WTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast)

For all the negative stuff I've said here, I still think Maron is a great interviewer. I know it's difficult to put out two hour plus shows a week while you're doing stand-up and a tv show. It's the same with Terry Gross--once you've become so familiar with an interviewers pet topics you end up rolling your eyes when they come up again and again. It's like, dude, we know you venerate Keith Richards and Bukowski-esque junkie bullshit. Either move past it or examine it more interestingly.

This is probably my hang-up though, since I hate all the Iggy/Sid/Johnny Thunders/GG/Bob Stinson/Cobain/Winehouse fuck-up worship that Maron still dabbles in.

People like what they like, so I'm not gonna begrudge Maron his taste. I just wish he had a broader knowledge to fall back on.

I like the Wayne Coyne episode so far. They're just talking about planes and stuff but they have a nice rapport.

Yeah, finally hearing this now. It's a good "just shootin' the shit" episode. Also, one of my least favorite things in the world is listening to people who do drugs talk about doing drugs, but the way Wayne and Marc are talking about it is sorta fascinating.

Except that he knows shit about music and knows everything about comedy

he knows a bit about one very limited strand of comedy

If Maron and Coyne were on a date during that episode, they'd wake up next to each other.

The worst WTFs have always been the ones with the most famous people.

Chris Rock's was really good, and I really enjoyed the Gary Shandling one too. I'm sure there are others that have slipped my mind.

Steven Wright, Fred Willard, Paul Krassner, Judd Apatow, Margaret Cho were all good too.

Damn, forgot the Bobcat one too!

Ferguson's up soon, I think. Should be predictable, but pretty good.

The worst WTFs have always been the ones with the most famous people.

Chris Rock's was really good, and I really enjoyed the Gary Shandling one too. I'm sure there are others that have slipped my mind.

Steven Wright, Fred Willard, Paul Krassner, Judd Apatow, Margaret Cho were all good too.

I was thinking mainly of Fallon, Kimmel, Dice Clay, Paul Reiser, Carrot Top.

adding Bill Maher, Ray Romano

everyone he interviews is "famous" in some way, but there are a few who barely want to step down from their clouds

xp I'm not really a fan of Paul Reiser (though I'm not a non-fan either). I liked his episode.

Carrot Top's episode really wasn't all that bad if you just consider the Carrot Top portion of it and not all the interjections of his dopey yes-man friend/partner.

i think if sandler would ever do it, it could be a really good ep in a # of ways. not that it's likely to happen..

Sandler doesn't strike me as even the littlest bit introspective, and on the occasions he is he does so on his terms only.

Would love a Sandler interview

I'm still holding out hope Chappelle will agree to do an episode (hopefully a two-parter).

wonder if mark would ask sandler about meeting lorne michaels.

u_u

maybe someday he'll get that lorne interview

He'll get the Albert Brooks interview first.

I'm still holding out hope Chappelle will agree to do an episode (hopefully a two-parter).

WTF seems like one of the only things that would appeal to Chappelle at this point. He's sworn off film and tv, and his stand-up dates seem to get ruined by people either filming him with their phones or shouting "I'm Rick James, bitch!" I'd think Dave would love to just talk comedy in a one-on-one setting.

I'm listening to the Bill Maher ep and... it is fine?

yeah i thought the maher one was pretty good.

Rachael Harris's episode was really great. Also, I now want to see her Natural Selection movie, which I'd not even heard of before her interview.

I generally can't stand Maher, I often find him too self-congratulatory and proud of his cleverness, but his WTF ep humanized him a little bit. He only grated on me when he was inflating how he was like Public Enemy #1 with 9/11 comments but, that aside, I liked his interview just fine.

"Who were your guys? You know, your guys."

― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Friday, 4 May 2012 00:37 (5 days ago)

listened to the Wayne one yesterday and lool, ^ tgkwu

tgkwu = "that guy knows what's up"?

"this" but yeah

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7946460/on-incredibly-popular-frustrating-addictive-wtf-marc-maron-podcast

Maron's Twitter exchange with Oswalt yesterday was pretty funny.

Yeah, I kind of enjoyed that exchange, particularly Oswalt's tweet about Jerry from Parks & Rec.

I am interested but hate Twitter and can't figure out how to see both of their posts at the same time.

twitter is horrible

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/22/patton-oswalt-and-marc-maron-tweet-same-flight_n_1536263.html

Killer Beas is one of my favorite recent interviews. His unguarde attitudes about the south and racism were kind of unexpected. And the ambulance/funeral home stuff was A+

Unguarded obv

that grantland article is pretty bad, even as a parody of WTF. also ignores that it's a great interview tactic to drop a vulnerable admission about yourself in order to get the interviewee to open up.

I've been listening to the podcast too long; all I could think when I read it is 'oh man how much is it going to suck when Maron reads all this' because I could just see him underlining the phrases and criticisms and rewriting an angry email 20 times

Tho the Lorne Michaels obsession thing is pretty indisputable. I think Maron gets too much of a rep as the purity comic, see all of those Oswalt tweets. He's more like the 40 something ex-punk rocker dudes I work with who are kind of wondering where to go now that their youthful integrity codes have been defaced or made irrelevant.

he's mellowed SO much over the course of the podcast - if anything more should be made of how beneficial the podcast has been for him, more than anyone lol

Killer Beaz sort of surprised me by getting all Christiany toward the end...not preachy or anything, and I definitely understand why what happened in his life would steer him that direction...but that was an unusual turn on a Maron podcast. I love his whole vibe, though.

I really loved the Danny McBride one - he's just such a likable guy. The stories about fighting the abusive boyfriend of his ex, and his fantasy spec script about The Draven (half-dragon, half-man) - so much funny shit in that one.

Yeah, McBride was really enjoyable. I think Maron's going to want to be his buddy. Shit, I kind of want to.

Maron does seem to have gotten some real friendships out of the WTF project -- Scharpling for one -- which might be one of his motivators in doing it, and is a sort of deliberate reversal of the first half of his career.

lol @ maron's sympathetic southern drawl during that killer beaz interview

http://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/photo/2012/0518/grant_g_marc-maron_mb_640.jpg&w=640&h=360

I like the photo atop the Grantland article, because I imagine the interviews looking more like that than upright across a kitchen table.

He's more like the 40 something ex-punk rocker dudes I work with who are kind of wondering where to go now that their youthful integrity codes have been defaced or made irrelevant.

OTM

i think i'm realizing that some of my problems with maron aren't problems with maron but with people i've known who aspire to have that kind of personality

I searched the thread but I found no discussion of the episode with Jillian Lauren? Am I missing something?
I usually find this podcast a little too professional bro talk for my taste, but she was amazing! What a smarty. She really knows how to tell a story.