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 (2 years ago) Permalink
n/a do you mean El Chupacabra saying Double-U Tee Eff?
― popular gay automobile (a hoy hoy), Monday, 18 April 2011 22:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
ha ha maybe? it seems odd that i would be that far off but ???
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 18 April 2011 22:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
The joke about Michael Jordan's dad and Kurt the only one laughing-- A+
― President Keyes, Monday, 18 April 2011 23:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
Wasn't Kurt really into SNL, at least as a teenager?
― President Keyes, Monday, 18 April 2011 23:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
My all-time favorite wtfs:
Louis CKPaul ScheerMaria Bamford road tripJaneane GarofaloStephen TobolowskyJoe Mande
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 23:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
otm. also helms doesn't really seem comfortable talking about himself at all.xpost
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 18 April 2011 23:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
Fast forward
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Monday, 18 April 2011 23:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
Patrice Oneal & Mike DeStefano (RIP) are the 2 best I've heard.
― gr8080, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 06:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
have no idea what greg fleet looks like i just assume hes superhans from peep show
― johnny crunch, Monday, 25 April 2011 12:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
he kinda looks like a middle-aged smackie whinnyingly asking you to lennim twenty bucks
― Unusatralian (sic), Monday, 25 April 2011 12:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
live wtf from brooklyn was very funny especially chuck klosterman.
― Michael B, Monday, 25 April 2011 13:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
Greg Fleet on today! <3
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 25 April 2011 14:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oh no, Andy Dick on Thursday. I may skip that one.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 25 April 2011 16:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah that's going to be weird and awkward... I may have to listen in stages
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 25 April 2011 16:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
(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 (2 years ago) Permalink
― 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 (2 years ago) Permalink
*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 (2 years ago) Permalink
What a champ, that guy.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 25 April 2011 17:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
andy dick interview has the potential to be amazing
― adult music person (Jordan), Monday, 25 April 2011 17:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
Bobcat Goldthwait episode was one of the best of the recent batch btw.
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 25 April 2011 18:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
James Adomian is "Maron in Space":http://www.ifc.com/shows/maron/maron-in-space
― jaymc, Monday, 22 April 2013 22:04 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
Those Adomian bits are amazing.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 22 April 2013 22:17 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
haha
adomian is great
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 25 April 2013 03:31 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
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 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
maybe if they were wearing dresses?
― (from a bottle you dicks) (sunny successor), Thursday, 25 April 2013 15:34 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
first full ep of MARON:
two point five stars from me, but i tend to hate scripted american comedy
― sean gramophone, Saturday, 27 April 2013 22:00 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
I love scripted american comedy but that seems a little high
― polyphonic, Saturday, 27 April 2013 22:45 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
yeah, not great
― sonderborg, Sunday, 28 April 2013 01:27 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
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 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
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 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
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 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
crossover ep probs
― resulting paste of mashed cheez poops (silby), Sunday, 28 April 2013 01:42 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
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 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
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 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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 (4 days ago) Permalink
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 (4 days ago) Permalink
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 (4 days ago) Permalink
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 (4 days ago) Permalink
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 (4 days ago) Permalink
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 (4 days ago) Permalink
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 (4 days ago) Permalink
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 (4 days ago) Permalink
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 (4 days ago) Permalink
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 (4 days ago) Permalink
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 (4 days ago) Permalink
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 (4 days ago) Permalink
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 (4 days ago) Permalink
phew.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 22:39 (4 days ago) Permalink
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 (4 days ago) Permalink
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 (4 days ago) Permalink
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 (4 days ago) Permalink
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 (3 days ago) Permalink