WTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast)

Dino stamatopolous one was alltime classic and listening to it got me into Moral Orel which is beyond brilliant. Also Starburns.

the Pardo one was great. funny and a lot of great nuggets about how comics approach their craft.

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

The joke about Michael Jordan's dad and Kurt the only one laughing-- A+

Also loved the reason he's called Bobcat (basically as an FU to someone else).

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.

Wasn't Kurt really into SNL, at least as a teenager?

My all-time favorite wtfs:

Louis CK
Paul Scheer
Maria Bamford road trip
Janeane Garofalo
Stephen Tobolowsky
Joe Mande

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.

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.

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.

otm. also helms doesn't really seem comfortable talking about himself at all.
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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).

Laura Kightlinger's childhood sitch = whoa! She seems like a bro, though, and I'd kick it with her.

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.

Fast forward

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.

Fast forward
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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!

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

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.

Patrice Oneal & Mike DeStefano (RIP) are the 2 best I've heard.

have no idea what greg fleet looks like i just assume hes superhans from peep show

he kinda looks like a middle-aged smackie whinnyingly asking you to lennim twenty bucks

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

live wtf from brooklyn was very funny especially chuck klosterman.

Greg Fleet on today! <3

Oh no, Andy Dick on Thursday. I may skip that one.

yeah that's going to be weird and awkward... I may have to listen in stages

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.

yeah, and I've heard icky stories of him crashing high school proms and shit...dude is not right

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)

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

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.

(lol apropo of nothing)

I haven't listened to the Rogan ep yet, even though it's been downloaded.

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, 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."

*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.

What a champ, that guy.

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 :)

Maybe Marc is secretly working through the entire cast of Newsradio. Can't wait for him to talk to Stephen Root!

the Joe Rogan interview was (another) one that made me think "Marc has some deep, DEEP issues"

andy dick interview has the potential to be amazing

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).

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.

Bobcat Goldthwait episode was one of the best of the recent batch btw.

could listen to 5 more podcasts of Bobcat. Love him.

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 17:47 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wtf?

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]

Maybe Lorne if Lorne plans to announce this is his final SNL season, but would Marc want to get upstaged on his own finale?

I was thinking Jon Stewart would be interesting

so any guesses on the final interviewee?

i was always hoping he'd interview Rogan (or we'd get a contentious final talk with Jon Stewart), but these wouldn't make sense for a swan song (yesterday)

Mishna wants nothing to do with WTF the same way Jon Stewart wants nothing to do with WTF. These are people who decided they didn't like Marc (for reasons) and still don't like him now. (seven hours ago)

I was thinking Jon Stewart would be interesting (one hour ago)

pretty sure it's going to be Shaggy 2 Dope

Gallagher 2

maybe Andy Kaufman is finally going to come out of hiding after 40 years

Cmon Gallagher 2!

It's Obama.

Obama 2 Dope?

Totally pointless, Obama informs us about his guys every year anyway.

For those of you who can't get enough Maron, he was on this week's Blank Check with Griffin and David, discussing the Coen Brothers' A Serious Man.

Huh, I guess Obama makes sense because anyone who only knows the littlest bit of info about WTF or Maron knows it's the podcast with the Obama interview.

Five minutes in to the self-help word salad: does this billionaire-polisher say anything interesting at any point?

not particularly

honestly good riddance

maron is also on blank check this week talking about a serious man. the blank check boys talked about recording a wtf but I don’t see the episode. is there a subscriber only level? i haven’t listened to wtf in like a decade so forgive my ignorance

WTAF feed

uh, i- i think you'll enjoy it

the blank check boys talked about recording a wtf

Maybe I missed it, but I don't recall them saying that on the Serious Man episode. Or was it somewhere else? Hard for me to imagine that Maron would want to interview them, especially since he appeared not to have been familiar with Blank Check.

If they ever did anything with WTF it would've been on the bonus feed (it began a few years ago as supplemental wrestling content with Brendan and Kris and Marc would show up and do things sometimes, but it ended up becoming more about movies and further context about the week's main feed episodes).

I realize Marc is polarizing, and the podcast is too. ILX is no different in that respect. But this guy has been a significant part of my entertainment diet for over 30 years, and especially the last 16 due to the podcast reliably releasing two new episodes every single week with no breaks (not even after Lynn died!). Even though I didn't get much out of today's Obama finale, I guess he ended the show the way he wanted to. And he's not running off to live in a cave or anything, he'll still be around, but he's been in my earholes between 2-3 days every week (and occasionally 4 when he'd join the Friday show on the bonus feed for some reason). Late night appearances, stand up cds and specials, Air America, and so on. He's never been too far off my radar. So yeah, I'll feel his absence and I don't love that.

I fell way off with my Maron listening, mostly because I don't really have the attention span for his parade of mid-tier comedians, but always tuned in to hear a musician I was into or even vaguely curious about. I too am sad he's retiring at least from this format.

oh and about him not being familiar with Blank Check- I think that's it right there really, he was probably spending an ever-increasing amount of his time/logistics interviewing people he hasn't heard of and doesn't care about.

he was probably spending an ever-increasing amount of his time/logistics interviewing people he hasn't heard of and doesn't care about.

He and Brendan said the decision to end the show was in part aligned with when their current contract was coming up for renewal, but that it had been bandied about for a while before the public announcement was made. I have to think one of the biggest "what are we even doing?" moments had to come last December when he interviewed TikTok celeb Bobbi Althoff. He obviously gave zero fucks, and I'm sure most of the audience did as well.

I wouldn't mind if he became like a Rick Beato/Guitar Moves thing, lets have a couple hours of Marc riffing and "riffing" with guitar players he admires.

What a cursed idea

Next on Black Mirror: What If Beato But Worse

it would also be ok if he did a celebration of guitar concert, with like 20 guitar players jamming at the end, a la Clapton's Crossroads Festival

it would also be ok if he did a celebration of guitar concert, with like 20 guitar players jamming at the end, a la Clapton's Crossroads Festival Glenn Branca

Your Guys Festival

There you go

I think there's a good chance--particularly since he's doing animated kids movies--that there will be an AI Marc Maron voice that will continue to be used long after he's gone. Maybe even a resurrected WTF where AI Maron interviews historical figures.

Are We Goodchella

Who were your AI's?