WTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast)

Just bought a ticket for his Nashville show in September. YAY! Years of being a fan and I'm finally in a position to see him live. :D

i had to stop the most recent live one three times, cause bob ducca was making me laugh so hard in public.

Yeah, lots of stifled laughter in my office on Monday (I'm not the only person in there who listens to WTF).

Dug up the early interview with Zach Galifanakis, and - novelty of the ludicrous narrated intro aside - this is awful. Zach's trying to give a good interview, and Marc's just totally distracted and I guess caught up in his own shit. Really interesting to reflect on his growth as an interviewer (esp with delicate subjects) not just through to "Marc today", but in terms of his middle-early period, even up to Louie CK.

feel like the dud-ness of the Galafianakis interview is mostly because it was done on a movie set between takes. hard to dig too deep into anything when there's constant interruption. i did lol at Zach telling Marc about funny situational jokes he's made and then realizing how silly that was and how he should make that guy one of his stand-up characters. "let me tell you about this joke i told these people once..."

or more "let me tell you about how i made these people laugh with a joke once."

i liked the zach g interview because it was really funny, but galifianakis is so married to his clown persona that i find it hard to imagine him giving a 'real talk' interview to maron anyway

That happened during the period I wasn't following the show (I was there in the beginning when it was really sloppy, and then came back on board around the time of the Mencia shitstorm). Lots of old ones I need to hear at some point.

Stanhope was a pretty insubstantial interview today, yet a fun listen all the same.

Carol Liefer on Monday's show was pretty funny, because I'm so accustomed to hearing her be clean for tv, that hearing her drop an f-bomb or whatever was O_O

i listened to the Gallagher interview the other day and almost had to turn it off. what a shrill, obnoxious idiot.

maron or gallagher?

i haven't listened to the wtf with bob ducca but if you enjoyed it, make sure you listen to the comedy death ray/comedy bang bang episodes where seth morris originated the bob ducca character. they are insanely hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHIegpSmIyw

I just listened to the recent live one with Bob Ducca doing a short bit, loved it. I'll have to check that one out.

Listening to WTF reminds me just how immensely fucked up comedians are.

there is also a bob ducca podcast with very short episodes (i think just a few minutes) also available via earwolf - haven't checked these out yet either but i assume they're good

ive been listening 2 old cdrs a lot this wk -- some of the 'would you rather' games kill me, like i have to pause & regroup

the Bob Ducca podcast annoyingly isn't available via Earwolf per se, they have to be individually downloaded from Soundcloud (if you don't use iTunes)

I think I prefer the Maron/Ducca interaction on the most recent live one to the CDR episodes, Maron's way of skirting around the hilarity of Ducca's sadness being preferable to Tig Notaro's kinda unnecessary interjections.

I do really like when he reads the poem "A Ship Called Hope", though.

Haven't liked the Ducca mini-podcasts much at all.

Seth Morris--the guy who does Bob Ducca--is in that WTF sitcom pilot iirc. Wonder why Maron hasn't interviewed Morris yet.

Probably waiting until the pilot gets turned down so they'll have a lot more to talk about.

Today's episode with Sudeikis was generally good, didn't realize that guy was such an ass.

JUST KIDDING. He's as nice here as you'd think he would be. Never knew he was Norm's nephew!

watching the joan rivers doc last night made me wish she'd do wtf

Yeah, that would be great!

Jeselnik on Thursday...or, as I like to call him, creep who tried to bone my friend when she'd gotten drunk. WTF interviews even with people I don't like tend to be listenable, though, so I'm sure I'll tune in.

Who would you like to hear interviewed on WTF? I'm waiting for Steven Wright, Nick Offerman, Andy Daly (non-live), Andy Zaltman...

Emo Philips
Jerry Seinfeld
Tim Allen
Dick Van Dyke
Bill Cosby
Woody Allen
Carol Burnett
Julia Louis Dreyfus
Larry David
Roseanne Barr
Paula Poundstone

CHAPELLE
Chris Rock
Fey
Murphy
Farrell
wusshisname who did Arrested Development
Schwaltwelder
Some comedy prose writers
A comic poet or two?
Comedy playwrites?

Mitchell Hurwitz?

Bob Newhart

personally i dont care so much about american comedy canon guys. Woody Allen would be sweet though.

Ian Hislop and other prominent Private Eye/satirical news types.

The show has become a de facto oral history of comedy, so fill in the gaps. It won't take forever.

I'd rather hear from any canonical figure instead of another interview with a yet another guy who did coke with Kinison.

Ian Hislop and other prominent Private Eye/satirical news types.

this would be completely pointless, as Maron has no idea who they are, what they do, why it's funny, or any point of connection at all to their work

I don't know if Sudeikis was blowing smoke or not, but I'd love to hear Maron interview Lorne Michaels. SNL topics never get old for me, but especially if they were to come from Lorne.

I'd secretly hoped #200 would be Chappelle. I imagine he'll be on the show at some point. Roseanne would be great too.

IANUCCI: A lot of people think I'm so focussed on mocking news and media conventions because of a conscious and earned anger at the way information is twisted and devalued in our society, but really it's because a copy of The Sun blew into my pram when I was small and touched my genitals

pfft if wtf was just shit american comics like maron i'd have stopped listening already. it is the people he isn't used to or do something different that have been the most fascinating imo. And I don't see why a British satirical news paper would be so different to the guy who did The Realist or Onion writers.

Maron has stated on numerous occasions that he appreciates but doesn't really "get" Brit humor. I doubt he's going to go out of his way to schedule interviews of that sort.

After listening to Fitzsimmons on WTF, I actually started listening to selected episodes of his own show. The interview with Natalie Manes from Dixie Chicks last April was a) hilarious and b) O_O

yeah the point was not so much 'it has to be hislop' as his kin.

Just saying that I don't envision this podcast taking an international lean anytime in the near future, except for occasional live shows in other countries or impromptu interviews with new non-American comedian friends.

hence me citing someone non-Hislop in my hilarious theoretical scenario hoy hoy

i think ellen would be a good interview

I'd listen.

Hell, I'd even listen to a Leno interview, but I'd be flipping my iPod a bird the whole time.

Leno would be must listen imo, assuming Maron doesn't get all polite

It'd be fun to hear how Leno would react if he somehow let himself get cornered. I don't think his people would let him anywhere near WTF, though.

Letterman, on the other hand, wouldn't open up or be serious at all if he's not on his own turf. It would be a pointless interview.

Someday, someone will get a good interview out of him.

do not understand american talkshow tradition but still wonder what happened to arsenio hall

and i obv only know arsenio hall for rap references

have you seen Larry Sanders?

Arsenio situation isn't that complicated—a lot of the local tv affiliates that carried his show had to drop it when Letterman's show started on the national CBS network, and that essentially killed it off).

ok but then he disappeared for 15 years?

I have seen the first season of Larry Sanders but its the backstage stuff I find funny, monologues and selling any celebrities shit every day is just RMDE@USA.

do not understand american talkshow tradition but still wonder what happened to arsenio hall

He guest-hosted on Access Hollywood the other day and he legitimately looked like he hasn't aged at all. Very odd.