WTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast)

yeah that was pretty lol

also Maron busting out his Herod with Lin was a+

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!

Michael Keaton

ooh

The Todd Hanson episode gutted me.

Mike DeStefano

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.

Michael Keaton definitely one of the best. Highly recommend Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner and Henry Winkler too.

harris wittels one was really good

otm

Yeah the DeStefano one was really remarkable and moving. Highly recommended.

Norm Macdonald one is a favorite. Harris Wittels 3rded.

was Reiner the one who told the bakery story?
also David Spade's surprised me, the whole shotgun under the bed thing.

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.

Bobby Lee one is some harrowing and occasionally funny drug abuse shit

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

The Robin Williams interview was really good too

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

oh! Norm Macdonald

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.

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.

the two parter with Mencia was like WTF's version of Serial

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

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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.

the two parter with Mencia was like WTF's version of Serial

Yeah I love this show but I don't think it's ever scaled this incredible apex again

The Jerry Lewis half-an-interview he posted this week was really good.

Fun to hear Maron asking James Hetfield: "How about Styx, eh? Grand Illusion? Supertramp?"

them singing riffs back to each other was v lol

I enjoyed the Springsteen ep once Maron stopped Jerseying it up

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.

Yeah that was glaring

Ryan Adams interview equally as boring as every Ryan Adams album after Heartbreaker.

Whaaa?

I never really cared for the guy either way, but I dug that interview a lot.

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.

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.

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.

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

most people skip the intro tbh

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.

i've been a fan for years, never listen to the intro ever, not since the first like, month

Would pay money for darraghmac's WTF-style podcast, retitled HTF.

I'd only record intros

darragh, the irish maron

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!

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.

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

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.

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

Ah you wouldn't treat anything theroux told you as unvarnished tho

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

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"