WTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast)

ifc show is p bad; the kid kyle(?) his lil nephew or w/e is a good actor tho

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

the ep with Dave Foley wasn't bad

I've never seen the Dick Van Dyke Show before

!!!

I am from the same county and have never seen it either

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.

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

god knows it would have been better than endless reruns of Keeping Up Appearances and Are You Being Served though ;_;

DVDS is on endless reruns on my Comcast cable pkg, has been for years now it seems

the first episode with the ducklings is cute as hell omg

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.

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.

hm well we did have I Love Lucy, so I didn't miss out completely

phew.

In the latest Doug Loves Movies podcast, Maron goes off on Kumail Nanjiani like a Detective Columbo of Irritation. Brilliant theater piece actually.

xpost DVD was the 30 Rock of its time (with Your Show of Shows = SNL)

I love all the Maron sniping Sam Seder does on his podcast

I watched an episode or two of I Love Lucy when I was a kid and thought it was terrible

In the latest Doug Loves Movies podcast, Maron goes off on Kumail Nanjiani like a Detective Columbo of Irritation. Brilliant theater piece actually.

This is indeed great, and has an amazing payoff during the Leonard Maltin Game

So is there any reason for me to keep listening to the Sam Simon one? Or does he get all of his racist shit out of the way early with his "fat black people" smoke pot bit? Way to do a nearly complete destruction of me sympathy for you dude.

Yeah, that guy came off as a total prick, he even admitted it more or less. the pot smoking thing was jaw dropping.

tweet beef w/ michael ian black

https://twitter.com/marcmaron/status/336927252237398017

i love those two beefing. golden gloves

ha ha i've had an ongoing debate with a friend about the MIB ep of WTF, where i side with MIB and think that maron was being a dick and she sides with maron and thinks that MIB was being a dick. that's what happens when two comedians with dick personas get together i guess.

http://gothamist.com/2013/04/08/michael_ian_black_talked_to_marc_ma.php

i want them to have a tv series like the Odd Couple together. they're great

awww andy with his ooooo! <3<3

^^ otm

wow, is that twitter spat 'funny'? 'i got it at the charity shop lol' fucking hell

actually im gonna bail on this thread, comedy podcasts ffs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImhN6-9KLTY

im with DY on this one. reminds me of cher's 'no its your designer imposter perfume' zing at amber from clueless. funny for high school but embarrassing for middle aged men. the way these fools get upset at any perceived slight is a huge red flag for paranoid psychopathy imo. and by these fools i mean most comedians

if you've even listened to only a handful of WTF episodes, you should know how incredibly insecure of sociopathic comedians are. not really a surprise to see 49 year-old comedians in a pissy twitbeef.

of = and, i'm exhausted

but it's also a persona they both put on whenever they talk to each other. like this is just kind of, i dunno, sport, for them.
maron does the same thing with Josh Malina now and then, it's funny.

i get a kick out of it. idk.

GUYS i was thinking with all these old-school comedians on WTF lately - can you imagine if marc interviewed jerry lewis?

I finally finished listening to the Sam Simon one. The part that really offended me was when he referred to Jennifer Tilly as the world's best female poker player.

loool

I loved loved loved the Brooks, Reiner and Dick Van Dyke interviews. The Shelly Berman one was interesting too, though he seemed like a much tougher interview. I would love more of those old Hollywood guys.

would love him to get into some of the Laugh In cast or Carol Burnett etc.

BOB NEWHART

i think he's talked about wanting to interview those guys (jerry lewis, newhart, etc), just needs someone to hook it up

if he interviews lewis i just want them to be dicks to each other for an hour. probably wouldn't happen though :(

yeah newhart would be great. and lewis. all of em!

Carol Burnett and Bob Newhart ftw! I'd probably listen to Jerry Lewis's if it were to happen, but a lot of that guy's shine has worn off for me since I was a kid.

oh and Dick Cavett's on my wishlist too. I could listen to him talk all day

oh i don't like lewis at all. i just know he's a notoriously difficult interview so i think the results would be interesting.

i know maron doesnt do uk comedy but its a shame he is missing out on a bunch of classic era comedians from over here. python, being an easy, worldly example.

god if only someone could finally get Pythons interviewed

ok sure but that is just one name out of like 50 who its a shame maron doesnt know exists

Enh, as good as the Stewart Lee WTF interview was, I don't really want to listen to Maron bluffing his way through interviews with any more UK comedians than he chooses to already. I'd much rather a UK comedian who was as equally incisive and well-connected as Maron started their own podcast to work their way through the history of British comedy. Struggling to think of anyone who might fit the bill, though.