow norm macdonald episode was like almost my ideal wtf episode. so good.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 28 October 2011 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
Thurs : Chris Rock
^_^
― johnny crunch, Monday, 31 October 2011 12:01 (twelve years ago) link
Just started it, hope it's as great as it should be!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 November 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
Eeee! I can't wait. Hope it's good.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 November 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
maron was being a real dick to scott adsit
― mizzell, Thursday, 3 November 2011 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't finished Monday's live ep, so I need to go back and hear that and try to figure out why.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 November 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
jeez, comics are thriving with material on pushing 50 and getting fat? Time for me to hit the comeback trail.
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 November 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
This.
― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Thursday, 3 November 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
Finding Maron really funny on the live show from this week ... guess that's a strange observation about a comedian but it's not what I usually get out of his program. Liking it.
Norm episode was excellent.
― boxall, Friday, 4 November 2011 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
i kind of think it's a shame that so many people know him solely as an interviewer, he actually is a pretty funny comic!
― prettyliketynandelong (some dude), Friday, 4 November 2011 02:54 (twelve years ago) link
idk i listened to the norm one and the intro (just him) was annoying. also his digression into self-aggrandizing political rants during the interview. it was still great tho, overall.
― zvookster, Friday, 4 November 2011 02:57 (twelve years ago) link
His stand-up is great, but I don't like his pre-interview bits.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 4 November 2011 04:40 (twelve years ago) link
his digression into self-aggrandizing political rants during the interview
tbf, that's the first time he's done that in eons.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 November 2011 04:58 (twelve years ago) link
I dug the Chris Rock interview. Not really anything necessarily new...I just liked hearing him talk at length, I guess.
Really want to watch footage of his dinner with Woody Allen though....
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 November 2011 05:16 (twelve years ago) link
I really dug the Rock and Hamm interviews I listened to last night, need to catch up with like the past 10 though.
One thing I'd like to say- I don't give a shit about American stand up, bar a few guys, I just don't find it funny. I mostly just listen because I like the stories and whatever. Anyone else feel that?
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 4 November 2011 08:30 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, pretty much
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Friday, 4 November 2011 10:16 (twelve years ago) link
I don't give a shit about American stand up, bar a few guys, I just don't find it funny
so you're into...british standup? canadian?
loved the chris rock one btw.
― this is unusual for batman. (Jordan), Friday, 4 November 2011 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
Norwegian stand-up is where its at.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 4 November 2011 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
well for me i like oswalt and louis CK but im not hugely into stand up or anything. a lot of the names he mentions dont register with me at all. ive never heard dave atell's stand up or jim norton for instance.
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Friday, 4 November 2011 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
Atell is funny, but in a "omg I can't believe I'm laughing at this awful shit" funny. Jim Norton is just an asshole.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 November 2011 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
*way
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 November 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
i don't pay attention to stand-up at all, but i have always liked comedian shop talk and behind the scenes hollywood stories, which is why i listen
― mizzell, Friday, 4 November 2011 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
I don't really watch any stand-up these days. I think I prefer to encounter people like Oswalt, CK, or Nick Kroll on Comedy Bang Bang or Parks & Rec than to seek out their stand-up. (Though I'd likely go to a Paul F. Tompkins live show.) Too much insistent loud voice stuff. But I watched a lot of Comedy Central in the early 90s, so I know who most of Maron's guests are.
― President Keyes, Friday, 4 November 2011 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
Too much insistent loud voice stuff.
^^This. I kinda like Doug Stanhope as well though
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Friday, 4 November 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
I just watched a bit of Jim Norton on youtube. An asshole indeed.
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Friday, 4 November 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
The Chris Rock episode bored me almost to sleep until about the 45 minute mark, when he gets into, "When you have know ambition, you don't really feel racism. When you start wanting to do shit..." That's where the interview got interesting for me. Before that, it was just blah blah Eddie Murphy blah blah.
― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Friday, 4 November 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
Um, make that, "NO ambition."
― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Friday, 4 November 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ "NOTHING is blacker than james brown." (when talking about crossover appeal back in the day vs now)
― this is unusual for batman. (Jordan), Friday, 4 November 2011 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
Well I much prefer guys like Lee & Herring and guys who challange the audience to think, as opposed to 'hey guys ever wondered why [observation] isnt that crazy?' that is p much 99% of american humour (and has unfortunately taken over british comedy recently). i guess it is 'why did american comedy have to make seinfeld their jesus instead of some weirdo meth freak like pryor'.
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 4 November 2011 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
Pryor not being a meth freak notwithstanding, he wasn't American comedy's Jesus. He was God. He was the Miles Davis of Comedy. Seinfeld's the Dave Brubeck of comedy.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 4 November 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
sorry freebase freak.
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 4 November 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
Seinfeld's the Dave Brubeck of comedy.
yes and then everyone made shit soft jazz comedy records instead of challanging themselves.
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 4 November 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
Cosby = Louis Armstrong?
and Bob Hope is obv WC Handy.
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 November 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
Even the more broad, mainstream-friendly comics like Seinfeld and Foxworthy aren't complete wastes of time imo. There's enough comedy out there at this point that you can go from one thing to the other just like music without having to choose teams.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 November 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
― mizzell, Friday, November 4, 2011 11:08 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
u might like "making it" w/ riki lindhome. good stories of how ppl start out in the biz, etc. the one w/ ben schwartz is partic entertaining & he talks basically breathlessly for an hour+
― johnny crunch, Friday, 4 November 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
Johnny Fever otm. Also there's a lot more variety once you actually start looking. Check out someone like, I dunno, Reggie Watts if observational's not your gig.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 November 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
Also, the comics who closely follow Seinfeld in tone/content seem to be in it as much (or more) for the sitcom-down-the-road as for the standup. It's like Rock telling Maron about his ambition to be at the level of Richard Jeni or George Wallace; Rock truly loves standup, and never saw it as a necessary evil on his way to something bigger. Pryor's massive influence on comedy is inescapable; it's just not necessarily going to be found within a narrow swath of popular mainstream tv shows.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 4 November 2011 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
lol never spoke about sitcoms in my lack-of-caring-about-american-comedy
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 4 November 2011 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like stand up may be the thing that closest resembles my love of wrestling tho. there isnt much else where you could have a weird passive aggresive dude like maron succeed in an entertaining way actively berating the audience and challanging people to dispise him or think about what a mess he has created. and maybe thats why i dislike most american stand up i see. everyone wants to be the next seinfeld (hogan) on top, you never see a guy try to be comedy's version of terry funk.
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 4 November 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
something something andy kaufman something something
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 4 November 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
I know. What I was addressing was the influence of Seinfeld vs. that of Pryor, and how it plays/played out in the culture. The comics who wanted to be like Seinfeld were naturally going to be more accessible in mainstream terms (because of the material and because of careerist aspirations) than comics heavily influenced by Pryor.
xxp
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 4 November 2011 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
No-one really seems heavily influenced by Pryor though imo. You don't ever really find people doing updated versions of weird things like the Prison Play bit or whatever. Most you usually get is the 'oh shit that's gonna piss off cosby' influence.
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 4 November 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
I can't think of anyone now who's a direct descendent of Pryor's style, but the thing Pryor did was open the back door of stand-up and sneak all these individual freestyle comics in who took comedy in so many different directions. Seinfeld/Romano/Foxworthy/etc. are all traditionalists for the most part, the kind who could end up in Vegas if they wanted to and are welcome on late night tv. Other guys like Oswalt/Burress/Louis CK/etc. are the kind that will be revered one day like Pryor is now.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 November 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
I've seen none of those dudes live cept Oswalt, but oh my, "revered one day like Pryor" is a tall order.
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 November 2011 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
True. Some hyperbole/wishful thinking on my part.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 November 2011 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
You guys are peddling some strange analogies today.
― polyphonic, Friday, 4 November 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
Pryor's influence today is less about direct echoes of his work (although, that's a large part of it: Sykes, Rock, Morgan, CK, etc.) and more about how he allowed comics to do things they wouldn't have thought to do otherwise.
It's like how Miles Davis' style was so pervasive that trumpeters in symphony orchestras had to change their way of playing; they may not be playing like Miles, necessarily, but they're approaching the trumpet differently because of Miles.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 4 November 2011 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
Who is the Carrot Top of jazz?
― polyphonic, Friday, 4 November 2011 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
^ that's what I was trying to say, but I'm stupid. xp
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 November 2011 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
Other guys like Oswalt/Burress/Louis CK/etc. are the kind that will be revered one day like Pryor is now.
Maybe CK.
― Mordy, Friday, 4 November 2011 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
John Zorn
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 4 November 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
Kenny G?
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 November 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
― this is unusual for batman. (Jordan), Friday, November 4, 2011 4:48 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
could james brown write a song so black even he could not riff on it
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 4 November 2011 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
― a hoy hoy, Friday, November 4, 2011 12:53 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
super talented and unfairly maligned by cool ppl?
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 4 November 2011 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
The only stand-up I've seen done live is George Carlin and Lewis Black. The Carlin show was absolutely sublime, just so thrilled I got a chance to see him in person.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 4 November 2011 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
I saw Bill Cosby live. The material wasn't as good as "Himself" (which is probably the best set of stand-up material ever put together in one place ever, so the comparison is almost unfair), but he worked the crowd in a way I will never forget. I don't remember any one punchline, but I was sore from laughing the next morning. He absolutely slayed the Houston Astrodome. When you can work a crowd of 62,000 people, brother, you know what you're doing.
― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Saturday, 5 November 2011 07:38 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe, except instead of getting all righteous (self-righteous?) in his old age, Louis Armstrong discovered the magic of laxatives.
― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Saturday, 5 November 2011 07:52 (twelve years ago) link
And weed.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 5 November 2011 12:49 (twelve years ago) link
Rainn Wilson is a good guy. I'd kick it with him anytime. The WTF interview today wasn't eye-opening or anything, but wholly pleasant.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 7 November 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
there will always be middle-of-the-roaders in comedy (and i happen to think seinfeld is a pretty great standup, even if his material is i dunno mild). its not like if he never existed everyone would be richard pryors
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 7 November 2011 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
Read this as Cosby = Louie Anderson -- really confused for a sec and tried REAL hard to make the comparison "work" in my head
― Alderaan Duran (Will M.), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 06:45 (twelve years ago) link
Finally listened to the Stamatolpoulos episode - damn he's a cool dude.
Enjoyed Adam Scott, inoffensive, kinda quirky...the nicotine lozenge discussions were kinda funny.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 06:49 (twelve years ago) link
does he discuss triangle face syndrome?
― GOIT BUZZ TOYS (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
iirc, his answers were pretty obtuse.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
he's pretty "acute" ;)
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
When he's in the kitchen finishing up the eggs benedicts I bet he helpfully says "I sauce all 'ese"
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
...cos he is pretty tan.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
Letterman's ex on tomorrow
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
Merrill Markoe? If so, I'm sure he's going to ask nothing about her comedy writing, comedy performing or showbusiness development career, and define her solely through a romantic relationship she was in over twenty-three years ago.
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Thursday, 17 November 2011 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
Hopefully he'll get around to doing an episode with Andy Prieboy's girlfriend sometime.
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Thursday, 17 November 2011 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
^think maron was consciously wary of this crit & didnt try and dig too deep; i think theres a clear difference when marons talking to or abt someone he truly admires/respects vs you know a dane cook or w/e where hes gonna press/pry more
overall i thought this was a v good conversation, merrill seems p cool
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 17 November 2011 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
Still haven't listened to Merrill's ep yet (will do that sometime today), but so happy that Mary Lynn Rajskub is on Monday's show!
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 18 November 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
dr. Steve episode had me crying like a girl - on the way to a job interview. hell, before the talk to dr. steve! just maron at the start. fucking hell this show can be rough. (luckily i pulled myself together, having turned up an hour early, at a pub on the corner.)
but yeah, WARNING if you haven't listened to it.
― Aesop Rizzle (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
it basically hit me so quick that there was no point turning it off. usually maron rambling at the start leads you in, prepares you and you know if you need to save the actual interview for a later date. but it was maron who had me going!
― Aesop Rizzle (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
I've been meaning to listen to that one, I love Dr Steve!
The Ralphie May episode was really good, he has a great attitude despite some of the shitty things that've happened. And Steven Wright was aa delight, that whole conversation just made me grin like an idiot. What a sweet man.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
I did not know about the Ralphie accident as a teen! Damn.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
i think i make the mistake of trying to listen to them in order. i dont really know who 85% of the comedians are, so i don't know if it is going to be funny, sad, historical, political etc.
like the one w/ lettermans old head writer/girlfriend was terrific! Merrill Merkoe. Should google, her voice sounded familiar.
― Aesop Rizzle (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
I like to listen in order too...I am still recovering from listening to Todd Hanson in the car, holy fuck
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
oh shit his story was too much.
dr. steve was on that level fyi.
― Aesop Rizzle (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
there have been some good one lately for sure, but god damn, i couldn't get through five minutes of that bert kreisher dude.
― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
I had to stop Stoller, his voice was too unbearably shrill for me. Also his whine just...nails on a chalkboard
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah Bert Kreisher was unbearable.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
Todd Glass was pretty interesting. Felt like Maron did some good interviewing, trying to get Todd to drill down into his discomfort.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't listened to Kreischer...now I am glad, lol
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
whats the russell brand one like? i havent listened to any wtf's in a while.
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
I enjoyed the Russell Brand one more than his comedy. Came across as bright and affable.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
I am so far behind on these.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, Russell Brand was really good. I thought I hated him, but hearing him talk without watching him be all twitchy helps a lot.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
definitely. russ brand seems really smart & reasonably thoughtful. i begrudge his success far less than previously had
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
His persona is so overwhelming it's sad. Russell Brand the person seems like an interesting guy.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
He's very quick too, I loved his riffs with Maron
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
The Russell Peters one was interesting too--the guy is playing arenas and works outside of Maron's personal heirarchy, that he seemed dumbfounded, while also doing a good interview.
― do you not like slouching? (Eazy), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
(P.S. I can't write today.)
― do you not like slouching? (Eazy), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
tbh russell brand was russell brand. but the russell brand of his radio show or halfway thru a season of big brother, not the guy you see in the papers or at scripted hyper show.
― Aesop Rizzle (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
really great eps lately; feel like maron's doing much better at connecting with (bigger) celebrities.
the ralphie one was wonderful. love that i can love a conversation so much even when i don't know the interviewee at all.
― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
his interviewing is improving, you can tell he's listening a lot more
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
it works best when people talk about subjects he is interested in or is knowledgable about. i've got the donald glover one soon and i bet that is super awkward, tbh, because they seem worlds apart in what interests and inspires them.
― Aesop Rizzle (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
Nah, the Glover one is good.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
i didn't really like the Glover one. Glover comes off as pretty unlikable weirdly. i mean, not that he does or says anything unlikable but more that his demeanor was kinda -- trying too hard maybe? Or just awkward?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
haha Ralphie named his daughter April June May
― mizzell, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
i dont think he got that right
― Aesop Rizzle (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
Ralphie May seemed super prepared for that interview. As in: these are my WTF-compatible stories. I think it was the lowest Maron to guest speaking ratio of any episode--mostly Marc saying, "Really?" "Those guys sound like dicks." etc. Still, enjoyable interview.
Stephen Wright wasn't all that revealing or interesting a guest, but he's Stephen fucking Wright, so it was awesome to hear.
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 23:17 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ otm re Steven Wright
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
oh wait, I did find him interesting so *partly* otm :)
What I really loved about the Todd Glass interview was how it was so in-line with how young people think and react when they are finally coming to terms with themselves, but with added benefit/anger/experience of having an adult's perspective. That shit about not being able to hold someone else's hand really resonated for me. I sort of haven't been able to stop thinking about that interview for the past week.
― all the other twinks with their fucked up dicks (billy), Thursday, 26 January 2012 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I liked that too, how real it was. It made me feel for him that he sort of hung onto "I'm doing this for the kids" like a safety blanket...not that it wasn't a really good motivation but through the interview it was almost like a tic, like he really needed that to talk about himself, how in his mind if he did it this way it'd be okay, he'd be safe somehow.
I'd only come across him a few months ago on another podcast and had found him very sort of animated and almost like a man-child in a way. Maron was right about how it's about as focused as you'll ever hear him.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 26 January 2012 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
Oh yeah, "I'm doing this for the kids" as safety blanket is really otm. It's also incredibly poignant, I think, especially considering how often he reverts to juxtaposing kids today (i.e. that story about seeing those two boys in Boston) with his own youth, where he almost seems apologetic when he says that he was ok and his family loved him, AND YET the obvious anger when he says he "didn't get to have a youth."
I also loved Maron, being his close friend, expressing surprise and gratitude at this whole new side of him that he can finally talk about. That's always a response I like hearing, though it's not as prevalent obv: this idea that when someone comes out, their friends have this new aspect of their personality to get to know. It can be a wonderfully intimate thing.
― all the other twinks with their fucked up dicks (billy), Thursday, 26 January 2012 02:48 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, absolutely. The stuff he kept going back to about his parents actually did get me thinking, that in a way a supportive household is good, and sure he *should* be comfortable with his sexuality but it just highlights that disconnect that you can't just be gay in your own house, that from what he saw or the way he interpreted everything outside of his house, he could absolutely NOT be gay. And really, it kind of drives home what a huge *mental* leap it is to come out. Not just wrestling with your family and friends being okay with it, but you yourself being okay with it.
I could talk about it for hours, I was very moved by the psychological insights of that interview. Which is kind of gross-sounding, I don't mean to sound like a scientist and a labrat but it made me think a lot about my gay friends.
My husband kind of laughed at me when I told him about the Glass interview, he had never heard of him and was like 'he came out on a podcast, wtf'...but that's the thing. It wasn't even the actual coming out that was notable, as the process, and the emotions of doing that laid out right in front of you, which is something a lot of people might not have much experience with. Including me.
Anyway, tl; dr
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 26 January 2012 04:05 (twelve years ago) link
I was having dinner with my recently-divorced friend and we were talking about movies we'd seen in the past few months; I brought up the British film Weekend, which was a nice segue into talking about the Todd Glass interview as they both deal with the politicized aspects of identity--of public v. private, marginalization from "mainstream" as well as the marginalization within the "mainstream" of one's own subculture, and the discomfort of straddling complex social lines.
Really when I say that I haven't been able to stop thinking about Glass it's because of how his emotions remind me of my own when I was coming out at 18, and so in a cyclical way it makes me relive a lot of my own coming-out process and its attendant anger and activist tendencies and ambiguity.
I don't know that it's gross-sounding to be moved by the interview; I feel like why it's so special is because we've been inundated with many rote "coming out" narratives, but none of them seem to have gone into such in-depth analysis of someone's neuroses (I mean, he still has trouble saying "gay"!). It was really thrilling because you hardly ever experience someone figuring out themselves right in front you, and finding the words to say all those things he has never been able to.
― all the other twinks with their fucked up dicks (billy), Thursday, 26 January 2012 05:06 (twelve years ago) link
I really enjoyed both Todd's and Bert's episode. Bert I knew about from his constant appearances on Jay Mohr's show.
― Put another Juggle in, in the Juggalodeon (kingfish), Thursday, 26 January 2012 05:09 (twelve years ago) link
xpost, Yes, you nailed it.It was interesting how he wrestled with the idea of the 'femme' gay, vs how he saw himself...there was definitely an otherness there, that somehow his own 'type' of gayness was quite separate from "that".
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 26 January 2012 05:13 (twelve years ago) link
please sban me for overuse of airquotes
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 26 January 2012 05:14 (twelve years ago) link
done :)
― Aesop Rizzle (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 26 January 2012 06:45 (twelve years ago) link
Pete Holmes' laugh gets under my skin fer some reason. I can never tell it apart from somebody faking it.
― Put another Juggle in, in the Juggalodeon (kingfish), Thursday, 26 January 2012 06:47 (twelve years ago) link
xpost thanks hoy
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 26 January 2012 06:56 (twelve years ago) link
its my pleasure :)
(i didnt rlly and never could!)
― Aesop Rizzle (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 26 January 2012 06:57 (twelve years ago) link
never say never, lol
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 26 January 2012 06:58 (twelve years ago) link
paul feig's voice sounds like weird al
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 26 January 2012 12:40 (twelve years ago) link
It was really thrilling because you hardly ever experience someone figuring out themselves right in front you, and finding the words to say all those things he has never been able to.
OTMFM. What a great episode. I want to talk about it for hours.
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Thursday, 26 January 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
I'm glad I'm not the only one! Have y'all heard his "follow-up" on his own podcast? In some ways it's much less interesting because it doesn't have that same sense of urgency, even if it has his same manic passion. There is a bit of progression re: his comfort level, though Sarah Silverman guests and provides a nice counterpart in a different way from Maron; where he tried to prod him through his process, she seems to gently confront him on some of his stances.
― all the other twinks with their fucked up dicks (billy), Friday, 27 January 2012 05:56 (twelve years ago) link
Todd's episode with Chelsea Peretti was great, especially her Home Shopping bits.
― Put another Juggle in, in the Juggalodeon (kingfish), Friday, 27 January 2012 05:57 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks for the tip, Billy - I will check out Glass's podcst. I'd like to hear the followup!
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 January 2012 06:00 (twelve years ago) link
Sure! I'd be interested to see how you respond to it vs. the Maron one, since it seems to be more about refining his language/views than figuring them out, which is part of what made the Maron interview so exciting. At the very least, he seems like a fascinating, complicated guy.
I've been meaning to listen to that episode w/ Peretti. I assume anyone who writes for Parks & Recreation is going to be hysterical.
― all the other twinks with their fucked up dicks (billy), Friday, 27 January 2012 06:20 (twelve years ago) link
The glee with which Maron and Jimmy Kimmel discussed the night Jimmy went on Jay Leno's 10pm show and publicly shamed him to his face and to the audience's approval was so fun to listen to. Otherwise, Jimmy Kimmel is fairly uninteresting.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
The viciousness with which Kimmel treated Leno that night was pretty damn great. In case you've never seen the clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axwO6BkCtIo
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
fuck this matt graham guy. wanted to yell at him several times "maybe all this bad stuff happens to you cause you are an insufferable prick" and then he breaks out that he feels that all women are satan's helpers here to suck the life out of me. good luck on okcupid, dickhead.
― mizzell, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
lol. 1 of my takeaways from it was at least he used 2 take ghb himself rather than dose chix w/ it
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
I bailed halfway through because I was getting a real whiney woe is me vibe from him...is it worth listening all the way through?
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 February 2012 04:35 (twelve years ago) link
it got WAY worse. Stay away.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 9 February 2012 04:41 (twelve years ago) link
Looking forward to tomorrow, though.
Bill Lawrence. I hope he talks less about Scrubs and Cougar Town and more about Clone High!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 9 February 2012 04:51 (twelve years ago) link
What does that voice that sounds like Don Pardo in the intro say? Sounds like "uh-ma-JOOK-ee-ev" and drives me nuts!
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 9 February 2012 06:31 (twelve years ago) link
double you tee eff
It's Nick Kroll as El Chubacapra saying W T F with a spanishy twist, lol
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 February 2012 06:56 (twelve years ago) link
drove me nuts for a longtime too
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 February 2012 06:57 (twelve years ago) link
I think it was from this appearance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_frQMqxdvUw
Jo soy un bay beeeee
― Put another Juggle in, in the Juggalodeon (kingfish), Thursday, 9 February 2012 07:05 (twelve years ago) link
I could watch that clip all day
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 February 2012 07:06 (twelve years ago) link
It's weird to actually see Nick doing this stuff
― Put another Juggle in, in the Juggalodeon (kingfish), Thursday, 9 February 2012 07:07 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks Janet
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 9 February 2012 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
Funny, I've never seen Maron's recording setup before that clip.
― ‘Neuroscience’ and ‘near death’ pepper (Eazy), Thursday, 9 February 2012 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
bill lawrence ep was great, although idgaf abt any show hes ever done
didnt know his wife is christa miller! v jealous tbh
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 9 February 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
I love that Marc Maron does his podcast on a Powerbook and the same p.o.s. Ikea table that I have.
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Thursday, 9 February 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
I love that the whole premise of Cougar Town was devised as a hilarious joke, and that ABC was all over it.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
Twitter says he's interviewing Wayne Coyne today!
Bill Maher on Thurs!
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 00:40 (twelve years ago) link
I loved the Bill Lawrence interview, dude seemed v cool
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
The Nick Lowe interview is relaxing.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
I'm looking forward to it!
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
i've been enjoying wtf a lot lately, but wow that matt graham interview was just torturous.
― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
I skipped Graham. Nick Lowe was fun, but Marc was steering the convo too much toward Elvis Costello (even after he apologized for doing it).
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
I feel like Maron sometimes has trouble listening to people not from his world of stand-up. He kept kind of finishing sentences for Lowe incorrectly and trying to steer him toward stuff he was familiar with or already had a mythology about. His attention seems to flag when someone is going away from the direction he wants them to go.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, he's better than he was but def with "outsider" guests like Lowe it's clear you'll never get the interview you want from Maron. Not that it's a bad thing, per se.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
The thing with Nick Lowe wasn't so much Maron's Costello worship, even though Lowe deserves a huge amount of credit for producing This Year's Model alone, it was Marc trying to steer the conversation toward addiction, and Lowe being totally uninterested in the topic. He's just not a guy with that many problems. He's an older gentleman. And though you can't see it in the interview, obviously, he has the most striking head of snow-white hair in all of music. We should all go grey so gracefully.
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
i haven't listened to any nick lowe (or much elvis costello), but there's a good interview with him in last month's Tape Op.
― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
maron is pretty overrated as an interviewer in general imo. i've talked about it before, but he'll constantly steer the conversation to his bugbear topics even when they've been hashed out, try to fit everything into his "i used to hate you but now we're cool" paradigm even when it doesn't fit, tells the same stories he's told 10 times before, etc. he pretty much gets by on his connections and (now) his reputation. he's best when he realizes that he's got a good interesting guest, asks simple questions, and lets the guest talk (like steven wright, norm macdonald) but when it's someone he's not connected to or doesn't know about, he panics and reverts to his boring, annoying tricks.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
I'd agree with much of that. I haven't heard the Lowe interview b/c I don't have much interest in listening to Marc Maron interview musicians.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
but i also don't find maron particularly likeable or charming so ymmv i guess
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
The thing with Nick Lowe wasn't so much Maron's Costello worship, even though Lowe deserves a huge amount of credit for producing This Year's Model alone, it was Marc trying to steer the conversation toward addiction, and Lowe being totally uninterested in the topic. He's just not a guy with that many problems.
I wonder in some of the interviews if Maron makes connections through AA/NA--because he can have guests who have cleaned up, but it's just not something they talk about publicly.
― ‘Neuroscience’ and ‘near death’ pepper (Eazy), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, alcohol/recovery is a big part of Lowe's songwriting, but I assume he's fine just talking about it indirectly that way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HO4mTPJUMw
― ‘Neuroscience’ and ‘near death’ pepper (Eazy), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
i think the problem is musicians just generally aren't as big into talking/self-revelation as comedians
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
Also culturally as an older Britisher, (or non-LA person more specifically) probably not v interested in the navel-gazing recovery-talk in general
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
agreed. i'm getting tired of hearing about it.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
He's worse than Terry Gross loving to talk about sickness and death.
That said, his talk with Russell Brand on the topics of addiction and recovery was totally absorbing, probably because he had such a willing and entertaining interviewee.
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
The whole bit about how you don't need to nurture your inner child, you need to send it to military school -- great stuff.
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
Dr. Steve was the best
― De La Soil (admrl), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
I should revisit that one. I think I must have been trying to read something at the same time I was listening to it, which never works out.
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
Bill Maher was boring, and Marc seems to imply that he was a bit strong-armed. Taken not into the house, but to some vague place on the property, and had to wait for him to show up, like Maher was a doctor or a monarch or something. There are SO many things I wanted to hear Bill Maher talk about. Like, for instance, what's with the Playboy shit?
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
i cant stand bill maher in general
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
Right, but I wanted to know more about WHY he's so intolerable.
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, if it isn't that good of an interview, I'll just skip that episode because the thought of listened to Maher speak that long makes me ill. Such a smug, self-satisfied douche.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
I don't like Maher much at all. I realized as soon as I started listening to him that I disliked him even more than I thought, so I dunno that I'll finish that one.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
the thought of listened to Maher speak that long
Actually, it's one of the shortest interviews Marc has done in a while. He got cut off. Clearly Maher was like, "Gotta go, very busy, thanks for promoting my new thing, that's all I'm here to do, but thanks."
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Thursday, 16 February 2012 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, that doesn't surprise me at all. Maher is ugh.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 16 February 2012 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
Carrot Top >>>> Mahr
― President Keyes, Thursday, 16 February 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
Definitely gonna skip this one.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 16 February 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
sorry couldnt resist posting this. so spot on.
I hope none of you saw Bill Maher on Leno last night.....what a stacked card, let me tell you....the biggest pseud on TV with the most unfunny cunt on earth.....Bill said some shit so ignorant it somehow eclipses his "overweight people are just lazy and why should I pay health taxes because they're pigs?!" P.I. show and rap music comments....he says something like "I don't watch the Winter games....they're not sports...they're GRAVITY!!! You sit on a sled.." All the while with that huge triangular nose and those smirky incredulous "I mean COME ON!" facial gestures that must mean this guy actually thinks he's being cleverfresh...... everyday I cry a 40oz of tears trying to understand how people can think this man is exceptionally intelligent or witty....my theory is that Bill is the mascot for midbrow pseuds all over the USA that aren't outright morons but have just the right amount of totally cursory knowledge about shit in general to think they can stop right the fuck there.
-- Ramosi (olafsonski...), February 22nd, 2002.
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Friday, 17 February 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
huh. so i just learned what a "pseud" is!
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 17 February 2012 04:31 (twelve years ago) link
god bless ramosi
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 17 February 2012 04:32 (twelve years ago) link
40oz of tears
― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Friday, 17 February 2012 14:05 (twelve years ago) link
x2
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Friday, 17 February 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
Listened to the Nick Lowe interview this morning. I think it's tricky, interview a musician, because Maron is such an insider and empathizer in comedy, and thoroughly understands the personalities, choices, etc., involved in a career--whereas with this one, he's an outsider. Still, it's a way to hear an hour-long conversation with Nick Lowe, and it's no worse or better than Leonard Lopate's interview with Lowe last month, just longer. Glad he did it.
― ‘Neuroscience’ and ‘near death’ pepper (Eazy), Saturday, 18 February 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
Eazy, that's pretty much how I felt. Maron didn't do a great job but it's the closest I'll come to spending an hour chatting with Nick Lowe so I'll cope with the limitations.
― polyphonic, Saturday, 18 February 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
Goddamn I wish the Marc and Tom Show was a real thing. I could listen to those two talk forever.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 February 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
listening to it now...SO hope this becomes a regular thing.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 23 February 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
interesting aside-info from the diablo cody ep -- am def fascinated by her moving to minneapolis cuz of a dude on a beach boys tape trading list (who she married!) & also abt her older brother
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 23 February 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
I'm gonna get to her ep later this afternoon.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 23 February 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
I really don't want to listen to her. Not on the same day as the Scharpling-Maron ep, anyway. I'm in too good of a mood now
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 February 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
He probably shouldn't have dropped these both on the same day, since the Tom one is so much better.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
I think the Tom one actually came out Tuesday, but nobody noticed until the regularly scheduled episode today.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
It had Monday's date on it in my feed, but I hadn't checked in on it in a few days.
I started listening to Big Jay Okerman but I didnt' really like him that much.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
I was updating my podcasts all week, including last night, and the Tom one didn't show up until this morning, along with the DC one.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
Tom one was paywalled for a couple of days, then became free
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Thursday, 23 February 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
hm yea thats what i thought too, ill have 2 check back
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 23 February 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
sharpling really doesnt do anything for me, who knows why2 guys kvetching abt anxiety/responsibility is kinda brutalalso, he thinks tom waits is 'phony'? gtfo bro
― johnny crunch, Friday, 24 February 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
though bill maher was quite good actually. usually think he is super pompous but enjoyed him on this. maybe you guys suffiecently lowered my expectations.
― mizzell, Friday, 24 February 2012 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
xp Tom Waits is kind of a phony. Just depends on whether you like his character or not.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 24 February 2012 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
scharpling is weird. i like him on the best show when he's doing a character, but on this it's kind of uncomfortable to see the seams between person and persona.
― mizzell, Friday, 24 February 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
I thought the Tom & Marc episode became too whiney and had far too much woe-is-me bullshit. And it wasn't funny either.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 24 February 2012 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
w/e ~ phony can = any performer; figure it out, it's a lame dismissal imo
― johnny crunch, Friday, 24 February 2012 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
I keep meaning to check this out but then remember it's comedians talking about themselves.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 February 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
thought the Tom & Marc episode became too whiney and had far too much woe-is-me bullshit.
^OTM
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 24 February 2012 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
tho i do <3 Tom Waits, i laughed at the impersonation.
I wonder if the Todd Hanson episode (#190) would affect you, Morbs.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 24 February 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
I felt the same way. I expected him to be brusque and standoffish, and he was neither. I'm not a big fan of his by any stretch, but even though many comedians can talk about "In the Carson era, it was like this, but now it's like this" I enjoyed hearing his perspective on it.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 24 February 2012 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
I like Tom when he's drunkenly complaining about people not liking his bits
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Friday, 24 February 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Friday, 24 February 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
love when Maron tries to talk about music. Yes, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (formed 1991) were around for years before the Black Crowes (formed 1989.) Maybe he meant Pussy Galore.
― President Keyes, Monday, 27 February 2012 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
I liked the Offerman/Mulally convo for the most part. Except the *way* Megan Mullally talked, I had to really try hard to listen and not be annoyed at her. That bored, yawny, disengaged way of speaking. I dunno if she was nervous, or that's how she always is but she just came off as bored and/or rude.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 5 March 2012 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
can't decide if the guy from dinner and a movie being suicidal is surprising or not.
― mizzell, Monday, 5 March 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
did not enjoy that one
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Monday, 5 March 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
That bored, yawny, disengaged way of speaking
iirc this is probably why her daytime talk show didn't last very long.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 March 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
I've heard better interviews with Offerman (Kevin Pollack podcast and Comedy Bang Bang) but it was nice to hear him and Mullaly bouncing off one another.
― President Keyes, Monday, 5 March 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
Oh my god, yes, his laugh in particular.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCeMiP2zgtM
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 9 March 2012 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
So weird to see him after listening to so many hour of his conversation.
― "marvellously inoffensive" (Eazy), Friday, 9 March 2012 02:21 (twelve years ago) link
i haven't listened to the podcast in a few weeks (my commute got substantially shortened and i'd rather listen to music these days anyway) but will definitely DVR this:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/marc-marons-wtf-sitcom-gets-picked-up-by-ifc,71104/
― Mordy, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
fred willard was good, kind of what i expected: seemed really sweet, had a bit of naivite about him but up for anything, a little iffy on gender and race stuff.
― mizzell, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
Mary Mack plays a pretty mean clarinet on today's episode.
― polyphonic, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
Fred's "glad you're short and white and not big and black" break-in story was a bit eyebrow-raising.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
Ugh
http://www.laughspin.com/2012/03/17/ifc-greenlights-marc-maron-show-straight-to-series-exclusive/
― "Flashy...hip" (Eazy), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe IFC's next show will be UYD.
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
Have to say, the first few minutes of the Mindy Kaling interview were almost like a parody of WTF: talking block by block about streets in Cambridge, Mass., in order for both of them to put themselves on the right side of well off vs. not-too-well-off.
― (Dre) vs. (Eazy), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
Just now listening to Molly Shannon's ep. I like her so much more now than I did when she was on SNL.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
great interview.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
Mary Mack was awesome.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
Have to say, the first few minutes of the Mindy Kaling interview were almost like a parody of WTF
Interestingly, this part was filmed for Maron's episode of Morgan Spurlock's A Day in the Life.
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
Still way behind on these, but I'm always pleasantly surprised when a guest I don't expect to really like much wins me over. The Ralphie May one was a great listen and he seems like a good dude.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, never was really a Ralphie May fan, but that was a fun hour.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah I loved that interview
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
He was alright, although him saying he got a 20 minute standing ovation for every gig was grating. Like well done, you are the greatest comic ever.
― Thoughts? You must have loads. (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
Having trouble slogging through Michael Cera tbh.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
xpost But in the context of a guy who's had to prove that he's funny and treated so poorly by his peer comedians, it makes sense that he would have a chip on his shoulder now. He still feels like he has something to prove, even if he really doesn't anymore. I think it's more of a 'how you like me now' to the people in his head who hate him, you know?
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I'm gonna have to work up to Cera
Jeffrey Tambor on Thursday btw. I know they won't go there, but I really want to hear about Three's Company/The Ropers. Maybe he has a good Norman Fell or Audra Lindley story?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
I got p burnt out on wtf and the next one on my list to listen to is the live one with comics from his past in boston or something. i tend to blow straight through like 10 at a time on work shifts, so i don't think cera in a list of many will be bad for me.
I don't like when he interviews young comedians/whatever though, unless they have something p major to talk about (like plaza's stroke).
― Thoughts? You must have loads. (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, March 27, 2012 4:53 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
he talked about this stuff some on a/v club last week
― future worm food (n/a), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
ooh, i'll have to check that out
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, this guy is fucking terrible and i spent the entire 37 minutes of the interview i could stand wanting to strangle him. he's awful in so many ways, but the final straw was when he called racism on not making the basketball team because he was white.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
i actually think marc shouldn't have even posted that one, that dude seemed pretty mentally unstable.
― mizzell, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
I actually really liked this interview! Cera seems like a chill dude.
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't really get an unstable vibe from him, but then I gave up less than halfway through, it just felt to me like he had an axe to grind with the entire world. Like bitching about how he was "only" the second ranked scrabble player in the world and how no one ever gave him his due by moving him to #1 or w/e.
(xpost)
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
he talked about how he had a serious, deep relationship with his cat, that basically ruled out doing lots of other things in his life.
― mizzell, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
totally unstable, bi-polar, paranoid, whatever. and there's that self-aware moment where he says he knows maron is basically using him for out-there content, and he's giving it up in exchange for exposure that he can leverage into...something. the 2nd half of the interview takes a turn, it was done on a different day iirc and is less manic and more honest-seeming (but still pretty crazy).
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
that interview make me hate both Maron and Graham--Maron a little more
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
I liked the Graham interview, even though I kind of hate the guy. I found interesting how sexist he was but it also revealed itself to be this deeply misplaced self-resentment. It seemed especially clear when he was talking about how he was good friends with Janeane Garofalo and he likes to go over his set with her before he takes it further and then out of nowhere he starts saying this hateful shit.
Honestly, some of my favorite WTF's are the ones with people that I don't personally find likable.
You'd have to pay me to listen to that Cera one though.
― filthy dylan, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
the Molly Shannon one was the best in quite awhile
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
the cera one is good, drags a little at the end and cera's not quite as forthcoming as you might like but they get along really well
― max, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
^otm. i forgot how young he still is. hes p smart & poised. he sorta seemed willing to "go there" abt more personal things but im fine w/ it mostly being abt his career
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
haha the tambor one is amazing. he's such a dick (in a funny/likable way), and it helps that he has no idea who maron is or how the shows usually go.
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
him and Maron seem of the same type, it's like they're both slightly different versions of each other, and their humor works so well together.
i'm only halfway through but I love it.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
I am sick of Maron's irrational and paranoid hatred of the British and British comedy.
― International Simon (admrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
honestly, there are plenty of rational & straight-forward reasons to hate it
― johnny crunch, Friday, 30 March 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
maybe, but his is just a kneejerk dismissal that clearly comes from some weird inferiority complex. He said he felt "intimidated" by Ricky Gervais (WTF indeed) and he asked John Oliver why British people think they are better than everyone. It's clearly a theme and I think he should get over it and watch Garth Marenghi's Darkplace like Michael Cera told him to.
― International Simon (admrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
And of all British comedians to big up, he then picks...Stewart Lee?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnob1BOf7Y0&feature=related
― International Simon (admrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
Actually watching that does make me realize we ARE better than everyone. I guess Mark has a point there.
― International Simon (admrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
Tambor's shtick of responding in a dickish way followed immediately by something disarming grated on me a little after awhile. I think he literally did it every time he responded.
― polyphonic, Friday, 30 March 2012 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
Oh I think he's delightful. I like that Maron cracked him up a couple of times.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 30 March 2012 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
Maron is either intimidated by or resentful of all comedians who didn't come before him or who he didn't do coke with at some comedy club back in the 90s.
― President Keyes, Friday, 30 March 2012 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
Maron should watch Peep Show instead. I think he'd like it more since it deals so heavily in self-loathing.
― polyphonic, Friday, 30 March 2012 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
but they talk funny like fancy people
― President Keyes, Friday, 30 March 2012 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
kinda bummed that they did the Tambor one as a live episode, as those are usually my least favorite.
I'd like to listen just to hear some Larry Sanders show stories, though.
― filthy dylan, Saturday, 31 March 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
def agree that tambor 1 wouldve been better not live & in front of a crowd
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 31 March 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, it seems like people are scared to be genuine/serious when there's an audience there.
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Saturday, 31 March 2012 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
I was gonna say, is it just me, or are Maron's live podcasts far less funny/engaging than the ones at the "cat ranch"?
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 31 March 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, I think they're plenty funny. But I feel like the Tambor one could've gone in an interesting direction had he not been as self-conscious about entertaining the audience.
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Saturday, 31 March 2012 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
jaymc otm
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 31 March 2012 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
It's weird, I think I'm not necessarily looking for Das Funny in Maron's podcasts, but rather an investigation into how the craft is constructed. Obviously, the live ones aren't conducive to this, which is probably why they throw me off.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 31 March 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
I agree with that. I also notice that a lot of people seem annoyed by Maron's tics, including his self-involvement, his occasional pandering, his pettyness, etc, but because he's self-aware about all these things I find him much more engaging and entertaining then someone more well-adjusted like Chris Hardwick.
― filthy dylan, Sunday, 1 April 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
I think the fact that he is self-aware of them and brings them up a million times make the tics way less engaging after a few hundred episodes. Like how many times, as a supposedly intelligent adult, can you talk about having a problem with Asians or British comics or whatever, not do anything to change yourself, and still expect your audience to be interested in your journey toward healthy-headedness? After awhile you just sound like a dick.
― President Keyes, Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
didn't expect that guitar story to end at a Jane Dark reading
― President Keyes, Monday, 2 April 2012 13:06 (eleven years ago) link
I always feel bad for Marc when he starts talking about music with a musician (Carrie Brownstein, in this case). His references are so superficial and limited, but he at least seems to know a thing or two about guitars.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 2 April 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I kind of assumed awkwardfest when I saw who the guest was, I haven't listened yet.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 April 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
It was okay except for that he kept mispronouncing Sleater-Kinney.
― Bryan, Monday, 2 April 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
tbf that's how everyone who isn't from Olympia pronounces it.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 2 April 2012 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
It was fine at the beginning but not as fine after she said it. A minor grievance.
― Bryan, Monday, 2 April 2012 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
wkiw Carrie Brownstein btw
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 2 April 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
oh no doubt
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 April 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
also ws carrie brownstein :D
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 April 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not crass, but yes.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 2 April 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
She does the rock guitar player high kick better than just about anyone.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 2 April 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
OTM.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 2 April 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
I loved the episode with Brendon Smalls of Metalocalypse, where they played together and he told that great story about playing on stage for the first time. But yeah when he tries to talk general music, he's a bit too eager, along with the limited references.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 April 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
<3 Carrie 4life
Maron was a bit of his depth about her career but he is like that for half the guests. The stuff about post-SK was really interesting.
― Thoughts? You must have loads. (a hoy hoy), Monday, 2 April 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
What I found more crazy-making than the music stuff was Maron talking about Portland and SF like they were these weird puzzle palaces he needed to find the secret keys to. Does he walk around Whole Foods shouting "What are you people all about? What is the organizing principle of this place? Why are you shopping at me like that?"
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 13:17 (eleven years ago) link
funny that he mostly wanted to nerd out about guitar gear and had no interest in any history she might have had with comedy
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 14:11 (eleven years ago) link
Ha, he's chatted with my brother over email about guitar shit
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
Ugh, Cross.
― the hairy office thing (Eazy), Saturday, 14 April 2012 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
Cross is Cross. So, exactly what I expected.
Chris Elliott was more interesting than anticipated, though.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 14 April 2012 00:52 (eleven years ago) link
I was really glad Maron and Elliott talked about Bob so much. It was nice to hear "I grew up playing with the sound-effects machine in my radio-pioneer dad's studio!" instead of the usual "I grew up watching Carson!"
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 14 April 2012 12:22 (eleven years ago) link
week-late laugh at "why are you shopping at me like that?" from P. Keyes
― She Got the Shakes, Saturday, 14 April 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
Just catching up with some of these since I've been sick. I really liked the Jeffrey Tambor episode. And Chris Elliott, but it was quite odd to hear him out of his usual "Chris Elliott" character.
― nobody gives a shit about the githzerai (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 16 April 2012 03:38 (eleven years ago) link
during the "Set List" show at the last night of Bridgetown Comedy Fest tonight, James Adomian dressed and performed as Maron and fuckin' killed. the game was to improvise a routine based on a random set-up, so he improvised in character.
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Monday, 16 April 2012 08:49 (eleven years ago) link
^ oh man
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Monday, 16 April 2012 13:28 (eleven years ago) link
i'm a relative newcomer to this podacast but the Tambor is my fave so far (even though I was never that big of a fan of the guy)
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 16 April 2012 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
The David Cross episode was a good one. Pity he never got to finish his anecdote about Channel 4 controller Jane Hunt, due to Marc not being interested in/is weird about Britishers.
― DavidM, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
Legendary comedian and heralded podcaster MARC MARON announces the release of the ‘WTF WITH MARC MARON’ box set. The two-disc set, packaged in die-cut limited edition release of 1,000 copies, includes the first 100 episodes of Maron’s phenomenal podcast which has been called “Required Listening” by the likes of New York Magazine, New York Times, Huffington Post, Vanity Fair, and GQ, and “A fascinating hour” by Entertainment Weekly. With over 100 hours of content, the WTF box set features Maron’s compelling, in-depth interviews with Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Zach Galifianakis, Dane Cook, Sarah Silverman, Patton Oswalt and the now-infamous two-part interview with Carlos Mencia, plus many more classic WTFs featuring the top entertainers working today. In addition to audio files of the first 100 WTF episodes, the ‘WTF With Marc Maron’ box set includes video of WTF Live taped at The Bell House in Brooklyn (WTF Episode 213). The live show features Maron with an all-star guest line up which includes Artie Lange, Morgan Spurlock, Ira Glass, Elna Baker, Nick DiPaolo, Nick Griffin, Joe Mande, and Wayne Koestenbaum onstage in Fall 2011.
― sean gramophone, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
oooh. link?
― Thoughts? You must have loads. (a hoy hoy), Monday, 16 April 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
legendary!
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Monday, 16 April 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
http://astrecords.bigcartel.com/product/wtf-with-marc-maron-the-first-100-episodes
― sean gramophone, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
looks cool, but i'm not going to shell out $50 for it
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 16 April 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
Yeahh, that's a bit much.
during the "Set List" show at the last night of Bridgetown Comedy Fest tonight, James Adomian dressed and performed as Maron and fuckin' killed. t
GODDAMN. I hope someone youtubes this.
― nobody gives a shit about the githzerai (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 05:25 (eleven years ago) link
@marcmaron: I had a dream that I performed in Portland last night.
@JAdomian: The second set was better than the first but you killed both shows. Tanker wants to book you for a full weekend.
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 05:57 (eleven years ago) link
I thought Tanker was only doing open mics for the weekend, but I guess they had a bunch of shows not on the official sched.
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 07:00 (eleven years ago) link
A pic I shot:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/s720x720/543628_10150657816761596_681036595_9918938_205072050_n.jpg
He would contort himself on that stool so much he almost ate it right off the stage a few times.
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 07:03 (eleven years ago) link
:D
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 07:26 (eleven years ago) link
James Adomian is a funny motherfucker
― I cannot host as my wife hates Walker (latebloomer), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 07:57 (eleven years ago) link
Wow. Even without hearing him speak, I can hear him anyway. He's got the body posture down perfect!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 14:12 (eleven years ago) link
i loved the jeffrey tambor interview
― Mordy, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
You can hear some of Adomian's Maron impression here (begins at around 2:00):http://thisamericanwifepodcast.com/podcast/thisamericanwife31.mp3
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
Wonderful episode with Kevin Burke - seems like a great guy.
― sean gramophone, Sunday, 22 April 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
Kevin Hart is such a likable guy. I'm glad he was on WTF, it reminded me to go check out I'ma Grown Little Man which is ALL on youtube actually:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw3uDAtOrkk&feature=related
and is hilarious, especially the closer about his older road manager.
I wish there wasn't some of the homophobic stuff but it's really slight and the rest of it is good.
I'll be really bummed if he does what I think he will and cuts out stand-up for a while to focus on movies and TV shows.
― filthy dylan, Sunday, 22 April 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
(whoops, the closer I was referring to is at the end of Seriously Funny actually)
― filthy dylan, Sunday, 22 April 2012 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
Kevin Burke the Irish fiddler?
― President Keyes, Sunday, 22 April 2012 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
just listened to the Matt Graham episode yesterday. Such an experience... then made really weird and awkward by him trying to sell a board game to him.
― Thoughts? You must have loads. (a hoy hoy), Monday, 23 April 2012 06:06 (eleven years ago) link
please stop the musician interviews
― President Keyes, Monday, 23 April 2012 13:33 (eleven years ago) link
hart intvw was great but maron talking to nonwhite comics always makes me nervous
― max, Monday, 23 April 2012 13:36 (eleven years ago) link
he did well with hart because he remembered working the same clubs with him. otherwise we'd have had 30 more minutes of "black comedy and white comedy are two different worlds."
― President Keyes, Monday, 23 April 2012 13:38 (eleven years ago) link
this show fuckin sucks but holy shit @ today's
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 26 April 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
lol'd @ the end re: tony clifton ~ "yeah maybe he can come in for a 15 or 20 min ep"
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 26 April 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
that was quite the podcast... that bakery story... wow.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 26 April 2012 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
also loved the bus prank!
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 26 April 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
I wasn't familiar with Chelsea Handler before this interview, and can't say I am now. She's like the female Adam Corolla or something?
― President Keyes, Monday, 30 April 2012 10:44 (eleven years ago) link
That's a reasonably accurate comparison.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 30 April 2012 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
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― johnny crunch, Thursday, 3 May 2012 13:07 (eleven years ago) link
He must be 'running out'* of American comics though...
*I mean i'm sure there is a list of a 1000 other names to do but when its comes to both ones he can actually get hold of, ones who actually want to do it and ones he finds interesting enough for an interview.
― Thoughts? You must have loads. (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 3 May 2012 14:23 (eleven years ago) link
"Whaddyou play, a Stratocaster? Yeah...yeah...I've got a Les Paul..."
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Thursday, 3 May 2012 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
"Who were your guys? You know, your guys."
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Thursday, 3 May 2012 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
There are a few dozen comics who have killed it on Comedy Bang Bang or other podcasts, but who are now probably too low level for Maron. He is definitely building toward some "legit" audience-building point, which is understandable--but not why I started listening to this podcast. I'm sure it would be a huge coup for Maron to get an Eddie Murphy interview but I doubt it would be any good. The worst WTFs have always been the ones with the most famous people. There's already a Studio 360 for Wayne Coyne interviews and whatnot.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 3 May 2012 14:54 (eleven years ago) link
The worst WTFs have always been the ones with the most famous people.
Chris Rock's was really good, and I really enjoyed the Gary Shandling one too. I'm sure there are others that have slipped my mind.
His musician interviews may get better with time. He was kind of awkward with every guest back in his Air America days, but has since settled into a comfortable rhythm with comics. He'll get there with musicians, I bet.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 May 2012 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
Except that he knows shit about music and knows everything about comedy
― President Keyes, Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
OTM
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
Just listened to Kevin Hart, liked it a lot.
― caro's johnson (Eazy), Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
This Wayne Coyne episode is pretty shit until Wayne turns into the interviewer and they get into ideas of performance and connection with the audience. It isn't great, but Wayne tries to find points of connection that Marc seems to oblivious too approach.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
For all the negative stuff I've said here, I still think Maron is a great interviewer. I know it's difficult to put out two hour plus shows a week while you're doing stand-up and a tv show. It's the same with Terry Gross--once you've become so familiar with an interviewers pet topics you end up rolling your eyes when they come up again and again. It's like, dude, we know you venerate Keith Richards and Bukowski-esque junkie bullshit. Either move past it or examine it more interestingly.
This is probably my hang-up though, since I hate all the Iggy/Sid/Johnny Thunders/GG/Bob Stinson/Cobain/Winehouse fuck-up worship that Maron still dabbles in.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 3 May 2012 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
People like what they like, so I'm not gonna begrudge Maron his taste. I just wish he had a broader knowledge to fall back on.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 May 2012 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
I like the Wayne Coyne episode so far. They're just talking about planes and stuff but they have a nice rapport.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 3 May 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, finally hearing this now. It's a good "just shootin' the shit" episode. Also, one of my least favorite things in the world is listening to people who do drugs talk about doing drugs, but the way Wayne and Marc are talking about it is sorta fascinating.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
he knows a bit about one very limited strand of comedy
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Thursday, 3 May 2012 22:34 (eleven years ago) link
If Maron and Coyne were on a date during that episode, they'd wake up next to each other.
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Thursday, 3 May 2012 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
The worst WTFs have always been the ones with the most famous people.Chris Rock's was really good, and I really enjoyed the Gary Shandling one too. I'm sure there are others that have slipped my mind.
Steven Wright, Fred Willard, Paul Krassner, Judd Apatow, Margaret Cho were all good too.
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 3 May 2012 23:47 (eleven years ago) link
Damn, forgot the Bobcat one too!
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 3 May 2012 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
Ferguson's up soon, I think. Should be predictable, but pretty good.
― I serve at the pleasure of Dr. Dre and a team of Sorbonne scientists. (R Baez), Thursday, 3 May 2012 23:50 (eleven years ago) link
I was thinking mainly of Fallon, Kimmel, Dice Clay, Paul Reiser, Carrot Top.
― President Keyes, Friday, 4 May 2012 09:23 (eleven years ago) link
adding Bill Maher, Ray Romano
everyone he interviews is "famous" in some way, but there are a few who barely want to step down from their clouds
― President Keyes, Friday, 4 May 2012 10:06 (eleven years ago) link
xp I'm not really a fan of Paul Reiser (though I'm not a non-fan either). I liked his episode.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 May 2012 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
Carrot Top's episode really wasn't all that bad if you just consider the Carrot Top portion of it and not all the interjections of his dopey yes-man friend/partner.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 May 2012 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
i think if sandler would ever do it, it could be a really good ep in a # of ways. not that it's likely to happen..
― johnny crunch, Friday, 4 May 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
Sandler doesn't strike me as even the littlest bit introspective, and on the occasions he is he does so on his terms only.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 May 2012 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
Would love a Sandler interview
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 May 2012 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
I'm still holding out hope Chappelle will agree to do an episode (hopefully a two-parter).
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 May 2012 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
wonder if mark would ask sandler about meeting lorne michaels.
― mizzell, Friday, 4 May 2012 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
u_u
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 May 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
maybe someday he'll get that lorne interview
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Friday, 4 May 2012 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
He'll get the Albert Brooks interview first.
― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 4 May 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
WTF seems like one of the only things that would appeal to Chappelle at this point. He's sworn off film and tv, and his stand-up dates seem to get ruined by people either filming him with their phones or shouting "I'm Rick James, bitch!" I'd think Dave would love to just talk comedy in a one-on-one setting.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 4 May 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
I'm listening to the Bill Maher ep and... it is fine?
― Thoughts? You must have loads. (a hoy hoy), Friday, 4 May 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i thought the maher one was pretty good.
― mizzell, Friday, 4 May 2012 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
Rachael Harris's episode was really great. Also, I now want to see her Natural Selection movie, which I'd not even heard of before her interview.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
I generally can't stand Maher, I often find him too self-congratulatory and proud of his cleverness, but his WTF ep humanized him a little bit. He only grated on me when he was inflating how he was like Public Enemy #1 with 9/11 comments but, that aside, I liked his interview just fine.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Friday, 4 May 2012 00:37 (5 days ago)
listened to the Wayne one yesterday and lool, ^ tgkwu
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 01:47 (eleven years ago) link
tgkwu = "that guy knows what's up"?
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
"this" but yeah
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 22:34 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7946460/on-incredibly-popular-frustrating-addictive-wtf-marc-maron-podcast
― Mordy, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
Maron's Twitter exchange with Oswalt yesterday was pretty funny.
― H.P. Hovercraft and the Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I kind of enjoyed that exchange, particularly Oswalt's tweet about Jerry from Parks & Rec.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
I am interested but hate Twitter and can't figure out how to see both of their posts at the same time.
― booth traums (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 24 May 2012 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
twitter is horrible
― Hauntingly Unemployed American (President Keyes), Thursday, 24 May 2012 09:43 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/22/patton-oswalt-and-marc-maron-tweet-same-flight_n_1536263.html
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 24 May 2012 10:42 (eleven years ago) link
Killer Beas is one of my favorite recent interviews. His unguarde attitudes about the south and racism were kind of unexpected. And the ambulance/funeral home stuff was A+
― Hauntingly Unemployed American (President Keyes), Thursday, 24 May 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
Unguarded obv
that grantland article is pretty bad, even as a parody of WTF. also ignores that it's a great interview tactic to drop a vulnerable admission about yourself in order to get the interviewee to open up.
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Thursday, 24 May 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
I've been listening to the podcast too long; all I could think when I read it is 'oh man how much is it going to suck when Maron reads all this' because I could just see him underlining the phrases and criticisms and rewriting an angry email 20 times
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 May 2012 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
Tho the Lorne Michaels obsession thing is pretty indisputable. I think Maron gets too much of a rep as the purity comic, see all of those Oswalt tweets. He's more like the 40 something ex-punk rocker dudes I work with who are kind of wondering where to go now that their youthful integrity codes have been defaced or made irrelevant.
― Hauntingly Unemployed American (President Keyes), Thursday, 24 May 2012 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
he's mellowed SO much over the course of the podcast - if anything more should be made of how beneficial the podcast has been for him, more than anyone lol
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 May 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
Killer Beaz sort of surprised me by getting all Christiany toward the end...not preachy or anything, and I definitely understand why what happened in his life would steer him that direction...but that was an unusual turn on a Maron podcast. I love his whole vibe, though.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
I really loved the Danny McBride one - he's just such a likable guy. The stories about fighting the abusive boyfriend of his ex, and his fantasy spec script about The Draven (half-dragon, half-man) - so much funny shit in that one.
― She Got the Shakes, Thursday, 24 May 2012 22:34 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, McBride was really enjoyable. I think Maron's going to want to be his buddy. Shit, I kind of want to.
