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veni veni veni posted:It's crazy to think that years ago before he knew him, Tom used to sort of smack talk Maron and now they are BFFs. I dunno, I don’t think it’s so crazy. Tom drags a lot of show business people of various types on TBS. It’s my main theory of why he wasn’t getting much work for a while despite writing for a very successful show previously in Monk. Is he mostly just riffing when he does it? Sure, but it’s a notoriously petty business and it’s pretty noticeable how a lot of successful people will pretty much refuse to say anything bad about another creator unless they were like outed as a sex offender or something.
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Sometimes I wonder if Mark knows that he was at one point the butt of the joke on TBS in the same way Chapo Trap House is now. It's not like it was particularly hostile or anything, just Tom's usual "Why aren't people who aren't as good as me more popular" bit ,but I remember around 2013 he complained about WTF being lame a lot for months, and then like a year later there was the Mark and Tom show lol. veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 09:34 on Jul 23, 2020 |
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Iirc Marc Maron was on TBS before 2013. I just say that because I started listening to TBS in 2010 and WTF around the same time. I moved to Japan in 2013 and very much remember Maron being on while I was kind of just hanging around Indianapolis not really doing anything the couple years before I moved. Could be wrong though. It was a time full of being on auto-pilot in various ways
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I don't remember the exact dates I just remember it was shortly before he met Maron and had him call into the show for the first time.
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veni veni veni posted:I don't remember the exact dates I just remember it was shortly before he met Maron and had him call into the show for the first time. I find it kinda doubtful that was the first time they met, they had to have been running close to the same circles of people in the 90s/2000s NYC comedy scene.
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GoutPatrol posted:I find it kinda doubtful that was the first time they met, they had to have been running close to the same circles of people in the 90s/2000s NYC comedy scene. There's an entire class of people that Tom makes fun of because he's friends with them or admires them.
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Weembles posted:There's an entire class of people that Tom makes fun of because he's friends with them or admires them. his feud with PFT being the world's longest running joke
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Been listening for 15 years, I'm pretty sure I have a handle on Tom's schtick. No, in this case it was clearly a Vampire Weekend situation where later he later became friends with someone he liked to goof on.
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GoutPatrol posted:his feud with PFT being the world's longest running joke That's how you know that someone has actually gotten to him - when he just stops talking about them completely.
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still waiting for someone to talk about how successful pft is on one of those make tom mad shows
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I don't think anyone would have the balls lol.
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It would be mean to the point of being unfunny.
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Tom doesn't seem like he deals well with people hitting below the belt. When Nathan fielder called him fat you could tell he was actually sort of offended and trying to hide it.
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Good on Tom for finding a new squeeze per his and her instagrams. I figured that he and Terre T split up some time ago. Quality Tom/Dog content: https://www.instagram.com/p/CEh3LmTjb_S/?igshid=1fnkdkewlfgrv
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Yeah, I noticed the Instagram stuff. If he’s staying out in LA permanently I wonder how it will affect TBS. Hell, I wonder if he even wants to come back to it. Looking at the recent Instagram stuff I did notice that Tom seems to have lost a bunch of weight. He looks good!
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It's funny how you can listen to someone for years, decades to the point where you feel like you actually know them, but Tom is such a private dude that no one really knows much about his personal life. The fact that he used a fake name for his dog on the air because he didn't want listeners knowing his dogs real name says a lot about him lol. Crazy he went through a divorce or seperation and never even hinted at it, but it's not really surprising either.
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Transistor Rhythm posted:Good on Tom for finding a new squeeze per his and her instagrams. I figured that he and Terre T split up some time ago. Good for him but oof Julia Vickerman had some trouble following her around a year a go
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fez_machine posted:Good for him but oof Julia Vickerman had some trouble following her around a year a go I looked this up and yikes!
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Dr.Radical posted:I looked this up and yikes! I'm lazy. Give me info.
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She made some blog post about being horny for a 14 year old boy she saw at a fair including following him around. Which is weird enough on its own but she also works on children’s cartoons.
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Oh. That's nothing. I thought it was something weighty.
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inferis posted:Do people forget that Tom on the show is playing a character? I think it's less playing a character and more exaggerating himself
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NotNut posted:I think it's less playing a character and more exaggerating himself That's a character
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Trying to comfortably put into a box what Tom does on air is dumb. He'll ham it up for comedy's sake, but it's not like he's being insincere all of the time either. TBS is his world, he knows that, and he kind of just does whatever he wants and as a listener you just need to know how to roll with the punches.
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I'd really love to hear the backstory behind this: https://twitter.com/APMike/status/1306616623911055360?s=20
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I've been really enjoying Double Threat but hoooooly poo poo Forever Dog stuffs a ton of commercials in there
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Binowru posted:I've been really enjoying Double Threat but hoooooly poo poo Forever Dog stuffs a ton of commercials in there The key ad was the one at the top of today's show for their $5.00 a month ad-free stream. It's rubbing me the wrong way, tbh.
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Binowru posted:I've been really enjoying Double Threat but hoooooly poo poo Forever Dog stuffs a ton of commercials in there
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quote:Everyone - https://youtu.be/nNrSISR8o2E
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Legit excited for this. Has he ever said what the book's about? Is it autobiographical?
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It’s autobiographical. The book description I saw on Amazon (maybe? I don’t remember) was a doozie
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i got interested and looked it up: https://twitter.com/scharpling/status/1086329395181084673 
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Oh the one I saw was from Good Reads and it talked about Tom being put in a mental institution and getting electroshock therapy. I looked it up again and the description has changed. 
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Dr.Radical posted:Oh the one I saw was from Good Reads and it talked about Tom being put in a mental institution and getting electroshock therapy. I looked it up again and the description has changed. i would also really like to read that, to be fair
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Dr.Radical posted:Oh the one I saw was from Good Reads and it talked about Tom being put in a mental institution and getting electroshock therapy. I looked it up again and the description has changed. Those were the auditions for The New Monkees
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i'm really excited to hear that the best show is going to continue. i can't blame tom for not wanting to do it over the past several months but i've been listening for ~ ten years now and the show has gotten me through some rough times and it's one of the few things that can still warm my cold dark heart these days
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Huh, just finished the new Borat and it was directed by Jason Woliner. I’ve talked to the director of Borat 2 on the best show facebook multiple times. I am a super star.
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veni veni veni posted:Huh, just finished the new Borat and it was directed by Jason Woliner. Jason Woliner's a guest on the latest episode of Hamburger Men and when they ask him if he wants to plug something, he goes, "Nope!" He's the best.
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Was laughing very hard today remembering how AV Club's Podmass used to divide the week's podcasts into The Best and The Rest, and Tom's reaction to Best Show being repeatedly put into The Rest. Also then a Wurster call where he said that Tom had been put into 'The Rest of the Rest'.
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