WTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast)

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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.

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.

THURSDAY: TERRY GROSS
lol

That was better than I expected!

Terry aired an edited version on Fresh Air this Wednesday and then Marc aired the uncut version on WTF yesterday. Good interview imo.

holding out for Larry King's remix

Did he ask Terry how she got so famous despite being an awful interviewer?

Terry probably asked Marc first

yeah
i 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.

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

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.

kevin corrigan ep had some good scorsese stories before descending precipitously into six-and-a-half years of middle-aged guys talking about rockin'

I was hoping for a full hour on Fringe

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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, 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.

Haley Joel Osment interview is v good so far.

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

Pitch that to him on twitter.

for real
so awful

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."

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.

Haley Joel Osment interview is v good so far.

― 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

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.

xpost Maron's contempt for experimental theater was not very thinly veiled

mike watt interview's up on thursday!

preparing for Maron monologue about how the album cover of Double Nickels was very important to him

https://twitter.com/marcmaron/status/400450056886558720

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.

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.

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.

MIKE WATT

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

love this already and I'm barely 25 minutes in

Man, the disclaimer wasn't kidding about the gross-out stuff at the top of the interview.

right!? super gross. but kinda fascinating

TV ep w Bruce Bruce was quality. Altho show kinda becoming CYE lite

Haha, disclaimer for gross out stuff? Sounds like a Watt interview alright.

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

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?

yeah he got real quiet :(

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

He developed a bump in his taint and it eventually exploded leaving a crater and gushed pus voluminously.

plus it was a giant abscess that was looped around his colon & all kinds of craziness

or something

ahh yah he was walking with a cain during the fIREHOSE reuinion

dean or herman

it was a twist

big-train storyteller