― booth traums (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 25 May 2012 06:03 (eleven years ago) link
Maron does seem to have gotten some real friendships out of the WTF project -- Scharpling for one -- which might be one of his motivators in doing it, and is a sort of deliberate reversal of the first half of his career.
― Three Word Username, Friday, 25 May 2012 06:15 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ maron's sympathetic southern drawl during that killer beaz interview
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Friday, 25 May 2012 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
http://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/photo/2012/0518/grant_g_marc-maron_mb_640.jpg&w=640&h=360
I like the photo atop the Grantland article, because I imagine the interviews looking more like that than upright across a kitchen table.
― Odd Spice (Eazy), Friday, 25 May 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
He's more like the 40 something ex-punk rocker dudes I work with who are kind of wondering where to go now that their youthful integrity codes have been defaced or made irrelevant.
― Odd Spice (Eazy), Friday, 25 May 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
i think i'm realizing that some of my problems with maron aren't problems with maron but with people i've known who aspire to have that kind of personality
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 25 May 2012 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
I searched the thread but I found no discussion of the episode with Jillian Lauren? Am I missing something? I usually find this podcast a little too professional bro talk for my taste, but she was amazing! What a smarty. She really knows how to tell a story.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 13:51 (eleven years ago) link
I remember that one being pretty good. I'm still catching up on this years and listened to the Mary Mack episode the other day. Her voice was cracking me up because I have relatives from far north Wisconsin and my female cousin sounds EXACTLY like her.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
Does he always sort of recap what the guest has said so far every 5 min or so, or was he just doing that because her story was so totally ott?
― game of crones (La Lechera), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
If the story seems to him particularly "out there" or unusual, he will...I think it's more for him than us, lol
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
Anyone listen to Bo Burnham yet? I find that guy's act painfully unfunny, so I was wondering if his interview is worth sitting through.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 14:11 (eleven years ago) link
yeah im not at all familiar w/ his 'comedy' but it's a p good convo
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 14:17 (eleven years ago) link
i actually liked the song at the end too (art is dead) but im prob not gonna be seeking out his act, etc
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 14:18 (eleven years ago) link
most of it was him winning maron over by being so hard on himself
― Hauntingly Unemployed American (President Keyes), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 14:54 (eleven years ago) link
I'm about halfway through it and I'm enjoying the conversation.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, I don't really follow Chelsea Handler at all, but I was shocked to see that she was only a year older than me. She has the wrecked voice of a 47 year-old that smokes constantly.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
i thought the chelsea handler convo was great! she basically turned the tables on him.
― goole, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
haha yeah i kinda had the same reaction (she's a year older than me, too). tbf i figured she was a 42 year old who takes pretty dece care of herself.
― it's smdh time in America (will), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
just the thought of her makes me IA, I couldn't take a whole interview
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
I'm only ten minutes into her interview and she sounds like an awful person so far. Her dismissive, "is this your main source of income" to Marc re: the podcast was pretty awful.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
ha come on she's fucking with him
― goole, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
Like I said, I'm just getting into it, but it doesn't read that way at all so far.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
very small doses with that one, for me. four minutes of her monologue once a week or so and i'm like ok igi.
haven't heard her WTF yet though
― it's smdh time in America (will), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
okay, I guess you can start to figure out her being mean to Marc is her "thing" when she says, "you do understand what sex is, right?". but she still sounds pretty awful to me.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
her thing is to be drunk
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
the rick shapiro interview was old school WTF. some stand up i've never heard of being semi-pissed at Maron and talking about a bodybuilder mouth-raping him.
― Hauntingly Unemployed American (President Keyes), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
nah she genuinely doesn't understand that it's free
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 00:09 (eleven years ago) link
I love the WTF episodes with truly big-time comedians (Russell Peters, Patton Oswalt, Handler) and Maron's combination of envy and judgment. The Handler one made for such an enjoyably tense interview because it was clear that she hadn't heard the podcast and didn't know how it worked.
― Odd Spice (Eazy), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 03:12 (eleven years ago) link
Did anyone here listen to that new Marc and Tom ep? I was wondering what maron said about his phone call with Jon stewart
― Hauntingly Unemployed American (President Keyes), Saturday, 9 June 2012 13:38 (eleven years ago) link
Stewart basically told Maron that Maron had really been a dick to Stewart back in the day & he'd rather not go on the show. But he's welcome to grab a coffee anytime.
ie you don't get to work this out on your show. talk to me in person, like a grownup & we'll see what happens.
can't blame him. maron has that "well if I'm sorry that makes it okay" thing that only goes so far.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 June 2012 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
...there was also the conclusion drawn that just because you are ready to apologize doesn't mean the other person is ready to forgive. Scharpling made noises of complete understanding and didn't mention PF Tompkins by name, but it was pretty clear that he knew what Maron was talking about.
― Three Word Username, Saturday, 9 June 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
I'm betting that maron never bothered to meet stewart
― Hauntingly Unemployed American (President Keyes), Saturday, 9 June 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
Donnell Rawlings ep is great so far.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
lol at donnell's dad's reasons for liking snoop dogg.
― mizzell, Friday, 15 June 2012 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
Is saying " one" a real thing, or is donnell playing a joke on white comedy nerds?
― President Keyes, Friday, 15 June 2012 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
something about this Jack White interview I really love, even though Maron is doing all the things I hate
I think I just really love hearing Jack so relaxed, laughing, just having a kind of easy conversation. It's not terribly hard hitting but I dig it
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 June 2012 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
didn't mention PF Tompkins by name, but it was pretty clear that he knew what Maron was talking about.
Wait, what's the story with this? I missed this whole thing.
― Walter Galt, Monday, 18 June 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
Loved the Donnell ep
― polyphonic, Monday, 18 June 2012 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
Scharpling and Tompkins apparently had a huge falling out over a project they were working on, Tompkins did online friendship breakup (Twitter blockage, unfriending etc.), Tompkins has been unreceptive to attempts to reconcile, neither of them mention the other anymore and do not speak of the other to mutual friends (Jen Kirkman and John Hodgman being the best known). It's not something either of them talks about publicly, and Scharpling gets mad when "fans" speculate about it.
― Three Word Username, Monday, 18 June 2012 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
It took him about 40 minutes before he got to "who are your guys?"
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 June 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
Really like this interview! I'm neither here nor there on Jack White-as-celebrity most days, but wtkiw him on a Monday afternoon at Third Man.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 June 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
totally revived my Jack White crush 100% :)
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 June 2012 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
kinda wanted him to go supernerdy on upholstery, lol
Thanks for the Scharpling/Tompkins explanation. I just Googled it and discovered - though this shouldn't be any kind of surprise, I realize - that comedy message boards are even more intense and depressing than regular messageboards.
― Walter Galt, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 09:18 (eleven years ago) link
jack white has a weirdly ulrich-esque accent at times
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
Even though was mostly surface stuff, I enjoyed the Brian Regan interview. Seems like a naturally funny dude who really genuinely likes what he does.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 June 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
halfway through Mark Duplass.
On the one hand I like him, he seems p cool...but there's something about him that's annoying me and I can't quite put my finger on it yet. Or I'm just in a grumpy Monday mood
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 June 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
I gave up on Duplass halfway through. Nice guy, but seemed like he and Marc were having the most boring conversation ever between two guys who have no real interest in talking to each other.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 25 June 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
nailed it
thank you
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 June 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
no problem, Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 25 June 2012 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
you remembered! <3
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 June 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
Of course I did, HOTS! PINK FLOYD RULES!
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 25 June 2012 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
RULESRULESRULESRULESRULES
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 June 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
don't really know anything about marc maron, but i heard him interviewed on NPR last friday (or maybe it was thursday, thereabouts). maybe a bad interview/day, but it was horrible. any MM fans hear it? is it a fair representation of his style?
― contenderizer, Monday, 25 June 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't even know he was on. Was it a Fresh Air joint?
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 June 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
i don't think so? i'm not a regular enough NPR listener to say for sure.
― contenderizer, Monday, 25 June 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
was fairly brief
oh god terry gross talking to marc maron sounds like the worst thing in the world. how much amateur psychology can the fm spectrum carry?
― goole, Monday, 25 June 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
Feel like I should try this again someday. With 886 posts, it can't be as bad as I remember it, right?
― how's life, Monday, 25 June 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
enh if you thought it used to be bad, you might be right to stay away.
sorta feels like it's just going thru the motions/running on inertia for a while now
― johnny crunch, Monday, 25 June 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
with occasional great episodes
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Monday, 25 June 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
I think I'll check back over this thread and see if there are any good eps. The two or three shows I tried to get through were so depressing though.
― how's life, Monday, 25 June 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
the best advice is honestly to cherrypick the ones that sound good/tolerable from this 900 post thread (if they're freely available, i dont even know). & if you h8 those, it's just not ur thing
lol xp
― johnny crunch, Monday, 25 June 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
i really liked the chelsea handler episode cos she basically turned the tables on him. was unsurprised to see the comments on that were really negative.
― goole, Monday, 25 June 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
A lot of people hate Chelsea Handler, but I've got no problem with her at all. And her episode was fun because neither of them knew why the other was there.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 25 June 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
Of the ones that are still free, my favorites are the Donnell Rawlings and the Molly Shannon episodes. Though there are a lot of good ones. Save the musician interviews for last though.
― President Keyes, Monday, 25 June 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
the Mark Duplass one seemed like a stop on his promotional tour for his new movie. I liked how he kept bringing it up though Maron wasn't bothering to ask about it. He was more interesting on Studio 360 a couple weeks ago.
― President Keyes, Monday, 25 June 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
the Jack White one is probably the best of his musician interviews, because it's the least facepalm-y
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 June 2012 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
Todd Hanson is the best one, hands down.
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 25 June 2012 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
yes and no - it's pretty full on and shouldn't be your first Maron.
don't go in without being prepared for maaaaajor sadness. that one seriously broke me. I liked it, I got a lot out of it. but it's a LOT
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 June 2012 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
That one is good, but it's no longer in the last 50 on itunes, and I doubt someone on the fence about Maron wants to shell out for the app. (I suppose there's illegal ways to get it free, but I've never pirated a podcast.)
― President Keyes, Monday, 25 June 2012 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
i didn't mind the duplass one, mostly because maron is a lot better at talking about film than he is about music.
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
I listened to the Donnell Rawlings episode and liked it pretty well. He almost derailed it for me in the beginning with all his "by the way I'm a FORMER DRUG ADDICT" stuff.
― the dave cool channel you are supposed to watch (how's life), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mnOgjJwO14
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
Weird Al: Really nice and sweet ep.
― Smothered, Covered and Chunked!!! (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
My favorite 2012 eps have beenRussell BrandSteven WrightRalphie MayPaul FeigBill LawrenceWeird AlBob ZmudaCraig FergusonLive: Neal Brennan/Mr Show reunionJack White
really hope Maron either re-gets Brennan back in to do a new interview, or Brennan lets him air the original. Those two have some pretty good, weird chemistry. Or seemed to on the live ep.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
i like all of those on VG's list that i've heard, steven wright esp. i'd def add jeffrey tambor who really cut the hell out of him thru the whole thing.
― pvmic bellvm (goole), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
oh yeah I forgot about Tambor, he was fun
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
"you're cool school"
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
WTF indeed...Fiona Apple on Monday?
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 14 July 2012 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
shut up
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 14 July 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxg1UOBqREU
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 14 July 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
wow
― President Keyes, Saturday, 14 July 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
Good week! According to Maron's twitter, John Oliver is on Thursday.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 July 2012 01:10 (eleven years ago) link
awesome
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 15 July 2012 02:27 (eleven years ago) link
Fiona Apple is like a cross between a 5 year old and a...well I'm not quite sure yet what the other part is.
She doesn't even have to really elaborate on what her deeper issues are because you can feel them on the surface, in the tone of her voice and the way she talks...she's a really strange girl.
Endearing somehow, though. Maybe because I already like her music so I'm more inclined to hear her out. But man alive I dunno if I've encountered anyone who's THAT non-linear in just general conversation.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 16 July 2012 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
Just cued it up
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 16 July 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
Last 20 to 30 minutes gets pretty real
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 16 July 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
I think anything would seem real compared to small talk about juicers.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 16 July 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
colonics too weee O_o
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 16 July 2012 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
She's a peculiar girl, no doubt about it.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 16 July 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
Odd episode, but also maybe one of my favorites? I dunno. Plenty to think about.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 16 July 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
It was really interesting to me that she could be so discombobulate and then occasionally she could just take a quiet moment, gather her thought s and totally drive a point home so concisely.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 16 July 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
*discombobulated
What did everyone think of the one before this new one...some woman named Benincasa?
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 16 July 2012 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
I haven't listened to her yet -- sounded like an interesting premise though
is it good?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 16 July 2012 23:49 (eleven years ago) link
she wasn't anything special, but i enjoy all but a very few of the WTF podcasts....the first few minutes of their convo is very "get a room you two"
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 16 July 2012 23:57 (eleven years ago) link
jb smoove's hour long monologue was pretty great
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
New John Oliver interview is v enjoyable. Though I wanted to climb through my headphones and push Maron out of the way when Oliver casually says he befriended Richard Ayoade in his first year of Cambridge. "Okay that it I'm taking over this interview, Maron, I love you but you are BUFFOON"
lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 July 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
Can we come up witt a comprehensive list of Maron's ye olde classics for various subjects
England: Stewart Lee changed my lifeSNL: Did you meet Lorne Michaels
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 July 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
Daily Show: Please for the love of god tell me a bad story about John Stewart so I can feel better for being a dick to him all those years
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 July 2012 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
What was his response to Oliver re Ayoade?
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Thursday, 19 July 2012 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
Black Comics: Please tell everyone I'm right about Black Clubs
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Thursday, 19 July 2012 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
it went by and Maron waited a few beats & said "should i know who he is" and Oliver said IT Crowd/submarine...it was just kinda shrugged off :(
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 July 2012 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
Eating disorders: I eat stuff occasionally and then feel bad.
― Yeah and I ~obstruction~ you/ya fucking blind cunt (pause) fucking k (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 19 July 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
Music: i have shitty taste in music and don't know anything about creating music
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 19 July 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
Other people's parents: Mine messed me up because my Dad also has 'issues'.
― Yeah and I ~obstruction~ you/ya fucking blind cunt (pause) fucking k (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 19 July 2012 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
religion: i wasnt taught how to 'use' it
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 19 July 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
Sports: *blank stare*
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 19 July 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
Books: I own a bunch of them I'll never read. It makes me feel bad. I know this one fiction writer and talk about him alot.
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Thursday, 19 July 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
Politics: I hate republicans, but details bore me. Sam Seder is a dick.
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Thursday, 19 July 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
The Blues: who are your guys?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 July 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
well at least Maron mentioned the Bugle. I remember when Oliver was on the Nerdist and he brought up the Bugle the nerds had seemingly never heard of it.
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Thursday, 19 July 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
revoke their nerd membership, imho
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 19 July 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
I love how Oliver gamely attempts to steer off the Lorne thing, "I've not met Lorne, so...".
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 20 July 2012 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
Marc Maron, Comedian and Host of 'WTF,' on Interviewing Musicians
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 21 July 2012 02:02 (eleven years ago) link
Interesting note towards the end about a particular interview he may be lining up in the near future.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 21 July 2012 02:21 (eleven years ago) link
!!! :D
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 21 July 2012 02:52 (eleven years ago) link
that interview would probably feature the most interesting answer to "Who are your guys?"
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Saturday, 21 July 2012 10:50 (eleven years ago) link
o_0 at Maron's disbelief at Oliver's disinterest in the Jubilee
― ¥╡*ٍ*╞¥ (sic), Monday, 23 July 2012 05:34 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that was pretty annoying
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 July 2012 05:45 (eleven years ago) link
well Maron likes to stereotype people based on what city or country or ethnicity or religion they come from. witness all the talk about "hill people" on today's show. it's like he flies to these places, walks around for five minutes, decides everyone there is an anti-semite, tells his audience that night a bunch of half-formed impressions of their city.
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Monday, 23 July 2012 13:56 (eleven years ago) link
he really does! when he was talking to jillian lauren, it was like he couldn't figure out who she was until she said "i'm a fucked up jewish girl from the suburbs" and he was like "ooooooh, now i get it." because she had finally conformed to a stereotype he was familiar with. It was funny, but probably not how he intended.
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Monday, 23 July 2012 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
basically if someone is not from california or the northeast, his first question is "who lives there? it's not a real place, right?"
― mizzell, Monday, 23 July 2012 14:17 (eleven years ago) link
for a guy who acts like such a knowitall, it's p ignorant
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Monday, 23 July 2012 14:23 (eleven years ago) link
or at least pathologically self-centered
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Monday, 23 July 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
he's actually a p great example of why it's important for people to travel when they're younger
― sean gramophone, Monday, 23 July 2012 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
He's never been much of a road comic iirc, instead inhabiting whatever city he's lived in at the time (Boston, LA, NYC, SF). I mean, he tours a little bit, but he's not one of those road warrior comics.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 23 July 2012 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
And his international travel seems to have been limited to one trip to italy when he was young, then China ("Disorienting! They eat crazy shit!") UK/Edinburgh ("Terrible! They don't get me!") and Australia ("Pretty fun but too far from home"), when he was a 40something comic.
Seriously, it's a lesson in why smart people need to go to unfamiliar places when they're still young, to teach them something about caricature and perspective.
― sean gramophone, Monday, 23 July 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
The way he hammered on about Hill People with Scovel was just stupid and embarrassing. Like, I know he plays it up to show what an ignoramus he is, but no one else gets a kick out of it but him! It normally doesn't annoy me AS much, but this time it really did.
fuckin hill people, of all things. cmon.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 July 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
I'm just glad I'm not alone in noticing/being o_0 at this particularity in his interviewing style. Honestly can't even imagine what he made of Fiona Apple. Did she eat him for breakfast?
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Monday, 23 July 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
actually he was pretty good, and sympathetic to Fiona Apple.
that's the thing, Maron's not always 'Maron' with every subject. He has the capacity to be very senstive and insightful given the right subject matter. I think because of his bipolar dad he's pretty good with mental health, and knowing that Apple had that stage breakdown I think prepared him to handle her pretty carefully.
she didn't have to eat him for breakfast. she eventually came roaring to life towards the end and was pretty fascinating overall. it's worth a listen.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 July 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
alright -- will do. i like her/find her more interesting as a person more than i like her music, i think, but i haven't listened to the new one. the others were not really to my liking that much.
also it should be known that i use the wtf podcast specifically to put me to sleep, esp when he won't stop talking about all those guys, guys this guys that blablabla. fast acting, and effective nonnarcotic insomnia treatment.
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Monday, 23 July 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
Honestly can't even imagine what he made of Fiona Apple. Did she eat him for breakfast?
nah she talks about how she's related to actual hill-people (or was that the sara benincasa one? i think it was fiona).
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Monday, 23 July 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
No, it was Fiona.
― Trewster Dare (jaymc), Monday, 23 July 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melungeon
yeah that was supercool
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 July 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
if you don't like his hillpeople talk, i'd stay the fuck away from the mary mack one. it was so embarrassing at times.
― Yeah and I ~obstruction~ you/ya fucking blind cunt (pause) fucking k (a hoy hoy), Monday, 23 July 2012 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
My grandmother's maiden names were Collins and Powell, neither ever discussed their childhoods or relations (Mrs. Powell actively lying about hers), genealogical research has been weird and difficult but in both cases there are clues leading to specific counties discussed in that Wikipedia article. Hmmmm.....
― Three Word Username, Monday, 23 July 2012 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
from this I was expecting Kitson not to come up at all, so it was a pleasant surprise that he did. really wish Maron had seen 66a instead of Interminable Suicide, if he'd had to see a story show - obviously it would be most preferable to actually catch Kitson stand-up
― ¥╡*ٍ*╞¥ (sic), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 02:59 (eleven years ago) link
who are your guys?
― gygax! II: pornograffitti (admrl), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
I thought of this post today when listening to "Comedy Film Nerds" doing an extended riff on 'who the fuck is this Richard Ayoade guy?'
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 22:50 (eleven years ago) link
oh no
;_;
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
Ayoade was on Nerdist - which I'd hoped would be awesome but it's being dragged down awfully by the AMERICANS do it THIS way and the ENGLISH do it THIS way zzzzzz
but dude is so quick and so delightfully dry, he could read the phone book and I'd love it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
also it should be known that i use the wtf podcast specifically to put me to sleep,
this seems crazy, I couldn't bear to have the sound of Maron's voice blaring away by my bedside as I settle down for the night. I use In Our Time for this purpose, it is delightfully soporific.
― gygax! II: pornograffitti (admrl), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
i'd use 99% Invisible
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
A friend came to visit from London, I said, Marc Maron lives down the street, we see him all the time. Friend and I went for huaraches on our first day out, as we are sitting outside, I catch Marc getting out of a car across the street and walking towards us. I cough at my friend "ARK ARON!!!", give it the eyes, which I'm sure was obvious, but I wanted to give my friend his official LA celebrity sighting. Maron walks past us into the restaurant with a young woman (not his girlfriend) and he is saying to her "so, do you want to get into comedy writing or not?". It was very Marc.
― gygax! II: pornograffitti (admrl), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 23:08 (eleven years ago) link
still on Oliver: loved the dynamic between him and Maron, it was reminiscent of when Scharpling first appeared on that live ep. either Maron should try and get him on again, or maybe more WTFs should be done at 7.30AM before he has time to neuroticise about anything
― ¥╡*ٍ*╞¥ (sic), Thursday, 26 July 2012 01:42 (eleven years ago) link
It sounds like Maron and Scharpling have plans to do more together, but going by the success of their last paid podcast, I don't think we'll be getting any more free material involving the two.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 26 July 2012 01:45 (eleven years ago) link
Maron on Jay Mohr's podcast was fun.
― Steam Sale Jonesin' (kingfish), Thursday, 26 July 2012 01:51 (eleven years ago) link
I meant get Oliver on again!
I refused to buy Marc And Tom ep 2 because iTunes charged almost double for it in Australia >:(
― ¥╡*ٍ*╞¥ (sic), Thursday, 26 July 2012 02:03 (eleven years ago) link
the most recent one from nashville, in front of an audience, was the unfunniest thing i've ever heard. it was painful.
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 26 July 2012 02:18 (eleven years ago) link
Ugh, yeah, that was the worst live one yet. And I was really looking forward to Retta. Her story about Nick Offerman and "vagina" was the only laugh I got out of the whole thing.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 26 July 2012 02:20 (eleven years ago) link
i listen 2 almost every ep but i stopped listening 2 the live ones a while ago
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 26 July 2012 02:23 (eleven years ago) link
how that this is on real radio i can hear it sometime.
Ben Stiller said he was "just hanging out" at the Improv around 1990, but I think he means the successful LA one rather than the sinking NY flagship I was appearing at.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 July 2012 01:15 (eleven years ago) link
do you not have a computer, then?
The ten "best-of" radio episodes were done 14 months ago btw
― ¥╡*ٍ*╞¥ (sic), Sunday, 29 July 2012 01:17 (eleven years ago) link
I am gen too lazy to listen to podcasts (have no mobile devices either). Also, my fave baseball one simply stopped downloading for me in April.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 July 2012 01:52 (eleven years ago) link
Morbs follows fascist baseball?
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Sunday, 29 July 2012 02:15 (eleven years ago) link
please die all sports
Mary McGrory and George Carlin have correctly ID'd US football as technocratic militarism, you dip.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 July 2012 02:18 (eleven years ago) link
degrees of evil
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Sunday, 29 July 2012 02:22 (eleven years ago) link
you rlly are President Keyes
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 July 2012 02:25 (eleven years ago) link
i am
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Sunday, 29 July 2012 02:28 (eleven years ago) link
Those radio-ified episodes are playing on WNYC now.
Misses a lot of good stuff, though, you can listen to the full ones on iTunes or on his website, no mobile thing required.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Sunday, 29 July 2012 05:06 (eleven years ago) link
so my friend made marc maron a peach pie and gave it to him onstage at his just for laughs WTF and apparently he talks about it the whole time, i cant wait to hear this ep!
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Monday, 30 July 2012 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
Was hoping this self-analysis episode would be good, but it's really just Marc and other guys going around in circles about podcast culture. Meh.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 30 July 2012 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
more playing catch up:
kevin hart, chris elliott and merchant sound like good dudes. i don't remember a thing about any of them, they are all dudes who have had p simple and successful careers, bar a usual set-back here and there.
― "deep beyond Wang" (a hoy hoy), Monday, 30 July 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
got a few wtf bingo card scores too, with the black room differences w/ hart and 'hey what about stewart lee' w/ merchant
― "deep beyond Wang" (a hoy hoy), Monday, 30 July 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
listening to that 100th episode reminded me about maron's problem with asians
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Monday, 30 July 2012 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
Download Chris Elliott's movie "Cabin Boy"....so funny.
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 30 July 2012 23:41 (eleven years ago) link
With the 300th episode, I suggest just skipping to Andy Kindler.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 06:16 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that guy from the onion was painful to listen to...
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 13:48 (eleven years ago) link
I recommend skipping the 300th episode. I knew it would be a clap himself on the back kind of thing, but it was dull.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 13:49 (eleven years ago) link
this is so crazy
http://www.third-beat.com/2012/07/31/just-for-laughs-marc-maron-just-peachy/
― joaquin haus-partizan (s1ocki), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
i really don't like glen wool but i have respect for his faith no more t-shirt
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
can someone explain to me why the Stewart Lee is rated so highly by Maron? I'm like 10 minutes from the end and it's mostly shoptalk (I've never seen Stewart Lee's act btw, is he any good?)
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 4 August 2012 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
i adore stewart lee
the bob golub ep is great
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Saturday, 4 August 2012 23:36 (eleven years ago) link
Lee is great, has a very unique delivery & pacing...youtube him, you won't be disappointed.
Maron made him "his guy" because of what he says about his change in philosophy when he quit & came back, the way he became empathetic to people who hated his comedy. Maron got a huge kick out of hearing that.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 August 2012 23:39 (eleven years ago) link
OK thanks, set the controls, I'll def check him out!
― Iago Galdston, Sunday, 5 August 2012 00:13 (eleven years ago) link
This made me adore Stewart Lee:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk_l1pKTUZg
― Sun? Sun? It's your cousin, Marvin Ra (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 5 August 2012 01:19 (eleven years ago) link
Also he is just a very easy example of something Maron just doesn't know anything about, in this case British comedy.
― a hoy hoy, Sunday, 5 August 2012 02:57 (eleven years ago) link
Maron has been doing a live show at the Steve Allen theater for a couple weeks in a row and I caught the last one tonight. I believe these shows were all to road test new material but his live act now - especially seeing it live - reminds me a lot of Jean Shepherd's style in how he changes his voice, references earlier bits of the show when you aren't expecting it, etc. Maybe Shepherd + Bogosian.
Jesus though, he can call up a stream of derisive contempt like a jet afterburner.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 09:30 (eleven years ago) link
The Tony Millionaire interview was fantastic. I loved hearing him talk about Berlin in the 80s
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 12:01 (eleven years ago) link
Tenacious D interview was surprisingly great. I mean, I love those 2 anyway but they were cool
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 August 2012 17:15 (eleven years ago) link
I loved when they were like, "name one song, Marc! one song! We'll play your favorite!"
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 24 August 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
I liked that KG was open about struggling with being the 'other guy'
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 August 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
Definitely humanized Jack too. Good all around.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 24 August 2012 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
that James Adominan interview was pretty disappointing. He's one of the funniest people to appear on the show yet, but Maron seemed disinterested until nearly the end.
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
I listened to it, but it's the first WTF ep I've listened to in a few weeks. I had to take a short break from Maron, but I thought it was an okay episode to come back to. I really don't know Adominan all that well, so every part of the interview was new information for me.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
I fell off the WTF wagon for about a year and I'm in the process of catching up chronologically. Since I just listened to it, I wanted to mention that Steve Almond was pretty clearly someone who solicited Marc for an interview and who I started to actively dislike pretty quickly but that the discussion eventually turned around and became surprisingly interesting and involving. Just for those of you who (understandably) wrote that episode off without listening to the whole thing.
― Old Lunch, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
Adomian.
― itt: i forgot that he yells at a butt (sic), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
i cant see the adomian one in my itunes but i want to listen to it cuz i saw him a couple times at just for laughs and he was amazing.
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
Angelenos, there are still tickets for Todd Barry + Maron + Maria Bamford tomorrow night
― Aceveda (admrl), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
Oh fuck, Andrew WK is Monday's guest!
"So, uh, who are your guys?"
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 8 September 2012 14:54 (eleven years ago) link
Were you a jock or a nerd in school?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 September 2012 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
This Andrew W.K. episode is bad. And not good bad, but buncha shit bad.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 10 September 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
ugh i tried to listen to an episode of this for the first time in a long time last week and immediately got pissed at maron again. it was the andy daly episode and he was doing the same thing of trying to force someone into a box (in this case, being a nerd) that they didn't really belong in and continually hammering at it despite the interviewee's protestations.
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 10 September 2012 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
I haven't started it yet, but the youtube teaser where they talk about "Bridge Over Troubled Water" had me nodding my head.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 10 September 2012 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
There are moments, and Andrew does his best, but Marc and musicians don't really mix.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 10 September 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
OTM but the musician things seem more and more frequent now. I do have to kinda lol at Maron's timing with his recordings and how he always just seems to miss big events to talk about. Like interviewing Russell Brand just before the divorce and Aaron Freeman just before the whole Ween breaking up thing.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 10 September 2012 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
And Stanhope before his Louie episode!
― schwantz, Monday, 10 September 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
The Andy Daly interview was not great - I felt bad for Daly in that one
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 10 September 2012 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
Maron needs to get over his hangups about nerds.
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Monday, 10 September 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
I thought the WK interview was pretty interesting--especially when he talking about the weird pranks he would pull
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Monday, 10 September 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
thought the Carrie Brownstein ep was terrible - hearing him talk about "lesbian punk" bands and bringing up the sexuality of S-K members in 2012 was pretty o_0
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 10 September 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
Would really like to hear the story from the viewpoint of the other Soul Coughing dudes, Doughty comes across as a huge douche and intensely unlikable dude.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 13 September 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
he should have amanda palmer on
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 13 September 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 13 September 2012 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
Cosign on this. Worth seeking out.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 13 September 2012 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
pretty interesting one with that WFMU blogger today
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Thursday, 13 September 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
He probably already interviewed her, just before all of the brouhaha, as he has the worst timing ever.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 13 September 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
googles amanda palmer brouhaha
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 13 September 2012 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
amanda palmer's open letter to robert smith
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 13 September 2012 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
(title is misleading, as that's an old topic)
I found something about Steve Albini dissing her. Is she darkwave or something?
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Thursday, 13 September 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
Nah, the short of it: she made gobs of money via kickstarter for her most recent album ($1.2M) and now she's going on tour, but she'd rather recruit talented fans at each stop to comprise her band rather than pay professionals to tour with her. Also, there's quite a bit of discrepancy about how all the money she DID make via donations was actually spent.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 13 September 2012 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
is she pompla or moose
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 13 September 2012 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
also who were her guys
pretty interesting one with that WFMU blogger today.
oh man is this listener Kliph? that should be great if so
― ┐(´ー`)┌ (sic), Friday, 14 September 2012 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
It is, and it's awesome.
― Three Word Username, Friday, 14 September 2012 07:42 (eleven years ago) link
Jim Rash on Thursday!
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 17 September 2012 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
what are the odds Maron asks him about the new showrunners?
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Monday, 17 September 2012 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
lol he probably did the interview before Harmon was fired.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 17 September 2012 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
Key & Peele were really funny. I've only watched that show once, but maybe I'll make a habit of it.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 17 September 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
I just finished that episode. I'd never heard of them. Will totally check their show out now.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 17 September 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
I never wanted to watch the show, the trailers looked awful. Were they really that good?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 17 September 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, definitely.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 17 September 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
I've been listening to some of the free podcasts recommended above, and I'm coming around on this guy. He can be a great interviewer and I'm finding a smaller percentage of these to be depressing the more I listen.
This guy seems to say "POW! I just shit my pants..." a lot. Is there an origin story to that?
― stURGEON & musKEY (how's life), Thursday, 20 September 2012 13:19 (eleven years ago) link
he only says it when he's plugging Just Coffee dot co-op
the origin is that caffeine can stimulate the bowels
he is joking that the coffee is so good that as soon as he sips it he shits his pants
it is an advertising slogan
they sponsor the show (and have since pre-podcast) so he says it a lot
― ┐(´ー`)┌ (sic), Thursday, 20 September 2012 13:34 (eleven years ago) link
hope this helps
Based on what Rash said about the 4th season I think you're right
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Thursday, 20 September 2012 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
sic plagiarized that answer from Parade magazine celebrity questions.
― canonical casual cordouroy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 September 2012 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
There was a good article in the Madison alt-weekly about the owner of Just Coffee and his ambivalent feelings about the fact that 99% of people who know the name of his brand associate it with involuntary explosive defecation.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 20 September 2012 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
nbd, really. I wasn't planning on sharing this podcast with anyone I love anyway.
― stURGEON & musKEY (how's life), Thursday, 20 September 2012 14:34 (eleven years ago) link
I haven't listened yet, and was actually making a joke related to Maron's unlucky interview timing, but I can't believe it happened again! Maron interviews someone, something big involving that someone happens, Maron releases the interview after that something big happens without being able to address that issue. Poor guy.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 20 September 2012 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
ha, i missed that.
(i live a block away from just coffee and smell it roasting all the time)
(which makes me shit my pants)
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Thursday, 20 September 2012 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
It's a little hard to tell, but a couple of times Rash talks about season 3 as though it's still airing, and then talks about how Harmon does his Joseph Campbell narrative arcs over whole seasons, and how he can't wait to see where he goes with it in Season 4. But then Maron starts grousing about network bean-counters--but that could mean the interview was recorded when Community's future was in doubt. No mention of Harmon's firing at all. But is it possible Maron has had this interview in the can since May or earlier?
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Thursday, 20 September 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
But is it possible Maron has had this interview in the can since May or earlier?
Yeah. He'll sit on interviews sometimes so they'll coincide with something (like the start of the tv season). Although, since Community isn't coming back until October, I'm not sure why he'd put the Rash one up now. I guess he just has so many in the pipeline that its time had come.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 20 September 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
There was a good article in the Madison alt-weekly about the owner of Just Coffee
Here it is: http://www.thedailypage.com/eats/article.php?article=37652
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 20 September 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
Just listened to and loved the JB Smoove interview.
He's one of the best so far as dealing with the mandatory Maron moments: 1) "What does your brother do?" "He's just a working man." (as in: he doesn't identify himself by his job)2) "How did you get the SNL gig?" "It just happened."
― canonical casual cordouroy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 September 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
JB Smoove won that show by never stopping to breathe. Marc could hardly make it about himself.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 20 September 2012 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
I loved all the whining in the K&P interview about all the libs on Maron's back for asking Indian food.
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Thursday, 20 September 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
that was some Amanda Palmer level strawmanning
I want to be friends with Jim Rash irl. Very sad that I'm not.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 20 September 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
Okay, yeah, I've never really watched Key and Peele's show, but this episode is great. Particularly love the fantasy Hollywood game, I want to play!
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 24 September 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
This made me nod knowingly:
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mawtzkJJqG1qes700o1_500.jpg
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
Forgot "who were your guys? Kermit?"
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
"what was it like working for Henson? What did he say to you at the audition? Did I ever tell you about that one time I met him? And how awkward it was?"
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
"Liberals get mad at me when I talk about 'Bear clubs.'"
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:28 (eleven years ago) link
kerri kenney was good, i had no idea about her rock band
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
Really? Those Cake Like albums are great.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
I'm a little ways into Key and Peele -- thanks for the heads up guys, you're right this one's pretty great!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
I liked that she was kind of disgusted at his research habits
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
oh i might have to check out the kerri kenney episode, i love her. yeah, cake like was kind of an up-and-coming band that never really came up.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
so who from the state has he still not interviewed?
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
I was cringing at Maron throughout the Kerri Kenney episode.
― how's life, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
All the like "how many of them did you sleep with?", "oh, so you were playing with your boyfriends' instruments and now none of you play music anymore?" patronizing misogynistic bullshit.
― how's life, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
ugh ok maybe i won't listen
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
That's the impression I got anyway. It was an awkward interview regardless. He wasn't asking great questions.
― how's life, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
Poorly researched, as noted above.
― how's life, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that shit was kinda dumb but it's easy to tune out (for me anyways)
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
that's an essential part of the wtf experience though
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
"here's some shit I found on Google about you while I was waiting in the garage"
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
This episode hit the trifecta in terms of (a) Maron not having the facts (about music, no less); (b) Maron airing past grievances/insecurities wrt several members of the State; and (c) Lorne Michaels.
― von kelson, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
I actually found that Smoove's domination of the conversation uncomfortable and turned it off after 15 minutes.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
Maron always talks about how the State was the biggest thing on MTV. I don't remember it being that popular of a show (and the members don't seem to remember it that way either.)
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
in his world of comedians maybe
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
It's worth going back to, Jaymc--it somehow gets more personal and direct and less "on" after another 15 minutes or so.
― canonical casual cordouroy (Eazy), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
Good to know.
And yeah, I've found that characterization of The State odd as well, but I think it's partially his way of justifying the success of performers he's never particularly liked. I.e., they're only popular b/c they were able to hook a generation of teenagers onto them.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
I was a high school stoner named Doug while the State was on TV. People I didn't even know, like jocks and shit, from would come up to me and say "I'm outta....heeeeeeeeere." I don't know if it was more popular than the Grind. Probably not as popular as Real World, Beavis and Butthead ... fuck, what else was on back then?
― how's life, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
Daria
― canonical casual cordouroy (Eazy), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
Last season of the State overlaps with the first season of Singled Out.
― how's life, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
Daria started in 1996.
Huh, I was in high school when The State aired, and I was mostly unaware of it. I mean, my family didn't have cable, but judging by what my classmates talked about, The Real World and Beavis and Butt-Head both had a bigger cultural presence. My introduction to the show was through a warped VHS tape that got passed around my college improv group circa 1999.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
This fuckin' guy. Listening to the Jim Rash one. "I don't wanna stereotype Southerners.. I don't want to assume anything about people from the South... Breaking your jaw falling down drunk? That's something a Southerner would do... The hill people? Yeah."
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
every time he talks about hill people it sounds really paranoid and the guests get uncomfortable.
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
Seriously its like in 2012 Marc is still basing everything he knows about Southerners on hearing someone describe Deliverance to him.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
oh god I had to pause it there, I wanted to yell at him
luckily Rash was cool and made it funny but gaaaahhhh of all the things he does that might be the one that annoys me the most. And it's totally for his own amusement, no-one elses, but it's just so DUMB and embarrassing
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe I was just a bit late for The State, but I don't remember hearing about it until the early '00s
120 Minutes, Daria, Beavis & Butthead, The Maxx, Real World were what people I knew watched/talked about
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
Anything that was strictly comedy on MTV was always a bit niche, but most of their comedy stuff featured established Boston/NY comedy guys. The State stuck out because it was entirely these kids who just graduated from college.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
Friends and I would make sure to be in front of the tv when The State came on each week, so I remember it being popular in its original run. It was no B&B or Real World, but it had an audience.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
I definitely knew people who watched the State but they were just like "It's MTV's Kids in the Hall." Maron seems to think it had a huge impact on the next generation of alt-comics.
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
has he interviewed any of the kids in the hall? he talked to foley, right? i bet KITH were more influential than the state.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
I'm holding out hope he interviews Scott Thompson some day.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
i'd love mckinney or mccullough but i'd listen to any of them. though i guess he'd probably just fixate on their snl experiences.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
foley was so great
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
"Tell me about Lorne... what was THAT like?"
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
man i would love a bruce mccullough one, or any of them really.
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
OTM, bruce all the way
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
The Lorne obsession is so annoying. It's like listening to some indie rocker grouse about how he never made it onto American Idol.
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 00:28 (eleven years ago) link
Apparently, there is something worse than Marc talking to musicians; it's Marc talking to alternative artists. This Coop interview is pretty horrible, despite Coop's patience and willingness to engage and talk Marc through his obliviousness.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man, I was like "why the hell is he interviewing COOP?"
― how's life, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
Coop is great on this - you just have to ignore Marc more than usual. He is completely unable to let Coop finish a story without interrupting him.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
So is Marc getting actively more annoying? Or is what I'm experience now just a general part of the cycle of WTF fandom, learning to deal with Marc's faults?
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
the cycle of WTF fandom
I think this is spot on. Sometimes he drives me up the wall, so I have to take a break for a few episodes and come back fresh.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
I think as he has expanded past his general comfort zone--interviewing stand-up comics--his lack of exhaustive knowledge makes his questioning style hard to take. First he started interviewing sketch and improv people, who he holds in a bit of contempt, and the talk all had to be about, "Oh, you're not really the careerist I thought you were." Then it was the musicians, who he always had to find common ground with, hence the "who are your guys?" thing. Now he's interviewing comics guys and artists, but it's very much from this "I was up on this shit back in the 80s" place, which feels very annoying.
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I think that when he goes outside his knowledge base -- like with comedians, even ones he doesn't know, he at least has an understanding of the mechanics of what they do. So the research on where they grew up etc doesn't matter as much to him because he's going to be able to converse with them when it comes down to what they *do*.Not that he always did it successfully, of course.
But Keyes is otm - with musicians and artists he's got nothing but enthusiasm and it ends up being an unfortunate real life parody of Farley's fanboy Paul McCartney interview on SNL. There's nothing to ground him in the conversation; and in order to have that conversation he either needs to let them do most of the talking, or do some homework.
He won't though. So he'll either get better at it or we'll just be perpetually kind of annoyed, lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
fyi the Loren Bouchard episode is really good (Bob's Burgers creator)
Gilbert Gottfried today, shd be interesting (I hope)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 1 October 2012 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
i haven't heard of the last few weeks' guests--i am so much less interested when he strays from comics of his generation or older. i actually just listen to his intros now. i am sorry that his cat Boomer has been missing for the last few days!
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 1 October 2012 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
Now he's interviewing comics guys and artists,
fsvo of "now" including less than six months after he started!
(Bagge was in January 2010)
― ┐(´ー`)┌ (sic), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 00:02 (eleven years ago) link
Was he better at it back then?
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 00:38 (eleven years ago) link
nah it's always been "I was up on this shit back in the 80s" (except early '90s is his jam rly, Eightball/Hate/the first few years of Hellblazer in one go. Millionaire is obv an exception but he just let him roll on the TCJ interview stories mainly)
― ┐(´ー`)┌ (sic), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 01:27 (eleven years ago) link
wow. that moment where Maron asked Gilbert Gottfried "Whatever happened to Charles Rocket?" and then talked over him distractedly as GG tried to tell him about Rocket killing himself pretty much sums up what I hate about Maron's interviewing style.
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 11:22 (eleven years ago) link
also lol at Maron not knowing what 50 Shades of Grey was. But the interview was probably recorded a year ago so...
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 13:17 (eleven years ago) link
Tbh the idea of Maron knowing about 50 Shades of Grey isn't something I want to contemplate.
― controversial cabaret roommate (Nicole), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 13:38 (eleven years ago) link
yeah better for all of us if he just doesn't talk about it ever
his Adam and Eve spots are cringeworthy enough
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, that's what I was thinking of when I posted that.
― controversial cabaret roommate (Nicole), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
Catching up on older episodes tonight - holy crap that Bob Golub one is great
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 15 October 2012 05:49 (eleven years ago) link
The Dave Alvin one was pretty painful because the only common ground they had was running into each other in Hollywood like 25 years ago.
― Everything You Like Sucks, Monday, 15 October 2012 08:39 (eleven years ago) link
I enjoyed Dave Alvin telling stories. He should have his own podcast.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 15 October 2012 11:49 (eleven years ago) link
omg tom kenny today
:D:D:D
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 15 October 2012 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
This Jimmy Walker episode is so funny.
― Bout to go Jethro TULL on that ass (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 25 October 2012 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
Jimmy Walker just steamrolls over him. Jimmy still one entertaining dude.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 25 October 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
I was pissed when Maron cut him off at the end
― Binders Full of Mittens (President Keyes), Thursday, 25 October 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
Oh shit, yeah...I just got to the end and Maron basically shut a door in his face.
― Bout to go Jethro TULL on that ass (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 25 October 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
ok i will listen to the heidecker episode. also curious about pauly shore ep.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 2 November 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
The Chad Daniels one was really good. I'd never heard/heard of that guy before, but he was a great guest.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 November 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
I liked the Jimmy Walker one quite a bit. Lots of great stories.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Friday, 2 November 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
Pauly Shore interview is good so far, but it sounds more like two guys in line for movie tickets catching up after not having seen each other for about five years.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 November 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah the Pauly Shore interview wasn't bad! Kinda wish that Maron hadn't kept circling back to his 'Comedy Store is haunted, dark weird place haha' hobbyhorse. It was cool hearing about the comics who went through there, the stuff about Mitzi getting Maron to wear a scarf and the guy to wear a yellow suit was p funny
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 November 2012 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
I saw The Comedy recently, so I listened to the Heidecker interview hoping to hear a discussion on the film. Oh well. I did get to learn a lot about the bands Heidecker was in as a youth, though :/
― DavidM, Sunday, 4 November 2012 09:05 (eleven years ago) link
It's true, he took upwards of 15 seconds to embarrassedly name some and say that two of them weren't serious
― sug night (sic), Sunday, 4 November 2012 21:22 (eleven years ago) link
i thought they talked about that movie a fair amount?
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Sunday, 4 November 2012 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
Heidecker even made mention of Maron keeping digging for more and more info on the bands after he mentioned them only in passing. They talked about the Tim and Eric film a lot, but the talk on The Comedy was cut short on a 'we'll talk more about this some other time?' ending.
― DavidM, Sunday, 4 November 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
― Bout to go Jethro TULL on that ass (Johnny Fever), Thursday, October 25, 2012 10:45 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark
did maron ask him about dating ann coulter?
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 4 November 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
Heidecker even made mention of Maron keeping digging for more and more info on the bands after he mentioned them only in passing.
1) Consider yourself lucky that the guitar question didn't end up in a three-song jam2) Apart from the fact that they did discuss The Comedy, how many other WTFs with people who normally write and perform and produce and direct and generate hours upon hours of their own work have gone into long discussions of a single hired acting job?
― sug night (sic), Sunday, 4 November 2012 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
yea they did talk abt it a bit right? maron gave his 'film studies major' take on it
― johnny crunch, Monday, 5 November 2012 01:43 (eleven years ago) link
A wtf with colt cabana? Hello sam bait! Ridiculously excited about this, even if maron talking wrestling is going to be super embarrassing. (cabana is p much the worlds best comedy wrestler and has a wtf like hour podcast with wrestlers every week. Also he did stand up for a couple years, dunno if he was any good though.)
― "It's like death metal lyrics, but about a vagina." (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 01:28 (eleven years ago) link
okay i haven't listened to this epo yet but I heard him on Sklarboro County and it turns out that I love colt cabana! I have started listening to his podcast. Mick Foley! The Brooklyn Brawler? HOORAY.can't wait to hear this ep now.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 15 November 2012 03:50 (eleven years ago) link
the wrestling one was pretty good
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Thursday, 15 November 2012 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
Mascis interview: "What are your favorite chords?"
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 November 2012 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
oh god
"I have a pair of thick green bellbottoms that are pretty cool"
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 November 2012 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
I love Maron, and I often applaud him for attempting musician interviews, but this Mascis experiment is a near total failure.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 November 2012 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
Just that opening framing of Nevermind and Green Mind as the records that blew Maron's mind was nuts.
― Binders Full of Mittens (President Keyes), Monday, 26 November 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
About 30 minutes in J. seems to realize Marc is a nutter and begins to treat it like an interview by Nardwuar. Which is pretty much is, except Nardwuar does more research for his interviews.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 26 November 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 November 2012 13:50 (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hahaha i need to hear this
― absurdly pro-D (schlump), Monday, 26 November 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
i feel like the difference in how frenetically & laconically they both speak is gonna make it sound like people speaking across a language barrier
― absurdly pro-D (schlump), Monday, 26 November 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
and Maron asking if Mascis knew every Boston band he could think of.
― Binders Full of Mittens (President Keyes), Monday, 26 November 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
What about Tom Scholz? Was he your guy?
― endless budgie (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 02:37 (eleven years ago) link
haha
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 02:40 (eleven years ago) link
Maron was a squirrel on Adventure Time tonight.
― this will surprise many (Nicole), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 02:45 (eleven years ago) link
Eventually Maron will have to have Jim Ladd on and the universe will implode.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 03:26 (eleven years ago) link
Solondz interview is surprisingly excellent; a good reminder that Marc can be a great interviewer even outside his element.
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:16 (eleven years ago) link
I dont think the J Mascis interview was that bad. Its hard for anyone to get a sentence out of the guy.
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
i don't listen to this a lot but thought tge mascis interview was really moving. all the stories about producing other groups were awesome, tio
― spottieottiespanakopita (schlump), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 01:49 (eleven years ago) link
the episode today with Mike Lawrence was good. a throwback to when WTF was mostly comics I'd never heard of being really interesting.
― President Keyes, Friday, 7 December 2012 00:05 (eleven years ago) link
Dylan Moran! He & Marc get along swimmingly
Yes, Bill Hicks is brought up.
― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Saturday, 15 December 2012 04:17 (eleven years ago) link
GASP
oh i am so listening to that
:D :D
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 15 December 2012 04:56 (eleven years ago) link
Listening to Maron and Favreau talk about Cowboys & Aliens finally makes me want to see it.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 17 December 2012 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
was that the most butt kissing a guest has ever done to Maron? Like every other sentence from Favreau was about how great WTF is.
― President Keyes, Monday, 17 December 2012 14:54 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe, but I think that's just kind of built in to Favreau's personality.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 17 December 2012 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, September 13, 2012 3:12 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
just listened to this one and yeah i was a little Ô_o about all of that
particularly how he simultaneously claims the other guys weren't involved in any of the songwriting and deserve no credit, but they also somehow forced him to make music he didn't like. can't have it both ways buddy.
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Monday, 17 December 2012 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
Chris Garcia's bit on the live podcast was amazing.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Monday, 17 December 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
there was like exactly one article about the Doughty book where the writer talked to other members of Soul Coughing, guys showed admirable restraint imo: http://www.pitch.com/kansascity/mike-doughty-soul-coughing-the-book-of-drugs/Content?oid=2831236
― some dude, Monday, 17 December 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
good article
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Monday, 17 December 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
i mean this:
"I've gone through my own process of owning my bullshit in that situation," former Soul Coughing bassist Sebastian Steinberg tells The Pitch over the phone, while on tour with Fiona Apple. "I don't miss being in a band with Mike, but I have a lot of compassion for him. I actually think that he's got a form of aphasia — a perceptive gap. He demonstrated that through the whole career of the band, and the way he talks and writes about it now seems to be there. He doesn't hear what the rest of us did as songs. It's like trying to tell a colorblind person what orange is. The synapse isn't there. And I don't mean that as belittling as it sounds. I genuinely sense his agony over this. I feel for him on the most human level. I'm sorry that he feels that way. I wish he could look at Soul Coughing and be proud that he's created a whole new thing. I love that Doughty's created a new book of songs. I love that he's persevered. He has every right to be as proud as he can be. I just wish he could see Soul Coughing for what it was, and not for what he always tried to get credit for it as being. That band never existed. He'll sleep better if he ever figures that out. I sure do."
next to this:
"To a certain extent," Doughty says during a phone call with The Pitch, "I suspect that they're all just deeply self-destructive people, that they were consciously or unconsciously trying to wreck the boat. They just ended up with the wrong crazy person that wasn't going to let go of the boat. In my opinion, they were on a continuum between sociopathic and just straight-up delusional."
and this:
"There was a lot of stuff that came from jamming — a keyboard part or a beat," Doughty says. "But in the end, songs are things that are sung. And I was the only guy writing stuff that was sung."
Naturally, former Soul Coughing sampler Mark De Gli Antoni sees the process from a different angle, but the overlap in their accounts is telling.
"I could enter a rehearsal with Sebastian and Yuval [Gabay, drummer]," De Gli Antoni says via e-mail, "begin playing a shell of something, and the two of them would then completely invent a whole drum-bass world around that. I would then drop what I was initially doing and do something else. Mike would then start riffing words, and eventually we would have a 'Super Bon Bon.' To me, the final result is something I would never say I 'wrote' even if I started it, because the end result was so something-else. Many, many of our songs were like that."
is pretty telling
"But in the end, songs are things that are sung. And I was the only guy writing stuff that was sung."
Those are called poems
― President Keyes, Monday, 17 December 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks for that link, that is a great read and, as s1ocki points out, extremely telling.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 17 December 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
also lol @ this
"The idea of Mike's book," De Gli Antoni writes, "that through a fog of drugs he behaved a certain way, is a ruse, a construct/fabrication. I was there in his apartment taking his watered-down heroin with him.
― some dude, Monday, 17 December 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
The Jay Mohr episode is actually a good example of why I like WTF in general. I mean, it was nothing mindblowing, but I find it interesting when someone like Mohr is able to dig in a little and talk about why he thinks he comes across as a dick or arrogant. I mean, he didn't blame other people, he was pretty much able to fully acknowledge his part.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 17 December 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
kinda weird that Maron didn't ask about Bobcat, since he talked shit about Mohr on WTF
― President Keyes, Monday, 17 December 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
he did? I don't remember that...
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 17 December 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, mohr is married to bobcat's exwife
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 17 December 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
Maron talked about it when he was on Mohr's podcast.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 00:17 (eleven years ago) link
haha what kind of woman would marry TWO gross comedians
― some dude, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 00:26 (eleven years ago) link
and gross in such different ways!
― some dude, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 00:27 (eleven years ago) link
connoisseur
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 06:24 (eleven years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Cox
― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 09:22 (eleven years ago) link
Nikki is an American sitcom that aired on The WB from 2000 to 2002. Nikki was a starring vehicle for Nikki Cox, who had previously starred in another WB sitcom, Unhappily Ever After, which ran for five seasons. Looking to capitalize on Cox's popularity, Bruce Helford created a sitcom that featured Cox as the title character.
― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 09:23 (eleven years ago) link
i don't know if i can bring myself to listen to the Blues Traveler one, unless one of you tells me it's super compelling.
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Thursday, 27 December 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that one is an automatic NOPE for me
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 December 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
just the barest possibility that he will play or even TALK about that fucking harmonica is enough to give me nausea
There's some funny bits in it, mostly near the beginning.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 27 December 2012 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
It wasn't that bad, mostly because the BT guys are huge dorks
― President Keyes, Thursday, 27 December 2012 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
I finally listened to the Dylan Moran interview - pretty good! Typically, I got annoyed that Maron kept harping on the Catholic abuse thing - DUDE THEY DID THE SAME THING HERE IN THE STATES JESUS CHRIST LET IT GO but I thought Moran engaged with the questions really intelligently and he didn't seem as annoyed as I would have been in the same situation
anyway I just love hearing Moran talk at length so I was happy
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 December 2012 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
When they were talking about don delillo i was picturing maron shouting at a copy of cosmopolis, "goddamn it, tell me how to live!"
― President Keyes, Thursday, 27 December 2012 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
DUDE THEY DID THE SAME THING HERE IN THE STATES JESUS CHRIST LET IT GO
Catholic church integration into everyday life just might be a smidgen higher in Ireland, maybe
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:15 (eleven years ago) link
oh I know, it just...the way he kept asking about it annoyed me. esp since Moran said he didn't grow up catholic and yet is being called on to act as emmissary for the entire catholic population :)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:20 (eleven years ago) link
actually I misread Maron as Moran in your post, makes sense now
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Friday, 28 December 2012 01:18 (eleven years ago) link
ha :)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 28 December 2012 03:13 (eleven years ago) link
smh first sentence uttered in the Katz interview, "I have to play my vinyl records because there is integrity to them, authenticity."
― President Keyes, Friday, 28 December 2012 11:01 (eleven years ago) link
wow maron brought in the katz
― fanute me or shoot me (some dude), Friday, 28 December 2012 12:24 (eleven years ago) link
If Maron had any authenticity and integrity, his podcasts would be recorded on wire spools and sent to each individual listener via carrier pigeon.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 28 December 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
Where is Donald Fagan's anger?
― President Keyes, Friday, 28 December 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
I thought he would have dug Steely Dan
https://twitter.com/marcmaron/status/281624014479294464
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Friday, 28 December 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
he really should
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Friday, 28 December 2012 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
But he has a blues based cock
― President Keyes, Friday, 28 December 2012 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
anyway I just love hearing Moran talk at length
ha, maybe avoid the upcoming Stephen Tyler one then, dude didn't get a word in edgewise
― too many encores (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 28 December 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
Moran or Maron?
Poor Stephen.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 28 December 2012 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
lol oh wait I was confusing Maron and Moran, never mind
― too many encores (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 28 December 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
lol if it makes you all feel better it was just as confusing trying to write it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 28 December 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/resources/2008/02/get-a-brain-morans.jpg
― President Keyes, Friday, 28 December 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
― too many encores (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, December 28, 2012 11:00 AM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
totally looking forward to this btw
― autistic boy is surprisingly good at basketball (silby), Friday, 28 December 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
omg yes
i wish it was a call in episode so we could call in and ask about scarf selection, etc oh well
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 28 December 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
i wish it was a call in episode so we could call in and ask about scarf selection, etc
irl LOL
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 28 December 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
Michael Keaton curses like a sailor.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 January 2013 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
It's fascinating how it took him so long to "get" the Beetlejuice character, but that when he finally did he really did.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 January 2013 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
I can't wait to listen to this
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 January 2013 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
That was a really good one. Keaton has lots to say for a guy who doesn't talk much.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 January 2013 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
(I mean he actually talks a lot (A LOT!) but rarely does any media.)
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 January 2013 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
mere minutes into that interview & i'm grinning like a loon
it's him! it's really him
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 January 2013 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know why I didn't know he was from Pittsburgh? He sure sounds like it once he really starts talking
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 January 2013 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
Man, this was one of those conversations where Marc really slots in with somebody and they just go.
― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Thursday, 3 January 2013 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
totally!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 January 2013 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
Best one in quite some time.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 3 January 2013 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah it feels like a more relaxed version of the Robin Williams interview. Such a great flow, no real prodding needed, just a little air traffic control here and there to wave him on-course.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 January 2013 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
Nice, I am so looking forward to this, thanks for the flag. I sorta lost track of/got tired with this podcast when he started interviewing musicians, so seems a good time to dive back in.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 4 January 2013 12:26 (eleven years ago) link
Could've written that exact post myself.
― jaymc, Friday, 4 January 2013 13:47 (eleven years ago) link
Dave Alvin episode is still a good one though.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 5 January 2013 02:34 (eleven years ago) link
Just starting the Seth Green one right now (love him) and Elizabeth Banks and Dave Grohl next week. Good little run.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 10 January 2013 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
psyched for Grohl. (wincingly psyched, granted)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 January 2013 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
I was surprised by the Blues Traveller one being fun but surely there's no reason to listen to Jakob Dylan ep?
