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wafflesnsegways posted:I'm sure many of the people in the stories he told would have a different story to tell. But Wyatt Cenac sounded very honest and open and vulnerable during the whole interview. Wyatt sounds loving emotionally traumatized. His mom really hosed him up and gave him some serious trust issues, and it sounds like Jon just happened to accidentally step directly on that weak spot and it made everything crumple.
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The Berzerker posted:Fred Armisen was an interesting interview, but they seemed to wrap up right when it was getting really interesting (talking about Fred's failed relationships and how his partners tend to end relationships because he makes it unbearable for them to not leave). Good one though. http://gawker.com/fred-armisen-has-a-reputation-1677187580 I heard that stuff about his failed relationships and all that when this article came out, but hearing about it from his perspective was really interesting. That was a good interview.
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rest his guts posted:For an even worse interview with an even more arrogant pseudo-intellectual, please see the interview with Father John Misty. He uses the word erudite to describe himself, unironically For an even worse interview, check out any of the Bret Easton Ellis podcasts where he fixates on internet outrage, censorship, political correctness or anything else in that vein. which means pretty much all of them. That Spin Magazine one was really tough to get through. Holy gently caress, it made me want to hit the guy. What a condescending, full-of-himself jerk that guy was.
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Bundt Cake posted:He used to insult people passive aggressively and openly have opinions (like Dmitri Martin sucks). He hated Lorne Michaels, now he probably respects him or something. I just listened to that one today coincidentally, and it was pretty bad. He was really nasty to Demetri.
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rotinaj posted:I just listened to that one today coincidentally, and it was pretty bad. He was really nasty to Demetri. Update: the Bo Burnham episode is just as bad.
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Mordecai Sanchez posted:Really? I remember really liking that episode because Marc was nice to a young comic for once. He gives him fatherly advice not to be cynical and even plays one of Burnham's songs at the end. Marc never plays anybody's material. It was the same song he did on Paul Provenza's show with Maron so that must've been where they met. Well. I can say that I got about halfway through on the Howl app before the loving thing crashed on me, and I got annoyed and didn't try to relisten to it. Maybe it got better towards the end, but the first half is condescending as gently caress.
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Oct 11, 2015 04:58
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I like listening to these old episodes, and hadn't noticed the Mike Myers one, so that was nice. I'm listening to the old Gallagher episode, and holy gently caress is Gallagher just a bitter, unpleasant old gently caress. Screw him.
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Nov 3, 2015 20:36
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In looking around a little, he's apparently upset that he doesn't get more respect, is obviously hugely bitter over not being more successful and ever having a TV show, and sounds like an out of touch old man. Which, considering he's 70 now, makes sense. But holy poo poo, is he this argumentative, contrary, and unable to respect anyone else on other interview shows? What was he like on walking the room? I intend to listen to WTR, but haven't yet done so.
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Nov 3, 2015 22:19
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So, basically what happens when a very specific, glass-ceiling'd kind of comedy fame and a certain mindset of life starts getting up there in age and Father Time starts nibbling at the faculties, while resentment towards not being able to get anything going that is "cushy" and a guaranteed paycheck pickles him. Jeez. You'd think he'd just go down to Branson, Missouri and try to get a casino gig. I bet he could easily get that kind of steady show.
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Nov 4, 2015 01:26
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This whole situation was literally the Bison/Chun Li exchange from street fighter. "To you, this was the most important day of your life. To me, it was Tuesday."
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Nov 10, 2015 19:38
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I seem to remember him being extremely positive about the Kids in the Hall during an interview with one of them, but that interview could have been a different podcast.
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Nov 11, 2015 14:41
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Bundt Cake posted:Do you even know what happened? Lorne called him in for a meeting to poo poo on him. Lorne called him in for a meeting to see if he'd work out on SNL. Marc went to the meeting high and was his typical mid-90s weird, not-ready-for-prime-time self, blew the interview, Lorne's bad feeling about Marc panned out, Lorne decided not to pursue having Marc on the show. Nobody's at fault here. Everybody's at fault here. Lorne probably has interviewed hundreds of improv and stand-up people, and the vast majority of them didn't work out. Marc's just fixated on that moment, because it would have massively changed his life for the better if he had gotten it, but it didn't happen and life went on. gently caress, dude. Chill.
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Pryor on Fire posted:Is the Radcliffe ep worth checking out? I've heard some crazy stories about how off the rails he was during Harry Potter filming, does he go into that much or is it a softer interview? They go over it for a bit, but let me spoil it for you. "I was sad because these movies were ending. I was sad that I was viewed as a kid despite being an adult. I drank a lot for a while, then realized it was bad and stopped". Then Marc moves on, basically. It was an okay time waster, but I use podcasts to make work go by faster.
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Nov 17, 2015 20:19
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The recent episode on Jim Ladd and Frazer Smith was really interesting, once it started going, and I really hope Mark brings one or both on for individual episodes, because they barely scratched the surface on interesting things to talk about. It was a little awkward at first, and Marc spends too much time answering dumb crowd questions, but hey, Marc was at least endearing and pleasant the entire time. Very good listen.
