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
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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six months ago) link
Well, I'm Chevy Chase, but you're not.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 15:56 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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