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Friday, 11 January 2013 02:02 (eleven years ago) link
I was tempted to listen to Jakob Dylan just to hear the insane (hopefully!) awkwardness of Marc trying not to talk about Bob Dylan. (Jakob has a notoriously strict "Don't mention my dad" policy wrt media and marketing, if I recall.)
― sean gramophone, Friday, 11 January 2013 02:11 (eleven years ago) link
(Jakob has a notoriously strict "Don't mention my dad" policy wrt media and marketing, if I recall.)
Doesn't do much media then?
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 January 2013 02:15 (eleven years ago) link
Did Maron hook up with Jakob Dylan via Kerri Kenney? IIRC she mentioned on WTF that she and Jakob were friends.
― jaymc, Friday, 11 January 2013 02:34 (eleven years ago) link
i tried and failed to get through blues traveller, but i enjoyed the jakob dylan one, especially the stuff about his bad experience making a record with rick rubin.
― keef qua keef (Jordan), Friday, 11 January 2013 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, there's Rubin talk? I may give in and listen to it.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 January 2013 15:21 (eleven years ago) link
can't wait to hear again about how much "Nevermind" blew the mind of the 28 year old Maron
― President Keyes, Friday, 11 January 2013 15:28 (eleven years ago) link
x-post when Dylan started criticizing the Cash American albums, I was like "it's on"
I actually agree with Jakob on the Neil Diamond/Rubin album. I thought stripping him back totally missed everything that Neil Diamond is about.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 January 2013 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
Surprised that the Jakob Dylan interview really wasn't painful or offputting. He actually seems like a decent dude.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 January 2013 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
how far in is the Rubin talk?
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Saturday, 12 January 2013 14:12 (eleven years ago) link
it's throughout the whole interview--first about Cash and Diamond, then later about his own Rubin album
― President Keyes, Saturday, 12 January 2013 14:56 (eleven years ago) link
damn you guys
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Saturday, 12 January 2013 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I still dunno if I can bring myself to do it. Jakob Dylan's about as interesting as paint to me
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 12 January 2013 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
Me too, but it was a surprisingly flowing and never dull convo.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 12 January 2013 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
hurm...
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 12 January 2013 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
all the questions about daddy Dylan basically yielded nothing though
― President Keyes, Saturday, 12 January 2013 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
saw him do standup last night. it was really, really, really good.
― too many encores (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 13 January 2013 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
a surprisingly flowing and never dull convo
fuck you guys
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Sunday, 13 January 2013 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 January 2013 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
ugh Elizabeth Banks is so subtly an asshole
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 17 January 2013 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
eh, didnt seem that subtle
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 17 January 2013 03:05 (eleven years ago) link
I am biding my time til DAVE GROHL
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 January 2013 03:06 (eleven years ago) link
I turned off Banks a bit before halfway. I don't know if she's an asshole, but it wasn't very interesting.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 17 January 2013 03:15 (eleven years ago) link
I was looking forward to hearing that one, but now considerably less so.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 January 2013 03:16 (eleven years ago) link
Banks does seem a bit smug, I guess, but I found the chat fairly engaging, actually.
― jaymc, Thursday, 17 January 2013 03:31 (eleven years ago) link
Finally made it through this; Rubin talk is mostly about 3/4ths in, but nothing seriously juicy or snarky. It basically amounted to, "I thought Rubin would have ideas. He didn't. So I had to finish the album quickly."
He also said that the "authenticity" angle of the Cash records amounted to a "parlor trick."
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Thursday, 17 January 2013 03:42 (eleven years ago) link
I'm a little behind, just listening to the Adam Schlesinger one in which Schlesinger spends the whole time being kind of pleasantly bemused about the fact that Maron seems to have listened to a Fountains of Wayne record for the first time maybe a half-hour before the podcast. "Green Day, what about Green Day, they're doing your kind of thing, right, you hang out with those guys?"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 17 January 2013 04:56 (eleven years ago) link
oh yeah, also, this, I don't think the podcast gives the impression he'd actually be a very good standup, but in fact he is
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 17 January 2013 04:57 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, his standup is great
when he's really on, he can make you tear up AND laugh in the same story
and I love watching the way he carries himself on stage, the way he picks a person to tell a story to, he's really comfortable up there
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 January 2013 05:00 (eleven years ago) link
When I saw him, and he got to the point in his set where he mentioned his cats, I let out a very mumbly "yeah" which he perceived as me hating cats. Because I was so close to the stage, his head whipped around and stared directly into my eyes. "What are you? A dog person? You hate cats?"
I felt about 1 inch tall.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 January 2013 05:57 (eleven years ago) link
:(
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 January 2013 06:00 (eleven years ago) link
I wanted to say "MARC! YOU'VE BEEN MY FAVORITE COMIC SINCE THE 90S! I'VE SEEN ALL YOUR CONAN APPEARANCES! I BOUGHT YOUR BOOK! I BOUGHT ALL YOUR CDS! I ONLY LISTENED TO AIR AMERICA BECAUSE YOU WERE ON IT! I LOVE WTF! I AM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW THAT I'M FINALLY SEEING YOU LIVE!"
All I managed to get out was "er...no, I love cats."
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 January 2013 06:06 (eleven years ago) link
aww
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 January 2013 06:07 (eleven years ago) link
you should write him e-mail to this effect, it's exactly the kind of thing he'd read on the podcast and then express conflicted feelings about
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
I liked the grohl interview a lot but damn maron has to cool it with the authenticity stuff
― President Keyes, Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
Picturing maron's befuddled look when grohl was talking about britney's blackout
― President Keyes, Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
Maron has a number of O_o moments, but Dave is such a good dude. Really enjoying this one.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
I'm about halfway through, it keeps getting into a cool groove and then ERK not cool, maybe just bcz Maron's a bit more nervous and trying to impress with what he knows or something? idk
I yelled when Grohl said he bought his six year old daughter the Beatles vinyl boxset. it was cool that she dug it though, lucky bastard
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
did maron ask him about being an aids denier?
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
this is the peter green doc that Maron mentioned if anyone's interested
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vkh63QIw-c
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
I <3 Grohl so much.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 18 January 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
me too. loved hearing him talk about the new Bowie, and just music he digs in general, it's cool when dudes like him are still fans. I love how Maron just kinda blurts SO DO YA MISS KURT like he can't stand it anymore.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 January 2013 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
see, that's the kind of stuff that made me unsubscribe.
― whose black line is it anyway? (how's life), Friday, 18 January 2013 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
<3 Maron for it, tbh
― DavidM, Friday, 18 January 2013 23:56 (eleven years ago) link
me too
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 January 2013 23:57 (eleven years ago) link
I think Maron approached it in a way (and then followed up) that Dave didn't recoil and actually talked about it for a short while.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 18 January 2013 23:58 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, it seemed okay to me
― President Keyes, Saturday, 19 January 2013 02:07 (eleven years ago) link
This was an entertaining interview! Maybe I'll subscribe again for a while.
― how's life, Thursday, 24 January 2013 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
lol I misread today's guest and thought he was interviewing Tim Farriss, the dude from INXS
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 January 2013 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
"I don't think there's going to be a poem that comes along and changes the entire culture."
Maron sure sets a pretty high bar for poetry. Are any current stand up sets going to change the entire culture?
― President Keyes, Monday, 28 January 2013 13:17 (eleven years ago) link
Any poem that set out to do that would be terrible
― President Keyes, Monday, 28 January 2013 13:18 (eleven years ago) link
I'm afraid to listen to the Tim Ferriss one
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 28 January 2013 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
Not sure if it was just my mood, but I found the Lucinda Williams one unbearable. Mostly due to Maron.
― sofatruck, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 02:11 (eleven years ago) link
I had a bad feeling about it so I thought I'd pass
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 02:27 (eleven years ago) link
it was cute when lucinda started flirting with him at the end
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 09:21 (eleven years ago) link
Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner separately this week.
― a tidy profit in Russia (Eazy), Monday, 4 February 2013 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
mel brooks took drum lessons from buddy rich!
― keef qua keef (Jordan), Monday, 4 February 2013 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
Mel Brooks is just exceptional; a lesson in why Marc deserves every success.
― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
been meaning to listen
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
It's really special. Helps a lot that Brooks is so willing to open up and to try to find connections with Marc. I hope the Reiner one is as good.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
im partway through it now andhttp://www.freelancewritinggigs.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Lovin-ItMcDs_Print.jpg
― zero dark (s1ocki), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
I totally wasn't expecting them talk about David Lynch
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
WHERE ARE SETHRO AND JAH???????
― some girls, they rape so easy (sunny successor), Friday, 8 February 2013 04:48 (eleven years ago) link
c'mon, it totally made sense to hold the Brooks ep so he could double with Reiner in the same week
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Friday, 8 February 2013 04:50 (eleven years ago) link
xpost sometime in June?
― President Keyes, Friday, 8 February 2013 09:39 (eleven years ago) link
I got a little bummed when I realized Carl Reiner received more phone calls during this interview than I have in the last two months.
― Chuck Lint, Saturday, 9 February 2013 07:58 (eleven years ago) link
I was thinking of how pissed Maron would have been if any young dude came to his garage and took 5 calls on his cell during the interview
― President Keyes, Saturday, 9 February 2013 10:28 (eleven years ago) link
I wondered if they were joke phone calls from Mel Brooks, as most consisted of Carl saying "I'm just doin a... OK, bye" and putting the phone down.
― DavidM, Saturday, 9 February 2013 10:35 (eleven years ago) link
If that was true Carl would certainly be the ultimate straight man. Way over 80%.
― Chuck Lint, Sunday, 10 February 2013 07:23 (eleven years ago) link
kind of a dick move for Maron to call out the UCB like that without having Besser or someone on to give their side.
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Friday, 22 February 2013 11:45 (eleven years ago) link
ooh, what happened?
― how's life, Friday, 22 February 2013 13:02 (eleven years ago) link
nothing major. just bitching about the fact that UCB wouldn't bend its no-payment of performers policy for a superstar like him. But it became pretty clear that Maron was the "professional comic" Besser and Ian Roberts were talking about on the "behind the scenes at the UCB" episode of Improv4Humans. They made a pretty good case for the policy on there and Maron really shouldn't perform at spaces meant for amateurs if he's so invested in his professional status.
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Friday, 22 February 2013 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
i think he was trying to speak for all the performers, not just himself.
― queeple qua queeple (Jordan), Friday, 22 February 2013 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
I wonder if a single podcast could contain both Marc and Matt arguing about this at the same time. Both can really turn it on when they get pushed.
On a vaguely related note which might be better fit for the comedy podcast thread, I seriously hate it when professional comedy types dump on improv, giving examples from bad improv nights as to why the format is inherently terrible. (Note: I have taken several improv classes.)
Chris Eilliot's appearance on the Carolla show and Chris Gore being douchey about it are two examples that stand out to me. It's as if these dudes couldn't accept that valid comedy can come from slightly different formats than they are either adept at or used to.
― The New Jack Mormons! (kingfish), Friday, 22 February 2013 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
it reminds me of otherwise cool people hating on the very idea of poetry because they went to some shitty open mic reading in college
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Friday, 22 February 2013 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
Well a lot of the guys you're calling out are right assholes.
Speaking as a semi-professional improviser - I get it, and I don't really mind. I hate most stand-up. I regularly bash the form. I know there's wonderful examples, but overall it's not really for me.
Maron's comedy tastes are actually quite specific, and his aversion to improv speaks to that. He's often talked about not "getting" absurdist comedy like Monty Python or Tim and Eric, and the thing he connects most with is an honesty in the performer. Even in "serious", "real" longform improv, that kind of sincerity is very rare.
― sean gramophone, Friday, 22 February 2013 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
And say what you will about Carolla, he's probably one of the best improvisers ever, so maybe he's earned his scorn.
― schwantz, Friday, 22 February 2013 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
But I think that honesty and Marc's preferred flavor/platonic ideal of authenticity can come thru in sketch or improv, just that its not a form facilitating the overt tangible detail that most people grasp onto the easiest.
― The New Jack Mormons! (kingfish), Friday, 22 February 2013 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
I hadn't realized Carolla did improv. Was he a Groundlings dude or something?
― Walter Galt, Friday, 22 February 2013 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
Yup, he did classes there at least. His training would really come thru during the Golden Age of Loveline years ago
― The New Jack Mormons! (kingfish), Friday, 22 February 2013 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
My fave bit of improv from his show, with Norm MacDonald:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ySoFoSSeww
― schwantz, Friday, 22 February 2013 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
were Besser & Roberts really bitching out Maron, not responding to the Kurt Metzger controversy? was the I4H episode earlier than a few weeks ago?
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Saturday, 23 February 2013 14:17 (eleven years ago) link
(I've not heard either the Besser or Maron eps yet)
the I4H episode came out on Jan. 29
I don't know who Metzger is, but Besser was talking about a professional comic who kept saying "Just give me cabfare." The same phrase Maron used on his show.
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Saturday, 23 February 2013 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
ohhh
well this has been a HUGE debate in the improv/standup world, for weeks now; tons of people have weighed in. i suspect maron was just quoting an idea he read.
http://www.metafilter.com/124501/Paid-in-Vibes
― sean gramophone, Saturday, 23 February 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
that Gethard piece was good
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Saturday, 23 February 2013 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
Eddie Pepitone was in town last with his documentary, and I got to meet him! Marc does not come off that well in the docu, which is why they address it in the recent show.
Seriously, "The Bitter Buddha" is effing great and far more podcasty comics show up in it than I expected. Y'all should see it.
― The New Jack Mormons! (kingfish), Saturday, 23 February 2013 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
<3 mike white interview
― johnny crunch, Monday, 25 February 2013 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
when maron mentioned the thing the podcast community is facing, I wonder if he's talking about the patent troll who says he owns the idea of podcasting and is trying to shake down all the big podcasts for money.
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Monday, 25 February 2013 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
That is indeed what he's talking about.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Monday, 25 February 2013 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
I don't really understand the concept--it's like someone who says he invented the radio suing Garrison Keillor and Dr. Demento.
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Monday, 25 February 2013 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, but the problem with patents is that if you have them, you have them. It doesn't matter if it makes sense or not.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Monday, 25 February 2013 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
Recommend this ep of This American Life very much btw: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Monday, 25 February 2013 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, i know copyright system is fucked, but it seems this guy should be suing itunes, not content providers
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Monday, 25 February 2013 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
iTunes is only one of a handful of ways you can download podcasts (for example: RSS feed, straight off the website, etc.), and the patent is more about podcast production than distribution specifically.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Monday, 25 February 2013 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
Also they filed a suit against Apple as well:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/1/prweb10313865.htm
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Monday, 25 February 2013 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
WTF: Ben Affleck For Senate in 2008 [Started by Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr) in September 2005, last updated 21 minutes ago by Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier)] 2 new answersWTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast) [Started by That's why they call me (Johnny Fever) in April 2011, last updated 25 minutes ago by pun lovin criminal (polyphonic)] 27 new answers
― zero dark (s1ocki), Monday, 25 February 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
1970-1979 WTF - The Hard 'n' Heavy 'n' Loud + Krautrock, Arty, Noisy, Weird, Funky, Punky Shit - Albums Poll! - VOTING THREAD! Closes Mar 8th 11.59 PM UK Time - All ILXORS/LURKERS WELCOME [Started by Algerian Goalkeeper in October 2012, last updated 28 minutes ago by Vote in the ILM 70s poll please! (Algerian Goalkeeper) on I Love Music] 199 new answersWTF: Ben Affleck For Senate in 2008 [Started by Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr) in September 2005, last updated 31 minutes ago by christmas candy bar (al leong) on I Love Everything] 5 new answersWTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast) [Started by That's why they call me (Johnny Fever) in April 2011, last updated 39 minutes ago by zero dark (s1ocki) on I Love Everything] 28 new answersPOPE TO RESIGN WTF? [Started by Alba in February 2013, last updated 4 hours ago by bizarro gazzara on I Love Everything] 6 new answers
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Monday, 25 February 2013 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 25 February 2013 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
Marc Maron should sue those other threads.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 25 February 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X1i5J3cPbE
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 3 March 2013 23:24 (eleven years ago) link
Finally caught up to this - Maron never uses the phrase "just give me cabfare" once in his brief speech.
just bitching about the fact that UCB wouldn't bend its no-payment of performers policy for a superstar like him.
He says his principle applies generally, never specifically to him.
But it became pretty clear that Maron was the "professional comic" Besser and Ian Roberts were talking about on the "behind the scenes at the UCB" episode of Improv4Humans. They made a pretty good case for the policy on there and Maron really shouldn't perform at spaces meant for amateurs if he's so invested in his professional status.
He also specifically says he's responding to the NYT article about Metzger's complaint, not airing a personal grievance.
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Monday, 4 March 2013 04:50 (eleven years ago) link
xp I think that's the oldest footage of Maron doing standup I've ever seen (1988, I believe, based on the Woodstock 19th anniversary reference).
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 4 March 2013 05:45 (eleven years ago) link
Oh hey that guy from the Mountain Goats is on the show
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Monday, 4 March 2013 08:05 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, you got me. He said "gas money" rather than "cab fare." My memory isn't perfect.
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Monday, 4 March 2013 09:57 (eleven years ago) link
And Besser was talking about a performer who wanted 5 dollars to show "good will" so possibly not Maron, but the same concept.
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Monday, 4 March 2013 10:09 (eleven years ago) link
Xxp: wurster?
― how's life, Monday, 4 March 2013 11:45 (eleven years ago) link
your argument was that it was obviously specifically Maron, not Metzger - I'm just pointing out it wasn't.
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Monday, 4 March 2013 12:22 (eleven years ago) link
xpost obv - Wurster would be amazing but I imagine Maron ffwds through the Wurster parts of the Best Show the way ppl ffwd through his opening spiels
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Monday, 4 March 2013 12:23 (eleven years ago) link
Xpost as i said before I didn't know who Metzger was or anything about a NYT story when i posted that weeks ago, so when Maron brought it up seemingly out of the blue on his show after I heard Besser talking about a comic wanting to get paid I thought "o thats who he meant"
Feeling like susan rice here
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Monday, 4 March 2013 12:38 (eleven years ago) link
Todays episode is amazing btw
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Monday, 4 March 2013 12:39 (eleven years ago) link
can't wait to listen!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 4 March 2013 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
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― i kant believe it's not buffon (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 4 March 2013 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
A couple of different pronunciation changes I'm going to have to wrap my head around going forward!
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 4 March 2013 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
I really wish I had never the episode of Louie with Maron, because now I can never listen to the podcast without picturing jean shorts. :/
― Ulna (Nicole), Monday, 4 March 2013 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 4 March 2013 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
It's such a little thing, but the difference it made was grave.
― Ulna (Nicole), Monday, 4 March 2013 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
i would be actually disappointed if MM didn't commit some fashion crimes
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 04:06 (eleven years ago) link
bump to get this off bookmarks
― Clay, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
Maron and Gina Gershon's awkward flirting in today's episode is funny/cringey/sweet.
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 7 March 2013 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
Just heard the Seth Green episode, good for someone I thought would make me cringe. Very interesting his info about US magazine changing ownership and becoming a tabloid about young starlets and the culture that followed.
― your fretless ways (Eazy), Thursday, 7 March 2013 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know if I entirely bought his theories about tabloid culture, but I found it interesting that it was something he'd clearly thought a lot about.
― jaymc, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
btw 25-year-old Maron upthread seriously uncanny somehow.
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Saturday, 16 March 2013 05:35 (eleven years ago) link
looking forward to Dick Van Dyke on Monday.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 16 March 2013 07:22 (eleven years ago) link
oh no way. awesome
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 March 2013 07:25 (eleven years ago) link
sweet
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 16 March 2013 08:27 (eleven years ago) link
Holy shit. I'm listening to this Lynn Shawcroft episode and my mind is kinda being blown. I knew her by name thanks to Mitch, but I didn't know anything about her or know what she looked like. Anyway, long story short, turns out that the extremely inebriated, but extremely friendly "Lynn" I was talking to in a hotel in L.A. last fall was her. Weird because the whole conversation started when she overheard someone talking about Maron and we talked a little bit about comedy and Mitch, but at the time she just said, "yeah, I knew Mitch really well" and kind of changed the subject to talk about other comedians. She was really nice, but, wow, this is so weird in retrospect.
― i kant believe it's not buffon (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 18 March 2013 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
I love listening to Dick Van Dyke speak. It's so comforting.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 March 2013 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ him laying into Mad Men about it being inauthentic.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 March 2013 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
Adam Parfrey! Haven't listened yet but kind of excited.
― ProAm Chomsky (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 10:03 (ten years ago) link
the Dick Van Dyke episode was good. Not MEl Brooks good, but very engaging.
Gave up on the Parfrey half way through. He seemed interesting but Marc was at his sycophantic worst.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 13:36 (ten years ago) link
When he started bitching about Art Spiegelman it was weird
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 13:52 (ten years ago) link
I either zoned out or turned it off by then.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 13:54 (ten years ago) link
i liked parfrey a lot. im not a conspiracy guy in the slightest but just human nature-speaking it's cool. i have apocolypse culture, most of it is too far off the deep end but even those essays def hold their fascination too imo. he just seems like a provocateur & generally curious abt lyfe, etc, lol @ "living up there w/ old hippies"
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
Hey, the episode with that Mountain Goats guy was pretty good!
― Hockey Drunk (kingfish), Monday, 1 April 2013 16:03 (ten years ago) link
What great questions for Franco:What was that Oscars thing all about?What do you think of Freaks and Geeks?
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Monday, 1 April 2013 17:03 (ten years ago) link
the ending of it was kinda mortifying, like marons entire sense of self worth was abt to crumble. they were really bad questions tho, like, 'so lots of your projects are just goofs rite?'
― johnny crunch, Monday, 1 April 2013 17:24 (ten years ago) link
I saw him Tweeting with Phil Hendrie about recording their episode - this is such amazing news. Has the possibility to get pretty heavy and deep in places.
― Walter Galt, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 10:51 (ten years ago) link
Oh man, totally want to hear that! I've always wanted to hear Phil on Comedy Bang Bang, too. Somebody make it happen.
― ben kvelertak (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 12:50 (ten years ago) link
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― (from a bottle you dicks) (sunny successor), Friday, 5 April 2013 14:27 (ten years ago) link
talked w/ seth this morning, discussed mine and max's appearance in the emma roberts paparazzi photos, was informed seth and jah will be on maron's podcast in a week or two!
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, January 16, 2013 9:03 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
!!!awesome
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, January 16, 2013 9:32 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
if he meant "we're recording with maron in a week or two" then expect to hear it 6 months from now
― President Keyes, Thursday, January 17, 2013 3:21 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Lots of recent WTFs have been up a couple of days after recording
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Thursday, January 17, 2013 4:38 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Not this one
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Friday, 5 April 2013 14:49 (ten years ago) link
WTF indeed
― (from a bottle you dicks) (sunny successor), Friday, 5 April 2013 14:57 (ten years ago) link
uhh yeah maron WTF
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 5 April 2013 14:57 (ten years ago) link
― (from a bottle you dicks) (sunny successor), Friday, 5 April 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
my prediction is that seth's confidence is going to scare maron so he'll spend the whole show getting philosophical with jah while seth scats away any cat that comes with 20 ft of him.
― (from a bottle you dicks) (sunny successor), Friday, 5 April 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
He's mentioned talking to Jah in some recent eps but hasn't seemed clear if he means for the podcast or just when they first ran into each other
― Devendra Bumhat (sic), Friday, 5 April 2013 16:25 (ten years ago) link
who the fuck are these ppl
― jaymc, Friday, 5 April 2013 16:34 (ten years ago) link
OH
― (from a bottle you dicks) (sunny successor), Friday, 5 April 2013 16:43 (ten years ago) link
MY
GOD
you did not just say that
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― Devendra Bumhat (sic), Friday, 5 April 2013 16:48 (ten years ago) link
Huh, I looked it up, but I have literally never heard of "Uhh Yeah Dude."
― jaymc, Friday, 5 April 2013 16:50 (ten years ago) link
i've heard of that but not those dudes, nor have i listened to it.
― shit tie (Jordan), Friday, 5 April 2013 17:05 (ten years ago) link
Their names didn't ring bells at first either, but now I see the show title I know who they are. I listened to "Uhh Yeah Dude" a couple of times a while back but didn't find it engaging or amusing.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 5 April 2013 17:13 (ten years ago) link
EZ Slappin u right now
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Friday, 5 April 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
Is there a particular episode I should listen to? Or better, a handful? I've randomly dropped in and out a couple times but not getting the appeal.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 5 April 2013 17:26 (ten years ago) link
Episode 297 had the letters from the Korean students, but perhaps you have to be a fan already to find that as funny as i did
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Friday, 5 April 2013 17:30 (ten years ago) link
ez snappin ;_;
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 5 April 2013 18:02 (ten years ago) link
schneider ep today, v entertaining
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 11 April 2013 13:54 (ten years ago) link
Maron seemed unenthusiastic about the interview in the intro and outro
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Thursday, 11 April 2013 14:10 (ten years ago) link
that could apply to a lot of them.
― zero dark (s1ocki), Thursday, 11 April 2013 14:14 (ten years ago) link
The Dean Delray one was very fun, sorta like Wayne's World.
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 11 April 2013 14:15 (ten years ago) link
i skip intros but yeah idk, schneider rambled a lot maybe mark didnt get to talk enough or get enough gossip on lorne
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 11 April 2013 14:15 (ten years ago) link
Anyone listen to this, yet?
http://www.chickmcgee.com/2013/04/10/episode-41-marc-maron-makes-us-cry/
― DavidM, Thursday, 11 April 2013 15:08 (ten years ago) link
no, listened to his long episode of This Feels Terrible last week though
― Devendra Bumhat (sic), Thursday, 11 April 2013 15:10 (ten years ago) link
Saw him for free at Holy Fuck Comedy on Tuesday - his psychodrama bit with Fat Marc is witheringly funny.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 11 April 2013 18:23 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM_S-ufk-AE
― shit tie (Jordan), Friday, 12 April 2013 18:30 (ten years ago) link
i can't decide if that's a great or an awful combination of people
― attempt to look intentionally nerdy, awkward or (thomp), Friday, 12 April 2013 18:37 (ten years ago) link
huh. i would have expected maron to be more aware of / engaged with the nardwuar brand somehow
― attempt to look intentionally nerdy, awkward or (thomp), Friday, 12 April 2013 18:55 (ten years ago) link
i would have expected maron to be more aware of / engaged
This is a mistake in almost any situation.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 12 April 2013 18:57 (ten years ago) link
Haha. Marc is only aware of things he does or will eventually resent.
― Argentina: Ferret Sold As Poodle (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 13 April 2013 05:20 (ten years ago) link
johnny fever otm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 13 April 2013 05:24 (ten years ago) link
Similarly charmless:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1tX54iDJLY
― cougars and sneezers (Eazy), Saturday, 13 April 2013 06:11 (ten years ago) link
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on that Chick McGee podcast, when the host asked Maron if WTF was the first podcast (WTF indeed) he said that there were others before like, like Never Not Funny, but he never listened to them. In my head I heard "abrilliantdrummeriwroteallthesongs"
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Saturday, 13 April 2013 14:31 (ten years ago) link
he only knows abt things in pop culture he was into a minimum of 20 yrs ago or things his gf tells him abt
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 13 April 2013 14:44 (ten years ago) link
or that his sponsors send him! big into matador records or merge or both of those, right?
― how's life, Saturday, 13 April 2013 14:48 (ten years ago) link
He's been telling everyone on Twitter how he's just discovered LCD Soundsystem. Better late than never in fairness.
― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Saturday, 13 April 2013 15:46 (ten years ago) link
I thought Nardwaur vs. Maron was actually pretty fun!
― not feeling those lighters (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 13 April 2013 16:56 (ten years ago) link
Playing catch-up again and was kinda dreading the Rob Schneider because I think he's pretty unfunny. He had me won over at first, he actually seemed like a decent dude, but then he had to go and keep doing his "hilarious" Chinese accent.
― i kant believe it's not buffon (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 18 April 2013 02:49 (ten years ago) link
ty, will skip
― Devendra Bumhat (sic), Thursday, 18 April 2013 03:34 (ten years ago) link
And, yeah, the Dean Delray one was a lot of fun. It's fun to hear a guy that's spent that much time in the industry still have such an enthusiasm for music.
― i kant believe it's not buffon (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 18 April 2013 03:45 (ten years ago) link
Seconding the Dean Delray one. Affable dude and his stories are great.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 18 April 2013 04:04 (ten years ago) link
That ep totally reminded me of having a sketchy looking dude pull up next to you at the bar and you give him the side-eye like, "what is this guy's deal". Four hours later your still listening to him reel off story after story.
― i kant believe it's not buffon (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 18 April 2013 04:27 (ten years ago) link
self flag post for "your/you're" abuse
Florentine's ep is pretty heavy towards the end. I really only know the guy from That Metal Show, so this is all a surprise.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 18 April 2013 21:35 (ten years ago) link
lol @ mark in that ep "im just getting into tool"
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 18 April 2013 21:40 (ten years ago) link
ugh i was not into dean delray. on the other hand i'm cool with maron interviewing as many chefs as he wants.
― shit tie (Jordan), Thursday, 18 April 2013 21:43 (ten years ago) link
@marcmaronPeople who fanatically follow a guy who claims to not be a 'follower' are followers. And that guy always has a great act!
@LarryTate7 2h@marcmaron Where is the punch line in that?
@marcmaron 2h@LarryTate7 You're the fucking punchline, stupid.
@marcmaron 2hDidn't mean to get the @RealAlexJones 'followers' all worked up. Let me know when you get it all figured out. You're all so close.
― cougars and sneezers (Eazy), Friday, 19 April 2013 18:20 (ten years ago) link
hmmanyway i listened to today's show preamble about the shutdown steel works and god throwing lightning and again thinking 'THIS FUCKING GUY' and just started dreading what would happen in the UYD interview but the interview was pretty great in the end.
― (from a bottle you dicks) (sunny successor), Monday, 22 April 2013 21:27 (ten years ago) link
yeah I like Maron when he's running at that chilled out speed
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 April 2013 21:28 (ten years ago) link
Playing catch-up again and was kinda dreading the Rob Schneider because I think he's pretty unfunny. He had me won over at first, he actually seemed like a decent dude, but then he had to go and keep doing his "hilarious" Chinese accent
seriously? Jesus Christ
― not feeling those lighters (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 22 April 2013 21:41 (ten years ago) link
James Adomian is "Maron in Space":http://www.ifc.com/shows/maron/maron-in-space
― jaymc, Monday, 22 April 2013 22:04 (ten years ago) link
Those Adomian bits are amazing.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 22 April 2013 22:17 (ten years ago) link
adomian is great
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 25 April 2013 03:31 (ten years ago) link
ug so not funny
why am i such a laffs-hating crank with scripted US comedy? so weird to me.
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 25 April 2013 04:26 (ten years ago) link
maybe if they were wearing dresses?
― (from a bottle you dicks) (sunny successor), Thursday, 25 April 2013 15:34 (ten years ago) link
first full ep of MARON:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_JMV6WfJ94&feature=youtu.be
two point five stars from me, but i tend to hate scripted american comedy
― sean gramophone, Saturday, 27 April 2013 22:00 (ten years ago) link
I love scripted american comedy but that seems a little high
― polyphonic, Saturday, 27 April 2013 22:45 (ten years ago) link
yeah, not great
― sonderborg, Sunday, 28 April 2013 01:27 (ten years ago) link
he needs to NOT do the quiet sad sack thing...Louis CK has that cornered. the more manic side? i guess he can't make it about the real life show...hard to see where he'll go with this.
― Iago Galdston, Sunday, 28 April 2013 01:33 (ten years ago) link
didn't kill, but if Mark/Kyle turns out to be the "format" of the show I think that has some promise.
― resulting paste of mashed cheez poops (silby), Sunday, 28 April 2013 01:38 (ten years ago) link
have only seen a trailer of this so far but I am just gonna cautiously think of it as a downpayment on an absorbing confrontation with louis in a few years in which maron interrogates the discrepancies in their success
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Sunday, 28 April 2013 01:39 (ten years ago) link
crossover ep probs
― resulting paste of mashed cheez poops (silby), Sunday, 28 April 2013 01:42 (ten years ago) link
Dennis leary is in this? The guy who stole an entire hour of material from bill hicks? Fuck maron going after mencia and then this shit.
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Sunday, 28 April 2013 02:15 (ten years ago) link
Maron mentioned on Howard Stern yesterday that Leary's production company was putting the show together (also noticed that Leary is credited with being an exec production) - guess he has to be on at least one episode.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 3 May 2013 03:08 (ten years ago) link
I finally am listening to the Dick Van Dyke interview...goddamn I love him. How awesome that he got to know Stan Laurel and Buster Keaton! Looked old Stan up in the phone book of all things! So wonderful.
I've never seen the Dick Van Dyke Show before, so I started watching it on youtube. It's really funny, I'm enjoying it.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 16:19 (ten years ago) link
ifc show is p bad; the kid kyle(?) his lil nephew or w/e is a good actor tho
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 16:26 (ten years ago) link
i haven't watched it yet, I'm kind of afraid.
we're going to this on Friday night - I'm guessing it'll be kind of like a longform standup? but I'm not sure. excited!http://events.pe.com/san_francisco_ca/events/show/316817323-wtf-comedian-marc-maron-attempting-normal
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 16:39 (ten years ago) link
the ep with Dave Foley wasn't bad
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 16:59 (ten years ago) link
I've never seen the Dick Van Dyke Show before
!!!
I am from the same county and have never seen it either
― charli.xlsx (sic), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 22:13 (ten years ago) link
country
I guess American sitcoms from the 60s don't have much of an impact in the Australian tv landscape. Unless they do, and you all have just been getting the inferior ones.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 22:14 (ten years ago) link
limited opportunity for reruns in australia, we did have a lot of American tv shows when I was a kid but it was newer syndicated stuff like the Brady Bunch and Mork and Mindy and stuff like that.
I think older stuff like that wasn't available for worldwide syndication maybe? I am making all of this up so someone can plz correct me
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 22:20 (ten years ago) link
god knows it would have been better than endless reruns of Keeping Up Appearances and Are You Being Served though ;_;
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 22:21 (ten years ago) link
DVDS is on endless reruns on my Comcast cable pkg, has been for years now it seems
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 22:22 (ten years ago) link
the first episode with the ducklings is cute as hell omg
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 22:23 (ten years ago) link
tbh I don't think it was really in American syndication very much either, I think I first saw it as a kid/teen on a PBS affiliate actually. but even then I was struck by how quick and energetic all the jokes and schtick are, and I tend to hate sitcoms.
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 22:29 (ten years ago) link
The big three from the post-Honeymooners pre-Brady Bunch era, for me at least, are Dick Van Dyke, I Love Lucy and Andy Griffith. I could watch them all over and over (and have done just that) and still laugh every time.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 22:31 (ten years ago) link
hm well we did have I Love Lucy, so I didn't miss out completely
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 22:33 (ten years ago) link
phew.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 22:39 (ten years ago) link
In the latest Doug Loves Movies podcast, Maron goes off on Kumail Nanjiani like a Detective Columbo of Irritation. Brilliant theater piece actually.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 23:10 (ten years ago) link
xpost DVD was the 30 Rock of its time (with Your Show of Shows = SNL)
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 23:23 (ten years ago) link
I love all the Maron sniping Sam Seder does on his podcast
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 23:24 (ten years ago) link
I watched an episode or two of I Love Lucy when I was a kid and thought it was terrible
This is indeed great, and has an amazing payoff during the Leonard Maltin Game
― charli.xlsx (sic), Thursday, 16 May 2013 00:00 (ten years ago) link
So is there any reason for me to keep listening to the Sam Simon one? Or does he get all of his racist shit out of the way early with his "fat black people" smoke pot bit? Way to do a nearly complete destruction of me sympathy for you dude.
― i kant believe it's not buffon (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 20 May 2013 19:00 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, that guy came off as a total prick, he even admitted it more or less. the pot smoking thing was jaw dropping.
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 00:00 (ten years ago) link
tweet beef w/ michael ian black
https://twitter.com/marcmaron/status/336927252237398017
― gr8080, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 20:02 (ten years ago) link
i love those two beefing. golden gloves
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 20:04 (ten years ago) link
ha ha i've had an ongoing debate with a friend about the MIB ep of WTF, where i side with MIB and think that maron was being a dick and she sides with maron and thinks that MIB was being a dick. that's what happens when two comedians with dick personas get together i guess.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 20:12 (ten years ago) link
http://gothamist.com/2013/04/08/michael_ian_black_talked_to_marc_ma.php
― gr8080, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 20:19 (ten years ago) link
i want them to have a tv series like the Odd Couple together. they're great
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 21:38 (ten years ago) link
awww andy with his ooooo! <3<3
― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 22:01 (ten years ago) link
^^ otm
― i kant believe it's not buffon (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 03:59 (ten years ago) link
wow, is that twitter spat 'funny'? 'i got it at the charity shop lol' fucking hell
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 07:11 (ten years ago) link
actually im gonna bail on this thread, comedy podcasts ffs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImhN6-9KLTY
― ¬╡▫ ▫╞⌠ (sic), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 07:50 (ten years ago) link
im with DY on this one. reminds me of cher's 'no its your designer imposter perfume' zing at amber from clueless. funny for high school but embarrassing for middle aged men. the way these fools get upset at any perceived slight is a huge red flag for paranoid psychopathy imo. and by these fools i mean most comedians
― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 15:16 (ten years ago) link
if you've even listened to only a handful of WTF episodes, you should know how incredibly insecure of sociopathic comedians are. not really a surprise to see 49 year-old comedians in a pissy twitbeef.
― i kant believe it's not buffon (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 15:22 (ten years ago) link
of = and, i'm exhausted
― i kant believe it's not buffon (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 15:23 (ten years ago) link
but it's also a persona they both put on whenever they talk to each other. like this is just kind of, i dunno, sport, for them. maron does the same thing with Josh Malina now and then, it's funny.
i get a kick out of it. idk.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 16:44 (ten years ago) link
GUYS i was thinking with all these old-school comedians on WTF lately - can you imagine if marc interviewed jerry lewis?
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
I finally finished listening to the Sam Simon one. The part that really offended me was when he referred to Jennifer Tilly as the world's best female poker player.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 23 May 2013 20:11 (ten years ago) link
loool
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 May 2013 20:24 (ten years ago) link
I loved loved loved the Brooks, Reiner and Dick Van Dyke interviews. The Shelly Berman one was interesting too, though he seemed like a much tougher interview. I would love more of those old Hollywood guys.
would love him to get into some of the Laugh In cast or Carol Burnett etc.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 May 2013 20:28 (ten years ago) link
BOB NEWHART
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 23 May 2013 20:32 (ten years ago) link
i think he's talked about wanting to interview those guys (jerry lewis, newhart, etc), just needs someone to hook it up
― precious bonsai children of new york (Jordan), Thursday, 23 May 2013 20:38 (ten years ago) link
if he interviews lewis i just want them to be dicks to each other for an hour. probably wouldn't happen though :(
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 23 May 2013 20:39 (ten years ago) link
yeah newhart would be great. and lewis. all of em!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 May 2013 20:50 (ten years ago) link
Carol Burnett and Bob Newhart ftw! I'd probably listen to Jerry Lewis's if it were to happen, but a lot of that guy's shine has worn off for me since I was a kid.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 23 May 2013 20:52 (ten years ago) link
oh and Dick Cavett's on my wishlist too. I could listen to him talk all day
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 May 2013 20:53 (ten years ago) link
oh i don't like lewis at all. i just know he's a notoriously difficult interview so i think the results would be interesting.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 23 May 2013 20:54 (ten years ago) link
i know maron doesnt do uk comedy but its a shame he is missing out on a bunch of classic era comedians from over here. python, being an easy, worldly example.
― tell me more (a hoy hoy), Friday, 24 May 2013 07:06 (ten years ago) link
god if only someone could finally get Pythons interviewed
― ¬╡▫ ▫╞⌠ (sic), Friday, 24 May 2013 07:34 (ten years ago) link
ok sure but that is just one name out of like 50 who its a shame maron doesnt know exists
― tell me more (a hoy hoy), Friday, 24 May 2013 07:47 (ten years ago) link
Enh, as good as the Stewart Lee WTF interview was, I don't really want to listen to Maron bluffing his way through interviews with any more UK comedians than he chooses to already. I'd much rather a UK comedian who was as equally incisive and well-connected as Maron started their own podcast to work their way through the history of British comedy. Struggling to think of anyone who might fit the bill, though.
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 24 May 2013 09:32 (ten years ago) link
Richard Herring is doing an ok job but i dont like the live audience thing
― tell me more (a hoy hoy), Friday, 24 May 2013 09:56 (ten years ago) link
John fuckin' Fogerty on Monday!
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 24 May 2013 21:44 (ten years ago) link
Maron's a huge CCR-head, so I'm partly expecting this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAh9x5-5ffo
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 24 May 2013 21:56 (ten years ago) link
Psyched for Fogerty!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATH0yKZMwlQ
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 25 May 2013 01:45 (ten years ago) link
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 25 May 2013 02:34 (ten years ago) link
That's hilarious.
(and "Proud Mary" is similarly mono)
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 25 May 2013 02:37 (ten years ago) link
Ha was this friends jw? (not Jon Williams)
― i, norbit (jaymc), Saturday, 25 May 2013 03:26 (ten years ago) link
friend
yes
― congratulations (n/a), Saturday, 25 May 2013 14:24 (ten years ago) link
lol this Pamela Adlon episode is filthy, but also hilarious.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 22:23 (ten years ago) link
this guy's show is ... not good. he may v well be a funny guy, but his acting is leaden.
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 22:34 (ten years ago) link
(talking abotu the TV show)
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 22:35 (ten years ago) link
I've only seen the first two, but I haven't been in a rush to see the ones since then.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 22:35 (ten years ago) link
yeah I hate to say it but it feels kinda, idk, desperate?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 22:37 (ten years ago) link
whatever it is, I'm not feeling it.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 22:38 (ten years ago) link
I watched the one about the dead animal under the house and made a mental note to never watch the show again.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 22:38 (ten years ago) link
I liked Marc more when I'd only see him on Conan occasionally, and when he'd release a new album, and when he was just on the radio and/or in the early days of WTF. I even like WTF now. But I think the tv show was one step too far. I'm starting to feel suffocated by his neuroses and generally lifesucking presence.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 22:40 (ten years ago) link
i agree, he's better in an off-the-cuff medium rather than scripted
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 22:41 (ten years ago) link
Same one I saw. Thought it was okay, but that was several weeks ago and I haven't made an effort to go back and seek out more, so I suppose that says something.
― i kant believe it's not buffon (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 22:42 (ten years ago) link
I liked the two I saw. Didn't see the dead animal one. I like the show. I like the interviews. I like some of his rambling. But I don't like his standup.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 22:59 (ten years ago) link
I like his standup more than his podcast or his tv show
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 23:00 (ten years ago) link
^ this
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 23:49 (ten years ago) link
this guy is a terrible interviewer. strictly amateur hour.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 00:27 (ten years ago) link
But I think the tv show was one step too far. I'm starting to feel suffocated by his neuroses and generally lifesucking presence.
That presence is what I love about his standup and the podcast. I just don't believe it translates to the television format very well, especially in a Louie/Curb Your Enthusiasm context when reality and fiction are mixed up. I like the stories when they come from him directly, but the TV character is a dick.
Greenberg comes up in the Noah Baumbach interview and I think that's likely a big influence on the show.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 00:44 (ten years ago) link
show is p much what I expected, maybe a little better/funnier
― ¬╡▫ ▫╞⌠ (sic), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 01:25 (ten years ago) link
idk its sorta disappointingly exactly what i expected, but maybe thats cuz im in too deep w/ the podcast
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 01:40 (ten years ago) link
Absolutely, I enjoyed the hell out of it. She's a great interview and he didn't even get a chance to summon up any bitterness or resentment. And she works with Louie C.K.!
What is the opposite of "sold" because that's what you just did to me for his show.
― Frances HELL NAW (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 04:59 (ten years ago) link
What is the opposite of "sold" because that's what you just did to me for his show
Sorry, but the connection is there
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 06:02 (ten years ago) link
I used to listen to Phil Hendrie a lot, but I haven't ever heard his podcast and hearing him cut loose like he is on WTF is really new to me. Love it.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:45 (ten years ago) link
oh wow i was listening to phil hendrie like 20 years ago, thanks for the tip
― ʎqןıs (gr8080), Friday, 31 May 2013 15:05 (ten years ago) link
Tommy Stinson interview pretty great! He seems to roll with Maron pretty well on pretty much any topic. There's nothign particularly revelatory or amazing...I think just the fact that it's Tommy kinda puts the interview over the top :)
so many lols in the GNR portion of the interview. Maron asks him how long he's been with GNR, and Tommy says, 'Since 1998'. And Maron goes, 'Wow! That long?" and he gives the most defeated 'Yeah' you've ever heard, it's priceless.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 June 2013 15:22 (ten years ago) link
I loved when maron asked"so you guys made Chinese Democracy, and what other albums?"
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Friday, 7 June 2013 17:09 (ten years ago) link
omg I laughed so hard at that
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 June 2013 17:09 (ten years ago) link
like Maron's style in that interview was just hilarious. The only way it could have been better is if he had said 'So, Bob. Is still around? What's he up to these days?"
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 June 2013 17:11 (ten years ago) link
you guys played covers in concert? really?
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Friday, 7 June 2013 18:59 (ten years ago) link
the ep of his show feat the Gersh and her kid w/a podcast was pretty funny. still not entirely sold on the show, he has a thing or two to learn about line readings.
― Bathory Tub Blues (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 7 June 2013 19:01 (ten years ago) link
xp Hahaha vg
That actually happened to a friend of mine. He asked a musician about one of his former collaborators: "So what's Jimmy doing now?" Loooonnnng pause. "He's dead, man."
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 7 June 2013 19:03 (ten years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 June 2013 19:11 (ten years ago) link
When Tommy talks about Axl, it's like he's talking about his boss. There's no love for that guy.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 7 June 2013 20:11 (ten years ago) link
Dip-lo-matic
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 June 2013 21:54 (ten years ago) link
What recent interviews are worth checking out? I enjoyed the Billy Bragg one.
― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Friday, 7 June 2013 22:20 (ten years ago) link
Phil Hendrie and Pamela Adlon were both really good/funny.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 7 June 2013 22:24 (ten years ago) link
Hendrie was great. Huey Lewis one worth a listen too (Maron gets frustrated that Lewis was hanging out with all these SF psychedelic luminaries but is still resolutely a square who loves old R&B)
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 7 June 2013 22:33 (ten years ago) link
Lewis interview was fascinating. Made me wonder if he's the model for Ned Flanders (beatnik parents with squaresville kid).
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 7 June 2013 22:58 (ten years ago) link
Didn't Huey Lewis travel around Europe busking when he left college? He doesnt really strike me a boring square, musical output aside.
― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Friday, 7 June 2013 23:06 (ten years ago) link
yeah turns out the shit he was into is way cooler than the grateful dead etc
― precious bonsai children of new york (Jordan), Friday, 7 June 2013 23:12 (ten years ago) link
The Phil Hendrie one was def cool
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 June 2013 00:15 (ten years ago) link
that one made me want to check out Hendrie's stuff, something that doesn't happen often with other guests
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Saturday, 8 June 2013 00:32 (ten years ago) link
though i guess if I based my consumption off of wtf episodes I'd be watching Frances Ha and the fake season of Community and listening to John Fogerty jam with My Morning Jacket
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Saturday, 8 June 2013 00:36 (ten years ago) link
the tv show was getting tolerable until this danny trejo ep
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 8 June 2013 02:53 (ten years ago) link
no clue who kevin christy is but that 1 was my fav recent ep of the podcast
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 8 June 2013 02:55 (ten years ago) link
the Marshall Crenshaw/ Thomas Dolby episode was a little cringe inducing as Maron has this obsession with success--really kind of ruined the Tommy Stinson interview for me too--and he knew almost nothing about either guest. But Dolby was awesome. I loved when he talked about Prefab Sprout as a British Steely Dan and you could feel Maron working hard to restrain himself from being a dick about it.
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Saturday, 15 June 2013 01:04 (ten years ago) link
Ooh I wasn't going to listen, but now that Prefab Sprout is on the table, I'm there. Maron and Scharpling's Dan-o-phobia is a serious character failing!
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 15 June 2013 01:26 (ten years ago) link
ah, I didn't know Scharpling was also a Dan-o-phobe. I knew there was something off about that man.
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Saturday, 15 June 2013 01:32 (ten years ago) link
that last episode of the tv show was fucking awful....i'm sorry, until further notice, this show sucks
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 15 June 2013 16:27 (ten years ago) link
The Iggy episode was pretty good.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 24 June 2013 12:17 (ten years ago) link
when he was teasing last week that he had a guest he'd been trying to get forever I thought it would be Seinfeld or something but of course it was a musician.
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Monday, 24 June 2013 13:16 (ten years ago) link
im still waiting on the sedaris episode.
― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Monday, 24 June 2013 14:14 (ten years ago) link
Did he mention that he has a john cale interview in his pocket?
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Monday, 24 June 2013 14:32 (ten years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 June 2013 15:45 (ten years ago) link
He definitely told Iggy that Cale was wearing athletic shorts when he was interviewed so is have to say he has it in the can.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 24 June 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
goddamn hoarder PONY UP DAMMIT
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 June 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
withholding makes powerless people feel empowered
― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Monday, 24 June 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
jerks
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 June 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
xxxpost the Julie Klausner podcast w/ D. Sedative was really good
― Hadrian VIII, Monday, 24 June 2013 17:09 (ten years ago) link
Baha spellcheck SEDARIS
― Hadrian VIII, Monday, 24 June 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
I figure there have to be several levels of urgency that determine when these interviews get dropped
1. There are the people doing publicity for a time sensitive property whose publicists ask for a specific time for the interview to go up2. There are the "get" interviews with people Maron is excited about. These go the front of the queue so that Hardwick doesn't get them first3. All the other people who can get slotted in whenever
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Monday, 24 June 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link
xp lol I thought that was a slam.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 24 June 2013 18:01 (ten years ago) link
There's a Nick Cave interview in the can too.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 24 June 2013 18:24 (ten years ago) link
you're just fucking with me now
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 June 2013 18:24 (ten years ago) link
TELL ME YOU'RE KIDDING
Maron referenced it several months ago.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 24 June 2013 18:25 (ten years ago) link
i downloaded the kristen schall ep bc i like her a lot but haven't listened to it yet, is it an ok one?
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 24 June 2013 18:27 (ten years ago) link
Made it five minutes into the Rogen/Goldberg one before I couldn't take Rogen's laugh any longer.
Iggy Pop ep is good, I'd love to hear WTF w/ Henry Rollins.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 24 June 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
oh hey that exists and I think I've listened to it
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 24 June 2013 19:49 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, the Rollins one was a couple years back, but it was pretty enjoyable iirc.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 24 June 2013 19:50 (ten years ago) link
The Kristen Schaal one was pretty light and fluffy, but it came to light that she was a ska kid at one point in time and it rubbed some of her shine off.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 24 June 2013 19:51 (ten years ago) link
I couldn't take Rogen's laugh any longer.
about a decade back I was in a band with a guy who laughed just like rogen. I quit that band.
― Clay, Monday, 24 June 2013 19:53 (ten years ago) link
really enjoying iggyhearing him talk about music is such a treat. like in that fat possum doc.
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 17:59 (ten years ago) link
nick cave in the cat palace. wow
― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Thursday, 27 June 2013 16:29 (ten years ago) link
MM: I just interviewed Thom Yorke.
WCP: Wow. You haven’t posted that one yet, have you?
MM: No. They’re all a little different. Some are more aware than others. I’ve got a Nick Cave coming up.
WCP: I had an interview scheduled with him once but he cancelled and I never got to do it.
MM: He’s not easy. He’s difficult.
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Thursday, 27 June 2013 17:41 (ten years ago) link
*cough* pot *cough*
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 June 2013 17:42 (ten years ago) link
When I had John Cale on, that was fuckin’ impossible, dude! The guy’s been around for 40 years or longer. I’m not that familiar with his solo stuff. I don’t have Paris 1919. I took the interview because I could, and because I wanted to talk about the fuckin’ Velvet Underground and producing The Stooges.
So I’m listening to all this stuff, trying to cram it in. I talked to him for like an hour and 15 minutes, and was very forthcoming about The Velvet Underground, about production, about noise music. Then he asks, “Are we going to talk about the new album?” And I’m like, “No, I didn’t get it, dude. They didn’t sent it to me. I haven’t heard it.” I just had to be honest. And he looked at me like, You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. I didn’t know what to do. So I seized that moment and asked him, “Well, what did you do differently this record?” It was the right question to ask. It was better because I was honest. He had to explain something to me about his process. So it worked out.
jesus
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Thursday, 27 June 2013 17:45 (ten years ago) link
Seems like Maron says "No one sent me a copy" all the time. Are publicists really that shitty or is that Maron's "a dog ate my homework"?
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Thursday, 27 June 2013 17:52 (ten years ago) link
Unless the interview was pre-release that's no excuse. Spend 30 seconds to find a legal stream on the net. Do the fucking work or you deserve to get called on it.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 27 June 2013 17:54 (ten years ago) link
This is a problem now if he's interviewing people who are on any kind of publicity tour and are just there to plug something.
― hewing to the status quo with great zealotry (DavidM), Friday, 28 June 2013 10:51 (ten years ago) link
I'm not sure I really care if he's done the research - the unpreparedness is kind of his thing, no?
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 28 June 2013 11:33 (ten years ago) link
sometimes it's fine and just his style, sometimes it's like jesus at least read their wikipedia entry
― brio, Friday, 28 June 2013 11:58 (ten years ago) link
the nick lowe one really suffered from that, i thought
― brio, Friday, 28 June 2013 11:59 (ten years ago) link
It works fine when he has a guest who's up for talking about whatever or who can go for an hour with one question, or people he already knows. But as he branches into interviews with musicians who aren't that familiar with his steez it could become a thing. It didn't with, say, Huey Lewis because he was just a talker. Kerry Kinney called him out pretty hard in her interview for not knowing that she was in a rock band for years.
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Friday, 28 June 2013 13:19 (ten years ago) link
It's kind of a drag that he's getting more and more people who're there specifically to plug something.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 28 June 2013 17:18 (ten years ago) link
i really liked the danny lobell one recently. i'd never heard of him but it was nice to have someone on who's still struggling and figuring things out, and a little bit frustrated by it. also fun to hear him (as someone who also had a comedy interview project) analyzing previous wtf interviews.
― precious bonsai children of new york (Jordan), Friday, 28 June 2013 17:22 (ten years ago) link
Listening to Cheech & Chong right now. I love that half the stories are about Bobby Taylor.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 1 July 2013 17:34 (ten years ago) link
i've kinda skirted a lot of the musical/celeb ones cause of the negativity here but the couple music interviews i heard where he knows his stuff - cf the iggy pop one, which he's great on, ie just familiar enough w/stuff like we will fall & their detroit antecedents, &c - are really satisfying. iggy interview is so dope.
― szarkasm (schlump), Monday, 1 July 2013 17:41 (ten years ago) link
Marc does a great job of getting out of Cheech & Chong's way. Nice change from his dominant style.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 1 July 2013 17:42 (ten years ago) link
Loved sedaris on bookstore employees
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Monday, 1 July 2013 18:03 (ten years ago) link
I've got Sedaris coming up next. Looking forward to it.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 1 July 2013 18:08 (ten years ago) link
listening now and the intro is making me very uncomfortable. I do not need to know his bathroom habits.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 1 July 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
"Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure. Yeah, yeah." - Marc Maron
― Sufjan Grafton, Monday, 1 July 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link
The Sedaris one was good.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 1 July 2013 20:02 (ten years ago) link
I think that's the best ending of a WTF interview I've ever heard.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 1 July 2013 20:42 (ten years ago) link
^ Sedaris
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 1 July 2013 20:43 (ten years ago) link
the Nick Cave was a bit more open and cheerful than I've heard him in other interviews, though of course Maron had to do an assholish intro.
One of MM's bad interviewing habits is his need to ask a question and then try to answer it before the guest can (one of countless examples: "What albums did you record in Berlin? Let Love In? The Good Son?") or to inaccurately finish his guest's sentences for them. It seems to come from a radio fear of pauses. It creates unneeded tension as the guest has to correct Maron and risk coming off as annoyed.
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Thursday, 4 July 2013 11:13 (ten years ago) link
loved Cheech & Chong!
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 4 July 2013 14:54 (ten years ago) link
Cave had some funny Neubaten stories. I don't know what Maron's problem with him was exactly, but Cave seemed like he was having fun.
― brio, Thursday, 4 July 2013 21:10 (ten years ago) link
The Nick Cave one was bad. Marc needs to at least read people's wikipedia page so he doesn't blunder his way through their backstory. So frustrating that he won't do the minimal work he would expect from a host if he was on the other side of the mic.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 8 July 2013 14:40 (ten years ago) link
I thought Cave did a good job of working gracefully around Maron's painfully obvious ignorance, which makes Maron's characterisation of him as "a bit difficult" doubly irritating. Cave would have been entirely justified in being very difficult indeed if he wanted to - it was seriously amateur-hour stuff from Maron, who's usually a bit better at papering over the cracks in his knowledge.
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 8 July 2013 14:54 (ten years ago) link
I thought Cave made the most of it. A couple of times he got peeved but never stopped Maron cold despite Marc's inanity. It's frustrating that Marc has reached a level of fame & influence that he can get long form interviews other people can't get but won't do the necessary work.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 8 July 2013 15:31 (ten years ago) link
I'm not inclined to listen to the interview -- what kinds of things did he say, specifically?
― Murder in the Rue McClanahan (jaymc), Monday, 8 July 2013 15:48 (ten years ago) link
Maron must have got in some trouble for that Cave intro, judging by what he said at the beginning of the new podcast
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Monday, 8 July 2013 15:51 (ten years ago) link
"I'm not going to talk about whether or not I thought it was a tough interview. It was pointed out to me that I was the problem but I can't accept that and am unwilling to change it so fuck that shit."
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 8 July 2013 15:59 (ten years ago) link
sad laugh
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 8 July 2013 16:03 (ten years ago) link
Nick Cave sucks
― copter (waterface), Monday, 8 July 2013 16:07 (ten years ago) link
It didnt seem to go that badly except for when Marc made a dumb but harmless remark about Cave being "an existential cowboy" and Cave fired back tersely that "Im not a fucking cowboy" and both of them got embarrassed and Marc starting calling Cave "sir" all of a sudden. Anyway, agree with folks here that Marc should do more homework, better for his show in the long run obviously.
― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Monday, 8 July 2013 17:25 (ten years ago) link
he's too busy sketching out his 15 minute pre-interview ramblings that I always skip
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 8 July 2013 21:43 (ten years ago) link
I want to see Cave's Gladiator sequel.
― hewing to the status quo with great zealotry (DavidM), Monday, 8 July 2013 23:00 (ten years ago) link
Maron is hard to take sometimes, even with a great guest - he just seems like a genuinely unpleasant person to be around.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 8 July 2013 23:05 (ten years ago) link
I don't find that he seems unpleasant at all, actually--but I like his pre-interview ramblings so what do I know (his TV show is painfully bad however)
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 8 July 2013 23:23 (ten years ago) link
I wonder just what the demographics of Maron's audience are. I can understand a little bit of feigned ignorance on Maron's part if half of his audience are people who have no idea who Nick Cave, Stinson, etc. are...
Would have expected Maron to pick up on the Grinderman albums - talk about mid-life crisis rage.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 8 July 2013 23:26 (ten years ago) link
You can find a synopsis of Cave's proposed Gladiator sequel online, it sounds fucking awesome.
― Simon H., Monday, 8 July 2013 23:29 (ten years ago) link
it sounds quite a bit like that "Casca" series of novels by Barry Sadler, the guy who sang "Ballad of the Green Berets"-- Roman soldier who stabs Jesus on the cross is cursed to remain alive until the 2nd coming and fight as a soldier in every war.
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 01:16 (ten years ago) link
I really have no strong opinions one way or the other on Jonah Hill, but he's a great guest on WTF.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 12 July 2013 18:21 (ten years ago) link
I feel like that nick cave interview was a v accurate reflection of my interactions with a lot of America. Same language but different approaches to unknown people, maybe? Something gets very fucked up in sending and receiving signals or expectations of how the other person will respond or SOMETHING. I certainly don't think it's intentional from either side.
― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Saturday, 13 July 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link
the interview with Open Mike Eagle wasn't as embarrassing as it could have been, though Maron kept throwing out Andy Rooney style questions: "Why are there so many people on the stage? What are they all doing up there?"
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Monday, 15 July 2013 13:20 (ten years ago) link
iggy pop ep is so good
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 15 July 2013 14:33 (ten years ago) link
― Sufjan Grafton, Monday, July 1, 2013 2:21 PM (2 weeks ago)
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 21:11 (ten years ago) link
Pamela Adlon ep is pretty good. I like her.
― SEN. MORBIUS CALLS FOR WATERFACE TO RESIGN (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 22:26 (ten years ago) link
He made the Joe Rogan podcast bearable, I wish he'd talk about politics more (or maybe I just miss those eps of WTF)
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 18 July 2013 06:16 (ten years ago) link
No, I think he's been pretty explicitly disengaged from his political past. It is a pity.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 18 July 2013 11:00 (ten years ago) link
So the Yorke interview was done back when the Atoms for Peace album was being recorded, but Maron waited until 5 months after the album came out to release it?
― President Keyes, Monday, 22 July 2013 10:40 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I have no idea what factors dictate when he'll release an interview, but it actually way more fun to hear than I was expecting.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 22 July 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
AFP are touring now, so maybe that was part of his reasoning?
― kaiju rolling stone cover (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 22 July 2013 16:25 (ten years ago) link
I am surprised to learn that marc maron still doesn't understand "how the music gets on the vinyl"
― kaiju rolling stone cover (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 22 July 2013 16:30 (ten years ago) link
^ schtick
― eau de feet (sic), Monday, 22 July 2013 16:33 (ten years ago) link
it gets there through AUTHENTICITY
― President Keyes, Monday, 22 July 2013 16:35 (ten years ago) link
Not sure what I was expecting, but thought it was a kinda boring. Not as cringe-worthy as it could have been at least.
― sofatruck, Monday, 22 July 2013 16:35 (ten years ago) link
I guess I just imagined Thom Yorke being an unpleasant person to talk to, and he really wasn't.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 22 July 2013 16:36 (ten years ago) link
Listened to the Seth Rogen one this weekend on a long walk--fun one.
― only dogg forgives (Eazy), Monday, 22 July 2013 16:47 (ten years ago) link
That "record making is voodoo magic of authenticity" intro is one of the most punch in the face worthy things I've heard him spout off about. Have to take a break before I listen to the interview.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 22 July 2013 17:38 (ten years ago) link
yeah, I want to send him a paragraph-long email explaining how the music gets on the vinyl. but I also don't want to ruin the *magic* for him.
― kaiju rolling stone cover (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 22 July 2013 17:55 (ten years ago) link
Each groove is carved by a master craftsman
― President Keyes, Monday, 22 July 2013 17:57 (ten years ago) link
Thanks for reminding me why I skip the intros.
― sofatruck, Monday, 22 July 2013 18:52 (ten years ago) link
I always feel bad for his girlfriend whenever he starts talking about his stupid record player (WITH TUBES!) and making people listen to music on it. definitely one of those guys who puts a record on and stares right at you expectantly until you say how great it sounds so he can yell "IT'S THE TUBES!" at you
― brio, Monday, 22 July 2013 19:55 (ten years ago) link
yeah, he is likely the Alexandra Guarnaschelli of tube-and-vinyl-based sound system reaction judging
― kaiju rolling stone cover (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 22 July 2013 20:58 (ten years ago) link
The IFC show has been renewed. Oh joy.
(I quit after two episodes.)
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 16:24 (ten years ago) link
now you're going to be forced to watch another 18 of them ;_;
― eau de feet (sic), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 19:01 (ten years ago) link
so Maron recounts Cale saying "Are we going to talk about my new album?" before playing the interview where he doesn't actually say that.
― President Keyes, Monday, 29 July 2013 13:51 (ten years ago) link
I laughed at: "They didn't send it to me." "Who is 'they'?"
― President Keyes, Monday, 29 July 2013 13:52 (ten years ago) link
that's Maron's "the dog ate my homework"
― brio, Monday, 29 July 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
also he makes it sound like Cale demanded to talk about the new album - when in fact, as you point out, Maron brings it up and Cale almost immediately says "We don't have tot talk about it if you don't want to..."
I love Maron and WTF - but he should seriously consider going down to 1 interview per week.
― brio, Monday, 29 July 2013 14:14 (ten years ago) link
Why?
― waterface, Monday, 29 July 2013 14:21 (ten years ago) link
so he can dedicate some time to preparing for his interviews
― brio, Monday, 29 July 2013 14:25 (ten years ago) link
lol like he would do that
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 29 July 2013 14:26 (ten years ago) link
ha fair enough
maybe I'm just Maron-ed out
― brio, Monday, 29 July 2013 14:28 (ten years ago) link
lol "prepare"
― the pen is mightier than the penisword (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 July 2013 15:08 (ten years ago) link
I just wish someone who was better versed or gave a fuck could get the musician interviews. Cale is very engaging, despite Marc being his usual unprepared self and riding his pet topics.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 29 July 2013 15:10 (ten years ago) link
someone needs to invent a way to like killfile maron out of his own podcast
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 29 July 2013 15:20 (ten years ago) link
i accidentally got caught up listening to the into abt his eating head cheese and feeling bad abt himself for it and i was just like wtf am i doing
― johnny crunch, Monday, 29 July 2013 15:24 (ten years ago) link
he should start talking to nutritionists or dieticians so he really cares abt the interviews
― johnny crunch, Monday, 29 July 2013 15:25 (ten years ago) link
I've started two episodes of this (Fogerty, Stinson) and bailed out early both times.
― things are going to get better or worse (WilliamC), Monday, 29 July 2013 15:29 (ten years ago) link
Both of those interviews are awesome
― waterface, Monday, 29 July 2013 15:40 (ten years ago) link
I hate it, because I'm a fan of most the musicians he's interviewed over time, but he interviews with comics are generally better because it doesn't feel like he's puffing up and fronting. Well, maybe sometimes, just because that's who he is. But he's more at ease with fellow comics.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 29 July 2013 15:43 (ten years ago) link
He's definitely going more for cool anecdotes from the musicians than for deep analysis of craft, though sometimes the musicians get into that despite Maron. Like, in the Cale interview there are a few nice stories about Nico and Lou, but I liked hearing him talk about Houston rap and stuff a bit more.
― President Keyes, Monday, 29 July 2013 15:48 (ten years ago) link
really I guess I just wish there was somebody other than Maron doing WTF-style long-form interviews with musicians. Sometimes he gets a great conversation out of a musician - I loved Fogerty, Darnielle, Iggy and Stinson among others - but too often I just feel like they could have been a lot better. I think it's more his comfort level than research or knowledge...like when comedian interviews go off the rails a little bit, Maron can bust balls or find common ground but when musicians fluster him he gets all weird.
Tom Scharpling's Low Times podcast seems to be going for a musicians WTF thing but it's pretty hit & miss so far - and the musicians I don't know I find a lot less engaging than the comics I don't know on WTF.
― brio, Monday, 29 July 2013 16:16 (ten years ago) link
Dave Alvin interview still my favorite of the musician ones.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 29 July 2013 20:56 (ten years ago) link
i saw the live one at just for laughs on friday, it was fun. eddie izzard, seth meyers, tig notaro, some other guys
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 04:41 (ten years ago) link
Bill Hader's story about Martin Kove is awesome.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 8 August 2013 20:23 (ten years ago) link
― things are going to get better or worse (WilliamC), Monday, July 29, 2013 11:29 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Fogerty starts out rough -- Maron keeps saying "Yeah? Yeah?" to show that he's "listening" -- but gets a lot better about halfway through. Totally worth it.
― Esperanto, why don't you come to your senses? (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 8 August 2013 20:33 (ten years ago) link
JF, that story was fucking amazing
― touch. zing touch. you've almost convinced me I'm real (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 August 2013 20:48 (ten years ago) link
I bailed on Hader. Marc was twitching too much for me early on so I said fuck it.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 8 August 2013 20:54 (ten years ago) link
You need that story
― touch. zing touch. you've almost convinced me I'm real (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 August 2013 20:59 (ten years ago) link
i seriously don't even hear that, i guess my brain just filters it out.
xp
― precious bonsai children of new york (Jordan), Thursday, 8 August 2013 21:00 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, this is one of my favorite episodes...mostly because Hader is a great storyteller, but it's so loose and casual and Marc isn't really a distraction at all.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 8 August 2013 21:20 (ten years ago) link
I've never cared for Hader one way or the other so didn't feel like putting up with Maron today. Such is life.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 8 August 2013 21:48 (ten years ago) link
Listening to the live WTF he posted Monday... getting a glimpse into Jim Norton's head is fucking terrifying.
― get in yr plastic FEMA coffin & stop asking questions (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 9 August 2013 09:19 (ten years ago) link
that was a fun episode, esp if you're into maron and michael ian black sniping at each other
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 9 August 2013 14:25 (ten years ago) link
if only kumail was there
― los blue jeans, Saturday, 10 August 2013 01:51 (ten years ago) link
Bill Hader was great, he's such a likeable dude. That Martin Kove story was some A+ hollywood shit
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 19:07 (ten years ago) link
Best not really comedian ones for me remain Stephen Tobolowsky and Todd Hanson. Both are remarkable, both sort of make you want to hug someone.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 19:12 (ten years ago) link
Todd Hanson's one still cuts me.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link
Todd Hanson was amazing but it broke me
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 20:11 (ten years ago) link
simon pegg worked @ the same place as fred west!@
― johnny crunch, Friday, 16 August 2013 11:56 (ten years ago) link
has anyone else listened to Maynard James Keenan?
It's p great but Mr Veg totally fucked with my head - I got about halfway through and was telling him about the interview & he's all, 'You know he makes a ton of shit up, right?' and I knew that but I hadn't actually thought about it til right then
and now I'm listening and I'm like, huh. some of this does sound kinda bullshitty.
but wtf I'm enjoying it anyway so who cares
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 04:53 (ten years ago) link
halfway through the Garry Shandling one and it's a bit disappointing. I'd rather listen to Shandling talk politics and Buddhism for an hour without being interrupted by Maron talking about his mother.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 05:05 (ten years ago) link
YACHT: We were into mid- early 90s pop-punk
Maron: You mean like They Might Be Giants?
― President Keyes, Thursday, 22 August 2013 12:16 (ten years ago) link
FYI Maron is being interviewed by Jeff Garlin live @ largo on Jeff's latest episode of 'By the way'. I haven't been able to listen to it yet because I can't deal with people who analyze themselves endlessly but I kind of want to because I know Jeff will give him total shit about it.
― "Max's Original Starship" Vol. 3 (sunny successor), Friday, 23 August 2013 08:41 (ten years ago) link
I heart Catherine O'Hara's laugh so much
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 05:47 (ten years ago) link
It's the best.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 05:51 (ten years ago) link
yeah. yeah. yeah. yeah. yeah. uh huh. yeah. yeah. Really? yeah. yeah. Do you know Lorne? yeah. yeah. yeah. un huh. yeah. yeah.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 23 September 2013 18:34 (ten years ago) link
I was amused by Baratunde reffing all this nerd shit and it completely flying over Marc's head
― Your Own Personal El Guapo (kingfish), Monday, 23 September 2013 19:32 (ten years ago) link
Robert Wuhl's stories about Dangerfield were great.
I haven't been super stoked to listen to any of the recent guests, but I'll queue up Baratunde next.
btw, I actually don't mind the constant digging for tidbits of Lorne Michaels information. I'm as curious about that guy as Marc is apparently.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 23 September 2013 19:44 (ten years ago) link
The constant need to yeah yeah yeah uh huh uh yeah throughout the Robert Wuhl yeah yeah interview was driving me up a uh huh wall.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 23 September 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
lol I can't even figure out why you still listen to these.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 23 September 2013 19:52 (ten years ago) link
I'm interested in the people he interviews! Like you said, Wuhl's Rodney stories were amazing. But yeah yeah, I'm over Marc big time.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 23 September 2013 19:54 (ten years ago) link
Wuhl's career was so terrible I kinda don't want to listen for fear I'll like him. But Rodney stories...
― les nessmonster (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 24 September 2013 03:09 (ten years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 24 September 2013 03:24 (ten years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-o9-tuoaZU-w/T5dajxVnz8I/AAAAAAAACiI/jGLj-0-WgVw/s1600/knox1ft.jpg
That will forever be the start and finish of my associations for Robert Wuhl. There was four(!) copies of that card in the first pack of Batman trading cards I ever bought.
― JACK SQUAT about these Charlie Nobodies (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 24 September 2013 03:59 (ten years ago) link
Haven't listened yet, but Curt Kirkwood!
― how's life, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 08:42 (ten years ago) link
Or Kirk Curtwood, even.
― how's life, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 12:27 (ten years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 13:41 (ten years ago) link
wuhl was really great talking abt nicholson getting advice from john wayne -- lol @ "no.....one.....talks......slower......than.....i........do"
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 14:36 (ten years ago) link
am a little ways into the kirkwood interview -- it's nice! he sounds SOOO nervous though, it's kinda cute. makes me like him even more
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 15:51 (ten years ago) link
The Monty Hall interview is stellar. I love the old comedy/show biz guys he gets - the interviews with Mel Brooks, Dick Van Dyke and Hall are just great, and you realize just how talented those dudes were, and how hard they worked back in the day.
Also - Maron has a healthy amount of respect/ reverence for those guys, so his interruptions are kept to a minimum.
― Survivalist Compound Row (B.L.A.M.), Wednesday, 2 October 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link
i've been listening to jeff garlin's podcast, it's a nice change of pace from maron, but maron's episode is actually the funniest one so far. maybe that's when he's at his best comedically (for my tastes anyway), in conversation but when it's not his show so he's free to be a dick.
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 October 2013 17:21 (ten years ago) link
also if you think maron interrupts his guests, you have no idea.
I liked the Kirkwood interview for his input, but was pretty dissatisfied with Maron's end of things. "What do you think of Captain Beefheart?" "What do you think of Frank Zappa?" He just didn't ask very many great questions. Curt was amiable and gracious. Hope he's doing alright though. At points, he sounded like he was struggling a little to speak or something.
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 October 2013 17:36 (ten years ago) link
Loved the Kirkwood interview but "So, do you know how to pick?" cracked me up.
― brio, Wednesday, 2 October 2013 17:51 (ten years ago) link
maron's episode is actually the funniest one so far. maybe that's when he's at his best comedically (for my tastes anyway), in conversation but when it's not his show so he's free to be a dick.
Maron being a dick on Walking The Room is hilaires
― I'm not a rockist, I just hate Rap-A-Lot (sic), Wednesday, 2 October 2013 18:05 (ten years ago) link
garlin & walking the room appearances are a+
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 October 2013 23:58 (ten years ago) link
The first Garlin episode with Larry David was A++, I generally can't handle his interruptions with other guests though. So much worse than Maron.
― sofatruck, Thursday, 3 October 2013 02:49 (ten years ago) link
i liked the Lena Dunham conversation
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 October 2013 03:07 (ten years ago) link
I've interviewed Curt before, and he was super fun to speak with. Just talked and talked and talked.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 October 2013 03:15 (ten years ago) link
He seems like a lovely kinda guy
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 October 2013 04:35 (ten years ago) link
I had to stop listening to the Henry Rollins appearance on Garlin. He really enjoyed laughing at his own jokes and only seemed vaguely aware of who Henry Rollins was.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 3 October 2013 04:40 (ten years ago) link
the colin hay one is weird, like listening to 2 strangers talk in a departure lounge
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 October 2013 04:52 (ten years ago) link
Veg OTM that Lena Dunham convo was great. The recent Bob Odenkirk one was pretty good too. And of course LD.
― "Max's Original Starship" Vol. 3 (sunny successor), Monday, 7 October 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
Garlin is Baron Von Festival
― 6 Tuesdays on every Tuesday. This is called dumpy pants. (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 7 October 2013 16:57 (ten years ago) link
The other interview podcast I listen to alongside WTF is Alec Baldwin's.
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 7 October 2013 17:02 (ten years ago) link
i cant stand that podcast even though i love alec baldwin.
― No more kisses (sunny successor), Monday, 7 October 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
i was really psyched for the Baldwin one but it bums me out that the conversations are so short and weirdly edited with voiceover and shit
that Dick Cavett convo should have been 2 hours at LEAST
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 October 2013 18:05 (ten years ago) link
I've listened to a few of Jeff Garlin's podcasts now, and they're pretty good (even the JJ Abrams one is good for gossipy showbiz anecdotes), it's just a shame that they're recorded before an audience. Richard Herring's Theatre Podcast is the same, and the problem with this format is that both guest and host end up forever going for a gag, as opposed to the slightly more conversational WTF. But whatever.
― hewing to the status quo with great zealotry (DavidM), Monday, 7 October 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link
true im not a fan of all the 'oh oh do the one where x x and x'
― No more kisses (sunny successor), Monday, 7 October 2013 20:03 (ten years ago) link
Every time I think I'm done he gets someone like Laura Dern who overwhelms his tics and knocks it out of the park.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 14:46 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, that was a great one. Probably one of the best.
I love that he still has great difficulty remembering when things happened in the eighties, though. i.e. there is NO WAY Blue Velvet could've come out in 1981.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 15:17 (ten years ago) link
Drug abuse does a number on your perception of time.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 15:22 (ten years ago) link
I think it's more that he's in denial about how old he is. Laura Dern was talking about being a teenager when she starred in Blue Velvet so he decided he must have been in high school then too.
― brio, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 15:40 (ten years ago) link
― Mordy, Monday, April 18, 2011 9:45 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i hate this every time
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
I enjoyed him saying "what the fuckCanucks" the other week when I was actually in Toronto and saw him twice
― I'm not a rockist, I just hate Rap-A-Lot (sic), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 16:56 (ten years ago) link
lock the gates
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 17:09 (ten years ago) link
are we doing this?
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 17:56 (ten years ago) link
someone should do a WTF bingo card with all his tics and go-to stories.
"there's no plan b""who were your guys?""Old Dad""tubes"
― brio, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 18:08 (ten years ago) link
so what's lorne like
― von kelson, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 18:19 (ten years ago) link
"yeah i've played there"
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 18:20 (ten years ago) link
Pow!
― jbn, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 18:23 (ten years ago) link
lol @ who were ur guys
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 18:26 (ten years ago) link
"If you just keep doing it long enough in Canada (or UK), they just give you your own TV show"
at least a half-dozen Canadian comedians have politely told him this isn't true by now.
― brio, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 18:26 (ten years ago) link
haha that too
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 18:36 (ten years ago) link
Maron to trick-or-treaters: "So, who is your guise?"
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 18:42 (ten years ago) link
"Oh yeah, he was the real deal."
― Lover (Eazy), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 18:48 (ten years ago) link
also boring discussions about where in New Jersey Maron's family is from relative to where in New Jersey the guest's family is from, followed by discussions of where in Florida their respective relatives live now
― brio, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 19:00 (ten years ago) link
when he talks about "jewing it up" with a guest
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 19:46 (ten years ago) link
lol @ polyphonic
― hopping and bopping to the krokodil rot (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
England and his go-to Stewart Lee story
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 22:17 (ten years ago) link
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, October 9, 2013 2:56 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
whenever i hear the bit that's like what am i ~doing~ in this intro i am transported vividly into some scene of him in the studio doing repeat takes trying to get the neurotic inflection right, i can't bear it
― schlump, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 22:20 (ten years ago) link
Maron's tics are pretty tolerable compared to garlin's
― 6 Tuesdays on every Tuesday. This is called dumpy pants. (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 22:59 (ten years ago) link
they're a big bowl of tolerable
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 23:19 (ten years ago) link
especially doing it 3 hours a week. it's like hanging out with a relative at this point, not nails-on-chalkboard, just a "here we go again" eyeroll when he talks about the time he sauteed the onions perfectly for the lox and onions sandwich yet again
― brio, Thursday, 10 October 2013 14:22 (ten years ago) link
I had to stop listening to every episode & only DL ones that I thought I'd really be into. I think in 2013 I've only downloaded 8-10 eps and only listened to 3 lately (Catherine O'Hara, Laura Dern and Michael Keaton, all were complete treats). I also skip the first 11 mins or so because I'm not having it anymore :/
― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Thursday, 10 October 2013 14:25 (ten years ago) link
that's my method too - he's been on kind of a roll with guests I'm interested in lately though
― brio, Thursday, 10 October 2013 14:28 (ten years ago) link
curious if any WTF/MM fans who were previously unfamiliar with Uhh Yeah Dude listened to that ep and had opinions one way or the other
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Thursday, 10 October 2013 14:33 (ten years ago) link
didn't make it all the way through, should I give them a chance?
― brio, Thursday, 10 October 2013 14:43 (ten years ago) link
only if you're not a peed
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Thursday, 10 October 2013 14:48 (ten years ago) link
they are a diff kind of comedy podcast, but they are pretty ilx-y, maybe more ilx-y than MM?
2006 4 Life: The Uhh Yeah Dude thread
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Thursday, 10 October 2013 14:49 (ten years ago) link
I'll check it out - is there a good place to start, or should I just jump in with the latest?
― brio, Thursday, 10 October 2013 14:51 (ten years ago) link
jump in w/ the latest and work backwards, maybe skim that thread for recs
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Thursday, 10 October 2013 14:52 (ten years ago) link
i'm so far behind on these because i couldn't stand the thought of listening to Maron kiss up to Maynard from Tool for an hour and a half, but i finally listened to that ep and it was actually pretty decent. Maynard comes across as really likable and distances himself from the insuffarable Tool fan contingent nicely.
― JACK SQUAT about these Charlie Nobodies (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 10 October 2013 14:53 (ten years ago) link
The Homme one is a mixed bag so far.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 10 October 2013 15:38 (ten years ago) link
I started listening to uyd after hearing them on wtf. Thought they seemed really funny and likeable. Listen all the time now and only dip back in to maron occasionally
― sonderborg, Thursday, 10 October 2013 22:06 (ten years ago) link
The Homme one is really scattered. They talk a lot, but not really about anything.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 10 October 2013 22:10 (ten years ago) link
this laura dern one is so good
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 10 October 2013 22:32 (ten years ago) link
sonderborg i am sincerely happy for you.
― No more kisses (sunny successor), Friday, 11 October 2013 14:28 (ten years ago) link
I don't know if I just picked the wrong time to dip into UYD or what, but the two episodes I listened to earlier this year were insufferable.
― JACK SQUAT about these Charlie Nobodies (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 11 October 2013 15:16 (ten years ago) link
your ears are broken
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 11 October 2013 15:21 (ten years ago) link
i'm a fan for life but will be the first to admit they can be absolutely insufferable at times
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 11 October 2013 15:22 (ten years ago) link
they were a lot more so back when Jah used to read his hippy-dippy outros
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Friday, 11 October 2013 15:24 (ten years ago) link
I don't know, I dip into the UYD thread from time to time and I just was not hearing any of the stuff that you guys talk about in that thread. The thread makes it sound like a really fun listen, but I just wasn't hearing it. Granted, I think a part of it is that its clearly a podcast that rewards long-time listeners, there seemed to be lots of in-jokes and references that were flying past me. Problem was those two episodes I listened to didn't have anything that made me want to hear more.
― JACK SQUAT about these Charlie Nobodies (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 11 October 2013 15:25 (ten years ago) link
don't know which two you heard but I doubt they were as barren as all that
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Friday, 11 October 2013 15:28 (ten years ago) link
the joy in UYD is definitely in familiarity w/ seth + jah and their unique chemistry, not in subject matter or material
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 11 October 2013 15:30 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF99sXd6mig
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Friday, 11 October 2013 15:31 (ten years ago) link
I guess the in-joke is that it's clear a classroom full of Korean kids has researched UYD by finding Seth's car on Google Earth
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Friday, 11 October 2013 15:33 (ten years ago) link
I agree with j/v/c, I've tried UYD a few times and while it's occasionally entertaining I don't really get it overall. But yeah it seems like if you listened every week and got to know the dudes it would have more appeal. It's probably like the Best Show is for me.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 11 October 2013 15:34 (ten years ago) link
tbh I have played episodes with mr veg in the car with me and found myself hearing them with an "outsider's" ears - they do sound kind of inane. i can see how it may not grab you
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 11 October 2013 16:38 (ten years ago) link
j/v/c and na there is a site called thisyear.org where they have best of radio shows, podcasts etc. maybe take a listen to uyd 2006 best of and see what you think. it really is a enter at the ground floor situation i think
― No more kisses (sunny successor), Friday, 11 October 2013 19:23 (ten years ago) link
plus there are so many in jokes and lazy shows at this point (2013)
― No more kisses (sunny successor), Friday, 11 October 2013 19:24 (ten years ago) link
yeah, i was actually talking to a friend that is a big UYD guy and he said 2013 era is probably the worst place to start. when i get some free time i'll try to give one of those best ofs a shot.
― JACK SQUAT about these Charlie Nobodies (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 11 October 2013 19:33 (ten years ago) link
Just watched Thinky Pain on Netflix and it was great. The sharpest set of his I've heard in a long long time, yet it was still really relaxed and loose.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 October 2013 23:32 (ten years ago) link
watching that now--his hatred of atheists is disgusting
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Saturday, 12 October 2013 01:51 (ten years ago) link
I loved that part.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 12 October 2013 01:52 (ten years ago) link
repent
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Saturday, 12 October 2013 01:53 (ten years ago) link
Of, that Nick Cave interview--imagining Maron working overtime on his TV show, not doing homework, and not wanting to turn down the chance to interview him.
― Lover (Eazy), Sunday, 13 October 2013 23:46 (ten years ago) link
Oof, that is. Though glad iI stuck with it.
― Lover (Eazy), Sunday, 13 October 2013 23:47 (ten years ago) link
It gets pretty good towards the end. This is the first interview with him I've heard where he discusses what put him in the hospital, what happened afterwards and how its reflected in the album. And a lot about being young in the California desert and that whole scene. Thought it was one of the better ones I've listened to, actually.
― ΙΧΘΥΣ blindness (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 14 October 2013 02:22 (ten years ago) link
when Maron starts to perv a little on Nick Cave's wife and Cave says "steady on, mate" it's a pretty great moment
― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 14 October 2013 09:28 (ten years ago) link
Don't normally 'do' podcasts but have given the Jeff Garlin one a few goes (Larry David/Aziz Ansari)...fuck he laugh is horrific. LD one was good enough, literally don't remember Aziz talking at all on his one, just endless half-compliments from Jeff/anecdotes about Eddie Murphy.
What do you do when you listen to these things? Browse the internet? Sit listening intently?
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 14 October 2013 09:37 (ten years ago) link
work
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Monday, 14 October 2013 10:18 (ten years ago) link
Driving, working, etc.
― ΙΧΘΥΣ blindness (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 14 October 2013 10:44 (ten years ago) link
Good for the gym imo.
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 14 October 2013 11:07 (ten years ago) link
Ironing clothes. Riding bike.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 14 October 2013 11:56 (ten years ago) link
Bummer intro today
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Monday, 14 October 2013 13:02 (ten years ago) link
What do you do when you listen to these things?
Walk, cook, clean, iron, pack, shop, travel, commute, wait, play video games, do the washing up, lie on the beach, try to sleep, poop
― I'm not a rockist, I just hate Rap-A-Lot (sic), Monday, 14 October 2013 13:13 (ten years ago) link
oh yeah gym, if I've run out of DJ mix podcasts. been tragically long since I've been to the gym though
― I'm not a rockist, I just hate Rap-A-Lot (sic), Monday, 14 October 2013 13:14 (ten years ago) link
drive. if i didn't have a commute i don't know that i would listen to podcasts...when i try to listen at work it's just in one ear and out the other, can't get engaged at all.
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 14 October 2013 14:12 (ten years ago) link
I definitely can't listen to anything besides music at work. I listen to podcasts most often on my commute (esp. walking to/from and waiting for public transportation), at the gym, or while doing household chores (dishes, laundry, etc.)
― Geoffrey Schweppes (jaymc), Monday, 14 October 2013 14:25 (ten years ago) link
i listen to podcasts mostly driving, but sometimes while cooking or cleaning the house
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 October 2013 17:21 (ten years ago) link
:( today
― sean gramophone, Monday, 14 October 2013 17:22 (ten years ago) link
listening now (at work, ha), that's what i figured based on the above :('s.
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 14 October 2013 17:32 (ten years ago) link
Driving, airport, night interneting, gym, gaming
― An Android Pug of Some Kind? (kingfish), Monday, 14 October 2013 17:34 (ten years ago) link
Aww, man! Just now listening to today's. I really thought this was gonna be the one, but :(
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 October 2013 18:01 (ten years ago) link
Listened to this on a day off walk. Major bummer about his break up, but it sounds like he made the choice after trying to work through it for a long time. That happens, unfortunately. I hope he has a support mechanism of some kind to help out.
Natasha Lyonne was a pretty damn good conversation.
― Survivalist Compound Row (B.L.A.M.), Monday, 14 October 2013 18:07 (ten years ago) link
break up! i just heard the one where he was like 'my lady's pregnant'!
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 14 October 2013 18:35 (ten years ago) link
First the breakup talk, followed by a very sad and understated "pow i just shit my pants"
― polyphonic, Monday, 14 October 2013 18:36 (ten years ago) link
i just heard the one where he was like 'my lady's pregnant'!
wait i thought they were just engaged and talking about it, not pregnant?
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 14 October 2013 18:37 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I missed any announcement of her actually being with child.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 October 2013 18:38 (ten years ago) link
maybe i'm misremembering but i thought i remembered him saying something about 'i'm havin a kid, man!' to somebody
might have been the engagement though
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 14 October 2013 18:52 (ten years ago) link
what if she actually ends up with jonathan from UYD now
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Monday, 14 October 2013 18:53 (ten years ago) link
i don't think she was pregnant, she just really really really wanted a baby so he had been trying to get his head around whether he could be a dad etc as well as okay so we are going to get married etc
seemed like they had gone through a lot just getting to the point where he was ready to get engaged. he talked about it a bit after the book reading I went to in SF, during the q&a someone asked how everything was going with getting engaged and babies and stuff, and the more he talked about it the more it just sounded messy and fraught and v weird. But then their whole relationship from day one had been kind of a rollercoaster so I took it with a grain of salt , 'eh that's just the way some people are', I kinda didn't expect it to end even though they both sound like total nightmares :)
v sad
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 October 2013 20:33 (ten years ago) link
Look we all know the truth here. She met UYD. Dream fulfilled. Seatbelts.
― woah did you see that hummingbird over there? anyway, meth (sunny successor), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 09:12 (ten years ago) link
Mr. Steal-Your-F(i)a(n)ce
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 10:26 (ten years ago) link
Man, I was sure from the way he talked about his relationship on the podcast that they weren't really right for each other. At least they didn't actually get married. Hope the break-up doesn't hurt him for too long.
― how's life, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 11:40 (ten years ago) link
Thought that he had a great rapport with Homme, by the way. Bummed that I googled "vinegaroons".
http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2006/12/31/vinnie-the-vinegaroon.jpg
― how's life, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 11:44 (ten years ago) link
I googled "solfugid" and had a similar experience. Hey at least that tail isn't a stinger.
― ΙΧΘΥΣ blindness (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 12:07 (ten years ago) link
yeah, yeah, the solfugid too. But then Homme says something like "where'd you grow up? new mexico? oh man, the vinegaroons...."
― how's life, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 12:34 (ten years ago) link
I'm listening to this Moon Zappa episode and I feel like I'm a fly on the wall during someone's second date.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 15:39 (ten years ago) link
Yeah. She really didn't want to talk about dad. Marc keeps going there, though.
― 6 Tuesdays on every Tuesday. This is called dumpy pants. (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 23 October 2013 15:42 (ten years ago) link
Just got to the part where he's pressing her for Frank info. It's uncomfortable. The sound of Moon's voice is like "really, ask me about ANYTHING ELSE than my dad."
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 16:03 (ten years ago) link
What else was she there to talk about?
― how's life, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
I had a bad feeling when I saw her name pop up, considering the number of times recently when he's mentioned Zappa or Beefheart on the show.
That's why I said it sounds like a date. They're mostly just shooting the shit, and then Marc gets all "tell me about your ka-ray-zee family!"
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 16:12 (ten years ago) link
I'm on the other side of that part now and she didn't get debased by it at all. It was more of a case of me rolling my eyes at Marc.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 16:14 (ten years ago) link
Moon Zappa might be the most useless WTF episode I've heard. No idea why I stuck with it.
― brio, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 16:24 (ten years ago) link
He eased up, and then it got weirder after the last time I posted.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 16:25 (ten years ago) link
I was gonna say, it felt like they talked about FZ until the end
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Wednesday, 23 October 2013 16:43 (ten years ago) link
I'm so glad he's finally getting a bunch of SNL resolution today.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 24 October 2013 17:00 (ten years ago) link
two fill up his sacred holes
― 6 Tuesdays on every Tuesday. This is called dumpy pants. (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 24 October 2013 17:03 (ten years ago) link
*to, obviously phone
WTF is going to end like Lost, with Lorne Michaels ushering Maron into a room of pure light
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Thursday, 24 October 2013 17:31 (ten years ago) link
inside a snowglobe
― brio, Thursday, 24 October 2013 17:34 (ten years ago) link
Light goes out, Maron's standing on abandoned stage at SNL which has just been cancelled.
― shortbread, offal and heroin (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 25 October 2013 05:36 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfCzGt06eAw
Looking forward to this one. Knoxville's punchline in this anecdote is killer.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 25 October 2013 21:51 (ten years ago) link
:D yay
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 October 2013 05:57 (ten years ago) link
Ugh, this fucking Booker T. Jones interview is excruciating and cringeworthy. It's not Jones' fault; he's a fascinating interview, and brings new perspectives to old stories, but ffs Marc, why did you ask him if he thought Otis Redding's death was part of a mafia plot?
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 15 November 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
the last couple weeks have been on the boring side, but i liked Booker T. got a little choked up when he talked about sending all his personal brass instruments (no idea he did a senior college recital on trombone!) to New Orleans post-Katrina.
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 15 November 2013 16:21 (ten years ago) link
today's show is pretty dark
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Friday, 15 November 2013 17:42 (ten years ago) link
yeah, Booker T was a really botched interview, shame because Booker T was so open and relaxed and likeable. Could have been great.
― brio, Friday, 15 November 2013 17:57 (ten years ago) link
I really wish someone besides Marc could get these longform podcast interviews with musicians. They're lots of fun but rarely does he make them better.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 15 November 2013 18:00 (ten years ago) link
Yeah - totally agree. Would be cool if it was musician host who could relate to other musicians the way Maron does with comics at his best. Ilx's own underrated aerosmith would be great.
― brio, Friday, 15 November 2013 18:04 (ten years ago) link
Low Times seems like the best candidate to fill that gap but they're so irregular, even with three people doing the interviews, and they interview a lot of people I just don't care about. But the Guy Picciotto interview they did was great.I also like when Jake Fogelnest has musicians on the Fogelnest Files, his recent episodes with Kim Fowley and Don Bolles were both amazing. But he's pretty invested in a specific arena of weird LA rockers.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 15 November 2013 18:05 (ten years ago) link
Maybe after the Best Show ends, Tom Scharpling will do more Low Times stuff. His interview with GE Smith was really interesting and I bet the Dave Wyndorf episode is great too.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 15 November 2013 18:08 (ten years ago) link
I move we get Sheila E to start a long form musician interview podcast because she knows her shit, is super personable, and just generally awesome.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 15 November 2013 18:16 (ten years ago) link
xpostWyndorf one was the best Low Times for me - they have that Jersey bond.Have to say I'm generally not a fan of the non-Tom interviewers on Low Times, though the Fugazi one was really good.
Thanks for the tip - will check out Fogelnest - Bolles and Fowley and general weirdo LA all sound great.
― brio, Friday, 15 November 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link
Maggie is good people, but tbh I don't listen to Low Times a lot.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 15 November 2013 18:19 (ten years ago) link
Fogelnest's shtick irritates me more than Maron's but he does have better taste.
― polyphonic, Friday, 15 November 2013 18:20 (ten years ago) link
Yeah the musician interviews are a new thing on Fogelnest Files, usually it's him and comedians making fun of dumb internet stuff, which is def not for everyone (and not always for me). I really hope he shifts his focus more over to music because he seems very knowledgeable.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 15 November 2013 18:24 (ten years ago) link
I'm sure maggie and daniel of Low Times are nice folks - it's more their guest choices aren't really of huge interest to me
― brio, Friday, 15 November 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link
otm
― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 15 November 2013 18:29 (ten years ago) link
Earwolf had that music interview show hosted by Grant Lee Phillips but they cancelled it due to lack of interest.
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Friday, 15 November 2013 18:41 (ten years ago) link
They also have Har Mar Superstar interviewing people but the one I listened to (Matt Sweeney) was pretty annoying.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 15 November 2013 18:44 (ten years ago) link
They cancelled that one a few weeks back, along with their hip hop show with Jeff Weiss and Nocando.
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Friday, 15 November 2013 18:57 (ten years ago) link
one of my bands was recently on this podcast out of Chicago, just starting up (mostly jazz & singer/songwriters so far) but i thought it was a nice mix of interview + live performance: http://www.facebook.com/resonantradio
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 15 November 2013 18:57 (ten years ago) link
I think there's probably just an overabundance of podcasts now, which is why some just get overlooked or lost even if they're good or have the potential to be. Nerdist episodes with musicians are usually pretty good, even if they don't get into the process very much. Hardwick and the guys don't get anguished about how to talk to musicians, though, like Maron will. They're just treated like any other guest for the most part.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 15 November 2013 19:08 (ten years ago) link
I've heard a few of those but the guy from Hawaii kept going on about lame punk bands
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Friday, 15 November 2013 19:25 (ten years ago) link
I like the interviews on the Combat Jack podcast--especially the one with Just Blaze and Dame Dash going at each other
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Friday, 15 November 2013 19:29 (ten years ago) link
Kreative Kontrol is relatively decent (the Howe Gelb, Ian Svenonius, Thurston, Albini, and Greil Marcus episodes are good), though I wish the host was less reverential and more about process. http://vishkhanna.com/kreative-kontrol/
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 15 November 2013 22:20 (ten years ago) link
Ilx's own underrated aerosmith would be great.
I second this, let's draft him.
Hardwick and the guys don't get anguished about how to talk to musicians, though, like Maron will.
TBH those guys should anguish a little more. Not to Maron levels, but just the constant stream of shrill wackiness is exhausting.
― off that fog juice (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 16 November 2013 04:04 (ten years ago) link
true. i love them but i can't listen all the time
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 November 2013 05:48 (ten years ago) link
I'm listening to one of the Shortwave episodes, the Grant Lee Phillips podcast mentioned above. That dude has THE FUCKING BEST radio/podcast voice.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 18:46 (ten years ago) link
Man, the ad Maron did for Adam & Eve during the Marino episode. "Accessorize your emotional avoidance during sex... AdamAndEve.com!"
― alan watts, he made me hot (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 04:27 (ten years ago) link
the yakov smirnoff one is surprisingly great so far!
― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 12 December 2013 17:58 (ten years ago) link
too bad Maron isn't with it enough to ask him about his meme-ification
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Thursday, 12 December 2013 19:11 (ten years ago) link
lol at Maron's grasp of Russian history "So you were there through the end of Khrushchev, Brezhnev and...Yeltsin?"
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Thursday, 12 December 2013 19:15 (ten years ago) link
I don't think I've ever heard Smirnoff talk out of character, kinda looking forward to that one.
― alan watts, he made me hot (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 12 December 2013 19:23 (ten years ago) link
i am so far behind, was just listening to the Natasha Lyonne one at lunch. finally heard the revelations about his relationship that he'd been hinting at.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 12 December 2013 20:04 (ten years ago) link
the will ferrell convo is good
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 12 December 2013 20:23 (ten years ago) link
his guy ordering mexican food & cop behaviour bits slayed me
― love mike love (ko komo) (schlump), Thursday, 12 December 2013 20:45 (ten years ago) link
Yakov Smirnoff ep is one of the best I've heard in a while.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 15:12 (ten years ago) link
Uh except for the lame pseudo-psychological stuff at the end.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 15:17 (ten years ago) link
smirnoff was good until the last third.
will ferrell was a B-: maron has too much of a crush on him to ask any real questions, and it mostly just felt like a long Letterman interview with a star.
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 24 December 2013 15:32 (ten years ago) link
will ferrell was a bucktooth emoticon?
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
i liked that one. ferrell has such control of his comedic instrument—his voice—its kind of amazing to listen to him just go in and out of being funny
all the stuff about his dad, and the advice his dad gave him, was kinda fascinating imo
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 16:00 (ten years ago) link
the lou barlow interview is great. especially if you're a sebadoh/dinosaur jr fan. i feel for him, he seems like a anxious troubled soul tbh. i had no idea he recently had a meth addiction. yikes.
― subaltern 8 (Michael B), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 16:03 (ten years ago) link
maron should really read get around to reading "our band could be your life" if hes going to be interviewing 80s indie rockers
― subaltern 8 (Michael B), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 16:04 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, and the whole bit about people at the Groundlings being "I give myself three years to get onto SNL" and "I will only improvise with this person and that person."
(xp to VG)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 16:05 (ten years ago) link
lolz in the Andy Samberg interview when it becomes clear Maron has no idea who Joanna Newsom is: "So she's a classical musician?"
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Monday, 6 January 2014 12:08 (ten years ago) link
tbf I've seen Joanna Newsom in concert and I still feel I have no idea who she is
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 6 January 2014 14:39 (ten years ago) link
No one does.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 6 January 2014 14:42 (ten years ago) link
finally caught an episode of his TV show - quite underwhelmed tbh but maybe it gets better as it progresses
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 6 January 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link
I watched the whole run on Netflix in a couple of days recently. It's clearly cut from the same cloth as his standup and his podcast monologues and it's definitely an achievement in the sense that the show seems 100% reflective of his voice and worldview.
I guess everyone's mileage will vary on whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, and I do go through phases of WTF burnout myself sometimes, but I ended up liking the show a good deal more than I expected to after the first episode or two. Maron's acting can be a bit distractingly stiff here and there but overall I'm looking forward to the second season.
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 6 January 2014 16:15 (ten years ago) link
If no end else will state the obvious, the Artie interview was terrific.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 08:47 (ten years ago) link
i have it in my little pile of "I need to listen to these" - interested to hear that convo
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link
yakov smirnoff thriving in branson, mo now seems completely appropriate
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 18:00 (ten years ago) link
Did anyone else like the Phil Stutz interview?
― a lake full of ancient spices (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 02:24 (ten years ago) link
I thought it was great. Took a while to get Hank Azaria's Phil Stutz impression out of my head so I could take the interview seriously, though. Was a little sad for Paul Gilmartin to hear at the end of the Artie Lange episode that he's going to do more interviews like the Phil Stutz one, but hopefully he didn't mean he'd be doing more interviews with therapists.
― Bryan, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 06:51 (ten years ago) link
i liked the autobio part of it a ton, a little less so near the end when he started talking about his book, but whatever.
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 14:28 (ten years ago) link
Marc Maron got turned on to Hawkwind by Ty Segall. That's my first revelation from the Artie Lange ep.
― barranca jagger (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
from his twitter account it looks like he got In Search of Space and Hall of the Mountain Grill.
― jbn, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 15:28 (ten years ago) link
I'm surprised I haven't run into him at Permanent Records yet.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 9 January 2014 01:59 (ten years ago) link
Fucking Artie, man. I can't even imagine what he'd be like on cocaine.
― barranca jagger (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 9 January 2014 02:46 (ten years ago) link
was not really into the patrick stickles interview, but i loved the moment where marc, trying to connect on a basic human level, asked him something like "what do you like to do? don't you eat food that makes you happy?" that's when his lack of research pays off, just wish it would have led to a deeper discussion.
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 17 January 2014 17:14 (ten years ago) link
Stickles is horrible so I skipped it.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 17 January 2014 17:15 (ten years ago) link
wut
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 17 January 2014 17:26 (ten years ago) link
sounded like a speed freak
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Friday, 17 January 2014 17:34 (ten years ago) link
ha, yeah, the "do you food that makes you happy?" question was actually great. dude wouldn't go anywhere with it, though...
i felt sorry for the poor guy but a lot of it was like a horrible phone call from an old college friend who's gone off the deep end and wants to be sure you know he's read Nietschze
― brio, Friday, 17 January 2014 21:58 (ten years ago) link
Psyched for Harry Dean Stanton on Thursday.
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 20 January 2014 12:55 (ten years ago) link
Wow at this HDS episode and Maron's inability to process anyone who isn't jumping out of his pants to tell Hollywood drug stories on a podcast
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Thursday, 23 January 2014 12:14 (ten years ago) link
if HDS is 1/8 as awkward on this as he was on DLM a few months ago, Maron must have had his work cut out for him
(no dis on Stanton, just the publicist booking him on podcasts should have realised how badly it was going to go)
― (D1CK$) (sic), Thursday, 23 January 2014 13:17 (ten years ago) link
He spends about half the podcast bemoaning his subject's reticence and asking "Maybe I should have prepared some questions." No, man, don't put yourself out.
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Thursday, 23 January 2014 13:50 (ten years ago) link
HDS actually gave him quite a bit, but not the "So picture this: me and Jack Nicholson are in Latvia with six hookers and a pound of hash" stories that Maron wanted
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Thursday, 23 January 2014 13:52 (ten years ago) link
http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/VWX5_XRpUn0/hqdefault.jpg
― (D1CK$) (sic), Thursday, 23 January 2014 13:58 (ten years ago) link
not sure I can make it through the Marc Spitz interview. I learned that heroin is cool tho.
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Thursday, 30 January 2014 17:39 (ten years ago) link
he is horrible
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 30 January 2014 17:43 (ten years ago) link
How Soon Is Never (2003), A novel-cum-homage to The Smiths set on Long Island, New York, in the 1980s and 1990s.
ewwwwwww
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 30 January 2014 17:52 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/dhxgvBC.png
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Thursday, 30 January 2014 17:58 (ten years ago) link
"I'm here with somebody. I might be ready to talk about that."
Please don't, Marc.
― how's life, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 14:29 (ten years ago) link
Moon Zappa, huh?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 14:37 (ten years ago) link
this is the second time he's talked about the "Powell Doctrine" being some business/ government conspiracy plan from the 60s. What is the actual thing he's referring to?
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 14:38 (ten years ago) link
i mean the actual name of thing. it's obv. not the Powell Doctrine.
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 14:40 (ten years ago) link
So are they dating now? (I'm way behind on my listening, just got to the Billy Braver one yesterday) Not surprised by the heavy flirting during her interview, from both of 'em.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 15:19 (ten years ago) link
so crazy - i skipped the Moon Zappa one bc my tolerance of Marc + musicians is nearly nil, but my wife said that it was unlistenable because there was so much hostility and sniping in the air... it appears that "hostility and sniping" is marc's equivalent of flirting!
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 15:30 (ten years ago) link
It's been awhile since I listened, but I honestly don't recall much sniping, it was really friendly from what I recall.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 15:35 (ten years ago) link
i think people mis-read the interview as Maron being disrespectful by asking to many questions about Frank, but it seemed clear they already knew each other pretty well
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 15:39 (ten years ago) link
xp yeah didn't hear any sniping tbh (beyond Marc teasing her by asking 2-3 times what exactly it is that she does). It was pretty obv these two go way back and are pretty comfortable around each other.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link
feel very silly saying it but i totally called this. it crossed my mind during the zappa interview, then when he started being coy about seeing somebody that's what popped into my head (i mean, if he was dating someone whose name no one would recognize then there would be no need to dance around it).
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:59 (ten years ago) link
he also mentioned hanging out with his friend Moon a few weeks ago
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 18:39 (ten years ago) link
oh right that too
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 18:49 (ten years ago) link
Kind of amazed he can get anyone to date him, tbh.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 18:56 (ten years ago) link
I figured this might open a can of worms, but maybe that whole age appropriate relationship thing will work better for him.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 18:56 (ten years ago) link
so is this what all his "trying to get into captain beefheart" schtick was about last year?
― how's life, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
loooool
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
― the Norwegians are leaving! (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
He's mentioned doing things with Moon (and her kid, and the kid's friend) in just about every episode for the past month, after announcing he was "dating age-appropriately."
― (D1CK$) (sic), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 21:01 (ten years ago) link
BTW gossiping aside, the Amstell interview was the best one in months, I thought (and was delightedly surprised by).
― (D1CK$) (sic), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 21:03 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, that was great. After watching a bunch of Never Mind the Buzzcocks on Youtube, it was pretty cool to hear him being a normal, insecure human being.
― Bell, ball, bone, boot. No surprises. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 21:48 (ten years ago) link
I'm not going to get to listen to it for at least a couple of days, but I'm really curious about the Ron White one. And the one with Dr. Bronner's son, too, of course!
― Bell, ball, bone, boot. No surprises. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 13 February 2014 09:42 (ten years ago) link
I haven't listened by my girlfriend just heard the Bronner episode and he mentions dating Moon.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 15 February 2014 19:38 (ten years ago) link
And she said "he said everyone seemed to have guessed already".
He reads this thread, right?
― dan selzer, Saturday, 15 February 2014 19:39 (ten years ago) link
I like how detailed he gets with the timeline of their relationship--possibly to prevent people thinking he was cheating on jess
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Saturday, 15 February 2014 19:40 (ten years ago) link
Ron White was great because Ron White is great. The handwringing explanation of the Moon relationship made me feel sad for them both that he feels he has to get into it at all.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 15 February 2014 19:41 (ten years ago) link
^this. I don't really listen to the opening monologue stuff if I can help it, but man I always get the creeps when he starts talking about his relationships.
― how's life, Saturday, 15 February 2014 23:59 (ten years ago) link
jason isbell has apparently recorded a wtf episode with maron :D
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 16 February 2014 04:09 (ten years ago) link
I haven't listened to WTF in many many weeks. Was going to break my dry spell with the Ron White one, so I check the thread and find out he's seeing Moon Zappa now? I thought there was something going on with them, even if neither was acting on it at the time the interview was taped.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 16 February 2014 04:38 (ten years ago) link
yeah i thought the same
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 16 February 2014 04:39 (ten years ago) link
"Man, I used to have such a crush on you." "Aw, I used to have such a crush on you, too!" "Ha ha, what a shame we never knew and didn't do anything about it."
http://www.basilrathbone.net/gallery/sherlockholmes/sh12.jpg
― (D1CK$) (sic), Sunday, 16 February 2014 11:51 (ten years ago) link
uh oh wonder if Moon is going to on the mic all the time now
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Monday, 17 February 2014 14:46 (ten years ago) link
Listening to him tell the Moon story now, and when this inevitably falls apart after he's invested himself so deeply in something that sounds perhaps a little volatile, he's going to be a fucking mess for years.
Or it might work out. However, this is Marc Maron we're talking about.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 23:29 (ten years ago) link
heard Maron on a Grantland podcast today--he gets way bummed out when the interviewer keeps asking him why he never went for coffee with Jon Stewart
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Thursday, 20 February 2014 00:17 (ten years ago) link
yeah, i was thinking that someone with a young child might have a little less tolerance for a guy whose default relationsip mode seems to be throwing rage fits.
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Thursday, 20 February 2014 11:58 (ten years ago) link
or someone calm and grounded might be better for him than someone who throws such rage fits that he once changed all the locks on his house
― (D1CK$) (sic), Thursday, 20 February 2014 12:34 (ten years ago) link
Again I'm way behind, but boy this Patrick Stickles interview is making me re-think how much I actually like Titus Andronicus.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 24 February 2014 18:46 (ten years ago) link
the last album did that for me
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 24 February 2014 19:39 (ten years ago) link
Ha, true, but they'd earner a pass on that one by how awesome the previous two were.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 24 February 2014 20:51 (ten years ago) link
jon ronson ep is really good ! for a nice change Maron's pretty knowledgeable on the subject matter...though unfortunately that gets annoying pretty quickly because he keeps stepping on Ronson's stories and showing off how much he knows. but it's still cool, i can dig it
man I need to brush up on my conspiracies, I'd never heard of bohemian grove
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 20:00 (ten years ago) link
i interviewed JR once, he was rad
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 20:00 (ten years ago) link
I know a bohemian grover!
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 20:02 (ten years ago) link
I only know about Bohemian Grove because I read Them a long time ago. That was where I first heard of Alex Jones too.
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 20:42 (ten years ago) link
I was thinking about the Grove last week because of where True Detective was heading
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 20:44 (ten years ago) link
i find ronson so endearing! he's just so jazzed about wading around in the muck with all these wackadoodle people, it's awesome
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
But the Grove. LOL! I'm curious how the group that seemed to have started out as actors and musicians and whatever frolicking in the woods over time morphs into this higher-echelon businessmen/moguls/politicians thing
the giant owl thing is AWESOME, like wtf
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 21:03 (ten years ago) link
love that when Tom Arnold makes an aside about his sister being the meth lord of mid-west, Maron's only follow up question is "So your whole family is famous, huh?"
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Thursday, 27 February 2014 14:50 (ten years ago) link
Billy Connolly ep. is pretty good. He's just so much fun to listen to - I could listen to him read cereal boxes.
― Survivalist Compound Row (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 7 March 2014 23:15 (ten years ago) link
ooh I will have to listen, i have loved him since I was a kid
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 March 2014 02:56 (ten years ago) link
Connolly was great. Wish he had a regular podcast.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 8 March 2014 04:10 (ten years ago) link
he should narrate audiobooks
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 March 2014 04:45 (ten years ago) link
i'm bummed that kevin macdonald doesn't get a full hour, but the mcdonald/macdonald mixup is pretty funny (i do a double take whenever i see the director's name too, the KitH version is the one true Kevin for me).
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 10 March 2014 16:27 (ten years ago) link
once listened to an interview with connolly on Citizen Radio and my coworkers kept telling me to turn it down because they could hear connolly's voice out of my headphones
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 10 March 2014 17:35 (ten years ago) link
Listening to him completely wing it with Macdonald right now and I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for the garage to fall down.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 10 March 2014 19:29 (ten years ago) link
Result: Maron should completely wing it more often, because that was a really good talk.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 10 March 2014 19:56 (ten years ago) link
i guess kevin #2 did get a full hour after all. he's just adorable.
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 14:11 (ten years ago) link
this is cool, the donald cammell doc is going to be an extra on the bluray 'white of the eye' release (unfortunately region 2)
http://www.arrowfilms.co.uk/shop/index.php?route=product/product&keyword=white&product_id=290
― johnny crunch, Friday, 14 March 2014 14:56 (ten years ago) link
Just listened to the Maron episode of Jeff Garlin's podcast and laughed all the way to work.
― That's So (Eazy), Friday, 14 March 2014 15:29 (ten years ago) link
yes! i love that episode!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 14 March 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link
listened to two first Garlin podcast eps - but as much as I love the guy in Curb, I just found him insufferable on his own show. Maybe I'll check out the Maron ep tho.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 14 March 2014 16:04 (ten years ago) link
I'm not sure if it's online anywhere now, but there's a Garlin interview with Elvis Mitchell on the treatment that's also really fabulous.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 14 March 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
Just listening to this Tom Arnold episode and listening to him talk about his abuser is pretty heavy.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 14 March 2014 16:35 (ten years ago) link
Ha! I never was even aware of this April Fool's joke fight that Tom Arnold and Michael Strahan staged on Best Damn Sports Show. Tom goes into a little bit...enough to make me go hunt up the video. Congratulations all around.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 14 March 2014 17:04 (ten years ago) link
Jason Isbell today, Patterson Hood on Friday
:D :D :D :D :D
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 17:31 (nine years ago) link
Hoping for some good Muscle Shoals talk.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link
Listening now and there's some Shoals and Skynyrd talk.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 18:18 (nine years ago) link
I never met Jason when I lived there (or maybe I did), but I definitely remember Pat(terson) Hood. Okay dude, beer thief.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 18:20 (nine years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
Isbell sounds like such an even, easygoing dude. It's weird to picture him as an out of control kinda guy.
I spoke to him once, just briefly to say hi. It was on the Blessing & A Curse tour, they opened for the Black Crowes. I got free tickets to see the show & we'd heard of the Truckers, and got there early to check them out. Hardly anyone was there that time of day but they kicked ass, the people who were in the audience were all on their feet. I went to get a beer during the Crowes set, and saw Isbell standing on the concourse watching the show, smoking a cigarette. I walked over & said yknow, hi you guys were great, thanks so much for playing. And he looked me in the eye and smiled & said 'thank you ma'am'
I didn't know til years later that that tour almost broke the band completely, they were all fucking miserable as hell.
Anyway, that's my long pointless 'I said hi to him once' story :)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 18:40 (nine years ago) link
:)
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 18:59 (nine years ago) link
I met Patterson Hood a few times before he moved to Athens, and I know a lot of people who know him very well, but this episode is my first experience hearing his story. I like him more now.
Also, my buddy Earl gets a couple namedrops in the interview, despite not having been in the band for a long time. When I first went to college, Earl introduced me to all kinds of fucking wacked out awesome music and fed me spaghetti and meatballs.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 28 March 2014 20:05 (nine years ago) link
are these worth listening to if i don't care about/have never heard the Drive By Truckers?
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 28 March 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
They're interesting interviews, if only because Hood and Isbell are good storytellers in the southern tradition.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 28 March 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 28 March 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
^^thirded.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 28 March 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
^^^Fourthed. Maron does a good job on the Isbell one, especially, in talking about the songwriting process.
Has any addict-interviewee flipped on Maron when he pulls one of his "Oh man, I remember feeling THAT." or "Fuck, that's a bad one." when they get to a drug/booze story? So far - as exemplified in the Isbell one - it's pretty much real talk among addicts that I've heard.
― Survivalist Compound Row (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 28 March 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
Tears running down my face from the hipster millet farmer image from the Lewis Black interview.
― Bryan, Thursday, 3 April 2014 18:57 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/jLesJGB.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 7 April 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
too much blue
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Monday, 7 April 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link
That is one 90s looking cover.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 7 April 2014 16:44 (nine years ago) link
I CAN HAZ ISSUES?
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 7 April 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
I'm almost sad he wouldn't let them use this one.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 7 April 2014 17:15 (nine years ago) link
1) Watched most of Maron's first season this weekend. "Women be crazy."
and then
2) Listened to the Morgan Murphy episode. They dated for a month long ago, and it's just a weird, almost creeping, but compelling conversation.
― That's So (Eazy), Monday, 7 April 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link
wow felt sorry for both of them during the Todd Barry one. Funny comedian, but a long-form personal confessional-style interview maybe not exactly the right format for him.
― brio, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link
it felt like sitting in a restaurant next to a table with two guys talking about their spreadsheets at work
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 16:20 (nine years ago) link
I gave up before the halfway point. They were chatting about the boring part of comedy shop talk.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 16:24 (nine years ago) link
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, April 7, 2014 5:01 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
+1
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
Working my way through a backlog of recentish episodes at the moment and I'm deeply regretting my decision to start listening to the pre-interview stuff again. Maron's accounts of his battles with TimeWarner Cable might be the most tedious thing I've ever heard.
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 10:57 (nine years ago) link
I don't know that I've heard an opening monologue that was anything but tedious.
― take a piece of mr. baxter's hand (how's life), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 11:25 (nine years ago) link
but how will you live without knowing the state of his tube amps?
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 13:00 (nine years ago) link
His opening monologues have often been compelling and fascinating insights. He might ought to stop them while he's in a happy and fulfilling relationship, though.
― Charles, hatless (sic), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 13:44 (nine years ago) link
I like the monologues - flawed as they are, they're part of what makes me feel I know the guy and care about him.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 15:11 (nine years ago) link
i find his monologues weirdly relaxing to listen to, i guess its like, knowing there's people out there more neurotic than me makes me feel normal
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 15:36 (nine years ago) link
i guess like marc maron i too am... attempting normal
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link
*plays star spangled banner*
― waterbabies (waterface), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 15:52 (nine years ago) link
I'm with sic. I feel ok abt skipping the monologues until he goes through another breakup.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
Listening to the Isbell one - "Did you grow up with TRUCKS?"
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 17:20 (nine years ago) link
i want an app that ffwds through WTF until "who were your guys?"
― brio, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 21:19 (nine years ago) link
I'm getting squirmy hearing Marc challenge Jason Reitman on what was happening in Up In The Air.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 April 2014 16:09 (nine years ago) link
Fair question though.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 14 April 2014 17:52 (nine years ago) link
Bursky's a hell of a talker!
― how's life, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 11:01 (nine years ago) link
So the Moon Zappa thing didn't work out. Shocked!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 1 May 2014 17:08 (nine years ago) link
welp
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 May 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
that seems rapid
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 1 May 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
don't be judgy
― idontknowanythingabouttechnlolgeez (waterface), Thursday, 1 May 2014 17:27 (nine years ago) link
y'all
He mentioned they were together for five months, so he waited a minute to tell the audience they'd started dating.
Also, how long ago did he break up with Jess? Last year I guess, but it seems more recent.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 1 May 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
last october
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Thursday, 1 May 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
I think Benmont Tench is the first musician interview Marc's done where it just seems like two guys sitting around talking about music they like without one of them sort of wishing he could leave.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 8 May 2014 16:23 (nine years ago) link
Ha. I haven't heard the Malkmus one yet, but I enjoyed the Karen Kilgariff and Todd Barry ones. I like the episodes where he has history with the people but it's not drowning in bitter competitive drama (don't get me wrong, I like those episodes too).
I keep meaning to seek out Todd Barry's old rock bands. His 'Crowd Work' special on Louis CK was good fun.
― Walter Galt, Thursday, 8 May 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
todd barry one did get a lil close to two circuit pros discussing the respective merits of continental breakfast portion sizes at various budget idaho motels
― schlump, Thursday, 8 May 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
also only just caught up with the lou barlow ep & the guy narrating his divorce before playing soul & fire on a ukelele is gonna haunt me forever
Isbell's "Elephant" at the end is fucking brutal, for anyone who hasn't listened to that one yet.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 8 May 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, after I typed that out I remembered a few that didn't feel like hostage situations.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 8 May 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
is there where we talk about the television show? i watched a couple episodes last season and thought it wasn't really good but my dvr recorded the season premiere and i figured i'd check it out. i thought it was legit funny! maron was even relatable! i even thought his philosophical musings about how we are all recreating our parental relationships in our romantic relationships was pretty insightful (and i loved when he concluded w/ "and if the original cast didn't do a great job, the remake isn't going to be any better")
― Mordy, Friday, 9 May 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
Wyne Kramer seemed super into it too. Gotta say, he's been on a good roll with the music interviews lately - I'm actually even digging the constant looping around to his touchstones ("Just got that on vinyl", "Keith Richards biography - it's surprising!", "When you first heard Robert Johnson, didn't it seem like something from another planet?", etc.)
next time there's a "what is rockism?" debate on ILM someone should just transcribe some WTF rock talk
but I'm being a jerk - recent music interviews have been top shelf
― brio, Friday, 9 May 2014 18:51 (nine years ago) link
yeah,it always amazes me when people say, "that Keith Richards, he's like a real writer!" It was ghostwritten by James "White Mischief" Fox in the Keef voice, from their taped conversations.
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 9 May 2014 19:00 (nine years ago) link
but his memory is so good! and you wouldn't think so because all the drugs!
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Friday, 9 May 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
Laser-like insight from Marc on today's interview with Rhys Darby: "Asians are er, uhh, ahh everywhere! It's kind of amazing though... makes a lot more different food available!"
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 12 May 2014 10:14 (nine years ago) link
a few years ago he used to mention on every fifth show that he was "uncomfortable" around Asian people. But I guess their foodstuffs have turned him around.
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Monday, 12 May 2014 10:33 (nine years ago) link
oy his "why is there tension between India and Pakistan when they both have the same kind of bread?" bit is excrutiating too
― brio, Monday, 12 May 2014 14:42 (nine years ago) link
he's been trying to patch together this "funny" overarching food/race "funny" theory for a long time, should really give it up
― brio, Monday, 12 May 2014 14:44 (nine years ago) link
Is "alt comedy" where you say a bunch of stupid things about the world in your stand up, and everyone thinks you are otm bc you are on stage and hey that was a callback to an earlier joke?
― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 12 May 2014 14:46 (nine years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_comedy
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 12 May 2014 15:39 (nine years ago) link
i think it's mostly stone temple pilots jokes
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Monday, 12 May 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
oh man. mike burbiglia's stand up is practically a youth pastor's sermon.
― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 12 May 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
i don't really get him at all
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 12 May 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link
but apparently it's not "alt comedy" that bugs me, because Todd Barry is in that wiki. Barry is able to effectively tell jokes in his stand up w/o going for otm observations about too large subject matter.
― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 12 May 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
xp I shouldn't be so harsh, because I did like his movie. his latest stand up was just too motivational speaker for me.
― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 12 May 2014 15:56 (nine years ago) link
I wish just one of these guests would ask Maron if he knows what a "political reactionary" actually is
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Friday, 16 May 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
Birbiglia really is a great storyteller but I agree - his tendency to tie things up all tidy with a lesson learned is getting more and more grating. The Captain Epiphany schtick just feels forced - motivated more by his own quest to find a perfectly symetrical story structure than a genuine experience.
― brio, Friday, 16 May 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
yeah, that is well put.
― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 16 May 2014 18:59 (nine years ago) link
it's because that's the this american life formula and he is (somewhat inexplicably) their chosen stand-up
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 16 May 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
The Moth formula as well
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Friday, 16 May 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/features/5-10-15-20/9403-marc-maron/
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Saturday, 17 May 2014 13:56 (nine years ago) link
Good piece.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 17 May 2014 14:18 (nine years ago) link
some of these would make good sad youtubes
― socki (s1ocki), Saturday, 17 May 2014 14:44 (nine years ago) link
Scott Aukerman in the NYT:
Your show airs right after your fellow comedy-podcaster Marc Maron’s TV show, “Maron.” You two are sort of rivals. He seems to prefer stand-up to improv comedy.Marc actually has a goofy sense of humor, but he doesn’t do that in his own act. His own act is more a personal examination of his own psychosis and born out of a desire to inform the audience about how many 20-year-olds are inclined to sleep with him. In his mind there is a difference between the wacky people and the real comics. I don’t see the distinction all that much.
Marc actually has a goofy sense of humor, but he doesn’t do that in his own act. His own act is more a personal examination of his own psychosis and born out of a desire to inform the audience about how many 20-year-olds are inclined to sleep with him. In his mind there is a difference between the wacky people and the real comics. I don’t see the distinction all that much.
Then, predictably:
http://oi58.tinypic.com/vh3mu9.jpg
― jaymc, Saturday, 17 May 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
Haha. Maron got Saucermanned.
― overwhelmed with sweat (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 17 May 2014 20:08 (nine years ago) link
Has anyone interviewed Maron the way he interviews people? Ill-prepared, somewhat disinterested, constantly shifting direction when their attention span wanes?
― overwhelmed with sweat (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 17 May 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link
someone should interview him and just keep asking questions about Sam Seder
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Saturday, 17 May 2014 20:46 (nine years ago) link
rupaul on Monday! :D
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 18 May 2014 04:23 (nine years ago) link
innaresting!
― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 18 May 2014 04:48 (nine years ago) link
sick burnerman
― bizarro gazzara, Sunday, 18 May 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link
Aukerman seems like a prick
― famous instagram God (waterface), Monday, 19 May 2014 13:31 (nine years ago) link
I could listen to RuPaul for forever.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 19 May 2014 16:22 (nine years ago) link
Adam Scott openly questioned him on his "and on a brand new Maron!" schtick he'll do when announcing their IFC shows a few weeks back on their pseudo-U2 show. Can't remember his response, tho
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Monday, 19 May 2014 16:22 (nine years ago) link
Ru gave Maron the full Ru experience. Loved it.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 May 2014 17:22 (nine years ago) link
Ha I've been wondering about the Aukerman/Maron relationship since they seem like polar opposites in terms of comedic style but have concurrent shows on IFC. The "on a brand new Maron" joke is clearly just about using the language of cheezy sitcom promos for a show that's supposed to be existential and awkward. The NYT zing was pretty mild but made me laugh.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 19 May 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
I would watch Comedy Bang Bang for the guests, but I can't deal with Aukerman (and I'm waaaaay over Reggie Watts).
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 19 May 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
i dont think i can handle multiple-hosted podcasts. especially comedians, all talking over each other trying ot get a laugh in.
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 19 May 2014 18:34 (nine years ago) link
Aukerman is aligned with Tompkins too
Tompkins used to be on Best Show all the time, was buds with Scharpling
now he's a reg on Comedy Bang Bang
Maron is friends with Scharpling
― famous instagram God (waterface), Monday, 19 May 2014 18:39 (nine years ago) link
so Maron vs. Aukerman is actually a proxy war between the Tompkins and Scharpling superpowers
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Monday, 19 May 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
yah
― famous instagram God (waterface), Monday, 19 May 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link
kevin_costner_donald_sutherland.jpg
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 19 May 2014 18:46 (nine years ago) link
Aukerman and Scharpling are cool; Maron and Tompkins are uncool.
― polyphonic, Monday, 19 May 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
Scharpling and Maron and Tompkins are cool
Aukerman is not
― famous instagram God (waterface), Monday, 19 May 2014 18:51 (nine years ago) link
yep
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 19 May 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
also pretty sure Tompkins and Scharpling hate each other now
― famous instagram God (waterface), Monday, 19 May 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
Aukerman is aggressively uncoolMaron wants desperately to be cool and is notScharpling is coolTompkins is genius who doesn't let notions of cool/uncool bother him
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Monday, 19 May 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
xpost yeah, they had a falling out after the tv pilot they worked on together didn't get picked up
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Monday, 19 May 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
FTR I think Scharpling is a genius too
― famous instagram God (waterface), Monday, 19 May 2014 19:35 (nine years ago) link
no, but Wurster is
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Monday, 19 May 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, the real sad part of this topic is that Scharpling and Tompkins aren't on friendly terms anymore, because they were great together.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 19 May 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Monday, May 19, 2014 12:22 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yes. Listening now. Has to be one of Mt favorite of these.
― how's life, Thursday, 22 May 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
Aasif Mandvi is a person I like, but I could not get into this interview at all for some reason.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 22 May 2014 21:23 (nine years ago) link
maron seemed disinterested or something. but yeah the conversation was a bit boring
― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 22 May 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
i suspect maron has pretty severe ADD and probably cant medicate it due to being sober? i also feel like his getting off track is sometimes an effort to steer the conversation towards drug stories because that where is the most lively and focused and connected with his guest.
These are just poorly informed assumptions, of course.
Wow that Stephen Malkmus is a chatty one, no?
― get up in this twerk cypher (sunny successor), Thursday, 22 May 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link
Well yeah, where regular people will bond over shared experiences relating to pop culture or personal history or other benign topics, Maron has very little interest in things like that and will dig for darkness or dependency or turmoil because I think that's the only outlet where he feels like what he has to say if of any worth.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 22 May 2014 21:42 (nine years ago) link
really liked rupaul's unapologetic pro-acid stance.great reveal after the first half of Ru asserting "I have no ego! I have no fear! I am open to the universe!" and then "Oh by the way I did five hits of acid a day for a decade."
― brio, Thursday, 22 May 2014 22:36 (nine years ago) link
I think Mike Birbiglia is great.
― banjoboy, Friday, 23 May 2014 01:50 (nine years ago) link
rupaul's "do you have another shirt?" was loool
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 May 2014 02:23 (nine years ago) link
^ YES
― a lake full of ancient spices (los blue jeans), Friday, 23 May 2014 23:23 (nine years ago) link
"it's new! it's from the show! do i need a new shirt"
*silence*
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 May 2014 23:30 (nine years ago) link
that interview was a good listen but i'm kinda bummed out to learn rupaul is such a stereotypical delusional hippie
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 23 May 2014 23:44 (nine years ago) link
Yeah Ru is made of selfhelp koolaid.
It was offputting for me when I first encountered it. I dunno that I'd stand for THAT much bullshit in anyone else. But as an avid drag race fan now I give him a pass because he genuinely helps sooo many queens find their way on the show with that exact koolaid. It's nutty as hell but it seems to work? idk
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 May 2014 00:54 (nine years ago) link
but it's funny how almost everything he says is this kooky collage of metaphors
the matrix!the projector! the wizard!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 May 2014 00:55 (nine years ago) link
this part of the interview caught me off guard
http://www.transadvocate.com/faggot-ru-paul-trannys-need-to-get-stronger_n_13725.htm?utm_content=bufferd4683
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Saturday, 24 May 2014 00:57 (nine years ago) link
Yeah he got really vehement really quickly...I wasn't expecting that level of a reaction from Ru on a popular podcast like Maron's, even though I had a pretty good idea of where he stood already.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 May 2014 01:10 (nine years ago) link
The Steve Brill interview in the 500 episode is really something - much more like the early episode.You hear about all the shit that's gone down between them, and the 'old' marc and you're thinking yeah wow he's changed a lot AND THEN you hear all the stuff that has gone down just within the last few years and it's like omg he still is kind of this walking nightmare of insecurity still
the stuff about the Mighty Ducks scene that got cut; 'You scared some of the ducks' was priceless
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
the fact that Brill is even talking to him still is kind of a miracle
Hollywood's such a weird place
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
His tv show seems like it should be better than it is but it just hedges its bets too much.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
I haven't watched since the first couple of episodes of the first season
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 21:01 (nine years ago) link
It hasnt really gotten any better. He has good people on the show but the stuff thats supposed to be farcical just doesnt go far enough.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
yeah it just felt like I didn't really need more Maron - the podcast is enough and he's already way too much as it is, lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 21:08 (nine years ago) link
I was skeptical about the "the special topic for the 500th episode is... ME!" but the Brill interview was kind of great.
― brio, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 21:18 (nine years ago) link
i felt a bit awkward about the brother and the mom interviews, but Brill is def worth it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 21:56 (nine years ago) link
halfway into the Chris Cornell interview -- he's really chatty, it's actually pretty good!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
I loved how Cornell was bold enough to call bullshit on Mother Love Bone being the pivotal act in Seattle's 1988-92 boom, instead saying with no humility whatsoever that Soundgarden was the band that turned the tables. (For the record, that's how I remember it happening as well.)
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
yeah I know it can lapse into massive ego but I do like how he was like our band fucking RULES and we melted faces
and I liked that he pressed how their Led Zeppelin/Sabbath riffage got serious gasface from everyone else at the time, and YET they still melted faces
god I fucking loved them. I went to the last reunion show thinking it was probably going to suck and Cornell just wasn't who he used to be anymore and then they melted MY face and I was happy again :D
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
but there's some awesome Maron facepalms
Cornell talking about cleaning up fishguts & Maron's all WAS THAT AT PIKE'S MARKET?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
Soundgarden are so loathsome I'll be deleting this as soon as Maron's intro is done
― rage against martin sheen (sic), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
lol AND CANCEL MY SUBSCRIPTION
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
I'll be deleting this as soon as Maron's intro is done
The thought of ONLY listening to WTF just to hear his intro is blowing my mind a little.
― djenter the dragon? (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:22 (nine years ago) link
dude, spare me your interviews. I just want to hear about all the rib shacks you visit.
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:36 (nine years ago) link
did you eat some ice cream last night, marc?
― Sufjenga Cat Giffin (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link
"oh boy let me tell you which insecurity was unleashed by THAT pint"
― djenter the dragon? (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
Soundgarden blow
― famous instagram God (waterface), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 18:18 (nine years ago) link
so does yr mom
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 18:24 (nine years ago) link
Soundgarden are terrible
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 18:27 (nine years ago) link
feel better?
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 18:28 (nine years ago) link
I wish Soundgarden had more fast songs like Rusty Cage and fewer dirgey Sabbath homages (and I wish Black Hole Sun had never been written), but they're an okay band for what they are.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 18:28 (nine years ago) link
I believe the phrase is "Are we good?"
― famous instagram God (waterface), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 18:28 (nine years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
Soundgarden were deadly, you fules. I haven't listened to a WTF in a while. Is the Vince Vaughan one any good?
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 19:46 (nine years ago) link
no, Maron too scared to ask him about Glenn Beck
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 19:56 (nine years ago) link
the Vaughan one is great
― rage against martin sheen (sic), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 22:39 (nine years ago) link
Can Marc interview a single woman without flirting his balls off?
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 5 June 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
No. Marc is sleazy.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 5 June 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
yeah, it's not great
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 June 2014 22:25 (nine years ago) link
don't remember him flirting with Lena Dunham or Judy Greer or Annabelle Gurewitch or, obviously, Morgan Murphy, top-of-the-head-ing recent ones
― rage against martin sheen (sic), Friday, 6 June 2014 02:55 (nine years ago) link
Lena -- too young? too smart?Judy -- duh, she's super married. (but he was kinda flirting with her anyway)*Annabelle -- duh, she's super married.Morgan -- didn't listen to this one for some reason, but don't they have some history?
What I'm saying is that I got the same vibes off the Rebecca Corry interview as I did the Moon Zappa one, so I expect him to make a dating announcement in a few weeks.
*My brain was thinking Judy Gold on this one at first, and I was like "Not even Marc thinks he's got a chance with a lesbian, c'mon!"
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 June 2014 03:13 (nine years ago) link
sic = hyperbole kryptonite
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 June 2014 03:24 (nine years ago) link
Judy Greer's voice makes it sound like she's flirting with everyone and vice versa.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 6 June 2014 03:31 (nine years ago) link
everyone's voice makes them sound like they are flirting with judy greer
― schlump, Friday, 6 June 2014 04:17 (nine years ago) link
That interview was so bonkers
The story about the "sex tape"! she told it with such righteous indignation and it turned out to just be a student film with a kissing scene.
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Friday, 6 June 2014 15:02 (nine years ago) link
It was like every story lacked connective tissue-- I flew there to yell at him and then he followed me down the street and then this waitress started crying and I knew they were banging and then we got married
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Friday, 6 June 2014 15:05 (nine years ago) link
I didn't mind, felt like a pretty unreliable narrator on a lot of levels but entertaining. Agree Maron mackin' was a bit much though.
― Brio2, Friday, 6 June 2014 15:12 (nine years ago) link
It was a good old fashioned WTF with a kind of wacko comedian with crazy family issues that I've never heard of before and probably will never hear of again.
― Brio2, Friday, 6 June 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link
I'd actually heard of her before because of the Pitbull advocacy, but I don't think I ever knew she was a standup.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 June 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
lmfao me too how
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Friday, 6 June 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
I liked how in the 500th episode his mom and bro were all 'well you're not only interested in yourself these days'. Really? I mean REALLY??? Holy shit what was prepodcast Marin must have been a walking nightmare
― we've all been kids from time to time (sunny successor), Friday, 6 June 2014 23:58 (nine years ago) link
has Marc ever made good on his threat to interview his hepcat eye doctor or w/e
― jaymc, Saturday, 7 June 2014 08:24 (nine years ago) link
this guy: http://www.yelp.com/biz/elliott-caine-optometry-los-angeles
remember that whole thing?
― jaymc, Saturday, 7 June 2014 08:26 (nine years ago) link
I dunno why I wasn't expecting Marc to go in on Scientology with Giovanni Ribisi in the garage, because that Dianetics joke has been in his repertoire for 20 years. Now that they're in it, Ribisi seems pretty chill.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 9 June 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
scientology is prbly pretty chill when you are a celebrity
― sufi john paxson (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 9 June 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
u prob get to buttfuck tom cruise
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Monday, 9 June 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
hey now
― sufi john paxson (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 9 June 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
Billy Gibbons would be a better interview if Maron would just shut the fuck up and let him ramble for 60 minutes.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 16 June 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 16 June 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
he has the greatest history/backstory
I could listen to him talk forever, such a lovely voice and generally engaging dude
I dunno - I think Marc did a really good job engaging him over the course of the interview. I'd have to go back and listen to it again, but there was a point around where they start talking about the individual albums or maybe slightly before that they seem to fall into a groove with each other, and Gibbons loosens up even more than he was before, which was pretty goddamn loose to begin with.
By the time he's talking about recording the individual albums, I think he's figured out that Maron is just a little spazzy in general - and in this particular instance VERY spazzy with being in the intimate presence of one of his biggest musical heroes - but that he actually knows a thing or two about the blues and truly appreciates it.
I thought it was one of the better ones he's done in a while, and certainly one of the better musician ones.
Truth be told: I live like three miles from Maron's house. I kinda want to see if he wants to play some music sometime.
― Survivalist Compound Row (B.L.A.M.), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 17:06 (nine years ago) link
Maron just can't help but latch onto the details where he's like OH I KNOW ABOUT THAT LET ME TELL YOU and it's like dude how about Billy Gibbons tell us instead
it comes from a nice place and I can totally relate, I would do the same thing
it just gets a little wearing at times
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 17:08 (nine years ago) link
Totally, but I feel like he's both accepted his geekery and obsessive need to be perceived as an equal in conversations, and has improved on both.
Still, if I had the chance to sit down with one of my guitar heroes, especially one who was/is as major an influence as Gibbons is for Maron, I'd be MUCH less successful at containing myself than he was on that interview.
From a purely fellow music geek standpoint, I really enjoyed his Jack White in the airport anecdote. I'm competent enough to play with some real talents, and their social acceptance of me is important because it means I'll likely get to play with them more. I think Maron comes from the same place.
― Survivalist Compound Row (B.L.A.M.), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
sure but when Maron stomps on his Jimi Hendrix and Roky Erikson stories to ask "so when did you decide to bring it back to the blues?" about four separate times it does get a little grating but Billy was pretty great, nice little "Billy The Kid" at the end there too
― Brio2, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
This is funny/telling:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jFf4lTw4Pk
― did click through tho on the money (Eazy), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:58 (nine years ago) link
I'm sad on the inside that Stewart and Maron can't be friends, but have no trouble at all believing that it's entirely because of Maron's behavior.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:06 (nine years ago) link
lol at George Stromboulopolpomolous
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link
wait is that doofus on wtf this week??
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:13 (nine years ago) link
Oh, I don't know--was just looking up something related to Maron/Louie after last night's Louie episode, saw that video.
― (yzaE) (Eazy), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:16 (nine years ago) link
OMG the way he is pronouncing Josh GROW-BAN is going to drive me batty.
― Bus Sex Teen Busted After Queef Beef (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 23 June 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
The first episode of season 2 of Maron showed up on Hulu, so I decided to watch it--having bailed on season 1 after two episodes. It's hard to remember another show like this that has potential, but the wrong choice is made in every scene. Like, there were some things that could have been funny--Maron, Hardwick and MIB sniping at each other, Jen not wanting to be talked about in Maron's act--but somehow they always went for the most stilted option to play a scene. The only thing that rang true was that Maron totally would not shut up if he was forced to watch the Walking Dead.
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Monday, 23 June 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
so do we suspect he's dating another fan?
― rage against martin sheen (sic), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 00:06 (nine years ago) link
Who else would date him?
― Bus Sex Teen Busted After Queef Beef (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 00:12 (nine years ago) link
Moon Zappa.
― rage against martin sheen (sic), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 00:23 (nine years ago) link
Sure, yeah.
― Bus Sex Teen Busted After Queef Beef (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 00:28 (nine years ago) link
probably that stand-up he interviewed a few weeks ago
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 00:35 (nine years ago) link
you think she's moved out of the state since the interview?
― rage against martin sheen (sic), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 01:04 (nine years ago) link
i'll hire a detective and find out
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 01:08 (nine years ago) link
Rosanne Cash is one I've been looking forward to, and it doesn't disappoint so far. She's such a great talker.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 July 2014 19:20 (nine years ago) link
christ, how far in advance does he tape? i've been waiting for the bret easton ellis episode for a month now, maybe more like 3 weeks, maybe 2....STILL
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 3 July 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
You'll probably have to wait until the hype cycle for The Curse of Downers Grove ramps up.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 July 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 3 July 2014 19:35 (nine years ago) link
thought that was a joke but it's the title of the movie he's been making
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 3 July 2014 19:36 (nine years ago) link
excited to hear Roseanne! i love her
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 July 2014 19:37 (nine years ago) link
There's an episode of Maron on Bret Easton Ellis's podcast to tide you over, if you haven't heard.
― heavy on their trademark ballads (Eazy), Thursday, 3 July 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
yeah i heard it....
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 3 July 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
i've listened to every episode of BEE's podcast since it started, but i can only take Maron in really, *really* small doses. he's insufferable but i realize that BEE is just as insufferable to others
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 3 July 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
Sometimes 4 months, sometimes 2 days.
― boney tassel (sic), Thursday, 3 July 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
Really enjoyed the Vince Vaughan episode. Genuinely a very funny guy which was a surprise. To me at least.
― hyggeligt, Friday, 4 July 2014 08:55 (nine years ago) link
LOL
https://twitter.com/marcmaron/status/486975184759296001
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
Dr H. Palmist PhD @HisRobbness 5m
@marcmaron Imagine how we feel
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
Okay this is way more Maron simulating sex with a woman than I needed to see.
― oblique blasphemies (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 18 July 2014 12:08 (nine years ago) link
i lolled at Maron's: "Taylor Swift is a lesbian?"
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Friday, 18 July 2014 12:58 (nine years ago) link
"Is this getting too Jew-y?"
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 21 July 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
the jack antonoff one was way more engaging than i expected.
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 21 July 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
Maron is on Norm MacDonald's podcast this week. Great episode - talks about psychotic breaks, AA, interviewing, stand-up life, etc. Cool to hear them just yakking without the show context of WTF
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 27 July 2014 04:31 (nine years ago) link
Mike Meyers ep is great. I particularly enjoyed the couple of anecdotes about young Dave Foley.
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 16:50 (nine years ago) link
for some reason, i was surprised to find out that Shrek was A) originally supposed to be Farly and 2) wasn't done originally with a Scottish accent.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
i was surprised that Shrek is a Scottish ogre (never seen it)
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link
Mike Myers' extended telling of the story behind the Wayne's World sketch with Tom Hanks and Aerosmith is awesome, because that's always been one of my favorite things he ever did on the show.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 4 August 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link
Claire Danes today!
Don't flirt too much, Marc!
― the one where, as balls alludes (Eazy), Monday, 4 August 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
I've downloaded it, but tbh the idea of listening to Claire Danes speak for an hour about whatever is not making me excited.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 4 August 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
Maron was driving me nuts with all the "yeah"s "right"s "uh huh uh huh"s and sentence finishing in the Danes interview. It was like he had a plane to catch.
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Monday, 4 August 2014 23:03 (nine years ago) link
Mike Myers ep is gold
― rip van wanko, Monday, 4 August 2014 23:06 (nine years ago) link
Decided to listen to Claire Danes. Marc seems disappointed that she's not as mentally disturbed as he'd like her to be.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 4 August 2014 23:11 (nine years ago) link
Today's is great.
I don't think I ever knew that Bob Newhart had never really done any live standup before he recorded his first album—which went on to win Album of the Year and net him a Best New Artist Grammy in 1961.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 11 August 2014 16:07 (nine years ago) link
that stuff about Dean Martin was hilarious -- Dean just rolls into the show in the afternoon & is genuinely cracking up at Newhart because it's the first time he's heard the material. Like Maron says, it totally makes sense I just never knew that's how it went down. Crazy.
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 August 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
great interview, seems like such a nice man
Love Bob Newhart so much that I'm actually listening to WTF.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 11 August 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
<3
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 August 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link
"I like Francis a lot, what he's doing.""Wha--who's that?""Pope Francis."
― the one where, as balls alludes (Eazy), Monday, 11 August 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
As much as I love Mould as a musician, the best part of his interview today is when he's talking about professional wrestling stuff.
― Everyone's a closet ned. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 14 August 2014 21:53 (nine years ago) link
I'm watching the 1st episode of Maron right now (it's just started on Fox over here). Maron can't act.
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Thursday, 14 August 2014 22:06 (nine years ago) link
He gets better in the second season. Still distracting sometimes.
― oblique blasphemies (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 14 August 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I turned it over, it wasn't very good. Does it get better?
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Thursday, 14 August 2014 22:20 (nine years ago) link
Well...
― oblique blasphemies (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 14 August 2014 22:25 (nine years ago) link
A little? It's a little more consistent, I think.
― oblique blasphemies (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 14 August 2014 22:28 (nine years ago) link
alec sulkin!! the only person i read on twitter. im actually excited to hear this.
― smoochy-woochy touchy-wouchy, (sunny successor), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 21:38 (nine years ago) link
I was pretty bummed over their group fuss about words/topics they can't use in comedy anymore. Shitty way to end a pretty good interview.
― Everyone's a closet ned. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
couldnt make it through the maron angst session. try again tomorrow i guess
― smoochy-woochy touchy-wouchy, (sunny successor), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 02:01 (nine years ago) link
What a surprise that a Seth MacFarlane-favoured writer would blankly fail to understand how rote, unthought insults could possibly be offensive on any level
Maron usually rolls over on his interviewees saying boneheadedly dumb shit, so the very friendly pushback on this was at least partly heartening to hear
― boney tassel (sic), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 05:06 (nine years ago) link
the Ty Segall one is an entire episode of "Who are your guys?"
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Thursday, 21 August 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
Ha! it really is.
― Everyone's a closet ned. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 21 August 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
except padded out with "what, who are those guys?!"
― boney tassel (sic), Friday, 22 August 2014 01:35 (nine years ago) link
Robyn Hitchcock tomorrow?!?!
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 23:00 (nine years ago) link
The Wanda Sykes one is pretty good. You can tell they have a lot of mutual respect and admiration for each other.
― Survivalist Compound Row (B.L.A.M.), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link
yeah that was a nice conversation. seemed like there was some dark stuff underneath her first marriage, did not sound like a good scene at all
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 23:08 (nine years ago) link
I agree - it did not sound like a happy situation.
As a side note, do you all ever listen to the Longform podcast? It's rapidly becoming a favorite of mine.
― Survivalist Compound Row (B.L.A.M.), Thursday, 28 August 2014 00:02 (nine years ago) link
never heard of it, i'll check it out
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 August 2014 02:56 (nine years ago) link
longform podcast ruuuulesthey said they started it because they liked wtf, fwiwprobably a good episode for just weird life bio stuff if anybody wants to check it is the dan p lee onei kinda just like hearing people talking about their messy twenties really
hey btw i liked marc's liver mush storyv endearing
― schlump, Thursday, 28 August 2014 05:05 (nine years ago) link
yeah that was kinda cool
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 August 2014 05:40 (nine years ago) link
Paid $9 for yearly access to the archives, but this proprietary player sucks compared to Pocket Cast (or even the iOS podcasts app).Listened to Mark Duplass one today - it was really good and pretty surprising because I only know him from The League.
Downloading some Longforms now, I've been having a hard time finding podcasts I like - comedians talking to comedians is boring, even the good tentpole podcasts (WTF, nerdist, etc.) rely on that too much.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 28 August 2014 05:50 (nine years ago) link
this is a gr8 longform ep:
http://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-87-amanda-hess
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Thursday, 28 August 2014 15:10 (nine years ago) link
I was looking forward to this Jay Bakker episode because, even though I've not been associated with the church or considered myself a Christian in over 20 years, I always did like the Bakkers. Especially Tammy Faye. Jay seems like a good guy too.
I was never on the fence about whether or not Jerry Falwell was an asshole to his core, but it was nice to have that confirmed.
― Everyone's a closet ned. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 4 September 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
Did you ever see his documentary TV series, One Punk Under God? It was pretty good.
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 September 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
Oh man, I forgot about that show! It was good.
― "a bit of goatery, some demonry" (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 4 September 2014 18:12 (nine years ago) link
I always meant to, but never did.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 September 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
i really liked it
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 September 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link
and there's some good stuff where he goes to their old theme-park thing
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 September 2014 18:24 (nine years ago) link
I have REALLY enjoyed the interview with Jay Bakker. The downfall of the PTL and the other televangelists around that time, as well as the Iran-Contra scandal, are the first two eye openers I can recall, and it's way interesting to hear the stories from around that time from another, more intimate perspective. The anecdote Bakker provides about his dad being catatonic in the fetal position on the couch for several days after it all went down is particularly personal, especially given the over-coiffed nature of their ministry.
And to Maron's credit, he did the touristy thing and asked questions about some of the scandal details, but seemed to keep his questions as being about Jay's role and position during it. It's helped by his chronological approach, and he doesn't dip back in for sensational shit after the PTL goes down.
And he really seems to engage with Bakker on his current ministry and on the question of faith and the teachings of Jesus. I'm pretty impressed by this interview.
― Survivalist Compound Row (B.L.A.M.), Thursday, 4 September 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
I'm only halfway through but I'm really enjoying how good and honest the interview is...but also that Maron has a sort of respectful understanding of Bakker's relationship with his parents, and that they were still his parents at the end of the day no matter how the larger public saw them...
and that Maron is genuinely interested in Bakker's faith. That's a big part of who this guy is and letting him talk honestly about it is awesome.
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 September 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
the nick stoller interview is great because maron is being a dick the whole time. the whole 'artisan bread' exchange is so funny. he should interview more people that he has some level of open disdain for.
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 22 September 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link
I was trying to figure out why he was so weirdly aggressive during that interview. It's not like he's never interviewed Harvard types on the show before.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 22 September 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
I kind of felt bad for Stoller, he was trying to roll with it and have fun but it felt like Maron was kind of walking all over him
― Brio2, Monday, 22 September 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
Some of those "Maron being a dick" interviews can be pretty funny esp if the interviewee is a bit of a dick to begin with eg. Dane Cook. I have no idea who Eric Stoller is tho.
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Monday, 22 September 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
or Nick Stoller even.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 22 September 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
Lol yeah him too. Maybe I was thinking of Eric Stoltz.
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Monday, 22 September 2014 21:00 (nine years ago) link
seems like a perfectly nice guy but it's still a funny dynamic, like that podcast where kumail nanjiani and maron were going at it. i've been kinda bored by WTF lately so it was refreshing. tim and eric this week though, could be good.
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 22 September 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
When Nick Frost was talking today about his character on Spaced, named Mike Watt, I thought "Has Maron never interviewed Mike Watt? Maron needs to interview Mike Watt!"
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 22 September 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
nick frost is on today? awesome!
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 September 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link
Ugh that would be awful. Marc would keep interrupting him. Mike Watt needs to just do his own podcast of monologues.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 22 September 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link
Haha, prob right
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 22 September 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
Who were D. Boon's guys?!
― folk punks: stop bragg-ing (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 22 September 2014 23:45 (nine years ago) link
Mike Watt needs to just do his own podcast of monologues.
Watt has a podcast - http://twfps.comIt's great! Watt hangs out with folks and plays records.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 02:36 (nine years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 02:38 (nine years ago) link
!!!!
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 03:04 (nine years ago) link
Does he end every episode with START YOUR OWN PODCAST?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 03:18 (nine years ago) link
I'd never heard of Dax Shepard before his interview with Maron. Seems like a complete d-bag. He should be in prison for beating down that pedestrian.
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 12:24 (nine years ago) link
I mostly know him as Kristen Bell's husband.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 12:50 (nine years ago) link
I remember him from Punked and for looking like Zach Braff with lighter hair.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 13:14 (nine years ago) link
he is really good in the Parenthood tv show
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 14:18 (nine years ago) link
and in Let's Go To Prison!
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 14:20 (nine years ago) link
wait he beat someone up i don't feel like googling someone tell me
― i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 14:32 (nine years ago) link
I'd never heard of Dax Shepard before his interview with Maron.
http://images.movieplayer.it/images/2004/03/01/dax-shepard-e-luke-wilson-in-una-scena-del-film-idiocracy-43170.jpg
― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 14:34 (nine years ago) link
Man, I don't know, I got a totally different vibe from Dax. It sounded more like he was fully aware that he was a total d-bag, but has reformed quite a bit. Seemed like a pretty genuine guy that had a pretty decent handle on how he's fucked up in the past and how he's moving forward.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 14:41 (nine years ago) link
yeah that's the feeling I got
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 15:30 (nine years ago) link
Also, that "pedestrian" threw a full cup of something at the windshield of the car Dax was driving. Dax might have gone overboard, but dude needed his ass beat.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
yeah, i'm sure the cup throwing was completely unprovoked
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
i'm not sure if you're just trolling now or what, but he gave a pretty solid rundown of the whole incident. i doubt that anything deserved a public ass-kicking, but you're trying to make it sound like Dax just randomly jumped out of his vehicle and started beating the shit out of a completely innocent bystander, which was very much not the case from the story he told. again, yes, it's a dick move for Dax to handle it the way he did, but let's not keep pretending it happened with zero context.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 16:21 (nine years ago) link
xpost I saw that "Neighbors" movie Nick Stoller made, and it was such a piece of shit. There's like 10 minutes of movie, and then the rest is as if the director died and the replacement couldn't find the script and had to construct a movie out of hours of improvised takes based on the actors getting a one sentence pitch of the premise and just told "action!" You can practically picture the studio going oh crap, the movie's only 40 minutes long, what do we do now!? If I saw "Neighbors" before I interviewed Nick Stoller, I don't think I would be very respectful either.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
xpost I didn't say the walker didn't throw anything at the car, but there was something about Dax that made me doubt that he wasn't giving a self-serving version of events. But maybe there wasn't a crosswalk and maybe the thrower was just a prick. But I've had experiences with aggressive cars while trying to cross a street where I'd probably have thrown a Big Gulp if I'd had one handy. Whatever, I guess you guys like him.
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 18:31 (nine years ago) link
I only really know the guy from Idiocracy, don't really care one way or the other about him. Again, not defending him beating this guy up, but I think you're downplaying how dangerous it is to throw anything at the windshield of a moving vehicle - crosswalk or not.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 18:41 (nine years ago) link
ok you're right i won't do it again
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 18:46 (nine years ago) link
i haven't listened to the nick frost interview yet -- is it good?
and what about Kathy Griffin? is that worth a listen?
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
Griffin was an okay interview, though it made me like her even less that I already did. She definitely thinks very highly of herself.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 19:19 (nine years ago) link
yeah, i guess in truth I don't care if he's nice to Nick Stoller that much - and anyone who refers to themselves making artisinal bread deserves what he gets... it's more just why the fuck are you talking to Nick Stoller, Dax Sheppard and Kathy Griffin in rapid succession? The odd odious show biz type is great - and Maron can be at his best in full-on aggressive mode: Andy Dick, Gallagher, Mencia, Carrot Top - all amazing. But these recent ones aren't anywhere near as engaging as those.
― Brio2, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 13:01 (nine years ago) link
i thought the kathy griffin one was great actually. her family situation sounds so deeply crazy.
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 14:08 (nine years ago) link
he's probably dumping some of weaker interviews on us knowing that comedy nerds will forget about after he drops the Tim & Eric one tomorrow
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 14:29 (nine years ago) link
Chris Parnell today. So great.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 6 October 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, September 23, 2014 11:27 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah, this movie was not worth it. Actually High School Musical dude was the best thing about it.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 6 October 2014 23:32 (nine years ago) link
I watched the first five minutes on a plane and gave up
― Starland Vocal Gland (sic), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 00:23 (nine years ago) link
I always tell people if they saw the trailer they saw I they need to see.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 00:32 (nine years ago) link
If they saw the trailerThey saw IThey need to see
― sink floyd (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 03:01 (nine years ago) link
does he seem a little off in the Parnell interview?
― i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 16:04 (nine years ago) link
like more so than the usual
― i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 16:05 (nine years ago) link
he seemed punchy like in that interview with the director. also in the intro
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 16:10 (nine years ago) link
hmmmm
― i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 16:11 (nine years ago) link
REMEMBER YOUR FIRST BLOWJOB
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 21:07 (nine years ago) link
How is your mother BTW?
― hyggeligt, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 22:13 (nine years ago) link
Sheesh, the intro just before Tim & Eric "YOU WILL SPEND THE REST OF YOUR LIFE TRYING TO GET IT"
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 07:57 (nine years ago) link
Dude needs a break, I think.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 12:06 (nine years ago) link
from himself.
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 13:52 (nine years ago) link
kinda worried about him
― i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 13:53 (nine years ago) link
he said he's on the verge of breakthrough. maybe it's all the euphoria.
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 13:54 (nine years ago) link
I listened to the Parnell interview and his questions about Baptists were really embarrassing.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 15:07 (nine years ago) link
yeah "aren't those the guys with the snakes?" re: any southern Christians is still not funny, even after the fourth or fifth time he's trotted it out. agree he seems manic and sliding off the rails lately.
― Brio2, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
I think the fact that he's always trying to reach for an easy joke makes it hard for him to process new information when speaking to people--which is why he trots out some incorrect facts and anecdotes again and again even after being corrected on them.
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link
he seems manic-y for sure
― i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 18:20 (nine years ago) link
it's so annoying how he resents almost all of his guests/is jealous of them, ESPECIALLY tim and eric
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 18:31 (nine years ago) link
huh i don't get that sense from him.
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 18:36 (nine years ago) link
he comes off very hostile to them and, bizarrely, can't grasp their sense of humor/what they're 'all about', and he's angry they're so popular
"TGIF? So that was it? That was the joke? What's funny about that? Huh?"
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link
I think he was honest in that Tim and Eric podcast about being jealous of their success and pushing the "I just don't get it" thing because of that. He comes right out and says as much, if I recall correctly.
But Tim Heidecker seemed like he nailed what Maron really objected to about them: that he saw Tim and Eric as emotionally detached or not revealing anything about who they really are as people in their comedy. Maron brushes it off - but it sounded right to me. Maron's very into the warrior-poet, confessional, bleeding-to-death on stage ideal - any kind of an "act" or schtick gets his back up.
― Brio2, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 18:59 (nine years ago) link
tim & eric aside, i don't get a lot of resentment from him during interviews of the more famous guests, if anything it's the lesser-known comedians that he pushes more.
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link
If anything, I think he has pushed the "I used to be jealous of you but now we are hashing it out so we can be friends" angle WAAAY too hard since the success of the Louis CK episode.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 19:10 (nine years ago) link
Like it worked really well that time so he keeps going back to the well.
yeah - that's the whole "Are we good?" thing (for a guy who hates schtick, he certainly has his share). I know it's kind of a crutch - but I think the hashing out old beefs thing actually has produced some of his most interesting stuff. Or at least he feels lost without it - which is why the music interviews seem so aimless a lot of the time.
what did you all think of the Rivers Cuomo interview?
― Brio2, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 19:19 (nine years ago) link
I actually do get them, and I'm also angry they're popular. Ugh.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 19:20 (nine years ago) link
I'm always baffled by the notion that Tim and Eric are popular. Outside of my girlfriend and my brother, I don't know if I personally know anyone else who's into them.
― Certified Genious (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 19:22 (nine years ago) link
The out-and-out resentment of success angle of "are we good?" has actually faded a lot - he's a legit famous guy with a TV show who talks to movie stars every other day now - kind of hard for him to be the unjustly unappreciated Lenny Bruce guy when he's interviewing Claire Danes or whatever.
― Brio2, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
tbh I haven't noticed any significant change in his behavior/attitude during interviews, or even during the monologues, in quite a while.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I can't say I see anything alarming about his behaviour lately either.
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
he just seems extra amped up
― i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
I just don't listen to any of the WTFs with comedians, with actors and musicians he's sometimes pretty dumb (WHO WERE YOUR GUYS, and being a bit condescending with female musicians IIRC) but I don't hear any of the weird jealousy stuff.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
well, he recently did an interview that was 60% his resentment that he didn't get into Harvard and his guest did
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 20:05 (nine years ago) link
Looking back on that one, I think both of them were in on the joke.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
that one was great.
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
struggling with the idea that someone listens to WTF for the musician interviews and not the comedians
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 22:13 (nine years ago) link
The musician interviews have been both some of his worst and some of his best.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 22:18 (nine years ago) link
The Patton Oswalt one from a few years back is a great example of the jealousy thing.
I think "Are we good?" is part of his AA making-amends, so he'd be doing it with or without the show.
― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 22:42 (nine years ago) link
every member of the State has had to answer to Maron's delusion that they were the biggest thing in the world back in '94
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 22:45 (nine years ago) link
He's been in AA at lot longer than he's been making amends for this sort of stuff, I think.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 22:48 (nine years ago) link
Comedians just aren't, as a rule, interesting people to me?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 23:04 (nine years ago) link
Wow, that wipes out 80% of the podcast game for you.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
no shortage of non-comedians being interviewed on podcasts
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
I need my podcast hosts to be comfortable on mic. Comedians are generally good at that, many many non-comedian podcast hosts are not.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 23:28 (nine years ago) link
Comedian hosts are fine, usually, unless they're Jeff Garlin or Chris Hardwick.
I don't get a ton of time to listen to podcasts, so it works out. 1 WTF a week, various NPR-y ones, and several food/cooking podcasts do it.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 9 October 2014 01:15 (nine years ago) link
what is a good cooking podcast
― polyphonic, Thursday, 9 October 2014 01:47 (nine years ago) link
Cooking Issues w/ Dave ArnoldSplendid Table (sometimes good, sometimes too NPRy)KCRW's Good Food but that's more about food than cooking.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 9 October 2014 02:18 (nine years ago) link
Anerica's Test Kitchen podcast is good for cooking knowledge, but the call-in segments run too long. I usually skip through most of it.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 9 October 2014 02:42 (nine years ago) link
good musician-on-musician podcasts i've been listening to lately:
No Effects (one of the dude from Tanlines)Secret Skin w/Open Mike EagleWandering Wolf (Yoni Wolf)and Blockhead's podcast with a friend of his that's not about music or interviews at all
― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 9 October 2014 15:00 (nine years ago) link
The WTF explicitly plays up the jealously/resentment angle. Like:
Neighbors director Nicholas Stoller is someone who movie studios trust with millions of dollars in production costs. Naturally, Marc wants to know how Nick got that way. He suspects Nick’s Harvard education has a lot to do with it, much to Marc’s chagrin as someone who went to nearby Boston University and spent his own college career on the outside looking in.
Or:
Kathy Griffin stops by for a true throwback WTF episode. It’s a throwback because Kathy and Marc spend the first 10 minutes defusing past tension and figuring out the root of their problem. Then with that out of the way, they talk about the alternative comedy scene, Kathy’s struggles to fit in with the stand-up crowd and her unlikely breakthrough as a reality TV star.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 October 2014 15:04 (nine years ago) link
Those are from the site.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 October 2014 15:05 (nine years ago) link
Bill Clinton stops by the Cat Ranch for a very special episode. Marc asks the President what his parents did, whether he met Lorne in the mid-90s, what it was like to live in Arkansas.
― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Thursday, 9 October 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link
unresolved tension from years ago is not the same as currently resenting his guests though.
― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 9 October 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link
― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 9 October 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link
? This is pretty clear on that front:
He suspects Nick’s Harvard education has a lot to do with it, much to Marc’s chagrin as someone who went to nearby Boston University and spent his own college career on the outside looking in.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 October 2014 15:10 (nine years ago) link
xpost "So Mr. President, did your childhood involve livestock? Any milking or breeding? Did you handle snakes or is that the Branch Davidians?"
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Thursday, 9 October 2014 15:11 (nine years ago) link
Today's interview is a step outside the norm. Maron gets to condemn pedophilia in the black community a lot.
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Thursday, 9 October 2014 15:13 (nine years ago) link
sure but that episode is by no means his standard interview approach.
chris parnell one was sooooo boring. :(
― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 9 October 2014 15:13 (nine years ago) link
Marc's meeting with the former President brings up bad memories of the time he ran for class president and lost.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 October 2014 15:14 (nine years ago) link
wtf was that shit about ebola in the parnell open?
― GhostTunes on my Pono (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 9 October 2014 17:11 (nine years ago) link
Maron interviewing Clinton posts are cracking me up.
― Brio2, Thursday, 9 October 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
I'll add How Did I Get Here to the list, but the Austin localism does fly over my head sometimes.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 9 October 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
Kenneth Starr! Yeah, that guy did some stuff. Who were your other guys?
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 9 October 2014 22:59 (nine years ago) link
Did you ever have that moment where you're like, 'There is no Plan B. If this presidency thing doesn't work out I'm going back to being a line cook.'? I worked as a line cook. Once I sauteed this guy's onions perfectly and he sent them back. So anyway, ever hear The Stooges on vinyl? It's crazy, right?
― Brio2, Friday, 10 October 2014 14:55 (nine years ago) link
Are those actual quotes? If they are that's all a bit sad.
― hyggeligt, Friday, 10 October 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
what is it if they're not?
― Starland Vocal Gland (sic), Saturday, 11 October 2014 02:48 (nine years ago) link
They'd be not that sad.
― hyggeligt, Saturday, 11 October 2014 07:35 (nine years ago) link
He's basically said all of those things--just not to Bill Clinton
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Saturday, 11 October 2014 14:32 (nine years ago) link
woo Larry Wilmore! Hope Marc doesn't make this terrible.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 13 October 2014 15:16 (nine years ago) link
God I love Larry Wilmore.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 13 October 2014 17:05 (nine years ago) link
The Wilmore one was actually pretty great and interesting. But I swear, Marc is about six months away from a spin-off podcast called, So, Who Are Your Black Guys?.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
Went to one of the Trepany House shows tonight. Silly at times and I'll never tire of the ice cream story. I like it when Marc goes contemptous - mercilessly on Sting of all people "someone who needs to be recognized." Maladjustment in the life a middle-tier cable show celebrity is suddenly more relatable. Seeing him live go from zero to full-out rage is still "whoa!" moment (was talking about going from Skype sex to Skype fighting). Fully realize that I am being one of the bloggers he mocks by writing this.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 09:17 (nine years ago) link
I don't think I could spend more than five minutes in the same room with Bob Rubin before going insane.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 16 October 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
i couldn't make it more than five minutes in the same room with his podcast.
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 17 October 2014 16:40 (nine years ago) link
The Rubin podcast was almost too much to bear. Marc handled it pretty well, and was able to maintain at least a little objectivity when Rubin was talking about the REALLY dark times.
Does anyone else feel like a total fucking tourist when you hear stories like this one, the details surrounding Robin Williams' private life, or other mental health/chemical dependency issues? I constantly go very quickly from (1) Man, that's fucked up, to (2) I'm glad that's not me, to (3) Man, I feel guilty about using someone else's bad times to make myself feel better about my own.
― Hydroelectric New Deal Demiurge (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 17 October 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
no, i always watch that one kurt cobain interview where he's wearing the tinsel when i feel really crappy physically or emotionally
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Saturday, 18 October 2014 05:37 (nine years ago) link
Maron on Buddhism was great. "So you know that movie The Last Detail, when Randy Quaid is hanging out with those hippies? That's basically where Buddhism was coming from in that era, right? Amazing how many cults there were in Los Angeles in the 60's and 70's. So anyways..."
― Brio2, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 15:57 (nine years ago) link
in his search for self Maron has picked up much wisdom
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 16:08 (nine years ago) link
Pre-interview Marc bores me for the most part (like most ppl) but his Sting story was funny. Rob Rubin is a good stand-up, there's some stuff of his on YouTube/Vimeo although not a lot.
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 16:44 (nine years ago) link
Rubin's the second guy on WTF who used to be part of Comedy Corner at the University of AZ. (The other was Graham Elwood.)
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 16:47 (nine years ago) link
lol @ Andre Arroyo's story about seeing Rocky in a black theater and the whole audience rooting for the white guy to beat up the black guy. THAT'S MOVIE MAGIC.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 24 October 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
Royo, even.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 24 October 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link
I dug that conversation, and am VERY glad they took a long time to get to the Wire. Dude had an interesting upbringing, and was a good interviewee. He and Maron were obviously having a good time talking with each other.
― Hydroelectric New Deal Demiurge (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 24 October 2014 19:22 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, that was a fun interview to hear. I've still never even watched The Wire, so when I do I'll be looking extra forward to seeing his part.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 24 October 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
Pretty sure he's the only character in each of the five seasons that's not a cop. As noted in the interview, he's the common thread for the whole story.
Shit, now I wanna go watch the Wire again.
― Hydroelectric New Deal Demiurge (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 24 October 2014 22:02 (nine years ago) link
Dr. Drew Pinsky interview this morning is FASCINATING.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 3 November 2014 12:38 (nine years ago) link
um how so? i was gonna skip it.
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 3 November 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
Oh man, 15 minutes into this and it's like Marc Maron has a checkup with Dr. Drew.
― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Wednesday, 5 November 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
man, that guy from Camper Van Beethoven sure likes saying "Inland Empire"
― Brio2, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 16:50 (nine years ago) link
Right? That was annoying.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
i love dr drew
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 6 November 2014 00:07 (nine years ago) link
Me too
― smoochy-woochy touchy-wouchy, (sunny successor), Thursday, 6 November 2014 03:23 (nine years ago) link
and it was a p great interview
i liked the last 5 min where they talked abt faith + AA
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 6 November 2014 03:25 (nine years ago) link
I hope he talks about Uncle Floyd tomorrow
― los blue jeans, Thursday, 6 November 2014 03:26 (nine years ago) link
Dr. Drew: [Long explanation of traumatic anxiety from wanting to do good and help people and having views distorted by tabloids.]
Marc: So did you ever try Viagra? How about that?
― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Thursday, 6 November 2014 08:08 (nine years ago) link
marc seemed really eager to talk over the guy to explain his own Deep Thoughts About Human Psychology
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 6 November 2014 10:07 (nine years ago) link
when i used to listen to Dan Savage more, i remember that he would often bring up the dumb/ignorant viewpoints held by Dr. Drew, but forget the details. something about being prone to pathologizing people's sexuality.
― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 6 November 2014 15:03 (nine years ago) link
Dr. Drew also believes that women who speak with high pitched voices were molested as children.
― Brocktoon Tanuki (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 6 November 2014 18:40 (nine years ago) link
Seriously.
Vivino's fun to listen to.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 6 November 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
yeah i remember the voice thing became a pretty gross running joke with him and corolla on loveline where they'd put the caller on hold and try to guess at what age and how many times she was molested. i remember thinking "maybe these two should stop doing this show, it's turning them into monsters"
― slam dunk, Thursday, 6 November 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
― Brio2, Thursday, 6 November 2014 22:42 (nine years ago) link
jimmy vivino making me v happy rn
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 November 2014 01:33 (nine years ago) link
xxpost my memory of that was that it was v much carolla-driven, re: making a game out of guessing abuse within a short timeframe
but it's been a long time since i listened
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 November 2014 01:59 (nine years ago) link
The whole section about Dr. Drew's early involvement in the AIDS crisis, and how that directly led to a call-in show for talking aloud about sex, was especially interesting.
― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Friday, 7 November 2014 05:04 (nine years ago) link
Mulaney: You saw my worst show ever.Maron: (alluding to some other show he saw....which, ouch!)Mulaney: No, I'm talking about Aspen.Maron: I was there?Mulaney: You were the host.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 17 November 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
I just found that whole exchange funny.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 17 November 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
Vivino interview contained some excellent Jersey lore
― los blue jeans, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 02:42 (nine years ago) link
man Maron's tone in some of that Mulaney interview, it's like old bitter Maron was waiting in the wings to come out gunning for the young successful new guy. not overt, but just the timing of the questions...jeez
like boom STRAIGHT into how long he's been sober with no leadup
I'm enjoying the conversation and I think Mulaney's great but I felt a bit embarrasssed for Maron that he still can't help doing that
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 02:46 (nine years ago) link
Have listened to half this Dr. Drew thing and it's totally living up to my expectations. A Platonic example of the interaction where guest says "I don't really want to talk about _____" and Maron says "yeah but we're gonna" and then somehow they do.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 04:39 (nine years ago) link
I don't really spend any time at all in the Dr. Drew-verse, so I didn't realize until a couple days ago that his wife Susan has her own radio show that focuses on psychics and mediums and astrology and alien abductions and shit. That's...odd.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 04:49 (nine years ago) link
whoa. had no idea.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 07:03 (nine years ago) link
O_o
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 15:24 (nine years ago) link
How many times has Maron hate listened to today’s BS Report?
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 20 November 2014 01:05 (nine years ago) link
what's a BS Report?
― Brio2, Thursday, 20 November 2014 17:32 (nine years ago) link
ok googled nevermind, (it's a podcast that got a lorne michaels interview< right?)
JULIA SWEENEY BITCHES
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 24 November 2014 13:34 (nine years ago) link
Julia Sweeney seems like such a fun person to be around.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 24 November 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link
I haven't been listening for a month or so and am catching up--what's with all these "hey look, so and so dropped by to lug their new shit for 20 minutes" openings? Mankind, Sporkful guy, Paulie Shore, guy from Community
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Thursday, 4 December 2014 16:13 (nine years ago) link
Plug
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Thursday, 4 December 2014 16:14 (nine years ago) link
I don't know, I'm kind of getting tired of 90-100 minute WTF episodes. I can't take that much Maron. Having said that, I'd be happy with more Mankind appearance in general, dude is so great.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 4 December 2014 16:15 (nine years ago) link
It's a source of income that's preferable to the eight millionth Stamps dot com ad read imo.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 December 2014 16:15 (nine years ago) link
I've never heard a 20 minutes Stamps.com ad
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Thursday, 4 December 2014 16:17 (nine years ago) link
I fast forward past all that shit
In the Rhett Miller interview, he mentions that his parents continued supporting him while he was a struggling comedian and I lost all possibly sympathy for his bitching about his parents.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 4 December 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link
That's just my own bias. I hate Stamps.com.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 December 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link
better stamps.com than the adam & eve ads. i don't need to hear marc talking about vibrating things i can put inside myself or my partner while i walk to work, cheers.
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 4 December 2014 16:47 (nine years ago) link
The whole exchange between Rhett and Marc about the suicide attempt was pretty funny, paraphrasing obvs:
Rhett: Yeah, it's not something I like to talk about a lot.
Marc: So how'd you do it?
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 4 December 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
"Maybe you need to buy something to stuff inside one of your holes!"
― how's life, Thursday, 4 December 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
skip that shit!WTF Podcast Intro Poll
― Brio2, Thursday, 4 December 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
the intro to the Chrissie Hynde episode (with Maron screaming about coffee and nicotine) is very skippable
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Thursday, 4 December 2014 17:00 (nine years ago) link
Gaffigan's visit before Martin Starr was fantastic as always.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 4 December 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
so this podcast is now officially sandwiched between 2 guitar center maron jamgasms, huh?
― $0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 8 December 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
Is the chrissy Hyde interview a good listen?
― how's life, Monday, 8 December 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
It wasn't the most comfortable interview I've ever heard, and I couldn't tell if it was because Marc was too eager or if Chrissie had an agenda, but I kind of didn't enjoy it. Also, they found a way to bash disco for a little bit, so fuck'em both.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 8 December 2014 21:29 (nine years ago) link
All I could think listening to the Hynde interview was, "jeesh, and people thing Jann Wenner is an old rockist asshole". Does Chrissie always come across as such a close-minded traditionalist? Or was she having an off day? Her choice of words during the whole disco thing was a little eyebrow-raising too.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 8 December 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link
I thought Maron was the one bashing disco mostly, she was trying to talk about reggae. He was also angling to bash punk as being "all about the fashion" but she ignored it. He really is the most textbook rockist tube amp dude ever.
― Brio2, Monday, 8 December 2014 21:44 (nine years ago) link
I don't think he knows what he is, because I still see him posting his record buying results on twitter and he's getting into a lot of varied and different stuff. Old habits die hard, though.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 8 December 2014 21:46 (nine years ago) link
He's been trying to get into hip-hop lately. Shouldn't be too long until he declares the Roots are the best at it.
― polyphonic, Monday, 8 December 2014 21:49 (nine years ago) link
he's been posting about the box of black metal a friend sent him. Apparently he's pretty into it.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 8 December 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link
To that end, I would love to hear him interview Questlove.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 8 December 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link
I thought Maron was the one bashing disco mostly, she was trying to talk about reggae.
Maybe I misconstrued what she was saying, not about to go back for another listen, but when she was talking about how African-American music, post reggae, gained this "smash and grab" mentality and leaving out spirituality, I thought it was a little icky sounding.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 8 December 2014 22:00 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, it was that phrase exactly that made me go o_O
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 8 December 2014 22:01 (nine years ago) link
ew.
― how's life, Monday, 8 December 2014 23:39 (nine years ago) link
I've never really listened to many interviews with her though, so maybe that's par for the course. It just struck me that, during a WTF musician interview, it was the guest making me more uncomfortable than Marc.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 8 December 2014 23:50 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B4YzDtEIUAEfXSP.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 04:47 (nine years ago) link
oh jesus I forgot the "smash and grab" bullshit, you're right, that was nuts
― Brio2, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 14:48 (nine years ago) link
I love how people are talking about Maron's growing musical appreciation like he's a teen in their extended family instead of a middle aged celebrity
― da croupier, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 14:51 (nine years ago) link
*only teens are allowed to grow their appreciation of music**
― i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 14:55 (nine years ago) link
a teen in their extended family
this feels more accurate actually.
i was on the 'have to listen to every episode' train for a long time but haven't felt like listening in awhile. there are enough good podcasts now that were inspired by his model but feel fresher (probably because they have better taste in music and haven't run for hundreds of episodes).
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 15:01 (nine years ago) link
What are some other good ones Jordan? I need a couple of new podcasts.
― Brio2, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 15:05 (nine years ago) link
here's what i've been listening to in the car:
-The Wandering Wolf (Yoni Wolf from Why?'s podcast, i don't think enjoyment is contingent on knowing or liking his music, although he does talk to Anticon-related dudes from time to time.)
-Secret Skin (Open Mike Eagle's podcast, interviews are mostly rappers and comedians so far)
-Kinda Neat (L.A.-based, lots of rappers and producers)
-No Effects (conversations with musicians hosted by one of the dudes from Tanlines, he's sort of dry but in a way that reminds me of myself)
-The Champs
Then there are a couple other ones that I listen to at work, for some reason it's easier to work to shows that have regular co-hosts rather than an interview format. Dapwell & Lakutis (from Das Racist) have one that's pretty funny.
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 15:26 (nine years ago) link
I was excited about the Mike Eagle show, but I tried to listen to the episode with Milo and the sound quality was so bad (like sub-Shots Fired level) that I could barely make out what they were saying.
I like the W. Kamau Bell and Kevin Avery podcast about Denzel
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 15:45 (nine years ago) link
that was the worst one sound-wise, the others are better (but still not, uh, great).
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link
GIVE THE KID A LOZENGE
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 11 December 2014 12:08 (nine years ago) link
Turns out that Jenny Slate, Maron, and I all had the same experience growing up with maths
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 11 December 2014 12:20 (nine years ago) link
except they probably called it math
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Thursday, 11 December 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
It's weird. I've heard Jenny Slate interviewed a bunch of times and always liked her, but after hearing her WTF I'm thinking things like, "oh yeah, your life is so awesome that you need to escape it by smoking out 24/7." Maybe I'm hearing her through Maron's 12-steppin' ears tho.
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Saturday, 13 December 2014 02:53 (nine years ago) link
I think I maybe listened to the Louis episode(s) before, but if I did it's been so long that hearing them talk today sounds fresh.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 15 December 2014 19:00 (nine years ago) link
i love the stuff about the blue trumpet & his crazy amex purchases
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 15 December 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
Those Louie interviews are so great, I can revisit them every couple months and enjoy them just as much,
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 00:07 (nine years ago) link
the trumpet story is so wonderful
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 00:09 (nine years ago) link
Is it just me or is Marc being extra gross and dickish on this St. Vincent podcast?
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
I felt like when she said "fuckable" Maron took it as an invitation to talk about sex
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 20:28 (nine years ago) link
Everything about this is kinda yuck.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 20:29 (nine years ago) link
Kept thinking he was going to tell her he wanted to kiss her a-la Joe Namath to Suzy Kolber.
― Bryan, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 04:50 (nine years ago) link
ew
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 05:11 (nine years ago) link
hmmm. will this be more or less uncomfortable than jeff garlin interviewing any woman ever?
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 23:06 (nine years ago) link
I generally find Adam Goldberg insufferable, but am really digging this interview.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
I've heard Jenny Slate interviewed a bunch of times and always liked her, but after hearing her WTF I'm thinking things like, "oh yeah, your life is so awesome that you need to escape it by smoking out 24/7."
i enjoyed this one (first one i've listened to in a minute) but had the same thought for sure.
ha :/
looking forward to Adam Goldberg because i kinda love Adam Goldberg.
― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
I like him too, excited to hear his interview.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link
adam goldberg is one of my biggest crushes, so excited
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 18 December 2014 23:04 (nine years ago) link
(You guys make me feel like a freak for being annoyed by Goldberg. Turns out that hearing him talk is far preferable to watching him talk, for me anyway.)
The Melissa Etheridge one today is also really good, something special happens (usually) when Maron throws down with people his age.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 22 December 2014 11:55 (nine years ago) link
Maron really oversold the emotional tug of this interview in his intro. I appreciate the things M.E. has been through, but this was really just a good chat.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 22 December 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link
i think he just liked the lyrics of that song
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Monday, 22 December 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
Holy fuck, I'm getting choked up at this Goldberg interview. I had no idea he was friends with Michael Dahlquist and those guys.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link
stillborn baby gutted me. i have been following him on instagram for a long time, and he had posted about a crib or something around when the baby was due i think?...and then he was radio silence for a few months, i figured just bcz of having a kid, never thought anymore of itso fucking sad & awfulhopeful for his new little one, but god how scary a second time around
but for realz follow him on ig, he takes beautiful haunting photos
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 05:21 (nine years ago) link
people who miss this show being especially combative and bitter will find a TON to love in today's episode
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 29 December 2014 13:31 (nine years ago) link
Oh man, I bet. Nash seems tailor-made to irritate Maron. He irritates me, tbh.
― GUARD YOUR EARS!!! ...with Gorman's. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 29 December 2014 13:58 (nine years ago) link
In the end they find some common ground, but it's rocky going at times.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 29 December 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link
Man. I kind of want Maron and Nash to do a quarterly podcast together. They're both sort of sociopathic to each other, but they also have the courage to call each other out about their personality defects.
It was kind of telling when Nash was talking about his father's need to always redirect the topic of conversation towards himself and his problems (and how they were just as bad or worse) and Maron butting in to talk about himself and how his father did the same thing (to just as bad a degree... or worse).
― blindest of willies (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 1 January 2015 04:44 (nine years ago) link
I love Melanie Lynskey's accent so much. I need to go to NZ sometime.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 January 2015 17:44 (nine years ago) link
^^YES
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 2 January 2015 17:52 (nine years ago) link
I'd forgotten how much I kinda hated "Magnolia," but wonder if I'd feel differently about it if I returned to it now.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 5 January 2015 13:51 (nine years ago) link
This interview with the Playboy interviewer guy was like Maron's version of that TPM article where all of the writer's questions were a variation of "Why didn't Iggy Azalea give Charli XCX a shout-out on "Fancy"?"
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Monday, 5 January 2015 15:47 (nine years ago) link
The Tim Conway drivers license story is cracking me up when I envision the events actually taking place.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 January 2015 16:42 (nine years ago) link
I like Marc interviewing directors.
― nose, Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:23 (nine years ago) link
loved the Jason Nash and PTA interviews (for completely opposite reasons).
the Ricky Jay "never the less..." anecdote is the one that's been killing me.
― virtuoso thigh slapper (Jordan), Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:31 (nine years ago) link
PTA seems cool
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link
I just got to the little diversion at the end where they tacked on a talk about records. It's basically the same convo Marc has had with 50 other people, but I love the jubilation he experiences when he encounters another people who listens to the same things he likes.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 8 January 2015 19:19 (nine years ago) link
Oh wait, Linklater just said "disco sucked" and then immediately walked it back. Then slammed rap. rmde
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 8 January 2015 19:20 (nine years ago) link
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 8 January 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link
Oh he's an old white dude?
― pelvic slang (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 8 January 2015 22:38 (nine years ago) link
The key to my continuing enjoyment of Linklater's films is to ignore him as a person. He used to pimp Alex Jones bullshit and was passing out 9/11 Truther docs on the set of one of his movies.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 8 January 2015 23:59 (nine years ago) link
Too much Austin living, then?
― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Friday, 9 January 2015 03:40 (nine years ago) link
i thought maron and pt anderson brought out something like the worst -- most pretentious and preening -- in one another. reminded me that although i admire some of his movies (or at least aspects of them), i still think anderson is fundamentally pretentious and shallow.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 9 January 2015 04:08 (nine years ago) link
the drivers license story is great, though he didn't tell it very well.
I hope Marc was smart enough to grease the wheel of possibly getting Conway in for an episode.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 9 January 2015 04:47 (nine years ago) link
Really enjoying the Andrea Martin one, even though I'm not sure I know who she is exactly. When Marc talks to women his age or older it's invariably great.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 22 January 2015 13:31 (nine years ago) link
been catching up on a backlog of these recently. i had to give up on the melanie lynskey ep about 30 minutes in because mark's awkward flirting and insistence on getting her to agree that she was codependent was making me feel kinda queasy.
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 22 January 2015 13:55 (nine years ago) link
Didn't realize that Mike Judge's natural speaking voice is for the most part just "Butthead". This is great.
― how's life, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 12:23 (nine years ago) link
Loved Judge's story about the only way he got Gary Cole to crack a smile on set during Office Space was that coffee cup improv during the Aniston "sex scene".
― Darin, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link
enjoying the Andrea Martin one, even though I'm not sure I know who she is exactly.
Jesus God, man
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:05 (nine years ago) link
I kept getting flashes of either Hank Hill or Butthead when listening to Mike Judge, that one & Schwartzman were very enjoyable.
― virtuoso thigh slapper (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:40 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I liked the Schwartzman one. He came across as way more likable than I thought he would be. Considering the family he grew up in, he seems really grounded too.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link
definitely. he made me feel very lazy too, talking about working on music for three hours every night (!) after his family goes to bed.
― virtuoso thigh slapper (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 15:47 (nine years ago) link
What do you think someone could come away from the interview with apart from "seems to have written a book that isn't selling and is maybe touring in a panto"?
― bob seger's silver bullet gland (sic), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 22:01 (nine years ago) link
that she was on SCTV, one of the greatest shows ever
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 22:03 (nine years ago) link
Can't believe you know so little about Steve Martin's sister.
― Fudgebelch (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 22:04 (nine years ago) link
Transcribe everything Maron says about SCTV and its content and quality?
― bob seger's silver bullet gland (sic), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 22:22 (nine years ago) link
Did anyone transcribe the podcast for sic yet
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 22:35 (nine years ago) link
I'm sure Morbz is doing it from his memory of enjoying the ep last week
― bob seger's silver bullet gland (sic), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 00:15 (nine years ago) link
I recall some talk about John Candy but I'll wait for the transcript
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 00:29 (nine years ago) link
sic is trolling, he totally transcribes every episode
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 02:46 (nine years ago) link
loved the Gaffigan interview, especially when he called out Maron on his socio-stereotyping bullshit
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 02:40 (nine years ago) link
^^ this bit was hilarious. Maron can be such a prat at times indeed. "I believe you were the ENEMY once?"
― tayto fan (Michael B), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 13:05 (nine years ago) link
Cameron Esposito is great and funny, but I feel like she's turned into the comedy podcast community's resident "ask a lesbian" guest and this Maron interview is no different.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 9 February 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link
turned into or wilfully positioned herself as?
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Monday, 9 February 2015 21:24 (nine years ago) link
I think that's a fair criticism, but about halfway through her interview with Marc, she makes some comments to the effect of "I can only imagine if when I were coming out, there were people like me saying the things I'm saying about being a lesbian. It would have made things so much easier." She totally has a little bit of a cause in her art. Not an issue for me, but it is there. Marc attempts to back off the lesbian discussion a couple times, too.
I think she's pretty funny and quite intelligent and insightful.
― Hydroelectric New Deal Demiurge (B.L.A.M.), Monday, 9 February 2015 21:24 (nine years ago) link
Oh yeah, love her. I just hate seeing her become so one dimensional in the context of all these male-driven podcasts (which is probably just a reflection of how many male-driven podcasts I listen to).
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 9 February 2015 21:30 (nine years ago) link
i figured that when she was on harmontown that was just Harmon being Harmon
― the list of government-approved beers (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 01:01 (nine years ago) link
christ, the nick tosches episode is a drag. two old men yelling at clouds, made worse by the fact that tosches sounds like mr plinkett of redlettermedia
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 20:48 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I'm about halfway in and considering giving up. Given Maron's intro, I was hoping for some more delving into the seediness of old Hollywood but, nope.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 20:51 (nine years ago) link
yeah i couldnt finish that nick tosches interview, just as i thought he was about to say something interesting he veers off into some boring rant about cellphones and the internet...with maron only too happy to encourage him
― tayto fan (Michael B), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 20:56 (nine years ago) link
anyone ever read his books? ive been intrigued but its waned after that interview
― tayto fan (Michael B), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 20:57 (nine years ago) link
i read the dean martin, jerry lee lewis and sonny liston ones years ago, and I enjoyed them at the time, so i was looking forward to hearing what he had to say. unfortunately it turned out to be cripplingly dull :(
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:02 (nine years ago) link
you all need to be honest with yourselves. but no, you won't do it. because you are too scared! scared of maron and tosches! so you missed their mind expanding conversation about twitter.
― you can buy your hair if it won't grow (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:05 (nine years ago) link
damn, busted
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:06 (nine years ago) link
I tried to read the Sonny Liston bio but it was painfully purple and I tapped out after a chapter or two.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:07 (nine years ago) link
Maron finally interviewed Sam Seder in the garage last week. so look forward to some old-fashioned WTF airing of grievances
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 20:48 (23 minutes ago) Permalink
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 20:51 (19 minutes ago) Permalink
Man, we have such different perspectives, cuz I really dug this one.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:11 (nine years ago) link
kim gordon interview forthcoming also
― tayto fan (Michael B), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:15 (nine years ago) link
whoa boy
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:22 (nine years ago) link
Anyone want to guess how many minutes into the Kim Gordon interview until he tries to wow her with the fact that he has Trout Fish Mask Replica on vinyl?
― Brio2, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:24 (nine years ago) link
Looking forward to finding out her guys are.
― Brio2, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:25 (nine years ago) link
also whether she ever played a les paul jr
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:26 (nine years ago) link
Either that interview will be amazingly great, or amazingly painful.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link
yeah - it really could go either way. it will be great if he reads her book (which is good and has plenty of family and relationship stuff for Maron to get armchair shrinky about) and it will be horrible if he asks a bunch of dad questions about rock music.
― Brio2, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:36 (nine years ago) link
it's funny though - lots of disdain in that book for men in their 50's with peter pan syndromes - but she'll probably go easy on him
― Brio2, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:40 (nine years ago) link
i guess the other horrible option is that he spends the whole episode clumsily flirting with her D:
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:54 (nine years ago) link
he'll spend the entire time making her grapple with what listening to Goo meant to him.
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 22:06 (nine years ago) link
I dont think hes that big a Sonic Youth fan iirc
― tayto fan (Michael B), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 22:09 (nine years ago) link
that's even worse though, he'll spout off about how much he "just didn't get it"
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 22:16 (nine years ago) link
I still have an mp3 of the interview he did with Thurston on his post-Morning Sedition radio show from around the time Rather Ripped came out and before Air America completely collapsed.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 22:20 (nine years ago) link
awkward flirting AND asking her to explain her music
― tayto fan (Michael B), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 22:24 (nine years ago) link
http://queuebik.com/musick/marc_maron_show-thurston_moore_interview_(04062006).mp3
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 22:29 (nine years ago) link
clumsy flirting + tube amp talk, then they end up dating and sonic youth reforms as a boogie band with maron instead of thurston
(as if he didn't think a long time about exactly this scenario)
― Brio2, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 22:52 (nine years ago) link
― tayto fan (Michael B), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 22:58 (nine years ago) link
Tunic (Song For Maron)
― da croupier, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 22:58 (nine years ago) link
ha Maron's "age appropriate" girlfriend was 14 years younger than KG
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 22:59 (nine years ago) link
That Thurston Moore interview isn't as bad as I was expecting. The 70s NY rock scene talk is interesting at least. But yeah, you can tell he's not a fan. "My Bloody Valentine or whatever the kids are playing!" in 2008 is prime Maron and he's at his most ridiculously jurassic when talking about Noise bands with him.
― tayto fan (Michael B), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 23:12 (nine years ago) link
How many times has Maron dropped Fred Frith's name at this point? Seems to be his go-to reference (along with The Residents and Eno) whenever more "out" music comes up.
― spastic heritage, Thursday, 26 February 2015 02:43 (nine years ago) link
He's only just now really exploring more music, so I'll cut him some slack for having a limited frame of reference nine years ago.
Holy shit, I just realized that Rather Ripped is nine years old!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 February 2015 02:52 (nine years ago) link
I was going to say, he's been posting some really decent stuff that he's been getting into lately. Seems to be a big Ty Segall fan, but who can blame him?
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 26 February 2015 05:40 (nine years ago) link
Ty Segall is the guy telling him what to buy
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Thursday, 26 February 2015 09:57 (nine years ago) link
He's been hanging out at Gimme Gimme records in LA, even "dj'd" the opening of their expanded store recently. I wouldn't be surprised if the clerks there are contributing to his education.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 26 February 2015 13:25 (nine years ago) link
God I love hearing maron fans talk about a middle aged hipster like he's a 12 year old who wandered into a record store.
― da croupier, Thursday, 26 February 2015 14:55 (nine years ago) link
"Maron if you like rage you gotta check out funkadelic..."
*maron nods excitedly, eager to earn the approval of these cool adults twenty years younger than him*
― da croupier, Thursday, 26 February 2015 14:58 (nine years ago) link
by "maron fans" do you mean "maron"?
― Brio2, Thursday, 26 February 2015 15:03 (nine years ago) link
I'm sure he qualifies as one
― da croupier, Thursday, 26 February 2015 15:04 (nine years ago) link
ha yeah and he loves talking about his record store adventures, big bit about buying beefheart in his netflix special
he's coming here and it's $69 for the cheapest ticket!
― Brio2, Thursday, 26 February 2015 15:05 (nine years ago) link
yeah in fairness to him, he does concede that he had no time for music at all for a good few years. so i guess you could cut him some slack for that.
― tayto fan (Michael B), Thursday, 26 February 2015 15:11 (nine years ago) link
Are there any episodes of this podcast that are actually funny? Almost every episode I've heard is two comedians sitting down and almost pointedly not being funny. I appreciate the serious discussions sometimes, but I generally I find so little entertainment value here. Even that famed two-hour Louis C.K. interview barely had a joke in it.
― Evan R, Thursday, 26 February 2015 15:53 (nine years ago) link
It is not a "comedy" podcast in that sense. Thank god.
It is frequently lousy, and absolutely wonderful.
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 26 February 2015 15:56 (nine years ago) link
yeah i dont listen to it for (or expect) laughs
― tayto fan (Michael B), Thursday, 26 February 2015 16:02 (nine years ago) link
I'm not expecting like obnoxious bits or morning radio shtick of whatever. I guess I just assumed that people who are funny on stage might occasionally also say something witty or entertaining over the course of an hour-long conversation.
― Evan R, Thursday, 26 February 2015 16:10 (nine years ago) link
the live episodes are usually more like that.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 26 February 2015 16:13 (nine years ago) link
he sounds like a 12 year old hipster who wandered into a record store when he talks about records.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 26 February 2015 16:18 (nine years ago) link
I'm the first to razz WTF but people say witty and entertaining stuff on the show all the time. It's not people doing "bits" and jokes but it's frequently very funny. And there's no shortage of podcasts if you want to hear comedians doing comedy.
― Brio2, Thursday, 26 February 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
otm, I'm glad WTF is a place for comedians to talk without doing their bits. You can catch those on every Earwolf podcast ever or in a hundred other places.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 26 February 2015 17:27 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, again, nobody wants to hear bits. What are some recent examples of entertaining/funny discussions though? I enjoyed the Jonathan Katz episode, because that guy can turn every line into a quip, but on most the other eps I've heard the mood is so dry and heavy it's like jokes would be inappropriate
― Evan R, Thursday, 26 February 2015 18:33 (nine years ago) link
On a related note, can anyone recommend a few episodes of Getting Doug With High where comedians go in-depth about their depression and/or suicide attempts? The tone of that show is so disappointingly frivolous.
― Ad Strawmanem (Old Lunch), Thursday, 26 February 2015 18:42 (nine years ago) link
You want people to talk about their depression or suicide while they're high?
― polyphonic, Thursday, 26 February 2015 18:46 (nine years ago) link
can anyone recommend a podcast where the goal is not to be funny, but you know, if a few belly laughs should come out of it, they aren't going to like, stop it from happening?
― you can buy your hair if it won't grow (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 26 February 2015 18:51 (nine years ago) link
Um, Adam Carolla?
― bit of a singles monster (Eazy), Thursday, 26 February 2015 18:52 (nine years ago) link
Charlie Rose?
― bit of a singles monster (Eazy), Thursday, 26 February 2015 18:53 (nine years ago) link
Are there any episodes of Car Talk where they only talk about paintings.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 26 February 2015 18:54 (nine years ago) link
xp but do carolla and rose really delve into topics?
― you can buy your hair if it won't grow (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 26 February 2015 18:55 (nine years ago) link
afaict there is only one topic discussed on Corolla's show: the work ethic of non-white people
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Thursday, 26 February 2015 19:33 (nine years ago) link
I though the Paula Poundstone episode was funny, it's not particularly recent, it is on youtube though
― Stupid BUT Tall Guy (soref), Thursday, 26 February 2015 19:41 (nine years ago) link
in addition to the live episodes, i usually find the confrontational episodes pretty funny (like the recent one with Jason Nash. the Jeff Garlin one was pretty good in this way too.).
― lil urbane (Jordan), Thursday, 26 February 2015 19:43 (nine years ago) link
xp to PK: I guess that could swing either way, but I'll assume the worse in Corolla bc I am definitely not listening to his podcast
― you can buy your hair if it won't grow (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 26 February 2015 19:46 (nine years ago) link
xp I think Garlin is done after that Ben Tench ep, and it's probably a good thing. Garlin's podcast had the greatest dynamic range of anything I listened to. You could get 'The Chris Farley Show' version of Garlin on any episode.
― you can buy your hair if it won't grow (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 26 February 2015 19:48 (nine years ago) link
i meant Garlin's WTF episode, but yeah.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Thursday, 26 February 2015 19:51 (nine years ago) link
ah, yeah. the bit in the beginning was good.
― you can buy your hair if it won't grow (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 26 February 2015 19:53 (nine years ago) link
Excited to listen to that Garlin episode.
Not proud of it, but I actually used to listen to Carolla's podcast. Before it became this insufferable, hateful thing it was often a really enjoyable listen; usually two sharp, funny people having substantial conversations about life, success and happiness. Garlin's appearance on that show five years ago or so was really hilarious.
― Evan R, Thursday, 26 February 2015 20:17 (nine years ago) link
WTF can be compelling as hell when he clicks into lockgroove with a guest and they just go, as I mentioned upthread a few years ago. Like the Michael Keaton ep, or surprising moments when Jay Mohr is on and they obsess over classic Hollywood for a while
― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Thursday, 26 February 2015 20:28 (nine years ago) link
michael keaton ep is so good
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 26 February 2015 20:31 (nine years ago) link
Kevin Allison's telling of how The State finally dissolved may be common knowledge, but it's the first time I ever heard the stories before. Like, lol @ them for jumping to CBS after MTV had offered them five more seasons and were about to be in 25M more homes. They ruined themselves!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 February 2015 23:16 (nine years ago) link
I remember the live one with Jeff Tambor as having some real laugh out loud moments.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 27 February 2015 13:46 (nine years ago) link
In the Katz and Tambour interviews you could tell Maron was annoyed by all the jokes
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Friday, 27 February 2015 14:36 (nine years ago) link
he says "expresso"
― when is the new Jim O'Rourke album coming out (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 06:41 (nine years ago) link
"excape" as well
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 06:43 (nine years ago) link
Well done, poster-making Marc Maron fan. Well done.
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CALF6p9UcAAiQws.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 16 March 2015 00:29 (nine years ago) link
Kim Gordon interview is up--
of course it's 70% about Maron talking about being intimidated that he doesn't know enoguh about SY, art, Branca, etc.
It seems weirdly truncated too--following Gordon's career only up until she meets Thurston and then jumping to the tour with Neil Young
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Thursday, 26 March 2015 12:39 (eight years ago) link
I thought it was great, partly because I'd feared it would be a disaster.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 26 March 2015 14:50 (eight years ago) link
Who are her guys?
― Brio2, Thursday, 26 March 2015 15:45 (eight years ago) link
I thought the Joe Swanberg ep was pretty good
― Flow-through nonresident pass-through entity (los blue jeans), Thursday, 26 March 2015 23:46 (eight years ago) link
it was ok to listen to but marc was so enamored with the fella
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 26 March 2015 23:49 (eight years ago) link
Maron's 90s hierarchy of NYC cool:
Bands - SY, Iggy....Standups / Performance artists...........Sketch Comedy
― with HD lyrics (Eazy), Friday, 27 March 2015 00:29 (eight years ago) link
I'm sure "Charismatic Drug Addicts of no particular talent" are somewhere just below Iggy
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Friday, 27 March 2015 00:37 (eight years ago) link
The Unbreakable Kimmy Gordon interview wasn't bad!
― Brio2, Friday, 27 March 2015 14:33 (eight years ago) link
MICK FUCKING JAGGER
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 3 April 2015 00:43 (eight years ago) link
He's like a nervous little girl in the lead up to this, it's so funny
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 3 April 2015 00:48 (eight years ago) link
Prob had a pillow on his lap
― ^^^ NOT METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 3 April 2015 00:49 (eight years ago) link
It's just a 10-minute phone call, but I wouldn't be shocked
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 3 April 2015 00:52 (eight years ago) link
cant wait to hear this
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 April 2015 01:26 (eight years ago) link
Mick is such a pro, giving the impression that he knows who Maron is but probably only having been told "This is a big podcast."
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Friday, 3 April 2015 01:39 (eight years ago) link
WHO ARE MICK'S GUYS?
― Brio2, Friday, 3 April 2015 01:53 (eight years ago) link
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 April 2015 01:59 (eight years ago) link
omg
i wasn't prepared for how hard i started fangirling right along with maron once the call really happened
his voice was so high & giggly & you cant control it obv but
lool that was p great
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 April 2015 03:11 (eight years ago) link
"you need to come to anuvva show marc"
YEAH WELL IF YOU DIDNT CHARGE A THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR A SHOW MAYBE YOUR NORMAL COOL FANS COULD COME SEE YOU MORE
*sob*
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 April 2015 03:12 (eight years ago) link
He posted on twitter tonight that he'll be talking to Keith next Monday.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 3 April 2015 03:56 (eight years ago) link
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 April 2015 04:00 (eight years ago) link
10 minutes again yeah?
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 April 2015 04:03 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/UqJVKZP.png
Dunno. This is all we have to go on.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 3 April 2015 04:10 (eight years ago) link
imagine if it was a full hour
i would die
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 April 2015 04:32 (eight years ago) link
I'd be concerned for his sobriety if he talks to Keith for more than 10 minutes.
― Brio2, Friday, 3 April 2015 19:43 (eight years ago) link
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 April 2015 01:39 (eight years ago) link
lol Maron starts asking Keith, "Who are your..." and gets interrupted
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Monday, 6 April 2015 10:27 (eight years ago) link
KEITH FUCKING RICHARDS
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 6 April 2015 11:34 (eight years ago) link
Why would M & K do Maron and not Stern?
― calstars, Monday, 6 April 2015 11:42 (eight years ago) link
"What the hell just happened?"
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 6 April 2015 11:43 (eight years ago) link
xpost Because Stern is a disgrace to carbon based life forms?
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Monday, 6 April 2015 13:18 (eight years ago) link
Amazed Keef lasted as long as he did through Marc's torrential fangirling
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Monday, 6 April 2015 22:55 (eight years ago) link
amber tamblyn interview was somewhat interesting, though I wish she had said "I wrote that poem from the perspective of Sharon tate's unborn child" earlier so I could've turned it off @ that pt + saved some time
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 13:14 (eight years ago) link
Maron turned into Randee of the Redwoods talking to Keith. That was fun.
Only got partway into the Amber Tamblyn interview (not because it wasn't good). Hilarious moment when Marc says what any poet wants to hear from an interviewer: "So, I read some of your book, and I've written poems myself.'
― with HD lyrics (Eazy), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 13:26 (eight years ago) link
I was surprised he didn't mention that he used to live with Joshua Clover again
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 13:35 (eight years ago) link
Henry Winkler, massive Sia fan. Who knew?
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 13 April 2015 11:51 (eight years ago) link
Seriously, love love LOVE this interview on every level, particularly as a Happy Days stan
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 13 April 2015 12:08 (eight years ago) link
winkler's been on a couple of podcasts i listen to recently and he seems like a genuinely fantastic guy
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 13 April 2015 12:10 (eight years ago) link
Tom Hanks is often called the nicest guy in Hollywood, but I think it's actually Henry Winkler.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 13 April 2015 15:05 (eight years ago) link
@wattfrompedro ...back in my pedro town, just did righteous spiel w/brother marc maron at his pad - this cat's got focus, respect! http://t.co/U8NyMjycfG
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 04:47 (eight years ago) link
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 04:47 (eight years ago) link
Really looking forward to Watt interview!
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 04:48 (eight years ago) link
Yesssssss!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 05:29 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9egA04WIl4g
Man, Maron's look is vastly improved over the Air America days.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 30 April 2015 22:55 (eight years ago) link
100 days into the Obama administration? I thought he was done at AA before then, but maybe my memory is effed up.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 30 April 2015 23:37 (eight years ago) link
he was fired for the last time July 2009
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Friday, 1 May 2015 00:53 (eight years ago) link
that sticker on his laptop looks like title frame from kenny vs. spenny
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 1 May 2015 03:08 (eight years ago) link
that's still preferable to his late 90s look
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2mEP0lDOySk/mqdefault.jpg
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 1 May 2015 19:10 (eight years ago) link
ha he looked older back then
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Friday, 1 May 2015 19:17 (eight years ago) link
I enjoyed the Robert Williams interview--kind of all over the place
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Friday, 1 May 2015 19:18 (eight years ago) link
Maron gets an interview show on Vice's cable channel:http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2015/05/01/vice-teases-new-shows-to-air-on-its-very-own-cable-channel/26731729/
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 2 May 2015 02:10 (eight years ago) link
Oh wow. This last one really was great.
― Sufjan Grafton, Saturday, 2 May 2015 02:13 (eight years ago) link
and zach woods. I actually dig his guitar playing lately too :-/
You should start hanging out with dads
Dads with DA BLUEZ
― subject's companion from prior surveillance (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 2 May 2015 02:59 (eight years ago) link
yeah, I mean his bullshit is pentatonic+ but at least it's sloppy in a good way sometimes.
― Sufjan Grafton, Saturday, 2 May 2015 06:19 (eight years ago) link
Honestly, since he started the guitar shit, I've said "hey, that's not bad" a few times. Wouldn't buy a musical album by him but it's pleasant enough.
― subject's companion from prior surveillance (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 2 May 2015 06:37 (eight years ago) link
yeah, definitely not wanting an album. Just impressed by his growth. Then again, I'm an episode away from hating it again.
― Sufjan Grafton, Saturday, 2 May 2015 06:49 (eight years ago) link
Hearing Kenan Thompson swear is a trip.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 11 May 2015 12:25 (eight years ago) link
@wattfrompedro ...back in my pedro town, just did righteous spiel w/brother marc maron at his pad - this cat's got focus, respect! http://t.co/U8NyMjycfG― Elvis Telecom, Monday, April 13, 2015 11:47 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh, this will be a treat
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 11 May 2015 12:51 (eight years ago) link
stoked for the madness
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 11 May 2015 12:52 (eight years ago) link
and the 'who were your guys?'
and the part where Maron unintentionally reveals he's heard a firehose album, half of a minutemen album and nothing watt's done since then
― See the Belz up in the sky, somebody cancelled SVU (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 11 May 2015 12:53 (eight years ago) link
itt music snobs diss marc maron
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Monday, 11 May 2015 13:22 (eight years ago) link
20 minutes about CCR
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Monday, 11 May 2015 14:44 (eight years ago) link
I've been listening to these less since I got laid off and I don't have to kill boredom at a desk, but I'm hearing the Parker Posey one now and I love the casual way they're determining whether or not they're actually old people.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 14 May 2015 20:02 (eight years ago) link
does the Sam Seder one get interesting at some point?
― lil urbane (Jordan), Thursday, 14 May 2015 20:26 (eight years ago) link
nope
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 14 May 2015 20:37 (eight years ago) link
yeah i couldnt finish that one either
― tayto fan (Michael B), Thursday, 14 May 2015 20:43 (eight years ago) link
Sam Seder is such a drag in everything.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 14 May 2015 21:00 (eight years ago) link
I always think he's the guy who produced 3rd Bass, Sam Sever.
― See the Belz up in the sky, somebody cancelled SVU (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 14 May 2015 21:17 (eight years ago) link
I dropped off watching his tv show but the episode where he was drafted to impregnate the lesbian neighbors was quality
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 14 May 2015 21:55 (eight years ago) link
The second season was an improvement but he still occasionally forgets how to act for no apparent reason.
― See the Belz up in the sky, somebody cancelled SVU (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 14 May 2015 21:56 (eight years ago) link
sam seder was the most interminable way imaginable to celebrate 600 episodes
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 14 May 2015 22:16 (eight years ago) link
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 14 May 2015 22:46 (eight years ago) link
The Parker Posey one was one if the best ones in a long time
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 May 2015 23:04 (eight years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, May 14, 2015 5:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
f this
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Friday, 15 May 2015 17:52 (eight years ago) link
He was interminable on Air America, he's a dud every time he's on Chris Hayes's msnbc show, and he's so petty with Marc. Those things are the only things I know him from, but he has yet to make me feel any other emotion for him but "ugh, really?"
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 15 May 2015 17:55 (eight years ago) link
i skip him now, i find him kinda bothersome
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 May 2015 18:05 (eight years ago) link
Fine. I enjoy his show about 100x more than WTF
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Friday, 15 May 2015 18:16 (eight years ago) link
The interview was disappointing tho since Maron and Seder irritate the fuck out of one another and little of that was on display
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Friday, 15 May 2015 18:17 (eight years ago) link
People seem to be posting old photos of Marc Maron on twitter tonight. This one is from 1980-ish according to Maron.
http://i.imgur.com/IwjK41f.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 16 May 2015 05:37 (eight years ago) link
ooo: https://twitter.com/marcmaron/status/599956488602398720
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Sunday, 17 May 2015 22:34 (eight years ago) link
David Byrne's got a lot of guys so this should be interesting.
― #HipsterTroll has been blocked. #BringItOn (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 18 May 2015 04:54 (eight years ago) link
Special 2 hour episode, 90 minutes of which consists of Marc looking up names on Wikipedia.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 May 2015 04:56 (eight years ago) link
Jill Berto Jill... Nope, nothin
― #HipsterTroll has been blocked. #BringItOn (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 18 May 2015 04:58 (eight years ago) link
I loled at this response to Jezebel's call for celebrities being dicks stories:
I critiqued Marc Maron’s interviewing style on a message board I didn’t know he read. This was during the first year or so of WTF and it seemed to me like every time his guest was a woman or some kind of ethnic/sexual minority, he’d focus so squarely on that aspect of them and ignore everything else. He wasn’t being a bigot, per se, but it made me, and seemingly some of his guests, uncomfortable. It felt like he was on a cultural safari of sorts. I pointed this out, perhaps in an aggressively trying-too-hard-to-be-funny manner. And holy shit did he get payback.
Maron puts on his detective hat and doxes me essentially, not replying on the messageboard, but figuring out my real name and harassing me on facebook. We went back and forth for MONTHS. Dozens of long unhinged messages. Then, not being famous for boundaries, he makes me part of his act, mentioning the exchange on multiple podcasts, making his stalking seem quaint and quirky, and recasts me as some stereotypical mean troll-type, which wasn’t true at all, but I guess others disagreed because I started getting hatemail from a bunch of his creepy super-fans. And that’s how I left Facebook.
THEN like three fucking years later the event becomes the basis for the first episode of his dumb tv show. The whole thing turned me off to comedy nerd-dom, cost me some real-life friends, self-esteem, dignity, etc... That said, I learned a lot and the fiasco prompted a lot of self-reflection/growth and a few years later I’m in a much better place. The story already feels very dated: SOOO 2011, amiright?
But yes, don’t piss off Maron, he’s out of his gourd.
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Friday, 22 May 2015 17:30 (eight years ago) link
Haha! I'm inclined to believe Marc was probably overreacting (especially since he's admitted he made this a personal project for a while), but there's no way this guy is the angel he's pretending to be.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 22 May 2015 17:36 (eight years ago) link
THURSDAY: TERRY GROSSlol
― rip van wanko, Friday, 22 May 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link
That was better than I expected!
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 22 May 2015 17:39 (eight years ago) link
Terry aired an edited version on Fresh Air this Wednesday and then Marc aired the uncut version on WTF yesterday. Good interview imo.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 22 May 2015 17:47 (eight years ago) link
holding out for Larry King's remix
― Mr. Murphy in the wine bar. (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 May 2015 18:47 (eight years ago) link
Did he ask Terry how she got so famous despite being an awful interviewer?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 22 May 2015 18:56 (eight years ago) link
Terry probably asked Marc first
― Οὖτις, Friday, 22 May 2015 18:59 (eight years ago) link
yeahi remember thinking his j mascis interview was a weird vindication of his sorta hard-to-hear slightly vulturic interview style, like the parts where he indelicately pursued stuff actually paid off. & the TG stuff about her first marriage, which totally seemed like it was out of her comfort zone, was so interesting. like it just had the sound of being in a fresh, considerate, honest zone for her.
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Friday, 22 May 2015 19:02 (eight years ago) link
it was kind of funny to me, since I used to see Terry Gross walking around Philly all the time, that Maron had this exalted ghostly idea of her
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Friday, 22 May 2015 19:17 (eight years ago) link
I don't think it's a stretch to think someone might have a different impression of Terry Gross in person than they would having only listened to Fresh Air for a couple decades.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 23 May 2015 02:16 (eight years ago) link
kevin corrigan ep had some good scorsese stories before descending precipitously into six-and-a-half years of middle-aged guys talking about rockin'
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 1 June 2015 14:46 (eight years ago) link
I was hoping for a full hour on Fringe
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Monday, 1 June 2015 15:11 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/mHqqX.gif
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 1 June 2015 15:21 (eight years ago) link
http://popculturezoo.com/wp-content/gallery/fringe321/321_lsw_073.jpg
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Monday, 1 June 2015 15:29 (eight years ago) link
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, June 1, 2015 11:46 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this was kinda infuriating to me; kevin corrigan's so great, his scorsese stories were so beautiful, & he's so engaged in the kind of anecdotable spread of his field, but maron's just so lazy & ill-informed that he left everything unexplored. even glimpsing at his filmography could have meant hours of cool seymour cassel or ben gazzara stories & instead it was just mid-life crisis vinylmania. really bad. super frustrating.
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Monday, 1 June 2015 16:04 (eight years ago) link
Haley Joel Osment interview is v good so far.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 1 June 2015 16:06 (eight years ago) link
Maron should just start a second podcast called "Talkin' Rockin' with the Boys" where all the guests have to bring ten records over to the garage
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Monday, 1 June 2015 16:07 (eight years ago) link
Pitch that to him on twitter.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 1 June 2015 16:08 (eight years ago) link
for realso awful
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Monday, 1 June 2015 16:09 (eight years ago) link
Maron doesn't do so well with character actors with large bodies of work. His angle is usually "You probably wish you were a big star."
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Monday, 1 June 2015 16:13 (eight years ago) link
i hear you - like there was the claire danes interview where he kinda swum around looking for some sorta comfort-zone discomfort-zone they could chew on - but i do think the music thing is its own dull, pathological spin off, just a rogue neuron pathway in his brain that spills oil over everything, shuts down his hearing to accommodate a guy-working-his-self-aggrandising-self-deprecating-#vinyl-routine in a loud voice thing.
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Monday, 1 June 2015 16:24 (eight years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 1 June 2015 16:06 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
marc's palpable discomfort when osment started talking about harold bloom and penderecki was lol
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 1 June 2015 17:53 (eight years ago) link
guy-working-his-self-aggrandising-self-deprecating-#vinyl-routine
I thought you typed #vnyl and then I realized I want nothing more than for them to become a sponsor of WTF.
― Jim Gillette's unused octave (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 1 June 2015 18:24 (eight years ago) link
xpost Maron's contempt for experimental theater was not very thinly veiled
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Monday, 1 June 2015 18:30 (eight years ago) link
mike watt interview's up on thursday!
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 8 June 2015 15:17 (eight years ago) link
preparing for Maron monologue about how the album cover of Double Nickels was very important to him
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Monday, 8 June 2015 15:21 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/marcmaron/status/400450056886558720
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 8 June 2015 15:32 (eight years ago) link
Finally got to see his standup for the first time this weekend (filmed for an upcoming special) and he was phenomenal. Totally in his element even at his most uncomfortable. Goldthwait was directing, was bummed that I couldn't figure out where the eff he was in the theater.
― Tarkus Aurelius (Old Lunch), Monday, 8 June 2015 16:14 (eight years ago) link
I was at the show too (the 10 p.m. taping)) and thought the same. Really comfortable and in control of what he's doing, even when he lost the thread of where he was going. When Bobcat made a voice-over staging comment ("move the mic stand back to that spot" or something), Maron got him to say something in the old Bobcat voice. Interesting to see Maron in public in front of hundreds, versus having public conversations in private rooms.
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 8 June 2015 16:18 (eight years ago) link
We were at the same show! Maron said at one point they'd probably use the earlier show for the special and that he'd just let the show we were at be the weird one. And he made some comment later about how something didn't matter because they'd probably scrap the taping and Bobcat came on-mic and told him that that was his self-loathing talking because ours was the better show. I kinda hope they release it as-is, broken glasses and all.
― Tarkus Aurelius (Old Lunch), Monday, 8 June 2015 16:38 (eight years ago) link
MIKE WATT
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 11 June 2015 12:29 (eight years ago) link
ha ha at the exchange around 42 minutes in when Watt compares disco and punk as reactions to arena rock and Maron starts babbling about high school
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Thursday, 11 June 2015 13:38 (eight years ago) link
love this already and I'm barely 25 minutes in
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 11 June 2015 14:58 (eight years ago) link
Man, the disclaimer wasn't kidding about the gross-out stuff at the top of the interview.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 11 June 2015 15:28 (eight years ago) link
right!? super gross. but kinda fascinating
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 11 June 2015 15:29 (eight years ago) link
TV ep w Bruce Bruce was quality. Altho show kinda becoming CYE lite
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 June 2015 15:38 (eight years ago) link
Haha, disclaimer for gross out stuff? Sounds like a Watt interview alright.
― circa1916, Thursday, 11 June 2015 15:52 (eight years ago) link
and I just love that Watt is this incredible freight-train storyteller, to the point where Maron basically just hitches himself to the back as it's going by
the different dynamic makes it p enjoyable
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 11 June 2015 16:18 (eight years ago) link
wow, the grossout warning was not overstated
vg otm - amazing and endearing how much energy and enthusiasm watt has, even when discussing his septic taint. was it just me or did he seem to get briefly choked up when talking about d. boon and the crash?
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 11 June 2015 18:07 (eight years ago) link
yeah he got real quiet :(
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 11 June 2015 18:15 (eight years ago) link
please tell what the gross stuff is i stopped listening to mike watt talk about 7 years ago and i dont want to start now
― Cory Sklar, Thursday, 11 June 2015 18:17 (eight years ago) link
He developed a bump in his taint and it eventually exploded leaving a crater and gushed pus voluminously.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 11 June 2015 18:20 (eight years ago) link
plus it was a giant abscess that was looped around his colon & all kinds of craziness
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 11 June 2015 18:21 (eight years ago) link
or something
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 11 June 2015 18:22 (eight years ago) link
ahh yah he was walking with a cain during the fIREHOSE reuinion
― Cory Sklar, Thursday, 11 June 2015 18:26 (eight years ago) link
dean or herman
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 11 June 2015 18:31 (eight years ago) link
it was a twist
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 11 June 2015 21:17 (eight years ago) link
big-train storyteller
― ( who ALSO my boss and his sister!) (sic), Friday, 12 June 2015 00:21 (eight years ago) link
Old Lunch: the Constance Zimmer ep opens with a long story about his Chicago shows.
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 14 June 2015 18:41 (eight years ago) link
Obama who are your guys?
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Thursday, 18 June 2015 12:00 (eight years ago) link
Obama will finally let us know that deep down inside he's just a sad clown
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 18 June 2015 14:34 (eight years ago) link
hope maron presses obama on the compelling evidence that obama played a key role in nasa's development of a jump gate to mars in the early 80s
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 18 June 2015 14:40 (eight years ago) link
Looking forward to hearing about Obama's record collection.
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Thursday, 18 June 2015 15:34 (eight years ago) link
i guess this is the ultimate rejoinder to those who criticise the lack of african-american guests huh
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 18 June 2015 15:36 (eight years ago) link
I hope Marc tries to get the president into Beefheart.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 18 June 2015 15:56 (eight years ago) link
this is nuts btw
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Thursday, 18 June 2015 18:03 (eight years ago) link
hardwick must be so bummed
― polyphonic, Thursday, 18 June 2015 19:35 (eight years ago) link
is this the first sitting president to be on a "podcast"
― lil dork (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 18 June 2015 19:37 (eight years ago) link
The leader of the free world is going to be on something called a "podcast"
Lol that Maron can get Obama but Lorne and Seinfeld are beyond him
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Thursday, 18 June 2015 19:39 (eight years ago) link
Whiney, do you remember how old you were when you turned 73?
― Feeding My Whole Family With A Pack Of Taco Shells (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 June 2015 19:40 (eight years ago) link
At least he doesn't post on message boards
― polyphonic, Thursday, 18 June 2015 19:40 (eight years ago) link
I remember the first time I saw a president in a "talkie"
― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 18 June 2015 19:41 (eight years ago) link
Obama is Racoon Tanuki
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Thursday, 18 June 2015 19:42 (eight years ago) link
whiney, they're just recordings of people talking, it's really nbd.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Thursday, 18 June 2015 19:45 (eight years ago) link
Lorne Michaels is his white whale.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 18 June 2015 19:47 (eight years ago) link
when will Marc host SNL?
― mad maxwell's wasteland death suite (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 18 June 2015 19:49 (eight years ago) link
terry gross and maron are the worst interviewers but were utterly charming together.
― Cory Sklar, Thursday, 18 June 2015 19:50 (eight years ago) link
If Maron hosts SNL, I hope the whole episode is just him asking the cast members he hasn't spoken to yet about Lorne.
― Feeding My Whole Family With A Pack Of Taco Shells (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 June 2015 19:51 (eight years ago) link
― lil dork (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, June 18, 2015 2:37 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lil dork (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, June 18, 2015 2:37 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is pretty forced fake outrage considering podcasts basically didn't exist during any previous presidency.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 18 June 2015 20:22 (eight years ago) link
Also Obama being on Between Two Ferns is way crazier than him being on WTF.
Someone should let a mod know that Whiney's log in has been hacked by Fox & Friends
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Thursday, 18 June 2015 20:25 (eight years ago) link
Too late now but if Obama had wanted to do a more popular podcast he could shown up and pardoned Adnan
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Thursday, 18 June 2015 20:27 (eight years ago) link
I thought Whiney went over to the dark side on the podcast thing
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 19 June 2015 02:54 (eight years ago) link
Would rather hear O on Gilbert Gottfried's podcast or maybe TV Guidance Counselor
― Josefa, Friday, 19 June 2015 03:02 (eight years ago) link
obama did BS report three years ago
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/b-s-report-barack-obama/
― nose, Friday, 19 June 2015 14:59 (eight years ago) link
Whiney too busy exposing the truth behind the phenomenon of tumblr whites at the time to blow the lid off that story
― back once again with the panel behaviour (sic), Friday, 19 June 2015 15:31 (eight years ago) link
Is he trying to shore up all the disillusioned youngsters he took for a ride to get into office? I'd like to hear why he hopped to it for TPP but everything else, meh...
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 19 June 2015 19:16 (eight years ago) link
I like the idea of the President being Maron's housemate after his term ends.
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 19 June 2015 20:07 (eight years ago) link
NYT talks to Maron after the interview.
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/19/marc-maron-discusses-his-podcast-interview-with-president-obama/?smid=nytimesarts&_r=0
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 19 June 2015 21:42 (eight years ago) link
this interview fucked up my commute to work
then again that happens every time the president comes to LA for money, ie, every 3 months.
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 19 June 2015 23:43 (eight years ago) link
Wait until Katt Williams comes to the garage
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Saturday, 20 June 2015 00:11 (eight years ago) link
lol at the black helicopters riff
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 22 June 2015 12:52 (eight years ago) link
He actually asked who his guys were
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Monday, 22 June 2015 13:03 (eight years ago) link
It was like he suddenly couldn't believe the chance to ask had come up, and it burst out of him so rounded and joyful
― back once again with the panel behaviour (sic), Monday, 22 June 2015 13:17 (eight years ago) link
it was kind of exciting! looking forward to thursday when him & brendan get into all the behind the scenes stuff
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 June 2015 16:43 (eight years ago) link
so dumb the headline every site is running about this interview
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Monday, 22 June 2015 16:49 (eight years ago) link
proceed directly to Kissinger, Marc Maron
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 June 2015 17:06 (eight years ago) link
Hank's too busy with Colbert
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Monday, 22 June 2015 17:07 (eight years ago) link
it pretty much went how i expected but I aint mad about it
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 June 2015 17:45 (eight years ago) link
"am i in the orange chair?"
― flappy bird, Monday, 22 June 2015 18:23 (eight years ago) link
Like the first 3 or 4 minutes were totally shootin' the breeze kind of talk and you know Obama was thinking "oh boy, I never get to have these kinds of conversations anymore" and then it quickly became a conversation with "The President." Mildly disappointed, but I still got to hear him speak in an easier manner than the one to which I'm accustomed.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 22 June 2015 18:35 (eight years ago) link
yes, it seemed like at the beginning Obama was ready to pull out the smart-ass routine he did on "Between Two Ferns" and I started wondering how well he knew Maron's podcast
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Monday, 22 June 2015 18:42 (eight years ago) link
johnny fever otm, that was kinda how i felt too
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 June 2015 18:57 (eight years ago) link
Pretty boring tbh
― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 22 June 2015 19:12 (eight years ago) link
seems like he knew or was briefed on the podcast v well
btwn 2 ferns was prob mostly scripted?
― johnny crunch, Monday, 22 June 2015 19:18 (eight years ago) link
some of it was, but O ad-libbed a lot
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Monday, 22 June 2015 19:25 (eight years ago) link
"Obama uses racial slur in interview" is now an MSN headline
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 June 2015 21:11 (eight years ago) link
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 June 2015 21:14 (eight years ago) link
The more surprising thing is that Marc Maron did not say "fuck" once
― Josefa, Monday, 22 June 2015 22:05 (eight years ago) link
Anderson Cooper did a whole panel segment on it tonight
― Purves Grundy (kingfish), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 05:01 (eight years ago) link
on the one-hour interview, or about literally one single word that Obama said in it?
― back once again with the panel behaviour (sic), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 06:21 (eight years ago) link
someone go back to the Patrice O'Neal episode and check whether he used any mildly off-colour words when discussing racism, I'll get my handkerchief ready for fanning
― back once again with the panel behaviour (sic), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 06:22 (eight years ago) link
If you're ever in need of a textbook example of missing the forest for one tree, this is it. So much pearl clutching over the use of the word that it seems to have shut down the conversation on every other point he was making. Bravo, America!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 07:54 (eight years ago) link
I think it was on the usage. The sound wasn't up on the wallscreen in the restaurant.
― Purves Grundy (kingfish), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 09:33 (eight years ago) link
listening to O for an hour isn't really like a forest, unless the trees are being bombed, deported, or mined for metadata.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 10:11 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCtNkGxOwNo
― how's life, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 11:17 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e-gW164spE
may be the dumbest thing I've ever seen on tv
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 11:21 (eight years ago) link
johnny one note vs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0VnDIqlOfI
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 11:54 (eight years ago) link
Literally might be the lamest zing I've ever heard about anything ever
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 14:40 (eight years ago) link
He didn't even bother coming up with a "witty" nickname for Obama. He must have been tired.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 14:42 (eight years ago) link
Obametadata
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 15:18 (eight years ago) link
I listened to the first 5-10 mins of this before falling asleep (out of tiredness rather than boredom). I'll listen later. I've never heard Marc sound so nervous interviewing anyone.
― tayto fan (Michael B), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 15:35 (eight years ago) link
Maron: I've interviewed the president on WTF. Will you do my show now?Lorne Michaels: He's been on SNL more than once, so no.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 15:46 (eight years ago) link
how about War Criminal Dubyalike Shitface
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 16:04 (eight years ago) link
Doesn't really scan as a pun, D+
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 16:12 (eight years ago) link
and yeah getting chemo 2x a week then working a full day is tiring, along with hearing from MegaPharm "we received your new scrip last week but never scanned it." God Bless America peace out
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 16:42 (eight years ago) link
It's just: We *know* he's shitty and the foreign policy is awful and he never closed GitmoBut he's also interesting sometimes and he was on Marc Maron's podcast and that's super interesting.Nobody was going crazy cheerleading or anything.
But either way: Get well soon, on the real
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 17:09 (eight years ago) link
A
― Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 23:32 (eight years ago) link
Oops
― Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 23:43 (eight years ago) link
God, Morbius, sending you healing white light--get well speedily and fully!
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 00:21 (eight years ago) link
Sorry, jumped the gun the other day.
I've been a regular WTF listener since the start of the year. I'd never even heard of Marc Maron before then (I live in Ireland), but I'd finished Serial, was looking for a new listen for my commute, and Slate or somewhere had his interview with Louis CK as the best podcast ever. I think the first one I heard was Chris Parnell, and I was hooked.
With that weirdly limited perspective on Maron, I was totally blindsided by Obama showing up on Monday's show. But the interview itself was a letdown, really. MM was out of his depth on the politics, and Obama wasn't gonna let himself be psychoanalyzed, unfortunately.
Obama reminds me of Blair these days. Deeply compromised, defensive of his legacy, at heart so much more a technocrat than any kind of leftist. And with a lot of blood on his hands (which either man would say is part of the job I suppose). His use of *that* word seemed to me like a highly calculated move, although my understanding of the issues involved is pretty shallow.
I want to send Dr Morbius my best wishes too. ILX is where I get my U.S. politics news, and for what it's worth, as a more-or-less Communist European, I usually agree with Dr M!
I'd also like to wish Dr M the best.
― Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Thursday, 25 June 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link
eh that was an editing error obviously, but I don't mind sending those wishes twice!
― Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Thursday, 25 June 2015 20:07 (eight years ago) link
yeah i was hoping Marc would ask him some questions on drone strikes but it wasnt to be and he gave Obama free reign to do his Mr. President thing.
and yes best wishes to you, morbz
― tayto fan (Michael B), Thursday, 25 June 2015 21:33 (eight years ago) link
wd like to express heartfelt best wishes to morbius too& say imo the dr is not monotonous (any more than any of the rest of us, on subject of politics)he just tends to be the only one to voice certain things (though others may think them)i differ from him politically in various ways, but appreciate his perspective/voice
― drash, Thursday, 25 June 2015 21:58 (eight years ago) link
haha it was pointed out to me that on the latest episode of WTF (which is apparently just Maron and some other guys discussing the Obama interview for over an hour!? jesus), at the 74-minute mark they read some mean tweets about Maron and one of them is mine:https://twitter.com/alshipley/status/612066552867876865
― some dude, Thursday, 25 June 2015 22:54 (eight years ago) link
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Thursday, 25 June 2015 22:57 (eight years ago) link
Ha ha meanie
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Friday, 26 June 2015 00:11 (eight years ago) link
Lastest episode really gives us glimpse into Maron's anxiety
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Friday, 26 June 2015 00:12 (eight years ago) link
oh shit, so he actually talks about himself for a bit?
― mad maxwell's wasteland death suite (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 26 June 2015 00:13 (eight years ago) link
His producer seemed chill for having to deal with that shit
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Friday, 26 June 2015 00:15 (eight years ago) link
ahaha
― lil urbane (Jordan), Friday, 26 June 2015 00:41 (eight years ago) link
u wd have to be the chillest mofo on the planet to be his producer
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 26 June 2015 00:56 (eight years ago) link
with affinity for blues riffs
― mad maxwell's wasteland death suite (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 26 June 2015 01:02 (eight years ago) link
he lives on the other side of the continent, I doubt Marc calls him up to blues down the phone at him
― back once again with the panel behaviour (sic), Friday, 26 June 2015 06:49 (eight years ago) link
Do you?
― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 26 June 2015 06:51 (eight years ago) link
Long-distance calls cost money, man, he doesn't have credit card points to pay for those
― back once again with the panel behaviour (sic), Friday, 26 June 2015 10:20 (eight years ago) link
hey i started the mike watt episode it is like listening to a faulkner audiobook
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Friday, 26 June 2015 13:51 (eight years ago) link
looool otm
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 26 June 2015 15:01 (eight years ago) link
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Thursday, June 25, 2015 7:12 PM (Yesterday)
post this after every new epiode
― gr8080, Friday, 26 June 2015 18:10 (eight years ago) link
This rarely happens with Maron's podcast, but I had to jump around on this morning's installment - really I wanted to hear about the making of Wayne's World - because I just couldn't roll with the guest's voice/cadence for a sustained period of time.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 29 June 2015 12:45 (eight years ago) link
todd solondz ep, never forget
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Monday, 29 June 2015 13:36 (eight years ago) link
I totally forgot she directed Wayne's World.
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Monday, 29 June 2015 13:49 (eight years ago) link
morbs and i saw her irl Saturday nite!
― gr8080, Monday, 29 June 2015 14:27 (eight years ago) link
I just couldn't roll with the guest's voice/cadence for a sustained period of time
She sounds just like one of my aunts. I like that aunt, so I'm actually enjoying this quite a bit.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 29 June 2015 14:55 (eight years ago) link
This also happened when MM interviewed Annabell G..something, and when Bret Easton Ellis interviewed Gus Van Sant. A rare thing.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 29 June 2015 17:05 (eight years ago) link
Spheeris's voice reminded me of Kim Gordon.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 29 June 2015 21:27 (eight years ago) link
i love waynes world but jeez, skipping OVER decline? smdh
anyway holy shit talk about coming out of the gate strong, what a childhood
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 04:13 (eight years ago) link
They don't talk about Decline at all? I mean, there's a fucking box set just coming out...
― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 05:00 (eight years ago) link
I guess Maron only likes NYC punk
no no! they do talk abt decline! i was referring to raymond's post, sorry i shd have put an xpost in there lol
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 05:01 (eight years ago) link
sphereis is fascinating. the pryor stories...
― alomar lines, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 05:11 (eight years ago) link
I still haven't seen Decline, I want to now.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 21:39 (eight years ago) link
The original was really hard to obtain for a long time, so I haven't seen it since I was in high school and I don't remember a ton about it. Part II is ridiculous and awesome though!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 21:43 (eight years ago) link
first 2 are u&k documents of their eras, untouchable
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 21:44 (eight years ago) link
Wonder what the 4th one will be about.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 22:01 (eight years ago) link
gravesites of dead punks
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 22:03 (eight years ago) link
that interview needs to be at least 2hrs long
fascinating & rad lady!!
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 22:31 (eight years ago) link
For some reason I can handle Todd Solondz's voice over long stretches. Maybe I'm weird or something
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 13:39 (eight years ago) link
Nah, I'm the same way.
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 13:40 (eight years ago) link
(some of it may have to do with being a huge Solondz fan)
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 13:42 (eight years ago) link
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, July 1, 2015 10:40 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
no you are both weird
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 13:43 (eight years ago) link
AS I ALWAYS SUSPECTED
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 13:44 (eight years ago) link
Now, Gilbert Gottfried? Nah. Not for longer than maybe 5 minutes.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 13:50 (eight years ago) link
Oh, wait, I read that wrong. Can't stand it.
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 13:57 (eight years ago) link
i'm just reading the latest Pryor biography, with Spheeris editing his shapeless avant garde film til Richard throws the reels in the fireplace.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 21:06 (eight years ago) link
she talks about the film & pryor in the interview - have you listened Morbs? it's pretty fascinating
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 21:13 (eight years ago) link
hey I am loving Penelope's voice what is this smear campaign
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 23:58 (eight years ago) link
also loving the gratuitous presidential cameos in every ad, cf ADAM & EVE DOT COM, FOLKS, WHEN MY FRIENDS SHELL & BARRY FEEL LIKE SPICIN UP THINGS IN THE BEDR
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Thursday, 2 July 2015 00:00 (eight years ago) link
Was wondering how many episodes it will be until he doesn't mention the President in one.
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 2 July 2015 00:11 (eight years ago) link
Will probably just append a reminder to each ep after his 5 tone riffage
― mad maxwell's wasteland death suite (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 2 July 2015 00:20 (eight years ago) link
Have some trepidation about the Laura Jane Grace interview, because Maron is historically contemptuous or flippant about things that confuse him, often with no ill will intended, but it's still uncomfortable. Hope I'm proven wrong.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 6 July 2015 17:15 (eight years ago) link
he as usual makes much of the interview about his own discomfort around the topic
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Monday, 6 July 2015 17:58 (eight years ago) link
It's a really good interview until he gets to the topic of transgender/transphobia/etc. Laura Jane Grace is a better person than I am to put up with Marc's creepy idiocy.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 6 July 2015 18:38 (eight years ago) link
"That's insa-- that's profound, man"
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Monday, 6 July 2015 23:03 (eight years ago) link
Tbh Maron handled it a lot better than I expected after that terrible intro.
He just fixates on the stupidest minutiae, in a way where he acts like he's brave for bringing it up but instead it's like "dude dont say that out loud, its dumb"That stuff undermines his intentions, which I think *are* mostly good,. If he stuck to the emotional conversation, trusted the curiosity ... if wishes were horses etc
Fixating on the clothing was like dude whyyyyyyy stop no argh
And Laura was considerably more patient than she had any right to be, hats off to her for real
But then again maybe someone like Maron *trying* to have the conversation and half-succeeding is better than not at all...and who knows, he may get a portion of his listeners to think about trans issues differently, even if it's not an ideal conversation
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 July 2015 23:06 (eight years ago) link
naive maybe, idk
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 July 2015 23:07 (eight years ago) link
Maron is, effectively, a dad or the uncle you avoid talking to. Well-meaning but totally bumblefuck when he opens his mouth.
― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 6 July 2015 23:57 (eight years ago) link
Also, I know his TV show is almost unwatched in here so I'll just point out that last episode had him screwing a college girl and several characters reiterating statements along the lines of "Marc, what you're doing is AMAZING, man, no one's ever done what you're doing."
― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 6 July 2015 23:58 (eight years ago) link
An edgy but also worshipful college girl.
― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 6 July 2015 23:59 (eight years ago) link
I hated that ep on so many levels
Sometimes I can kinda watch it, but mostly no
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 00:41 (eight years ago) link
I was never a fan of his show but I think Season 3 is a big improvement. The episode about making a baby for a lesbian couple was hilarious. I haven't seen the episode that Gott Punch is referring to tho. Yeesh.
― tayto fan (Michael B), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 00:52 (eight years ago) link
it was like a weird Maron fantasy
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 01:03 (eight years ago) link
this season has been great until the last two eps
college girl didn't seem to be too sincere about her admiration tbh
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 02:26 (eight years ago) link
College student character just seemed like a weird plot device wrapped in some half-remembered "college chick" from Maron's distant past to me.
Waste of Adam Goldberg in this episode, too.
I was never a fan of his show but I think Season 3 is a big improvement
Yeah I think it's better overall, but it still runs into the same issues its had from the start.
― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 9 July 2015 18:22 (eight years ago) link
The episode about making a baby for a lesbian couple was hilarious.
yeah this was good, prob the best episode of the show I've seen (and I can't bring myself to watch all that many of them)
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 9 July 2015 18:27 (eight years ago) link
That was a great episode, actually!
― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 9 July 2015 18:28 (eight years ago) link
This Wyatt Cenac episode is the best in a few years
― Most Scientifically Beautiful Face (President Keyes), Thursday, 23 July 2015 13:02 (eight years ago) link
<3 Wyatt
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 23 July 2015 13:07 (eight years ago) link
I don't know if he's told that Jon Stewart story beforeBut lol at "Do you have a problem with my Chuck Schumer impression?"
― Most Scientifically Beautiful Face (President Keyes), Thursday, 23 July 2015 14:12 (eight years ago) link
I liked the Ian McKellan interview, too! Can you imagine having an actor of his ability and gravitas breaking that Shakespeare out three feet from your face? Holy shit!
― Hydroelectric New Deal Demiurge (B.L.A.M.), Thursday, 23 July 2015 17:24 (eight years ago) link
I don't think he's told the Jon Stewart story before, because it would've been bigger news. Now it's going to be in 3...2...
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 23 July 2015 17:51 (eight years ago) link
I enjoyed the McKellan interview. I'm listening to his Nerdist one now where hes a bit pissed off, probably cos Hardwick arrived late and never apologized.
― tayto fan (Michael B), Thursday, 23 July 2015 18:14 (eight years ago) link
i'd be pissed off if i had to spend an hour with that fuck-knuckle no matter how punctual he was
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 23 July 2015 20:00 (eight years ago) link
^^
― an asteroid could hit the planet (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 23 July 2015 20:26 (eight years ago) link
the Wyatt Cenac episode is great so far, but his recounting of his family stuff is exactly the same as on The Champs (which, of course). he's still a hero to me in a 'cutting people completely out of your life' way.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Friday, 24 July 2015 13:49 (eight years ago) link
yeah, the first half is very similar to his Champs interview, but the second half is why there are hundreds of articles about him online today.
― Most Scientifically Beautiful Face (President Keyes), Friday, 24 July 2015 13:55 (eight years ago) link
kind of crazy that this came out on the same day the Daily Show had the actual Chuck Schumer on to play a stereotype, and TNC (who gets weirdly disappeared at the end of the show)
― Most Scientifically Beautiful Face (President Keyes), Friday, 24 July 2015 14:18 (eight years ago) link
lol, i guess i should listen to the rest then.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Friday, 24 July 2015 14:23 (eight years ago) link
Finally getting to the Wyatt Cenac episode, and it's great and kind of heartbreaking to hear about the stuff with his dad and mom. And Jon Stewart.
― a poetic ODE to FORNICATION (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 31 July 2015 08:59 (eight years ago) link
Sinbad episode is one of the worst ever, what a total punisher
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Friday, 31 July 2015 09:11 (eight years ago) link
Ouch. I might have to listen just to see how long I can hang.
― a poetic ODE to FORNICATION (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 31 July 2015 09:15 (eight years ago) link
an hour and a half of breathless run-on monologuing about he was the funniest guy ever, and famous people telling him how funny he was, and how much smarter he was than everyone, except for some people telling him to tone it down occasionally because not everything is all about him, because they were JEALOUS FOOLS with HUGE EGOS, and he was the funniest thing ever on that stage or show or movie or that other guy's career
and Maron getting swept up and affirming him, once every 12 minutes, when he could get a syllable in
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Friday, 31 July 2015 09:16 (eight years ago) link
all without ever saying one thing funny in the whole interview iirc
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Friday, 31 July 2015 09:17 (eight years ago) link
Wow.
― a poetic ODE to FORNICATION (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 31 July 2015 09:18 (eight years ago) link
it was kind of a standard issue 90s rapper interview on Combat Jack
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Friday, 31 July 2015 13:44 (eight years ago) link
I actually felt bad for Wyatt Cenac's Mom listening to that episode - it seemed like a lot of what she was doing that bothered her son was a reaction to losing her ex so tragically. What a sad story.
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Saturday, 1 August 2015 09:53 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I kind of agree. also it seemed she has been making bungled attempts to reach out to him, but he isn't interested in meeting her even half-way anymore. I'm not in his shoes of course, so what do I know. It's sad all over.
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Saturday, 1 August 2015 10:36 (eight years ago) link
She sounds disturbed, and if half of what he says is true he should keep away from her
― a (waterface), Monday, 3 August 2015 13:18 (eight years ago) link
Harmony Korine interview was nice. He mentioned being sick of Americana denim-and-banjos.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 00:05 (eight years ago) link
xp I've learned not to project my own experience onto people who talk about less than perfect relationships with parents. My family might as well be the Cleavers, but I know that's not true for everyone. If Wyatt says he wants his mom out of his life, he has his reasons.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 00:14 (eight years ago) link
xpost yeah that Americana diss was more evidence that HK is a dumbass
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 10:42 (eight years ago) link
If I had to choose between beards, denim and banjos or Harmony Korine I think I'd just walk away and find better things to do.
― a poetic ODE to FORNICATION (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 11:05 (eight years ago) link
I think Harmony has some compelling idea and Marc not getting him at all was hilarious
― rip van wanko, Friday, 7 August 2015 17:59 (eight years ago) link
finally listened to the Cenac interview, the Stewart stuff was interesting, esp Maron gently counselling *him* to release a little of the resentment & go to the finale.lot of deep stuff tied up in that oneit was interesting
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 August 2015 21:03 (eight years ago) link
underrated line from Mike Watt: "There was this festival called 'Tomorrow's Party'"
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 9 August 2015 18:41 (eight years ago) link
Got the Attempting Normal audiobook from the library - kind of shocking how many stories are repeated on 'This Has To Be Funny,' 'Thinky Pain,' the book and his TV show - the book fleshes them out and has some other stories, but big chunks are verbatim from his albums and/or show. Still funny but it might be time to work on new material.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 22:25 (eight years ago) link
he has material?
― some dude, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 22:27 (eight years ago) link
He focused more on "material" back in the old days (Not Sold Out is one of my favorite sets ever to be released as an album), but in the years since—after doing radio and then a podcast—it feels like his standup is just an extension of (or a brainstorming session for) how he wants to write his autobiography.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 22:39 (eight years ago) link
i love harmony korine so much
― gr8080, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 15:00 (eight years ago) link
I've enjoyed the run of Maron as kind of an amiably decent show without huge ambitions, but the two-part season finale (particularly the final episode) was kind of great. The storyline diverts from the semi-autobiographical tone of episodes past into a tale of Maron getting hooked on oxycontin in the lead-up to filming a talk show pilot. Hilarious and a little harrowing. It's nice to see Maron's comedic chops outside of just saying stuff that Maron would say. Written by Jerry Stahl, definite Permanent Midnight vibes.
― Profound Perspectives (Old Lunch), Monday, 17 August 2015 17:08 (eight years ago) link
Just noticed the WTF archives are now on a $3.99/month subscription. Bright sides: most episodes are also bootlegged on YouTube; subscription also includes a Spalding Gray performance archive.
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 17 August 2015 17:20 (eight years ago) link
Just now listening to the Bateman interview from a couple weeks ago. I'd forgotten his start was on Little House on the Prairie!
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 17 August 2015 17:26 (eight years ago) link
Just noticed ... (31 minutes ago))
Midroll only launched Howl at midnight.
the WTF archives are now on a $3.99/month subscription.
Only for new subscribers, not previous WTF subscribers, and it includes everything else on Howl Premium and Howl Originals tbf (two new Lapkus shows would be exciting if With hadn't been so spotty.)
Bright sides: most episodes are also bootlegged on YouTube
Fuck anyone who wishes to have rights over what they make.
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Monday, 17 August 2015 18:12 (eight years ago) link
so many lol Maron-isms in today's episode--
thinking Frank O'Hara was the Poet Laureate
freaking out about some NOBODY criticizing Bill Maher
congratulating himself for not following the news for the third time this month
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Monday, 24 August 2015 11:29 (eight years ago) link
I don't know if my heart could handle a full WTF segment of Maron and McGowan
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 31 August 2015 12:53 (eight years ago) link
Richard Thomson this Thursday, sounds good.
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 31 August 2015 13:48 (eight years ago) link
Thompson
today's entire episode belongs on the Free Speech & Creepy Liberalism thread
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 13:30 (eight years ago) link
uh oh. who?
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 13:37 (eight years ago) link
Bob Guccione Jr.
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 13:42 (eight years ago) link
great one from the Bogdanovich episode: being startled and aghast to learn that Orson Welles did not have a decades-long career of Hollywood hits. "What?!"
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 16:20 (eight years ago) link
whenever I hear Guccione's name I think of GNR's stupid 'Get in the Ring' rant
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 16:23 (eight years ago) link
he mentioned that to Maron
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 16:30 (eight years ago) link
basically called Axl a pussy who wouldn't actually fight him
rmde
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 17:16 (eight years ago) link
from his blog today about his Dublin visit - "I did spend some time in the black neighborhood. It’s basically a statue of Phil Lynott downtown." That's the first time I've heard Grafton Street being described as a black neighborhood.
― tayto fan (Michael B), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 17:59 (eight years ago) link
but that's a joke rite?
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 18:02 (eight years ago) link
yeah probably
― tayto fan (Michael B), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 18:07 (eight years ago) link
really sweet phaser/flanger combo on marc's guitar at the end of the guccione episode
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 9 September 2015 19:14 (eight years ago) link
xxp - That wasn't 'a joke,' that was 'the joke.'
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 12 September 2015 22:24 (eight years ago) link
Haven't heard the Guccione episode, but the interviews with Richard Thompson and Lemmy were both great for completely different reasons.
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Saturday, 12 September 2015 22:27 (eight years ago) link
Loved how Sweeney glossed over the Zwan period.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 14 September 2015 11:42 (eight years ago) link
Find it weird the Armisen episode went undiscussed here. It's mostly pretty interesting and Armisen seems like a really positive and enthusiastic guy (and he's had a hand in lots of stuff I love from the past - I mean, has Nation of Ulysses ever been mentioned on WTF before? I would certainly pose that Candy Machine is the most obscure band ever mentioned on the show...)
Then at the end when it quickly and awkwardly gets into Armisen's personal demons, and Maron seems afraid to explicitly talk about Armisen's rep at first, obliquely alluding to that old Gawker piece - it turns gross. Maron starts getting worked up about how nobody could possibly blame Armisen for his promiscuity and starts getting off on their shared history of divorce and even shared history of some women (does Maron talk about having dated Eleanor Freidberger, and Fred did too?) and Maron starts saying things like "there's worse things than having too many vagina options!(throaty cackle)"
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Monday, 14 September 2015 13:35 (eight years ago) link
I mentioned the episode on the Gawker thread--yeah, it was weird. (I guess EF was the long-distance relationship Maron talked about a few times? Kinda gross that he kept her name off the podcast until he got to high five another of her exes.) FA was in this weird zone somewhere between admitting to a sex addiction and trying to figure out a way to keep chasing fans while dating/marrying famous women.
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Monday, 14 September 2015 14:47 (eight years ago) link
Korine one was good. Feel like that's the first interview I've heard of him where he isn't fucked up and/or dicking around. Surprisingly articulate about his work and the stuff he likes.
― circa1916, Monday, 14 September 2015 15:11 (eight years ago) link
Maron aside (if i was being charitable, i would say his douchey bro-iness was his way of drawing FA out), i was glad it got into what a bizarre and unsettling dude he is. there was another exchange early on in the episode, something about trying to improve at being a human being and how he suspects he's ok at it because he has friends, where if you had no idea what he's talking about it would sound even weirder. he does seem oddly willing to talk about it though.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Monday, 14 September 2015 16:53 (eight years ago) link
also, while i'm aware that i don't actually know either of these people, i get the vibe that Maron's relationship issues come from a place of being overly emotional & needy, where Armisen seems more like an alien trying to figure out how humans work.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Monday, 14 September 2015 16:58 (eight years ago) link
I meant to read the Fred Armisen one but work got too insane and then I never got back to it.
Also, for whatever reason, I'm getting selective about which WTFs I listen to.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 14 September 2015 20:19 (eight years ago) link
Matt Sweeney episode was fun.
Not interested in listening to Fred Armisen talk at length about anything.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 September 2015 20:21 (eight years ago) link
idgi what is Armisen's rep apart from being a "shitty husband" to Scientologist Elizabeth Moss (which I can only imagine would test any sane person's patience)
― Οὖτις, Monday, 14 September 2015 20:22 (eight years ago) link
From what I understand, Elizabeth Moss is one of those 2nd gen scientologists. She was born into it because of dumb parents, but isn't really a practicing member.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 September 2015 20:23 (eight years ago) link
being a "??? husband" to Mekon Sally Timms?
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 September 2015 20:25 (eight years ago) link
I did enjoy learning more about Sweeney's background - he's one of those guys whose career always seems so big and weird.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 14 September 2015 20:26 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I was shocked that Armisen was married to Timms and played with her and Langford's non-Mekons projects in Chicago.
The best argument for Armisen not being a horrible person is his friendship with Carrie Brownstein, tbh. Hard to imagine her being best buds with the predator that Gawker article made him out to be.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 14 September 2015 20:29 (eight years ago) link
I'm not putting Armisen and Cosby on the same level, of course, but the very awesome Phylicia Rashad refused to disbelieve his behavior until she no longer could.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 September 2015 21:16 (eight years ago) link
what amazing wording!
...refused to disbelieveed his behavior until she no longer could.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 September 2015 21:20 (eight years ago) link
oh so we're talking about gawker reportage nm
― Οὖτις, Monday, 14 September 2015 21:21 (eight years ago) link
sweeney had nothing bad to say about corgan but he wrapped up the zwan discussion with "that's enough nice things to say-"
― flappy bird, Monday, 14 September 2015 23:50 (eight years ago) link
salivating over the 100 unreleased songs they recorded
― flappy bird, Monday, 14 September 2015 23:51 (eight years ago) link
idgi what is Armisen's rep apart from being a "shitty husband"
reputation for being a slut, fucking fans
in the interview, he talks about being a slut who fucks fans, and not being a good husband
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 07:42 (eight years ago) link
I think the rumors suggest it's more than just "being a slut, fucking fans" - it's more the repeated accusations of manipulation, dishonesty, infidelity, getting people pregnant and peacing out, non-communication, etc. - I don't think it's just, like, slut shaming or whatever. All of which he sort of cops to in the interview, so credit there I guess - I was just more grossed out by Maron's "we've all been there, bro" stuff (which didn't sound to me like a clever interview technique)
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 09:24 (eight years ago) link
FA's MO is probably similar to a lot of Famous & Semi-Famous men. What's notable is that he at first appears to be something different--oddball, indie, hangs with Carrie Brownstein--and probably uses that "nice oddball" persona as a means to snare women, when in reality he's aspiring to be David Lee Roth or Gene Simmons.
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 12:22 (eight years ago) link
Is DLR known for being an actual jerk though?
― how's life, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 12:46 (eight years ago) link
well Armisen mentioned him (and Simmons) as an ideal of dude who bangs lots of groupies with no consequences.
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 12:50 (eight years ago) link
Not sure if that's accurate
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 12:51 (eight years ago) link
Probably not. I'm sure they've both had their share of the clap.
― Stop licking your fingers. It's sick. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 13:04 (eight years ago) link
Oh, I'm sure DLR caught a lot of groupie action, but I hadn't heard of him being a dick to anyone. Don't even know WHO he's ever dated. Stunning absence of a reputation for a dude that high profile.
Don't know if Simmons has been a jerk to his girlfriends or anything, even though he seems like a jerk irl.
― how's life, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 13:06 (eight years ago) link
I think what Armisen was getting at something like "David Lee Roth has slept with way more groupies than I have and yet I have a high profile divorce and a Gawker article for my troubles and everyone thinks he's cool."
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 13:08 (eight years ago) link
Boo hoo tell me when you've done anything 1/1000th as cool as "Jump".
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 14:03 (eight years ago) link
Also dlr was on stage and screen promising one night stands and a life of vice. It's not really NEWS if David lee Roth ain't talkin bout love.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 14:39 (eight years ago) link
Not a fan of gawker's dead-eyed self-righteous gossip aggregation style but if you don't want people to whisper about your tendency to seduce women with promises and then treat them like shit until they dump you, stop playing captain cutesypoo and get ahead of the story. Or maybe stop treating women horribly.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 14:48 (eight years ago) link
Everybody loves dlr - housewives, crackheads, ad execs, everybody
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 14:49 (eight years ago) link
Barring anything criminal cant say i gaf about armisen's personal life
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 14:50 (eight years ago) link
Did Maron call out Armisen on the racism of the "Coffee Land" sketch? I'm guessing not.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 15:02 (eight years ago) link
I think his point was more self-critical, that he has a tendency to fantasize about the consequence-free lifestyle that DLR and Gene Simmons seem to have, whereas in fact we have no idea what the personal consequences for those people are.
― jmm, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 15:04 (eight years ago) link
Wow, Maron just DGAF about the Fred interview AT ALL
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 17 September 2015 12:54 (eight years ago) link
Though 30 minutes in shit starts to get real
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 17 September 2015 13:01 (eight years ago) link
Though now I desperately want to revisit Armisen's one-man show bit
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 17 September 2015 14:02 (eight years ago) link
"The struggle is real."
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 17 September 2015 14:44 (eight years ago) link
lol at that League guy's 911 story being bullshit
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Thursday, 17 September 2015 17:58 (eight years ago) link
yeah that was a huge facepalm
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 September 2015 17:59 (eight years ago) link
patrick stewart warms my heart. loved him on howard a couple weeks ago, today's WTF is almost as good
― flappy bird, Thursday, 17 September 2015 18:20 (eight years ago) link
he was great on the nerdist a couple of weeks ago too
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 September 2015 19:24 (eight years ago) link
marc maron is scared of SILICON DIOXIDE, so he'd better stay away from THE BEACH
― Sufjan Grafton, Thursday, 17 September 2015 19:27 (eight years ago) link
Guccione Jr. and Armisen back to back was a lot of debauchery.
― half the staying power of Erasure (Eazy), Sunday, 20 September 2015 02:42 (eight years ago) link
Monday is KEEF DAY :D
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 20 September 2015 02:50 (eight years ago) link
Haha during the Matt Sweeney episode:
Marc: "Your brother's a musician too?"Matt: "Yeah, he does the music for Kitchen Nightmares."Marc (growing excited): "Ooh, I don't know them!"Matt: "No, uh, the TV show with Gordon Ramsay"Marc: "Oh."
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Sunday, 20 September 2015 10:27 (eight years ago) link
Re: armisen, i'm sure this is going to go well...
http://ww2.hdnux.com/photos/41/03/63/8666317/3/promo.jpg" class="noborder">
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 September 2015 17:41 (eight years ago) link
Keef interview is kinda adorable, i guess I feel an affinity for how giddy Maron is, i would be the same way
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 September 2015 17:56 (eight years ago) link
he smoked a cig!
― flappy bird, Monday, 21 September 2015 19:03 (eight years ago) link
@ least he didn't get talked into keith mixing him a Sunkist n vodka
― johnny crunch, Monday, 21 September 2015 19:04 (eight years ago) link
re Fred A, as a fan of such certifiably lousy husbands as Brando, Groucho, Pryor, Bob Hope etc i must ask who gives a horse's patoot
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 September 2015 19:11 (eight years ago) link
xxxxp - it's still weird to see Natasha Lyonne looking healthy
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 21 September 2015 20:48 (eight years ago) link
http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/who-are-your-guys#.ndXA2Vm1np
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 24 September 2015 18:20 (eight years ago) link
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 September 2015 18:43 (eight years ago) link
There's a good, simple bathroom book to be made compiling all the answers to this.
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 24 September 2015 18:45 (eight years ago) link
What I took from the FA interview was that Maron did too much apologizing for him to let him talk. I'd like to let Freddy just run on until he incriminates himself.
― Screwdriver suicide (kenan), Thursday, 24 September 2015 22:39 (eight years ago) link
Patrick Stewart is a gem and should definitely release recorded Shakespeare where he does all the characters. His A Christmas Carol CD was constantly in my Discman at Christmastime.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 24 September 2015 23:26 (eight years ago) link
He's gripping. I was gripped.
― Screwdriver suicide (kenan), Friday, 25 September 2015 12:15 (eight years ago) link
cant believe michaela Watkins dated JON FISHMAN lol
― johnny crunch, Friday, 2 October 2015 12:43 (eight years ago) link
honestly want a whole nother ep abt their relationship
― johnny crunch, Friday, 2 October 2015 12:44 (eight years ago) link
Didn't she say her sister dated him?
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Friday, 2 October 2015 12:52 (eight years ago) link
hm I don't think so? easy enough to check tho
― johnny crunch, Friday, 2 October 2015 12:55 (eight years ago) link
I guess that may make more sense w/r/t ages matching up
― johnny crunch, Friday, 2 October 2015 12:56 (eight years ago) link
She said it was her sister Becca
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Friday, 2 October 2015 13:33 (eight years ago) link
So Marc is interviewing Peaches tomorrow. I have never heard or read a Peaches interview, despite liking some of her albums and loving others. Should be fun.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 October 2015 04:06 (eight years ago) link
Genuinely eager for the "who were your guys" for maybe the first time ever
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Monday, 5 October 2015 09:01 (eight years ago) link
https://youtu.be/mCo5J6Wk6qY
― nose, Monday, 5 October 2015 11:56 (eight years ago) link
Peaches was on Comedy Bang Bang with Claudia O'Doherty the other week. It was good, but I did already type "Claudia O'Doherty."
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Monday, 5 October 2015 12:04 (eight years ago) link
Heteronormative
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Monday, 5 October 2015 12:44 (eight years ago) link
She did a Bret Easton Ellis podcast a few months ago -- OK, low-key.
― I know some Civil War re-enactors you might want to talk to (Eazy), Monday, 5 October 2015 13:53 (eight years ago) link
Maron was pretty confident with the "Who was your next boyfriend?" "Who was your next boyfriend?"
― I know some Civil War re-enactors you might want to talk to (Eazy), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 04:55 (eight years ago) link
THIS IS NOT A DRILL. THIS IS HAPPENING.
http://www.vulture.com/2015/10/maron-finally-asks-lorne-about-his-snl-audition.html
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 04:59 (eight years ago) link
The Annie Baker interview was kind of like a conversation between a comedian and a playwright stuck sitting next to each other at a dinner party and making the best of it. But that's what his first musician interviews were like as well.
― I know some Civil War re-enactors you might want to talk to (Eazy), Tuesday, 13 October 2015 23:58 (eight years ago) link
I'm not sure what the point of the Lorne Michaels refresher was at the top of the episode since he's not dropping the interview this week or anything. You already told us you interviewed him.
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 00:29 (eight years ago) link
Tbh, I was hella confused by that bit b/c I ~hadn't~ actually heard that he'd interviewed him. Kept rewinding to figure out if I'd missed anything.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 05:05 (eight years ago) link
Eazy -- thought of you while listening to the Annie Baker interview. I've been intrigued by her for a while, having read the 2013 New Yorker profile and a positive review of John...somewhere. Have any Chicago theaters ever put on one of her plays?
― jaymc, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 05:07 (eight years ago) link
I thought he came off as genuinely interested in Baker, much less awkward than some of the musician interviews.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 05:20 (eight years ago) link
there was a really jarring edit too.
"heteronormative" was hilarious, genuinely surprised that he's not familiar with that term.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 13:43 (eight years ago) link
The Lorne interview thing is kinda weird, as he talked about it last week and insinuated that he would save the interview for some special date. So when he started talking about it again on Monday I figured he was going to announce his decision, like "We decided to put it out next week" or "We will lock this away to play as our final episode." But he just once again told us the SNL audition story, with no new info, for no apparent reason.
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 13:59 (eight years ago) link
With the Lorne interview, I think he can't keep himself from talking about it. Also, the first time he mentioned it last week, he said that originally he thought when he interviewed Lorne that it would be the last WTF episode, and the current episode sounds like him saying "And so now I'm trying to figure out what to do." He's also probably currently reeling from having some closure to this thing that's been weighing on him the past 20 years.
A Red Orchid did The Aliens and Victory Gardens did Circle Mirror Transformation (I missed both). Steppenwolf is doing The Flick in their upstairs theater, opening in January or so.
― I know some Civil War re-enactors you might want to talk to (Eazy), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 14:07 (eight years ago) link
Oh, cool. Ha, I was going to say "Let's stage one ourselves!"
― jaymc, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 14:31 (eight years ago) link
Albini interview's good.
― I know some Civil War re-enactors you might want to talk to (Eazy), Thursday, 29 October 2015 12:20 (eight years ago) link
Epps interview one of the worst in recent memory. Epps doesn't give a shit, Maron can't get 'in' and doesn't seem inclined to fight for it.
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 29 October 2015 14:34 (eight years ago) link
Maron's intro - \sigh\"I did what I could." - was fair warning.
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Thursday, 29 October 2015 14:41 (eight years ago) link
Really digging the Patricia Arquette interview, Albini was solid.
Epps was just okay I guess.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 2 November 2015 12:42 (eight years ago) link
still no Lorne interview this week. I'm getting the feeling that when he finally plays it, it'll be dripped out a few minutes a week
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Monday, 2 November 2015 15:17 (eight years ago) link
they'd better fist fight atop a mountain at this point
― NATION: ? ? ? (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 2 November 2015 17:10 (eight years ago) link
the mantle of podcaster to the stars could not have fallen on a more tiresome, bloviating fule. i will finish the albini one but i had to quit in disgust.
― vlade dvorak (rip van wanko), Monday, 2 November 2015 17:15 (eight years ago) link
ok David Cross would have been worse
― vlade dvorak (rip van wanko), Monday, 2 November 2015 17:20 (eight years ago) link
Patricia Arquette interview is good, but lol @ Maron's pre-interview analysis depicting a defensive side of himself that keeps his social graces intact. Her description of the hippie commune and its failings was pretty subtle, and Marc chimes in with shit like "your parents found out that people who seek out hippie communes are fucked up" while also just assuming her time there was chaotic. My god I cringed.
― NATION: ? ? ? (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 5 November 2015 17:35 (eight years ago) link
lorne interview is up - kinda nervous to listen tbh
― the illicit unit slid tantalizingly across the waxed tile (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 9 November 2015 14:05 (eight years ago) link
I was like "Who would they follow with on Thursday if Lorne's on a Monday?" Well, Elvis Costello.
― my harp and me (Eazy), Monday, 9 November 2015 14:13 (eight years ago) link
It sounded like what Lorne was dancing around, and Maron seemed incapable of hearing, was that he didn't get hired because he appealed to an urban intellectual audience and SNL has to play in Kansas.
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Monday, 9 November 2015 14:43 (eight years ago) link
Also to Lorne that was just a meeting not an audition
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Monday, 9 November 2015 14:44 (eight years ago) link
"So who were your...primary influences?"
I loled.
― Trimming The Hegyes: The Life & Times Of A Sweathog's Barber (Old Lunch), Monday, 9 November 2015 15:23 (eight years ago) link
These promoted interviews, with Aziz last week and Cross/Odenkirk this week, have their own funny energy to them. The tension Maron had in his early episodes comes back, the part of him that seems to be comparing success, who has the cooler projects. Or it's a different dynamic on the interviewees' part because they're there deliberately to promote a show.
And then the Aziz interview was awkward as far as "Hey, there aren't a lot of white people on your show. What's that about?" But I enjoyed listening to both.
― my harp and me (Eazy), Monday, 23 November 2015 20:39 (eight years ago) link
That wasn't Marc being bemused though, it was giving Aziz an opening to talk about the issues of representation, implicit and explicit, in the work.
(Sometimes Maron says dumb, tone-deaf stuff on purpose for a point, sometimes by accident.)
(I wish Aziz didn't feel he had to make it a hook in promoting the show - it's fuckin chock-full of white people! - but it's something he's chosen to do.)
― glandular lansbury (sic), Monday, 23 November 2015 20:53 (eight years ago) link
Today, Neil Strauss!
Mileage/results may vary, etc.
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 28 December 2015 13:05 (eight years ago) link
That McIntosh turntable that Maron has in the third season of his show starts $6500 apparently.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 30 December 2015 06:49 (eight years ago) link
He's that dude. I think he said the tube amp cost him 5 grand.
― stupid children forever (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 30 December 2015 10:37 (eight years ago) link
The Neil Strauss interview was not only bearable and pretty compelling. Maron's in a mode somewhere between joshing and bullying, and Strauss is somewhere between guy-who-got-in-over-his-head and opportunist.
― (please no long guns of any kind) (Eazy), Wednesday, 30 December 2015 14:36 (eight years ago) link
and *but pretty compelling
― (please no long guns of any kind) (Eazy), Wednesday, 30 December 2015 14:37 (eight years ago) link
idk I think I'm going to have to New Year's resolve to stop listening to this asshole.
In that Bill Burr lovefest, Maron, the 50-something childless therapybro & 12 Stepping rage-o-holic, breaks out the word "pussified" about parents concerned with bullying.
Fuck this broken shell of a person for as many lifetimes as his dust rises.
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Saturday, 2 January 2016 01:06 (eight years ago) link
Why the hell anyone would listen to Maron and Burr talk to each other is beyond me. I like Maron, but not in that sort of company.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 2 January 2016 01:35 (eight years ago) link
it's very illuminating to hear him trying to suck up to knuckle draggers like Burr
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Saturday, 2 January 2016 02:40 (eight years ago) link
I pretty much stopped listening to Maron like six months ago. Dude is losing the tortured part that balanced out the self-obsession and made him a little more sympathetic to listen to (and possibly as a human being).
― stupid children forever (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 4 January 2016 04:26 (eight years ago) link
holy crap at David Spade's life
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 4 January 2016 13:09 (eight years ago) link
GARRETT MORRIS you guys
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 14 January 2016 13:47 (eight years ago) link
I'm kind of excited about that.
― stupid children forever (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 14 January 2016 18:48 (eight years ago) link
I came to it with barely an idea of who he is, and left it with less. Except that he did a lot of cocaine for a long while, and I'm inferring from the hour-long catarrhic rattle, cigarettes.
― glandular lansbury (sic), Thursday, 14 January 2016 22:17 (eight years ago) link
so there IS something you don't know everything about
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 14 January 2016 22:46 (eight years ago) link
Michael Moore is good in longform conversation vs. TV soundbites.
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 04:35 (eight years ago) link
man the maron intro is just so unbearable though, the amy schumer thing, i have this awful image of the kind of posture of maron when he is Laying It Down on the mic, it is in some sense derivative of the framing used to portray lester bangs in almost famous, does he realise how much he has just fully come to embody this exact like Conservative Radio Truth Teller archetype
― bloat laureate (schlump), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 04:45 (eight years ago) link
Yeah that Amy Schumer thing was pretty questionable from mr comedy ethics inquisitor
"Some comics you never heard of said some stuff yadda yadda yadda"
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 14:12 (eight years ago) link
lol at marc kicking off his impassioned defence of amy schumer with a tale about how he once put together a total sausagefest of a standup night then magnanimously let her go on cuz she was jeselnik's girlfriend
also this was in 2011 when she was already pretty well-established as a comic and he apparently knew fuck-all about her
― Butt here is always time for the John Mayer Trio or Sting. (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 14:21 (eight years ago) link
Dug the Cintra Wilson/Zach G ep. Two interesting convos for different reasons.
― Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Tuesday, 16 February 2016 21:49 (eight years ago) link
long one w friedkin today
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 25 February 2016 14:35 (eight years ago) link
I just caught up on a couple I'd not gotten to yesterday: Flea/Trujillo and Herb Alpert. Maron's musician interviews are definitely less painful now than they once were.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 25 February 2016 14:39 (eight years ago) link
Only partway into Friedkin (2+ hours long), but really into it.
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 27 February 2016 14:54 (eight years ago) link
Is that the longest single WTF episode? It's up there, and it really started to overstay its welcome by the end (Jesus stuff), but I loved when Friedkin went off on 35mm print fetishists.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 27 February 2016 14:56 (eight years ago) link
a funny part is how little marc makes of friedkin saying he used to run practice w the 80s celtics! that is amazing & rad but obv marc has no ability to engage w it on any level, which is fine to be fair
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 27 February 2016 15:05 (eight years ago) link
I prefer a host who doesn't care about that kind of stuff
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Saturday, 27 February 2016 20:16 (eight years ago) link
Todd Rundgren tomorrow. Should be interesting.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 20 March 2016 21:12 (seven years ago) link
The Herb Alpert one was good and so was the Michael Rapaport one, because they both talked so much that they blocked Marc out.
― Josefa, Monday, 21 March 2016 02:44 (seven years ago) link
Friedkin was that way, too. Great interview, like an entire audiobook at 2.5 hours.
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 21 March 2016 04:01 (seven years ago) link
lol @ Rundgren geeking out about Melt Banana
― circa1916, Monday, 21 March 2016 13:25 (seven years ago) link
caught up with the michael rapaport episode over the weekend, gave up when both guest and host started bitching about divorce and child support payments
― Upset by racist left wingers calling me an egg (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 21 March 2016 14:24 (seven years ago) link
I can't believe I made it through the whole Al Lubel interview. The guy was so insufferable that even Marc let out a little fake muffled laugh at one line toward the end of the interview as if to say "get the fuck out of my garage".
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 24 March 2016 17:46 (seven years ago) link
That dude's still around?! Man. I remember his bit being like a singing intro to his act and his strongest line was "it's a good thing my parents didn't name me Lou because then I'd be Lou Lubel..."
― bulbs in the VU meters of God (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 24 March 2016 17:50 (seven years ago) link
I've only been dipping in when there's a guest I'm interested in, and I'm very interested in the John Lurie one coming up.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link
^this delivered imo
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 8 April 2016 17:09 (seven years ago) link
really touching seeing his loneliness and need for connection creep out from behind that curmudgeonly wall. his Lyme disease stories were terrifying. can't imagine living with that.
― circa1916, Friday, 8 April 2016 17:18 (seven years ago) link
jon lurie ep one of the best for a long time for sure
― a lad of balls (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 8 April 2016 17:51 (seven years ago) link
Maron says a few times in the introduction "We had a dinner together afterwards" and so I was expecting Lurie to punch him out or something.
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 9 April 2016 16:48 (seven years ago) link
Today's show blew my mind - I somehow didn't realize that these issues exist for people, or at least that said issues can last an entire lifetime.
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 11 April 2016 12:11 (seven years ago) link
The Nikki Glaser one?
(BTW is it now impossible to download this podcast? Looks like there's just a player and no link.
― a spate of non-fatal hammer attacks (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 11 April 2016 18:26 (seven years ago) link
...and close parens)
― a spate of non-fatal hammer attacks (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 11 April 2016 18:27 (seven years ago) link
Yep, that's the one.
And I noticed the same thing about downloads - it seems impossible to do it anymore.
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 11 April 2016 18:38 (seven years ago) link
iTunes
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Monday, 11 April 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link
I still see the dl links @http://wtfpod.libsyn.com/
but idk I never try to save them I just stream
― johnny crunch, Monday, 11 April 2016 18:44 (seven years ago) link
I use Pocket Casts instead of the Apple Podcasts app and I vastly prefer the experience fwiw.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 11 April 2016 18:48 (seven years ago) link
I use Pocket Casts for android. It's not perfect, but worth the 3 or so bucks.
― how's life, Monday, 11 April 2016 18:51 (seven years ago) link
I still use an iPod :/
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Monday, 11 April 2016 19:24 (seven years ago) link
I lost my iPod right after Christmas. 6th Gen Classic. I used it every day for years for all my music and podcasts and everything, with just some shitty $5 case to protect it that apparently rendered it invincible. It's still somewhere in the house, but god knows where.
― how's life, Monday, 11 April 2016 19:30 (seven years ago) link
Player FM for android also works well for me
― We quickly ate the feast as to leave ASAP (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 11 April 2016 19:39 (seven years ago) link
You should only listen to WTF on pressed vinyl
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 11 April 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link
Do NOT give Marc any ideas, dude.
― a spate of non-fatal hammer attacks (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 11 April 2016 21:34 (seven years ago) link
i use instacast. they've stopped updating the app but it still works & i love it
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 April 2016 22:55 (seven years ago) link
WTF is on Spotify now fwiw (which is how I've started listening to it).
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 01:38 (seven years ago) link
hmm i can't find it there. is it only on android?
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 01:59 (seven years ago) link
Maybe? I can only get to it on the mobile app, not the desktop one.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 02:10 (seven years ago) link
I like the podcast addict app on android
― los blue jeans, Thursday, 14 April 2016 00:12 (seven years ago) link
Only drawback of Pocket Cast vs iOS podcast app is that you can't search for a name and find all the podcasts that person has done. More than outweighed by not being a giant piece of shit like the iOS podcast app.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 14 April 2016 01:08 (seven years ago) link
This Julia L-D episode is excruciating, but I'm making myself listen to the whole thing
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 22 April 2016 16:27 (seven years ago) link
I figure she'd be a decent interview. Or is it Maron himself that ruins it?
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Friday, 22 April 2016 16:32 (seven years ago) link
Folks will probably disagree with me, but I feel like Marc's doing fine and trying to warm things up. I don't know if Julia really is into being interviewed.
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 22 April 2016 16:35 (seven years ago) link
The new Louis CK one on the other hand is pretty interesting. At least the half I heard. Basically a Horace and Pete making-of.
― circa1916, Friday, 22 April 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
^^Yeah! I never saw "Louie" but this new thing seems worth a watch.
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 22 April 2016 19:14 (seven years ago) link
Mentioned it on the Wire thread - the David Simon one from last week is good.
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 22 April 2016 19:15 (seven years ago) link
David Simon is a p serious dude.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 22 April 2016 19:44 (seven years ago) link
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Really? I thought that was a completely comfortable interview.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 22 April 2016 19:47 (seven years ago) link
Maybe it's just me.
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 22 April 2016 21:33 (seven years ago) link
Joanna Newsom on Monday apparently.
Honestly can't stomach her music at all, but I'll be interested to hear from her.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 21 May 2016 04:44 (seven years ago) link
I love her music, but I had to turn the interview off after Maron tells her about how he found a youtube video where a guy taught him how to play The Boxer on guitar because he wanted to learn fingerstyle
― bonita pooleymoon (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 16:05 (seven years ago) link
(in response to Joanna expressing a desire to eventually learn how to sight read sheet music at speed)
― bonita pooleymoon (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 16:07 (seven years ago) link
Alright, this shit's gone too far
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CjkWLNiUkAAklPd.jpg
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 28 May 2016 19:55 (seven years ago) link
is that amp photoshopped in?
― soref, Saturday, 28 May 2016 20:08 (seven years ago) link
tbf, Maron seems like the ur-demographic for Guitar Aficianado.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 28 May 2016 20:12 (seven years ago) link
finally, we'll get to find out who marc's guys are
― benzarro ghazarri (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 28 May 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
One thing's for sure, they're guys.
― You say tomato, Isao Tomita (RIP) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 28 May 2016 20:22 (seven years ago) link
middle aged comic likes guitars. whoopdey fucking do, jeez give the guy a break
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Saturday, 28 May 2016 22:01 (seven years ago) link
Louie Anderson episode is great. Lots of old Comedy Store talk and Rodney stories.
Rodney stories >>> Lorne stories.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 08:43 (seven years ago) link
Yes, that episode was excellent. I've never much enjoyed Anderson as a comic, but as an interview guest with great stories and an interesting life, he was superb.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 13:29 (seven years ago) link
oh wow, neil young today! two cranky motherfuckers in one garage could go either way i guess but hoping for the best
― an alternate version of his real world dog (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 20 June 2016 10:25 (seven years ago) link
NEIL YOUNG, motherfuckers
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 20 June 2016 11:44 (seven years ago) link
(I'll have to listen to the Louie Anderson one next)
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 20 June 2016 11:45 (seven years ago) link
yeah the louie anderson ep was really great. on the other hand i'm not touching the chelsea handler ep with a barge pole.
― a basset hound (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 20 June 2016 13:21 (seven years ago) link
on the other hand i'm not touching the chelsea handler ep with a barge pole.
They just pick at each other the entire time without ever really getting into any legit conversation about anything. Not sure why he even posted it.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 20 June 2016 13:24 (seven years ago) link
I think he's got a deal with Netflix to do interviews that focus on a new show (with Handler, Aziz, etc.).
― King Nagl (Eazy), Monday, 20 June 2016 15:39 (seven years ago) link
disagre, i could listen to her belittle him for hours.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Monday, 20 June 2016 16:57 (seven years ago) link
The JLD interview was interesting in that he seemed to have provided a few moments where she could have mentioned that her dad was a billionaire but evaded it maybe.
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Monday, 20 June 2016 17:01 (seven years ago) link
I actually bailed on Neil 20 minutes in and skipped to Louie, no regrets
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 20 June 2016 17:36 (seven years ago) link
Neil interview was greatLouis was boring as usual
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 20 June 2016 17:38 (seven years ago) link
I thought Neil might be a steel trap, but Marc basically had to kick him out at the end.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 20 June 2016 18:24 (seven years ago) link
Louie or Louis?
― glandular lansbury (sic), Monday, 20 June 2016 21:26 (seven years ago) link
nothing too exciting in the neil interview, but it was perfectly listenable, neil seemed generally into it.
― tylerw, Monday, 20 June 2016 22:21 (seven years ago) link
I wouldn't even say that the Neil interview sucked, it was just a dynamic that I couldn't deal with as my work day started: Neil trying to remember and elucidate things, Marc leaning on him a bit to move the story forward, etc. Gotta be in the mood for that.
And as a sucker for WTF comedian interviews, I loved the Louie interview. To each their own, I guess.
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 20 June 2016 22:22 (seven years ago) link
(Also this was the first time I'd ever listened to anyone interview Neil - previously I'd just read his print interviews.)
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 20 June 2016 22:23 (seven years ago) link
Xxxpost
Thought you meant Louis CK The Louie Andersobn interview was good
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 20 June 2016 22:41 (seven years ago) link
Until Marin has the guts to ask CK about abusing women idgaf about hearing them talk
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 20 June 2016 22:42 (seven years ago) link
Maron Jesus autocorrect
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 20 June 2016 22:43 (seven years ago) link
There's a part of the last Louis interview where Maron is at least covering his ass if any allegations come out -- something like "So you've got an interesting relationship with women, huh?" Similar to what he did in his Fred Armisen interview.
― Any Given User (Eazy), Monday, 20 June 2016 22:49 (seven years ago) link
^^Yeah, that was weird - Maron kinda raising his eyebrow, like "hey, you know and I know that people are saying some stuff about you out there, and here's your chance to respond if you're up for that."
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 20 June 2016 22:57 (seven years ago) link
I think it's important to believe survivors' allegations of assault or harassment, but until someone has come forward with said claims against Louis CK, this kind of rhetoric seems mostly about posters declaring their own righteousness.
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 00:32 (seven years ago) link
Oh fuck off I just think everything CK does is bored and overrated, and listening to Maron slobber over his gritty bar show is snore city
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 00:48 (seven years ago) link
Acknowledging the existence of actual claims against actual celebrities ain't righteousness.
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 02:36 (seven years ago) link
Really hoping Marc becomes a big Pono-head after Neil leaves one behind for him.
― Any Given User (Eazy), Saturday, 25 June 2016 14:35 (seven years ago) link
It sounds great through my FIVE THOUSAND DOLLAR TUBE AMPLIFIER guys
― Cosmic Love is absolutely Ruthless &Highly Indifferent (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 25 June 2016 18:20 (seven years ago) link
The Amber Tozer ep might be the most boring I've listened to.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 17:35 (seven years ago) link
I enjoyed the Louie Anderson one from a few weeks ago.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 18:19 (seven years ago) link
James L. Brooks is good so far, but his monologue intro is maybe the most excruciating ever,
― thrill of transgressin (Eazy), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 18:29 (seven years ago) link
John Carpenter/Joe Dante ep was great.
― how's life, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link
I don't really listen to this anymore, but, for some reason, I recently checked out the one with the very earnest Paul Dano. It was lifeless; Marc so uninterested, Dano so uninteresting.
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Thursday, 21 July 2016 11:12 (seven years ago) link
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, July 19, 2016 1:35 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I kinda liked this one but she is def like average white girl^tm
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 21 July 2016 12:20 (seven years ago) link
Tozer ep was like a half hearted attempt at an old school WTF, with lots of Sobriety talk and "you don't remember making out with me?" Maron history
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Thursday, 21 July 2016 13:08 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, the Dano one beats the Tozer one in terms of sheer boringness. Yeesh.
― circa1916, Thursday, 21 July 2016 16:26 (seven years ago) link
I liked the Tozer episode and her tales about being a craigslist mattress saleswoman
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Thursday, 21 July 2016 16:32 (seven years ago) link
Yeah Tozer one wasn't all that bad imo. Dano's about as compelling as a damp bathroom towel though.
― circa1916, Thursday, 21 July 2016 16:39 (seven years ago) link
Tozer's just didn't go anywhere - Craigslist mattress story aside, there weren't any good stories or anything revealing and 'failed comic slash memoirist' is only fun if you tell some of those addict stories that were worth writing about.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 21 July 2016 16:53 (seven years ago) link
Haven't been listening to this much but I always like hearing Jeff Goldblum talk, same w/Adam Goldberg. Some of my favorite Jews.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 21 July 2016 17:20 (seven years ago) link
Goldblum ep was charming as hell
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 July 2016 18:29 (seven years ago) link
STOKED FOR ROSEANNE
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 12 August 2016 19:56 (seven years ago) link
Lauren Lapkus is one where I can't tell if he's awkward because he's attracted, hasn't done his homework, or hasn't had enough sleep.
Goldblum one is fun. Eric Andre was interesting too.
― thrill of transgressin (Eazy), Friday, 12 August 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link
Werner Herzog is on Monday!
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Friday, 12 August 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
hasn't done his homework
He gets wrongfooted early by trying to insist that The Characters was a series that she had control over, and then gets disarmed by her genially going along with everything else he tries to neg her over in embarrassment.
― Shakey δσς (sic), Saturday, 13 August 2016 00:23 (seven years ago) link
Who are Herzog's guys?!
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 15 August 2016 17:20 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, I love Lauren. I haven't finished the interview yet, but there's plenty of awkward old man Mark in there for sure.
― how's life, Monday, 15 August 2016 19:16 (seven years ago) link
He's always a little weird with improv people. It seemed like he was trying to work against his usual feelings.
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 15 August 2016 20:09 (seven years ago) link
The Herzog interview was great mostly for his reactions to Maron. "Why are you sounding so doomed? It's a little weird."
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 15 August 2016 20:10 (seven years ago) link
Man, Herzog's voice and delivery sounds exactly like my old German philosophy professor.
― Sentient animated cat gif (kingfish), Monday, 15 August 2016 20:35 (seven years ago) link
Don't listen hardly ever but threw a few on the ipod for work trips recently. Garrett Morris was a trip--called out an unnamed certain politician with SNL roots and straight called out Martin Lawrence. Crispin Glover was pretty fascinating. Goldblum was charming. Meh.
― andrew m., Monday, 15 August 2016 21:47 (seven years ago) link
What did he say about Franken?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 15 August 2016 22:34 (seven years ago) link
when GM first arrived at SNL he'd written this thing, a sketch essentially, a racial satire thing, which the unnamed writer ripped off and presented as original, which GM then acted in despite of that.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 17 August 2016 16:24 (seven years ago) link
58:40 into the Kristen Wiig interview
Finally, Wiig, so reserved, so private, begins to open up. As she describes her very first experiences at the Groundlings, she is no longer merely answering a question but is soliciting personal experience with enthusiasm. She's in the groove. In fact, she's even talking over Maron's interjections. My ear has edged close to the speaker now and my full attention is off my work and on this interview. And it's compelling stuff: "It was like, my life. I loved it. And you get such a family, away from home. And you get so close to each other because you're all like, scared, and taking risks in front of each other, and writing, and putting things up that you write, for the first time..."
Here, Maron, no longer able to restrain himself, cuts Wiig off, midstream, to ask his next question.
The question is "So how many years did you take classes?"
And the interview immediately sputters.
I fucking hate this loathsome gasbag.
― pinkhushpuppies (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 17:07 (seven years ago) link
I was listening to that one too, but didn't make it that far. Somewhere between 25-30 minutes in there was a point where he was dragging on and on about her early life, trying to be like "what were you into in junior high - boys? drugs?" and all this other shit and it sounded like she was having a terrible interview. Anyway, somewhere around that point, it felt like someone passed him a piece of paper that said "talk about her movies" because all of a sudden he totally switches gears.
I didn't listen much beyond that though, because I barely even know who she is and I had just thrown it because I couldn't find a better podcast to kill time on my commute that day.
He can be a good interviewer and he can be an absolute asshole.
― how's life, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 17:18 (seven years ago) link
maron's preface to the newer Chelsea Handler ep is so strange. Seems like she really gets to him.
― veggie sticks potato snacks (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
I can only listen to these when it seems like the guest would have enough interesting stories to tell to drown out Maron.
Our new podcast overlords, though, are kind of showing how good even bad NPR hosts (TERRY GROSS) are at their job - interviewing is hard. You literally can't just sit anyone down with a mic and get a good conversation going.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 17:27 (seven years ago) link
I like Wiig, but she's dull as hell as an interviewee. Maron didn't exactly kill it there, but it's hardly entirely on him.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link
LOL at how deeply Handler's little cracks about Maron being a "cat guy" or w/ever chewed through him. Jesus, dude.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 17:34 (seven years ago) link
http://www.vulture.com/2016/08/marc-maron-netflix-glow.html
― Wozniak on Kimye's Baby (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 17:38 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, Wiig was so disappointing, but I guess there's a reason she doesn't do formal interviews (only gag-filled shorties).
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 17:44 (seven years ago) link
found wiig totally lifeless
i like marc a lot more than many of you guys. if you wish he wasn't the one doing the interview, you should probably avoid his interviews.
this week's robert kelly ep is great.
― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 19:09 (seven years ago) link
Wiig's charm and healthy perspective compensate a little for her lack of candor imo
― pinkhushpuppies (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 19:17 (seven years ago) link
Maron is good when he's in his zone, swapping stories - interviewing people not so much.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 19:17 (seven years ago) link
Alan Alda was good.
― thrill of transgressin (Eazy), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 19:35 (seven years ago) link
wish alan alda had a podcast where he just talked for hours.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 19:39 (seven years ago) link
You literally can't just sit anyone down with a mic and get a good conversation going.
I disagree! Obviously it helps to have a good subject, but if you come prepared I think everything typically falls into place. I was listening to Terry Gross's (ugh) encore interview with Tom Hanks, and she asks him why That Thing You Do was the only movie he ever wrote and directed, and he very quickly corrects her that he made a movie called Larry Crowne and then sort of moves on. But that was the nicest man on earth overlooking the worst research in the world. Anyone else might have gotten snippy. Ask questions that don't get asked, ask about even mundane things, just ... make conversation, and in my experience things move right along.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 20:01 (seven years ago) link
But obviously Maron is mostly about Maron. He's the star, as such, sharing space and time with his guests.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 20:02 (seven years ago) link
i can't tell if he's just slowly getting bored of the whole setup or what. for the past several months (or longer?) there have been way too many times when it's felt like he was just going through the motions. (i bailed on the wiig ep early because i could tell it was gonna be zzzz.) he can still pull it off when he's got someone with a deep enough career (alda), the (increasingly rare now) times he's got some fraught personal connection with the guest (eric andre), or when the guest has enough stories/personality to steamroll him (robert kelly).
― a basset hound (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 20:06 (seven years ago) link
I don't know if it's old territory Alda wouldn't have wanted to cover or if Maron just didn't go there but when he momentarily talked about the latter half of MASH (post-Gelbart, too many puns) and his issues with it I wanted to hear more.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 20:13 (seven years ago) link
As she describes her very first experiences at the Groundlings, she is no longer merely answering a question My ear has edged close to the speaker now and my full attention is off my work and on this interview. And it's compelling stuff: "It was like, my /life/. I loved it. And you get such a family, away from home. And you get so close to each other because you're all like, scared, and taking risks in front of each other, and writing, and putting things up that you write, for the first time..."Here, Maron, no longer able to restrain himself, cuts Wiig off, midstream, to ask his next question.
This is ridiculous by the way, cuz literally everyone who's with an improve troupe for an extended period says this very exact thing and he (and we) have heard the story many times. Not exactly compelling.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 21:19 (seven years ago) link
Stopped listening to Maron about a year ago, he was really getting on my nerves, and yeah, I felt he was going through the motions a lot of times, and so were the guests. Had no idea him and Eric Andre had beef, will check that one out along with the Wiig one, despite the negative feedback here. i realize i've never heard or seen an interview with her.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 22:02 (seven years ago) link
i realize i've never heard or seen an interview with her.
And now we know why.
Had no idea him and Eric Andre had beef
Basic Marc beef story...Marc was a dickhead to a young comedian, later finds out young comedian is mad at him for it, wants to bury the hatchet.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 22:09 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, Marc has beef with 90% of young comedians if they aren't directly in his wheelhouse because he doesn't "understand" them. Also plenty of beef with ones on his wavelength because he feels threatened.
I really disliked Maron when I first started listening to his show, but after a zillion episodes (easy background while at work) I've warmed to him a lot. Plenty of obnoxious quirks and eyerolly bullshit, but he's got some shining moments and I appreciate his nakedness. After spending enough time with a personality like that you almost feel like they're a friend. Even though you resent them a good bit of the time.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 22:44 (seven years ago) link
Your mom's not exactly compelling
― pinkhushpuppies (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 22:49 (seven years ago) link
Improv idea: pretend that you're interesting
― Josefa, Thursday, 1 September 2016 03:43 (seven years ago) link
Holy shit, Ron Perlman's Brando story from the set of Dr. Moreau is a rollercoaster.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 12 September 2016 14:13 (seven years ago) link
There have been some good ones recently.
Monday is Roger Waters. Does he do interviews often? Will he be a complete a-hole or just moderately gruff?
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 29 October 2016 14:08 (seven years ago) link
yea i enjoyed opie a lot
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 29 October 2016 22:48 (seven years ago) link
ooh I will def listen to Rog, hope he's in a good mood
I haven't listened to the opie episode yet, I will definitely check that hout -- his Henry Winkler convo was one of my favorites, it makes me happy to know that maron is a big Happy Days dork like me
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 29 October 2016 22:56 (seven years ago) link
He was way more mellow than I anticipated.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 31 October 2016 17:46 (seven years ago) link
haven't listened in over a year, i checked out bc it felt like he started to phone it in w/ interviews and his extremely limited scope of knowledge & interests was really getting on my nerves. any A+++ interviews from the last year i should check out?
― flappy bird, Monday, 31 October 2016 18:47 (seven years ago) link
opie was good. waters and crosby were kind of a double-header of aging rock star self-congratulation.
― a basset hound (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 31 October 2016 18:51 (seven years ago) link
It's possible that this is not WTF-related, but I'm trying to source this anecdote from an interview I heard a couple years ago and I feel like Maron is the most likely source.
As a youth, the interviewee had wanted to be a radio DJ. His imagined DJ name was "DJ Reason", with the idea that he could use Elvis Costello's Radio Radio in his show bumpers: "They say you better listen to the voice of reason..."
Does that ring a bell for anyone?
― how's life, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 15:41 (seven years ago) link
doesn't ring a bell, sorry man
Lin-Manuel Miranda today <3 <3
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 19:15 (seven years ago) link
ha ha at LMM saying "You want the musical theatre version of Who Are Your Guys"
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 19:31 (seven years ago) link
I love when he does the Marc and Tom Show
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 22:59 (seven years ago) link
Marc is still pretty annoying but I like the friendship between those two guys.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 23:02 (seven years ago) link
Marc not realising he was being clowned (affectionately) with "equivalent of Who Were Your Guys?"
― sad, hombres (sic), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 00:10 (seven years ago) link
yeah that was pretty lol
also Maron busting out his Herod with Lin was a+
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 00:14 (seven years ago) link
which if any of these considered to be The Best? heard and loved Robin Williams, Louis CK, Albini and a few others. any tips for other decent ones? your advice is appreciated!
― piscesx, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 00:36 (seven years ago) link
Michael Keaton
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 00:41 (seven years ago) link
ooh
― piscesx, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 00:57 (seven years ago) link
The Todd Hanson episode gutted me.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 01:04 (seven years ago) link
Mike DeStefano
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 01:13 (seven years ago) link
That was a good one. I think most of my favorites were from around 2010-2011, before he starting getting all the actors and musicians and the show was mostly comics telling drug and booze stories.
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 01:25 (seven years ago) link
Michael Keaton definitely one of the best. Highly recommend Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner and Henry Winkler too.
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 02:35 (seven years ago) link
harris wittels one was really good
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 02:48 (seven years ago) link
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 02:49 (seven years ago) link
Yeah the DeStefano one was really remarkable and moving. Highly recommended.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 02:53 (seven years ago) link
Norm Macdonald one is a favorite. Harris Wittels 3rded.
― circa1916, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 03:24 (seven years ago) link
was Reiner the one who told the bakery story? also David Spade's surprised me, the whole shotgun under the bed thing.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 05:34 (seven years ago) link
A lot of the details in Spade's interview had been covered in his appearance on Nerdist a couple weeks prior, but the tone seemed more gritty on WTF.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 05:44 (seven years ago) link
Bobby Lee one is some harrowing and occasionally funny drug abuse shit
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 13:49 (seven years ago) link
The Gallagher one is great. The guy lacks any self-awareness at all. Its incredible. Also has the great line AWW CMON GALLAGHER as he leaves
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 13:51 (seven years ago) link
The Robin Williams interview was really good too
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 16:49 (seven years ago) link
robin williams is great, yeah
the stewart lee one is good too and notable in that lee's discussion about having sympathy for audiences who don't quite 'get it' seemed to have a lasting effect on marc
― Rush Limbaugh and Lou Reed doing sex with your parents (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 16:54 (seven years ago) link
oh! Norm Macdonald
― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 11:38 (seven years ago) link
Earlier somebody recommended the Robert Kelly episode and that was really great. I knew nothing about him apart from being on Amy Schumer and Louis CK stuff.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 14:41 (seven years ago) link
listened to the Norm one yesterday, it was pretty good. also listened to the Robin Williams one. it gets real tough at the end when he is joking about suicide.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 14:46 (seven years ago) link
the two parter with Mencia was like WTF's version of Serial
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 14:59 (seven years ago) link
The Gallagher one is great. The guy lacks any self-awareness at all. Its incredible. Also has the great line AWW CMON GALLAGHER as he leaves― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Tuesday, December 13, 2016 8:51 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Tuesday, December 13, 2016 8:51 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Maron was on I Was There Too this week discussing his Almost Famous appearance and this came up. I hadn't thought about it in years.
― how's life, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 15:01 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I love this show but I don't think it's ever scaled this incredible apex again
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 15:08 (seven years ago) link
The Jerry Lewis half-an-interview he posted this week was really good.
― who even are those other cats (Eazy), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 16:45 (seven years ago) link
Fun to hear Maron asking James Hetfield: "How about Styx, eh? Grand Illusion? Supertramp?"
― who even are those other cats (Eazy), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 19:47 (seven years ago) link
them singing riffs back to each other was v lol
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 06:06 (seven years ago) link
I enjoyed the Springsteen ep once Maron stopped Jerseying it up
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 06:07 (seven years ago) link
Tull came up in the opening bit, and again during the interview, and it didn't seem like Maron made the Grammys connection either time.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 06:08 (seven years ago) link
Yeah that was glaring
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 11:54 (seven years ago) link
Ryan Adams interview equally as boring as every Ryan Adams album after Heartbreaker.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 17 February 2017 20:49 (seven years ago) link
Whaaa?
I never really cared for the guy either way, but I dug that interview a lot.
― circa1916, Friday, 17 February 2017 21:14 (seven years ago) link
I'm a sucker for "punk skater kid in a small town" stories though. Thought he a painted a really vivid picture of what his coming up was like and it all felt really human and sincere. Was good.
― circa1916, Friday, 17 February 2017 21:18 (seven years ago) link
It felt like Maron rushed him past that and Whiskeytown into the shitty 15 years of his career or Adams didn't want to talk too much about the Whiskeytown era.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 17 February 2017 21:39 (seven years ago) link
Whiskeytown seems like it was a mostly shitty situation for him, so maybe he's not into talking about it. I probably wouldn't be.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 17 February 2017 22:11 (seven years ago) link
htf does anybody listen to this guy.
I've tried to catch individual episodes based on recs and i never get through his fucking intro
Man i do not need to hear how you got to interview Michael Keaton. Play me the fucking interview with Michael Keaton. The less i hear about you the better, the less i hear outtve you the better, btw how did you end up speaking to ppl thru your nose for a living that might be something about you i actually want to hear
― The night before all about day (darraghmac), Sunday, 19 March 2017 23:38 (seven years ago) link
most people skip the intro tbh
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Sunday, 19 March 2017 23:48 (seven years ago) link
the YouTube versions make a point of having the top comment state what time the actual interview starts, yeah i mean no one listens to the stuff before.
― piscesx, Monday, 20 March 2017 01:09 (six years ago) link
i've been a fan for years, never listen to the intro ever, not since the first like, month
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 March 2017 01:42 (six years ago) link
Would pay money for darraghmac's WTF-style podcast, retitled HTF.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 20 March 2017 01:47 (six years ago) link
I'd only record intros
― The night before all about day (darraghmac), Monday, 20 March 2017 01:58 (six years ago) link
darragh, the irish maron
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 March 2017 01:59 (six years ago) link
When I listened to this regularly I TOTALLY listened to the intro because I was following Maron's parallel narrative. Now that I only listen to it occasionally, I usually skip the intro. Not always though!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 20 March 2017 02:17 (six years ago) link
I always listen to the intro because I can drop in and out of it while I work. Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's just noise until the interview starts.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 20 March 2017 03:29 (six years ago) link
I'm always amazed by the pointlessness of the intros: Marin will tell you his preconceptions of the interview subject, then in the interview he'll tell the subject the same thing using the exact same words
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Monday, 20 March 2017 13:00 (six years ago) link
Yeah he did that in the Louis Theroux interview, which seemed to take forever to get started even after it had started. Also I don't get why Maron has to play dumb so often, like when Theroux said he studied at Oxford and Marc says something like, "Oxford? I know it. It's like the Harvard of over there, right?" Is he stalling for time or something - what is that?
He's not always an easy listen, that's for sure.
― Josefa, Monday, 20 March 2017 14:25 (six years ago) link
Also dumbfounding was Marc wasting a bunch of time having Theroux talk about the pronunciation of his name and then in his intro Marc gets it wrong
― Josefa, Monday, 20 March 2017 14:39 (six years ago) link
Ah you wouldn't treat anything theroux told you as unvarnished tho
― The night before all about day (darraghmac), Monday, 20 March 2017 14:43 (six years ago) link
Also I don't get why Maron has to play dumb so often
i dunno, you might be giving him too much credit there marc doesn't seem to retain a lot of info outside of the topics of
- blues-rock / guitars - standup- american film from the 1970s- old grudges- rehab- himself
― not even my mate ross king sniffed out this hot gossip (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 20 March 2017 16:12 (six years ago) link
Marc says something like, "Oxford? I know it. It's like the Harvard of over there, right?"
It was even worse than that, it was something like "Oxford, Cambridge? Whats the difference? Are they the same?" and Louis said "Its like Harvard and Yale, man"
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Monday, 20 March 2017 16:15 (six years ago) link
willful ignorance, more like
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 March 2017 18:14 (six years ago) link
ha ha yeah Maron is the master of claiming that some stereotype was upended for him through a conversation, and then going back to that stereotype soon after
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Monday, 20 March 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link
Saw his Thinky Pain recently, thought it was really good.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 19:10 (six years ago) link
Also I don't get why Maron has to play dumb so ofteni dunno, you might be giving him too much credit there marc doesn't seem to retain a lot of info outside of the topics of- blues-rock / guitars - standup- american film from the 1970s- old grudges- rehab- himself― not even my mate ross king sniffed out this hot gossip (bizarro gazzara), Monday, March 20, 2017 12:12 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― not even my mate ross king sniffed out this hot gossip (bizarro gazzara), Monday, March 20, 2017 12:12 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm and why i stopped listening
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 20:27 (six years ago) link
I had to stop the Louis Theroux ep when they started talking about Theroux doing Rogan's podcast. Just not into it when he gets faux-combative with guests and all of them that I've tried lately have been either that or obsequious.
Who's doing the interview format well these days?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 23 March 2017 17:45 (six years ago) link
Kevin Pollack does a good job
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 March 2017 18:29 (six years ago) link
xp Joe Rogan is great imo
― flappy bird, Thursday, 23 March 2017 18:37 (six years ago) link
The Reza Aslan interview today was great, as is generally the case when anyone talks to Reza Aslan.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 23 March 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link
David Axelrod
― who even are those other cats (Eazy), Thursday, 23 March 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
^ otm
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 March 2017 19:02 (six years ago) link
Axelrod's guest list ranges from shitty people (John Kerry) to people who need to be set on fire (Sean Spicer).
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 23 March 2017 20:25 (six years ago) link
But it's rare to hear conversations with people like them that aren't about scoring points. The Paul Simon (musician) one is notable for being one of the only non-excruciating Paul Simon interviews. And the ones with Karl Rove and Hugh Hewitt were surprising.
― who even are those other cats (Eazy), Thursday, 23 March 2017 20:33 (six years ago) link
Adam Buxton's interviews are generally excellent, though the framing is silly and has turned off a couple of people who I recommended it to who didn't know his style.
This is OTM re: Marc's playing dumb - I think it's closer to a weird defensive stance. It's amazing how the whole show for years has been about how he's evolving past these petty grudges and stifling prejudice about people and if anything it usually feels like he has actually gone backwards
― Jalapeño Coladas, Thursday, 23 March 2017 23:57 (six years ago) link
Paul Shaffer! should be good!
― piscesx, Monday, 27 March 2017 11:56 (six years ago) link
Haven't made it to the Ann Hathaway interview, but from the opener sounds like peak crushed-out Maron.
― who even are those other cats (Eazy), Monday, 10 April 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link
lol the name "Anne Hathaway" didn't click with me for some reason. I thought he was talking about his obsession with Anne Bancroft or some 70s actress. Then when it dawned on me I was like WTF?
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Monday, 10 April 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link
you were like wtf wtf, i get it
― 'it's is my life' - jon bovi (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 April 2017 17:22 (six years ago) link
I remember the period he was all googly about Rachel Getting Married. He controlled himself better here than I'd expected.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 10 April 2017 17:57 (six years ago) link
So far behind because MM annoys me so much but gotta catch up on theseWalter HillMark Lanegan and Tiny Jangly Magical Hat Man (Mac Demarco)Mark MothersbaughJohn Michael Higgins & Maria Bamford
― mutual interest in technology, the ocean & rap music (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 11 May 2017 05:21 (six years ago) link
I learnt that Mac DeMarco is not a frat rapper from that WTF episode
― (±\ PLO;;;;;;; Style (sic), Thursday, 11 May 2017 05:31 (six years ago) link
Kim Deal is amazing, hey that's not news but still. she sounds like Ruby Wax too. the stuff about Albini is great.
surprised this thread hadn't been updated much lately.
― piscesx, Monday, 13 November 2017 22:45 (six years ago) link
I'm scared to listen to the Kim Deal ep. Maron + woman who is a musician is a scary combo.
― louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 20:54 (six years ago) link
seemed like it was mostly "Do you remember this Boston thing? I do too!"
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 20:59 (six years ago) link
^ yep, it was like 89% this, and then Marc repeatedly calling the Last Splash line up the original.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 21:02 (six years ago) link
also attempts to remember Boston things that neither actually could
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 21:05 (six years ago) link
I tuned in but now I know why I never listen to this guy, he's terrible.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 21:37 (six years ago) link
I wonder how this show is doing. My own habit is listening as an afterthought. Have to wonder if things like the Apple Podcast / iTunes redesign hurt the show, with it coming up less front-and-center in my feed the way it used to twice a week.
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 18:02 (six years ago) link
Looks like hes run out of interesting people to talk to lately tbh
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 18:13 (six years ago) link
I wouldn't say that. Plenty of recent guests have been great (Rita Moreno, Macauley Culkin, Laurie Metcalf, Derek Waters, Ta-Nehisi Coates). I still listen to it first thing every Monday and Thursday.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 18:32 (six years ago) link
I haven't listened to the podcast in ages, but now he stares out at me from my TV whenever the Netflix G.L.O.W.screensaver pops up.
― how's life, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 18:38 (six years ago) link
loved the jennifer lawrence ep
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 22:25 (six years ago) link
NYT photo piece on the Cat Ranch garage.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/arts/television/marc-maron-podcast-garage-moving.html
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 1 March 2018 05:19 (six years ago) link
Good one with Tracy Letts from a few weeks ago.
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 1 March 2018 06:12 (six years ago) link
I abandoned WTF for a long time but have been coming back to it since a lot of the podcasts I like are on hiatus or releasing sporadically lately. After listening to a lot of shows with a WTF-inspired format, it's nice to return and remember "oh right, he is actually good at this." Enjoyed the Culkin one, Duncan Jones, Greta Gerwig, still need to listen to Ta-Nehisi and some of the other recent ones.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
Bill Janovitz was a good one today, though he was way more into talking about his writing on the Stones than his own band.
Which reminds me, I can't remember the last time I listened to Buffalo Tom. Will rectify shortly.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 March 2018 04:50 (six years ago) link
Well, they are his guys.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 2 March 2018 10:34 (six years ago) link
Oh shit, Sharon Stone is on Monday!!
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 4 March 2018 03:01 (six years ago) link
She's v good in Mosaic
They Might Be Giants also coming up soon
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Sunday, 4 March 2018 09:33 (six years ago) link
Drew Carey episode that went up today is great.
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Thursday, 3 May 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link
Agreed!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 May 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
The recent interview with Neal Brennan is really good, they dig into some deep stuff together. One of my favorite conversations of recent memory imo. (Am already a fan of Brennan’s tho...it might not be so great if you don’t like him)
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 May 2018 01:35 (five years ago) link
Recent one with Vanessa Hollingshead is a good one. Had no idea she was Michael Hollingshead's daughter (he's the one who gave LSD to Leary, the Beatles, etc.)
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 07:38 (five years ago) link
paul mccartney one really bad :(
― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 14:05 (five years ago) link
McCartney repeats his anecdotes word for word in different interviews.
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 14:08 (five years ago) link
live setting not the best for marc
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 14:13 (five years ago) link
awful interview, dumb question after dumb question from marc
― . (Michael B), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 15:07 (five years ago) link
but keith richards?! right!?
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 16:22 (five years ago) link
Some really interesting stuff in the Duff McKagan interview:
http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-1021-duff-mckagan
Duff, as many know, is a pretty bright, insightful dude.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 June 2019 20:22 (four years ago) link
yeah i liked that interview! did anyone listen to the Letterman ep?
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 3 June 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
yeah
it was okay
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 3 June 2019 21:38 (four years ago) link
felt like Letterman was up for getting more involved and detailed in either of their lives and feelings and motivations but Maron wasn't attuned to that
I got excited for a few seconds when Maron brought up his Leno interview, thinking he was going to say he realised after it posted that he got totally snowed by a sociopath, and they'd bond and it'd bring out war stories from Letterman, but no
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 3 June 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
I thought it would be a much better interview. Maron went on to the usual boring inside baseball Mitzy and the Comedy Store stuff. I actually fell asleep listening to it.
― . (Michael B), Monday, 3 June 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
hmm bummer :(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 3 June 2019 23:24 (four years ago) link
marc needs to stop saying ginseng the way that he says it in whatever ads
― Cecil replies to your e-mails (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 3 June 2019 23:48 (four years ago) link
Hearing about letterman's dad was super interesting, wish wish it had lasted longer before Marc's brain switched off and he started reciting the names of random comedians that he vaguely knew so that letterman could say that yes, that person was a comedian that he also vaguely remembers.
These days I maybe listen to 1 out of every 20 episodes, I truly don't know if I can hear Marc talk about how the comedy store had a "weird energy" one more single time. Is there any way for someone to write some kind of script that auto-deletes new episodes if it detects the word "Mitzi"?
― One Eye Open, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 04:00 (four years ago) link
Tough room.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 04:32 (four years ago) link
lol I kind of like that.
Today he admitted that he and Sarah the Painter broke up a short while ago. I knew his energy had been different lately, but 10 years ago he'd have been standing on the ledge of a building, so that's improvement!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 04:34 (four years ago) link
Listened to a few episodes this weekend for the first time in months. Really enjoying both Letterman and John Turturro, both of whom talked a lot about specific ways their parents shaped them.
Perry Farrell, on the other hand, is unbearable.
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 10 June 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link
that was kind of a given imo :)
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 10 June 2019 17:23 (four years ago) link
Yeah, it was the worst of L.A. encapsulated in a single conversation.
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 10 June 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
Yeah, listening to Perry talk about his first "feeling up" experiences made this the first WTF in a loooong time I've bailed on.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 10 June 2019 17:39 (four years ago) link
I dipped back in for the first time in awhile. Enjoyed Anjelica Huston, Letterman, and Lisa Kudrow, Timothy Olyphant was disappointingly boring (way too much on growing up and rock bands and not enough Deadwood), and I know better than to listen to Perry Farrell.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 10 June 2019 17:41 (four years ago) link
Should I listen to the Colbert ep? I've totally cooled on SC to be honest but if it's interesting/if he talks about Strangers W/Candy I might be down.
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 28 June 2019 09:48 (four years ago) link
nah
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 28 June 2019 10:12 (four years ago) link
It was a pretty surface level talk. If you've ever heard him talk about his faith, family tragedy, and start in Chicago, then you can skip it.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 28 June 2019 12:21 (four years ago) link
I enjoyed it but it's more about his family and faith than career.
The Steve Sweeney one was good too. Started listening to the eve ensler one and while it's fascinating, talking about such heavy levels of abuse, I had to stop halfway through and think I'll pick it up again later.
I feel like wtf has been a lot better recently*. Like maron has mellowed a bit and it makes him a better interviewer.
*I think I stopped listening about 2 years back and only came back to it about a month ago
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 28 June 2019 12:26 (four years ago) link
yeah I hadn't listened for a year so until recently, he definitely seems to improve as time goes on. still has that awkward lurch-n-jab question/shift/unrelated question thing occasionally but with some guests that seems to work.
will skip the Colbert one most likely, thanks.
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 29 June 2019 12:23 (four years ago) link
The Brent Butt episode Thursday was nice. I didn't know anything about Corner Gas, but I may watch it now (or at least check it out).
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 29 June 2019 13:09 (four years ago) link
I stopped listening regularly a couple of years ago because it seemed to be turning into whatever celebrities I can book thing. Similar to Colbert trajectory, not bad but I don’t really care
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Saturday, 29 June 2019 13:43 (four years ago) link
The Bashir Salahuddin episode was pretty engaging ... I like that dude. Plus Maron talks about his attempts to book David Berman.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
Haven't been listening much at all but I'm definitely going to tune in for Stephen Root
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 17:47 (four years ago) link
Colbert had him on his show a couple of nights back.
Quite enjoyed the few episodes I've listened to recently but I only discovered the WTF show recently.Listened to the David Lee roth episode then put on Colbert and found Maron was on there.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
Plus Maron talks about his attempts to book David Berman.
This was cool but then he read a poem by the wrong David Berman.
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 19:41 (four years ago) link
lol ouch
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
sad lol
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
yikes! who is the other david berman?
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 20:47 (four years ago) link
http://www.thehypertexts.com/David%20Berman%20Poet%20Poetry%20Picture%20Bio.htm
Guessing Marc googled "david berman poems" and found this, which has poems by both of them: https://www.poemhunter.com/david-berman/poems/
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link
knew there was something wrong with that poem
― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link
Guessing the Walt Goggins one is good?
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 23:07 (four years ago) link
Not particularly
― circa1916, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 23:38 (four years ago) link
http://www.thehypertexts.com/David%20Berman%20Poet%20Poetry%20Picture%20Bio.htm🕸Guessing Marc googled "david berman poems" and found this, which has poems by both of them: https://www.poemhunter.com/david-berman/poems🕸/
― circa1916, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 23:47 (four years ago) link
I only discovered the WTF show recently.
He used to be *a lot* to handle. Now he's just a pretty normal dude with a lot of residual goodwill from old fans. Or me, at least.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 15 August 2019 04:10 (four years ago) link
Got several years of archive available on Spotify. Is there a specific point of change or anything?
― Stevolende, Thursday, 15 August 2019 06:40 (four years ago) link
woody interview is the new low
― Tart Prepper (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 18 October 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link
marc begins with a respectful fear in his voice. he then fumbles a clumsy projection about dads somewhere in the interview's center that shuts woody off for the rest of the thing. and then marc keeps falling back into the comfortable talking point of trump.
― Tart Prepper (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 18 October 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link
Woody is rarely an engaged interview subject, and does suggest that he's high at that moment. Probably could have edited a decent 20-minute chat out of the hour.
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Friday, 18 October 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
but then we might have missed the story of poor marc being anxious about trump in hawaii that he's told eleven times. there's also a "greg from succession" vibe to marc's behavioral shift with hollywood interviewees as marc's been accepted into the fold.
― Tart Prepper (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 18 October 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
Last one I dipped back in for was Danny DeVito, that was surprisingly engaging
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 18 October 2019 18:07 (four years ago) link
yes, DeVito was great.
― Tart Prepper (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 18 October 2019 18:27 (four years ago) link
yeah skipped huge chunks of this anytime politics came up, if there were ever two ppl i didnt need to hear discuss trump its these two.
worst part though was woody mentioning playing chess and marc practically swallowing his tongue with amazement at the idea of someone enjoying chess as a hobby: "you play CHESS?! are you GOOD at it?! Its about PATTERNS, right? Memorizing PATTERNS? Different PATTERNS of MOVES?!" He reacted as if Woody said he built tiny working nuclear reactors instead of a board game that many children play.
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Friday, 18 October 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link
hes always so bewildered and awed when people engage with things that code as old-fashioned "smart" like chess, classical music, etc
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Friday, 18 October 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
Shakespeare, jesus
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:37 (four years ago) link
he then fumbles a clumsy projection about dads somewhere in the interview's center that shuts woody off for the rest of the thing.
this made me think Marc had interviewed Woody Allen tbh
― Οὖτις, Friday, 18 October 2019 19:41 (four years ago) link
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link
ooof
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
one piece of lol/rolleyes info I enjoyed gleaning from the Woody interview: that he spent years rejecting Zombieland 2 scripts until......... he finally convinced the studio to actually hire the writers of Zombieland. what a notion.
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Friday, 18 October 2019 23:13 (four years ago) link
Woody seemed like the main problem in that interview imo. Just really boring and stoned-dumb. Terrible all around.That bit about how he got in a random fist fight with some stranger walking down the street in NYC because they were both giving each other looks was funny though. “No words!”
― circa1916, Saturday, 19 October 2019 00:46 (four years ago) link
Marc casually mentioning Trump’s idiocy and Woody being very “OH, don’t discount him, he’s very shrewd” for several minutes was painfully a few steps behind everyone else’s awareness of the situation.
― circa1916, Saturday, 19 October 2019 00:50 (four years ago) link
Brad Pitt & Leo DiCaprio interview is fun — they totally get off on what a kook he is, which makes it much more fun
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 January 2020 21:51 (four years ago) link
fun fun ugh
Pitt to Maron: “I’m here just to see you lose your shit.”
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 6 January 2020 22:54 (four years ago) link
Who are Leo's guys?
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, 6 January 2020 22:57 (four years ago) link
I like the dynamic between them in interviews in general, they have a kinda older brother/little brother feel
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 January 2020 23:26 (four years ago) link
I was off Maron for a long tie, but I listened to & enjoyed this and the Brittany Howard one.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 00:24 (four years ago) link
Ronan Farrow: I listen to audiobooks.Maron: I don’t.Farrow: You find it takes something away?Maron: I don’t know where everyone finds the time, man. It’s not a matter of taking it away.Farrow: So you’re not reading the physical books, either.
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 21 February 2020 02:42 (four years ago) link
Imagining Farrow starting what is going to be an hour-plus interview and realizing at the start that Maron hasn’t cracked the book.
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 21 February 2020 03:04 (four years ago) link
Maron: I don't think I know anything about the day-to-day work of a diplomat or even an ambassador.Farrow: Well, Marc, I've got a book for you It's called War on Peace.Maron: It's your book! I'll read it!Farrow It's about the day-to-day work of diplomats and ambassadors.
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 21 February 2020 03:45 (four years ago) link
Ha how many interviews have started with people commenting on Marons book collection
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 21 February 2020 14:32 (four years ago) link
He's notoriously lazy about research, especially when he's scrolling through wikipedia of the IMDB credits of actors as they talk. That said, with two interviews a week and since the show seems to be just Marc and one editor, I don't know that I fault him for not reading multiple books for every guest. Doesn't bug me that much since he's still generally good at drawing out interesting conversations (NB - I haven't heard this Ronan one yet).
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 21 February 2020 14:36 (four years ago) link
on the one hand i dont fault him for not reading multiple books for every guest, but on the other hand like maybe that means he's not the guy to interview a bunch of authors
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Friday, 21 February 2020 14:53 (four years ago) link
He doesn’t, really. I still listen to nearly every one of these out of habit during commutes, even though it’s like 85% autopilot and the guests are getting thin. Enough engaging nuggets buried throughout to keep me there, I guess. I’m mostly interested in the apparent marathon one he did with David Fincher that DF doesn’t want him to release and wants to re-do. Ultimate Very Much in Character.
― circa1916, Saturday, 22 February 2020 01:08 (four years ago) link
Sounds like I should listen to Ronan Farrow on the Longform podcast this week instead.
― jaymc, Saturday, 22 February 2020 06:22 (four years ago) link
Farrow’s as graceful as can be and his work and education experience are compelling if you haven’t heard him talk about them elsewhere. Maron’e main points of reference are Woody and whether he is Sinatra’s kid (not mentioned overtly), so it’s less fulfilling if you want to get why Farrow won the Pulitzer and was more or less tangled in espionage to get his stories to light.
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 23 February 2020 00:34 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4dFCdWmN_c
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 29 March 2020 23:13 (three years ago) link
A masterpiece.
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Monday, 30 March 2020 00:11 (three years ago) link
Filmmaker Lynn Shelton (Marc’s girlfriend) passed away tragically the other day. Was not prepared to listen to the podcast posted this morning.
― circa1916, Monday, 18 May 2020 13:29 (three years ago) link
as someone who cares a lot about marc after all these years, i was surprised and grateful to hear his voice this morning (i heard the news last week)
― sean gramophone, Monday, 18 May 2020 14:33 (three years ago) link
He's stronger than he lets on. I'd be curled up in a shivering ball for a month.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 May 2020 14:47 (three years ago) link
Hadn't checked my feed, honestly didn't expect a new episode today. Wouldn't blame him for taking a break for a bit.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 18 May 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
I just listened to this, recorded only a few days ago. Not only does she clearly lay out the timeline of the relationship with Marc, but ends the interview talking about not knowing how much time she has left and wanting to live her best life and make the world a better place—all speculatively, but given what happened soon after it's kinda haunting.
She seemed like such a dear heart.
This was such fun! Thanks for having me, Scott! https://t.co/eua1sgjc2I— Lynn Shelton (@lynnsheltonfilm) May 13, 2020
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 May 2020 16:50 (three years ago) link
ugh that really sucks
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 18 May 2020 17:02 (three years ago) link
I was relieved to hear Marc this morning, too. Everything about their relationship seemed honest and open, even up to the image of him rocking out with some music pros with her dancing along in the recording booth. I am crushed for him.
Fuck. Crying again.
― TrumpPence a Bag (B.L.A.M.), Monday, 18 May 2020 17:45 (three years ago) link
Haven't listened and don't know if I can, but that's just awful.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 18 May 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link
It was heartbreaking to listen to that, but Lynn Shelton's infectious spirit in that WTF interview helped me to appreciate what a devastating loss Marc must be feeling. She wasn't at all the kind of person I would have expected him to find love with. And after all that they had each been through before they men, to have such a short time together. It's sadder than anything I can imagine.
― punning display, Monday, 18 May 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link
before they MET
― punning display, Monday, 18 May 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link
My God that episode is gutting
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 18 May 2020 23:25 (three years ago) link
Jesus this is raw, my heart is broken for him.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 15:17 (three years ago) link
Just listened to the repost of the Fred Willard pod that he put up today. He sounded like he is working through it. I have to think that a guy who has been through so much, worked the program really hard for a very long time, is a very willing participant in therapy, and who is a generally open, intelligent and intellectually aggressive guy, he's got the tools to get through this. I hope he has the support in place - he's a good guy who gives a lot to others, even if he gets paid to do it.
It did sound like he's going to rely on a few interviews he's got in the can for the next week or so, and good for him. I cannot imagine going though what he's going through ever, but particularly right now.
― TrumpPence a Bag (B.L.A.M.), Thursday, 21 May 2020 16:23 (three years ago) link
Jerry to Marc after 58 minutes: "You knew this was gonna happen, right, when we talked?"I did, and it was still a white-knuckle ride for me. Had to remind myself to breathe a few times.Hope you enjoy it tomorrow.— Brendan McDonald (@ProducerMcD) June 8, 2020
Kind of annoyed by how producer Brendan sold the Seinfeld episode with this tweet, it had me expecting something way more contentious than this actually was. I know Jerry was one of Marc's white whales, but I actually thought it was a pretty respectful conversation. I did like Marc pushing back kind of insistently about how comedy can mean more that just "laughs", but I don't think either of them came off bad - just clearly not going to ever agree on that point.
Just considering the Mencia and Gallagher interviews, among others, find it hard to believe THAT was what had him white knuckled.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 19:12 (three years ago) link
has more respect for Seinfeld, probably
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 23:18 (three years ago) link
Maron also a pretty different, more chill person these days.Seinfeld is kind of a weird dude. Can see how his cagey, seemingly disingenuous “what you see is all there is, nothing deeper” tact would definitely drive someone like Maron up the wall. He’s kind of a robot.Conversation really wasn’t anything outrageous at all though, yeah.
― circa1916, Thursday, 11 June 2020 01:00 (three years ago) link
I thought Seinfeld admitting he took scientology classes and still had some of those beliefs was kind of low-key shocking.
― drew in baltimore, Thursday, 11 June 2020 01:01 (three years ago) link
Gonna have to play this one!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 11 June 2020 01:12 (three years ago) link
'took (some) Scientology classes' feels like it explains a lot about Seinfeld to me. But is it unusual for a guy his age/wealth/status?
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 11 June 2020 01:19 (three years ago) link
There is a moment where he vehemently rejects any connection between psychology and comedy, which coded pretty crypto-scientologist to me.
― drew in baltimore, Thursday, 11 June 2020 01:21 (three years ago) link
eeeek
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 11 June 2020 01:25 (three years ago) link
When I was a kid I remember the tv ads for Dianetics aired constantly, so it's pretty easy to believe someone may just wander into a Scientology center and drop in on a class and then never go back.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 11 June 2020 02:12 (three years ago) link
Seinfeld’s narcissist / robot / ambitious programming make it extremely believable that he would take one course, value its affirming of those traits as positive, and walk away without feeling like he was missing out on anything for 45 years
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Thursday, 11 June 2020 02:57 (three years ago) link
Ice-T on today: took Marc a solid four minute of talking to a black person before he started using "cats" to refer to people.
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Monday, 3 August 2020 08:32 (three years ago) link
Who're yer cats?
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 3 August 2020 10:33 (three years ago) link
eh that didn't seem as egregious to me as sic made it out to be. It was in reference to Ice's Harley riding father in law, and that's a type he'd probably refer to as a "cat" in anyone's interview.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 3 August 2020 13:45 (three years ago) link
He does it almost any time he talks to black Americans; I was just being amused to see how quickly it happened, not being shocked in any way.
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Monday, 3 August 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
#boomerlives
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 3 August 2020 18:38 (three years ago) link
Maron needs to post to ILM
― Thicc Nhat Wanh (rip van wanko), Monday, 3 August 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
please no
― singular wolf erotica producer (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 3 August 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
Quite enjoyed his End Times show or whatever it is called. Funny dig at Rogan included.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 25 October 2020 22:27 (three years ago) link
^ Maron's 2019-shot, most recent stand-up show, End Times Fun on Netflix.
― Un-fooled and placid (sic), Monday, 26 October 2020 02:36 (three years ago) link
I enjoy the guitar players Maron talks to, especially because most of them are favorites of mine, too. But damnit if he doesn't fanboy his way out of a better interview way too much. Mike Campbell, obviously still busted up about Tom Petty's demise a couple years earlier, was so gracious and patient with Maron's "Yeah." and "RIGHT?!?!?" interjections. Cool talk with a lot of guitar geekery, but I just feel like it could have been better if Maron could take the fan hat all the way off.
― TrumpPence a Bag (B.L.A.M.), Saturday, 28 November 2020 18:16 (three years ago) link
Tim Allen appears to be the most blithely stupid man to ever be interviewed on this show.
― grab bag cum trash bag (sic), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 11:12 (three years ago) link
dumb enough that it's worth checking out?!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 14:39 (three years ago) link
same question, I was considering skipping this ep. i liked his interview with Michael K. Williams, it was cool to hear them both geek out about meditation and talk about "the program". and I'll give Marc a little credit, re some comments upthread, he totally copped to having a thing where he starts imitating the cadence and voice of people he talks to after awhile.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 14:43 (three years ago) link
dumb enough that it's worth checking out?!No.
― grab bag cum trash bag (sic), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 18:13 (three years ago) link
trying to craft a joke about tim allen being asked "who are your guys?" but it's the police
― himpathy with the devil (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 18:14 (three years ago) link
only if you missed having a christmas break conversation with your conservative uncle
― sell her Dior (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 18:14 (three years ago) link
its funny bc it takes zero effort to imagine marc in the 90s just brutally ripping tim allen onstage, the rednecks who that show must be brain damaged from power tools, etc
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 18:30 (three years ago) link
Was the Kevin Morby thing just on Instagram and not a pod?
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 18:32 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I don't typically watch his daily insta posts, but he did chats with Kevin Morby and Sadler Vaden on Sunday and both were fun and totally informal.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 00:26 (three years ago) link
Oh! I love Morby!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 00:38 (three years ago) link
Maron sets up in the intro about how they don't get into politics, he didn't seek the interview but it was pitched to him and he wanted to talk to someone who totally built a character in brick-wall roadwork etc, but after talking for 45 minutes iike someone's who's merely too dumb to consider that people outside his family or employees exist, Allen responds to Maron trying to blandish him ("you're an old-school conservative, not a right-wing nut-job") by popping a forehead vein and screaming "I HAVE NEVER USED A ROAD NOR ELECTRICITY SINCE I GOT RICH. MY TV SHOWS ARE NOT AVAILABLE VIA LEGAL STREAMING SERVICES. TRUMP 2024!!!"
― grab bag cum trash bag (sic), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 00:48 (three years ago) link
Morby gives me devendra banhart vibes that I don't enjoy
― sell her Dior (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 03:25 (three years ago) link
or Scott Fagan?
― sell her Dior (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 03:27 (three years ago) link
which maron would like
― sell her Dior (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 03:28 (three years ago) link
Good interview with Eddie Murphy. In Maron’s comedy-industry wheelhouse, and Murphy seems to enjoy himself.
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 8 March 2021 22:48 (three years ago) link
Murphy came alive briefly here and there when they could connect on specific memories of dudes or places - feel like it would have gone much better in-person.
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Monday, 8 March 2021 23:37 (three years ago) link
Landed Hunter Biden!
― too cool for zen talk (Eazy), Monday, 5 April 2021 21:15 (two years ago) link
eww
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Monday, 5 April 2021 21:22 (two years ago) link
obligatory who are his guys post
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 11:12 (two years ago) link
George Soros
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 13:14 (two years ago) link
Thanks for this revive. At this point I only listen to WTF when there are interesting guests - and it looks like there are some appealing recent chats.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 13:41 (two years ago) link
what are the odds that mark has read the hunter biden book
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 13:59 (two years ago) link
The show notes say that reading the book "made Marc want to talk with him."
― jaymc, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 14:25 (two years ago) link
(I haven't listened.)
Kristin Hersh is a great interview. I've read one of her books (Rat Girl), but I think this is the first time I've ever heard her talk freely at length and she's fascinating.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 13 May 2021 20:58 (two years ago) link
does she talk about Vic Chesnutt?
― Heez, Thursday, 13 May 2021 21:05 (two years ago) link
His name comes up a couple times, but never in depth.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 13 May 2021 21:28 (two years ago) link
Love her so much.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Sunday, 16 May 2021 16:39 (two years ago) link
Liked the Jackson Browne interview. Maybe it especially worked in its way because Maron wasn't very interested in Browne's music, was much more curious about the people around him and the scenes he was in.
― too cool for zen talk (Eazy), Monday, 14 June 2021 02:26 (two years ago) link
Oh that sounds appealing. I used to be so into this but it got samey for me. Whenever I listen to a guest I'm really interested in, though, I'm glad I did. Two or three a year is the right amount for me.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 14 June 2021 02:49 (two years ago) link
I've lost track of how many times Bonnie Raitt has come up in these episodes, and how glowingly connected guests speak of her, and he still hasn't had her on the show. Maybe she said no lol
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 June 2021 03:18 (two years ago) link
Not at all to disparage Maron at all for enjoying the spoils of his years of hard work, but I did not expect to look up the new speakers he bought (as discussed with Rubin) and see that they cost $29,000.
I wonder what his Hoffman forums user name is.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:13 (two years ago) link
Honestly though, Rubin came across as way more likable than I expected.
I liked how he flipped it on Marc and needled him about "artists always claiming their latest work is the best".
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 23 July 2021 15:13 (two years ago) link
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Don't know he has to act all that much, but man he really does look like Jerry Wexler in the wardrobe.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 4 August 2021 18:41 (two years ago) link
Maron put up the repeat of his Michael K Williams interview from Feb todaysuch a good conversation, really worth a listen
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 21:29 (two years ago) link
Really enjoyed the Clooney and Kenneth Branagh eps this week. Maron doesn’t get too much in his own way, especially when Branagh’s rough upbringing short-circuits Maron’s judgments. Both guests are gracious guys in a way, and that goes a long way.
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 21 November 2021 19:19 (two years ago) link
Both of them seemed naturally chatty, so Maron was mostly just rolling with it. I actually found Branagh a little too intense/amped up, though not without an amiable charm.
― jaymc, Sunday, 21 November 2021 19:34 (two years ago) link
Maybe it has been going on for awhile now and I've only just noticed it, but it's wild to see clickbait articles being generated from this podcast. The latest being a People headline that popped up on my news feeder, "Idris Elba Thought He Was Shot Making American Gangster", sourced solely from the brief aside that Ridley Scott made while talking about American Gangster.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 18:18 (two years ago) link
For approximately a full hour, the latest episode of Marc Maron’s WTF podcast goes absolutely swimmingly. The episode’s guest, Sam Elliott, rumbles on amiably about all manner of subjects, and he seems to be building a genuine rapport with Maron. And then, almost as a closing afterthought, Maron asks Elliott: “Did you see Power of the Dog?” And then everything went to hell.
“Yeah, you wanna talk about that piece of shit?” Elliott growls. Maron laughs a stunned “Oh no”, and then Elliott proceeds to give the weirdest take on a film that may have ever been spoken aloud.
“There was a fuckin’ full page ad out in the LA Times, and there was a clip, and it talked about the evisceration of the American myth. And I thought ‘What the fuck? What the fuck?’ … What are all those dancers, those guys in New York that wear bowties and not much else? That’s what all these fucking cowboys in that movie looked like, running around in chaps and no shirts. There were all these allusions to homosexuality throughout the fucking movie.”
At this point, Maron steps in. “I think that’s what the movie’s about”, he suggests, not incorrectly.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/mar/02/can-someone-explain-to-sam-elliott-what-the-power-of-the-dog-is-about-and-what-movies-are
― piscesx, Thursday, 3 March 2022 17:40 (two years ago) link
Never meet your heroes
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Thursday, 3 March 2022 18:18 (two years ago) link
Did his publicist quit yet? Just an absolutely stupid way to shoot yourself in the foot.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 3 March 2022 18:26 (two years ago) link
sometimes you eat the bar
― Bixby in a Samsung I know it's Siri-esque (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 3 March 2022 19:32 (two years ago) link
Some really good recent eps - i always love the comedian talk, remind me of why i got started with this
sam jaymike o'briencaroline reaguy torryadam ray ok even
liked his take on the Slap, too.
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 15:48 (one year ago) link
Do you have to use so many cuss words?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 18:13 (one year ago) link
the "angel factories" line is not that funny
― Herby Dutch Baby (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 7 July 2022 20:46 (one year ago) link
yeah, he's brought that up in several episodes, he's so proud of it. it's not particularly funny or clever.
fact remains the guy is very talented within the radio/podcast format, but unremarkable as a stand up.
― circa1916, Friday, 8 July 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
He’s very good as a standup ime - he can switch a room into a Marc Maron audience in 30 seconds.
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Friday, 8 July 2022 15:40 (one year ago) link
yeah his old standup is painful, but he seems pretty good at it now. I just don't think this 1 line holds up to the multi episode release party it's getting.
― Herby Dutch Baby (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 8 July 2022 15:43 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I think he's really good at winning over a crowd. I don't like the "angel factories" thing either though and I wish one of the guests he asks would tell him that.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 8 July 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
does he really have to work to win over a crowd anymore? like 90% of the people that come to his shows are people that know him through his podcast.
his last two specials are fine, some good bits, but idk, the way he talks about his stuff indicates he thinks he's working on some next level shit when in reality it's just... pretty ok.
― circa1916, Friday, 8 July 2022 15:53 (one year ago) link
i think he’s a great standup, he has this talent for bringing the audience to him, like he often talks to the crowd conspiratorially or lowers his voice & isnt afraid of small gestures, or silence. i’m always impressed whenever i see him
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 July 2022 15:55 (one year ago) link
ime hes definitely one of those standups whose strength is charisma & delivery rather than strong written material. which isnt the knock that it sounds like - those things arguably involve as much or more craftsmanship than writing good jokes. but is obv ironic given how long he was hung up on antiquated 1980s ideas of what an Official Certified Gunslinger Standup is. in a weird way age & fame have made him a better standup i think, allowing him to be comfortable & play to his strengths, seduce the audience and take them on a journey rather than trying to get across lots of written jokes, which he was never good at imo.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 8 July 2022 16:23 (one year ago) link
90% of his performances are not at Marc Maron shows
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Friday, 8 July 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
multi episode release party
keith richards' hat factory
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Friday, 8 July 2022 16:26 (one year ago) link
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 8 July 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
and that 90% is what though, him working out new shit at the Comedy Store?
i agree with One Eye Open's summation.
― circa1916, Friday, 8 July 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
I skipped his most recent tour because it just seemed more "spoken word / this is my story / one-man show" kind of stuff, which is not my jam re standup, but he killed when I saw him I dunno 7-10 years ago, and while I thought his most recent special was pretty slow through most of it, it had two moments ("we brought our own bags" and the turmeric bit) which were the two best things I've seen in anybody's standup in the last few years.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 8 July 2022 18:00 (one year ago) link
He has at least twice lamented the lack of WholeFoods while on tour.
― look like Farley smoke like Marley (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 4 August 2022 14:06 (one year ago) link
He's still capable of some pretty great moments, hearing him go deep into grief with Andrew Garfield was a surprisingly good discussion.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 21:53 (one year ago) link
I've never been a huge Garfield fan, but he earned some respect from me for just letting the silence sit and not rushing to fill it.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 21:54 (one year ago) link
I scrolled to the bottom of the thread and read Jon's second post before seeing his first and for a moment I was thinking 'wow, sounds like Marc's interview with Jim Davis got pretty heavy'
― soref, Thursday, 25 August 2022 03:08 (one year ago) link
"So, coming up, who were your guys? Trudeau, Guisewite, you hang with them?"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 25 August 2022 03:26 (one year ago) link
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 25 August 2022 03:43 (one year ago) link
I’m in trouble, Garfield. The food. It doesn’t stop. More lasagna has been sent. Right when I extricate myself and get away, it pulls me back in. Red lasagna, eggplant lasagna, white kale mushroom lasagna, goat cheese zuchinni lasagna. You must know what I'm talkin about -- you do the thing?
― look like Farley smoke like Marley (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 25 August 2022 05:11 (one year ago) link
Super Pets throws in a "lock the gate". I have watched 2 new animated kids movies with marc voice this month, a bit surreal.
― put their faith in a god-fearing man selling them tiny homes (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 1 October 2022 03:29 (one year ago) link
So: Courtney Love!
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 26 December 2022 21:42 (one year ago) link
I have no idea what I'm about to hear, but I'm expecting to be uncomfortable. (Didn't listen yesterday because I was off work.)
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 27 December 2022 13:09 (one year ago) link
Nope, can't do it. I checked out at 4 minutes.
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 27 December 2022 14:06 (one year ago) link
I made it about halfway.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 27 December 2022 21:22 (one year ago) link
I may have made it five, but was checking out at the supermarket so took a little while 'til I could get a free hand into my pocket.
nearly-complete list of namedrops - corrections in the comments.
― more crankable (sic), Monday, 2 January 2023 18:22 (one year ago) link
is "Barbie" a namedrop?
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 2 January 2023 18:25 (one year ago) link
Idk, I kinda enjoyed it once I settled in. I usually feel like I know what Courtney is getting at underneath the hyperactive delivery.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 2 January 2023 18:35 (one year ago) link
Oh wow, Katt Williams is on today. (Haven’t listened yet.)
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Monday, 9 January 2023 12:43 (one year ago) link
I did complete the Love episode, and yeah, that was a ride. Outside of the stream of conscious delivery "Wow, is this the most name-dropping/starfucker-y interview I've ever heard" was my main takeaway. That full list really is kind of amazing.
Still, as much as she seems like an intolerable person to spend any amount of time with, she does lodge a few interesting things in the overall chaos. Jordan OTM.
― circa1916, Monday, 9 January 2023 13:34 (one year ago) link
That last Tim Blake Nelson episode was good for some Daniel Day Lewis anecdotes. And TBN talking about all the wonderful new music he’s discovered like CocoRosie, Bright Eyes, and Death Grips.
― circa1916, Saturday, 18 February 2023 15:30 (one year ago) link
This latest ep with conspiracy historian Robert Guffey on the origins of Qanon was fantastic in explaining stuff for somebody like me who hasn't been knee-deep in that culture.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 19:47 (eight months ago) link
Unexpectedly really liked the Shatner episode
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 09:59 (seven months ago) link
So there's a Chevy Chase episode coming soon...
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 14 September 2023 19:50 (six months ago) link
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 14 September 2023 19:51 (six months ago) link
Unexpectedly really liked the Shatner episode― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, August 15, 2023 4:59 AM (four weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, August 15, 2023 4:59 AM (four weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
I feel like the ones with really old guests have a history of being good, even (especially?) when it's a really old person I haven't heard of.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 14 September 2023 20:10 (six months ago) link
(Richard) Curtis is currently working on another festive release, an untitled film starring Melissa McCarthy, Paapa Essiedu, and Marc Maron, about a workaholic father who tries to win his family back in time for Christmas with the help of a magic genie.
I haven't listened to the podcast for a while, has he mentioned this at all?
― soref, Monday, 18 September 2023 10:50 (six months ago) link
I want to know if he's playing the workaholic father, the magic genie, or someone else
― soref, Monday, 18 September 2023 10:52 (six months ago) link
Considering all the voice acting he’s been doing, I’d guess he’s the genie
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 18 September 2023 10:56 (six months ago) link
my guess is
Melissa McCarthy = magic geniePaapa Essiedu = workaholic fatherMaron = someone else, maybe Essiedu's boss or something
― soref, Monday, 18 September 2023 10:58 (six months ago) link
i still love this show but gotta say, the Hannah Einbinder one was near-unlistenable, just this terrible anti-chemistry
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 04:00 (six months ago) link
That one was definitely off. Of course, a big part of the problem is Maron's big on getting detailed origin stories, and Einbinder...doesn't remember hers.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 04:22 (six months ago) link
...and so he tries to coax something, and we end up with that long awkward af thing about her high school lesbian experiences.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 04:25 (six months ago) link
Really felt a generation gap in that ep, I didn't really hear where I could fault either of them - they just both seemed to want very different conversations and Marc's usual tactics didn't really work to pull it back in.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 14:18 (six months ago) link
Boy, I felt the total opposite, I thought the vibe of that interview was adorably uncle-y!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 14:24 (six months ago) link
yeah she seemed totally into the vibe to me
― vashti funyuns (sic), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 16:31 (six months ago) link
I don't think she wasn't into it, it just felt like they were flailing at different conversations and didn't end up in one place long enough to dig in.
Really curious to hear how the Chevy Chase one went, predicting a 25 minute intro from Maron before he even gets to it.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 17:22 (six months ago) link
^^Dropped today. Only a 16 minute intro (Maron's cool aunt died, which he addresses)
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 25 September 2023 18:21 (five months ago) link
Yeah, it wasn't as much of an intro as I expected, but then again the interview itself was less combative than I expected. Chase still clearly a dick that had no interest in discussing most of what Marc wanted to talk about, but it was pretty tame.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 25 September 2023 18:27 (five months ago) link
true, kind of amazing how Chevy seems fundamentally incapable of delivering a joke anymore (a decades-long case of the comedy yips if you will), and is in complete denial about his reputation and career.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Monday, 25 September 2023 18:33 (five months ago) link
clearly a dick that had no interest in discussing most of what Marc wanted to talk about
Frequently asked myself "is he joshing or just senile?" during the interview.
Chase is definitely showing his age (turning 80 next month) in the worst ways. He was way more coherent in his Gottfried pod interview from 2015. He tells those same Caddyshack/Rodney stories there, and it's like night & day.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 25 September 2023 20:49 (five months ago) link
Just saw on FB a click bait thing from The Independent re:his new comments about Community.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 12:58 (five months ago) link
I think most of us, as we get older, just become more like ourselves. Clearly, this is the case with Chevy Chase.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 13:15 (five months ago) link
I think most of us, as we get older, just become more like ourselves.
God I hope not.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 15:45 (five months ago) link
I think most of us, as we get older, just become more like Chevy Chase
― soref, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 15:49 (five months ago) link
Well, I'm Chevy Chase, but you're not.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 15:56 (five months ago) link
In the future, we'll all be Chevy Chase for 15 minutes
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 15:57 (five months ago) link
As Donald Trump has convincingly shown, many people have a secret or not so secret desire to be a toxic asshole.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 15:59 (five months ago) link
Given his comments about how he was always the "star of the show" or "the best", I just think he's a huge narcissist that was "fortunate" enough to come up in entertainment in an era where white male behavior like that was tolerated, if not encouraged. As society evolved, no one ever really challenged his toxic behavior, they just quit calling him in for projects and/or cutting him out of them and, like any entitled performer of his era, he refuses to do any self-reflection that might cause him to put 2 and 2 together about why his career stalled out.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 17:14 (five months ago) link
Well, I'm Chevy Chase, but you're not.― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, September 26, 2023 11:56 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, September 26, 2023 11:56 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
'Cause that's impossible, that's im
― peace, man, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 18:07 (five months ago) link
I subscribed to Maron+ a couple months ago to get the bonus episodes where Marc and his girlfriend talk about movies sometimes, but leading up to the Chevy episode he and Brendan have set the stage for it in their bonus episodes so well—what happened before and after the tape was rolling—that I kind of don't need to listen to the actual interview (I'm a Chevy Chase hater anyway, so I likely was never going to).
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 03:04 (five months ago) link
'Cause that's impossible, that's im― peace, man, Tuesday, September 26, 2023 1:07 PM (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― peace, man, Tuesday, September 26, 2023 1:07 PM (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
thank you for this
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 03:41 (five months ago) link
Haven't listened to this in ages but I'm curious about Laraaji and John Wilson.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Sunday, 12 November 2023 18:23 (four months ago) link
Loved the Paul Giamatti episode (#1500). Really showed what the show can be.
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 05:17 (two months ago) link
agree, great vibes from minute one
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 05:42 (two months ago) link
Marc was pumped about how well it went
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 05:56 (two months ago) link
Yeah that was a fun listen, Giamatti was so giddy
― jaymc, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 13:35 (two months ago) link
Did you guys listen to Matt B. Davis? Very old-school ep with escalating tension between Marc and guest, you get to hear two guys who can be kind of assholes rubbing their scars against each other, I loved it
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 15:36 (two months ago) link
Yeah, I just listened to that one the other day, even though he teased it ahead of time I really didn't expect it to get as tense as it did.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 15:40 (two months ago) link
yeah it was great oldschool wtfbut i wanted to email marc afterward to tell him: gah Matt is a bully, fuck that guy
― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 16:06 (two months ago) link