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So, I listened to some of the Pete Correale episode that dropped today, and it was essentially a no-name comedian sucking Marc off vigorously and thoroughly for the 10-15 minutes of listening to it that I could stand. I'm glad Marc has someone to do that for him, ego boosts are great, but hearing Pete gush about Marc being one of his top 5 favorite comedians got a little old the third time he swung back through that point. Does the Cindy Crawford interview get any better? It starts off with the most dull poo poo imaginable, teasing me with possible stories about her meeting other celebrities, but none of the stories have anything to them, just "I met this person once" and "I met this other celebrity at a party". Edit: Oh, and since nobody else mentioned it at all as far as I can see, the Cintra Wilson episode was fuckin' AWESOME. She had a lot of interesting things to say and I could listen to her talk for way longer than one WTF episode.
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You Am I posted:The Cindy interview was pretty bland. Bummer. I feel the same way about the Patricia Arquette interview Marc did not too long ago, just the most boring thing ever because there's no controversy to discuss, Marc doesn't have a huge amount of interesting stuff to say or things to ask, and it's just a generally pleasant chat. Which is dull as hell to listen to. You Am I posted:I agree with the Cintra interview, I listened to it twice since it was so good. Seriously, if anyone is on the fence, just give that episode a try, it was so worth listening to
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You Am I posted:I enjoyed the interviews with Sacha Baron Cohen, especially the way he has a hot line to his lawyer about US Constitution Law questions. Most of the answers are "if the cops appear, get over the state line ASAP" Yeah, that was a really good interview. I loved hearing about the process behind setting up his pranks. I'd highly advise people listen to that one if they were worried it would just be a bunch of Borat jokes. Lot of cool behind the scenes talk.
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Feb 24, 2016 23:57
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Drunkboxer posted:What if I only want Borat jokes He does the voice a few times, so maybe you'll be happy?
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Feb 25, 2016 12:35
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The iliza schlesinger interview was interesting. She seems a bit... intense, but hey, she's a funny comedian. I thought it was a pretty solid episode. Edit: I like how there's typically one comedian who went on to become big in each season, and the only winner who was that person was Iliza. Amy Schumer was in a season, Gabriel Iglesias was in a season, Alonzo Bodden was in a season... rotinaj fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Mar 5, 2016 |
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Mar 5, 2016 22:35
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The episode that just came out with Bonnie Voss/MacFarland was... Enjoyable to listen to, but when I thought about it after, it's incredibly self deprecating and weird. Looks like she's a standard comedian with loads of self loathing issues and angst.
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Mar 7, 2016 17:22
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That was an incredibly awkward, though funny interview. Marc had no idea what to make of Natasha's story, and there's not much to make of it, really. She was in a weird emotionally abusive relationship, but that was over fifteen years ago. Nothing to be done about it. Sounds like he helped her figure out her stand-up persona, so that's nice.
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May 17, 2016 11:43
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Jippa posted:Chris Gethard was incredibly likeable, genuinely nice guy. I didn't realise I knew who he was until he mentioned he was featured on this american life. I'll check his other stuff out. His only issue on Beautiful/Anonymous is that he works too hard on making sure he doesn't offend anyone. Every question and conclusion he draws has about 30 seconds of qualifying statements and disclaimers about how he means no offense and he doesn't want to make the person upset, and his first hangup call has about ten minutes of him agonizing over having made someone relapse into alcoholism, when the guy just had ta go because of work. That being said, it's a pretty good podcast otherwise.
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Jun 3, 2016 16:13
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Yeah, today's episode with Eric Andre was a proclick. The ep with Roseanne was also good. Dude's been getting a lotta people I wasn't into recently, and these two and the Billy Crystal episode he mentioned recording, I'm all up for that.
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Aug 5, 2016 00:20
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For more context, it's the story of Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, or GLOW, and he gets to play the sleazy promoter. It should be pretty interesting.
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Aug 31, 2016 19:44
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I honestly just wanted to hear the details of his childhood. It's painful and lovely and awful, I get it, but I always am fascinated to hear that famous people had hosed up stuff happen to them too. I also wanted to hear a solid reason for him walking away, like Rick Moranis. Good, good interview.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:I know this is way old news but holy poo poo the Gallagher interview... I pulled it up on youtube and used someone's skip-the-preamble timestamp and thought they must have mistimed it but no, dude was irate from the first second. How is he even still alive? Hate is all he has. He's a bitter old gently caress who time has passed by, who doesn't understand how the world can possibly be so different as to be unrecognisable from his heyday. He's bitter that he never got the acclaim of Leno or Letterman, he's bitter that he's a punchline and his stereotype is "watermelon smashing", rather than any of his more thoughtful, but less eye-catching standup, and he's resentful that today's young comedians don't have a huge amount of respect for him. So, he goes into things convinced he's being made fun of, because he pretty much is. When he confirms his theories, he explodes with rage and turns into the butt of the joke, and storms out. In current WTF news, the Billy West interview that went up today, like all Billy West interviews, is just pleasant and Billy seems like the nicest fuckin' guy. God, I love him. I really need to get around to listening to his podcast.
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I feel like the biggest problem is that he A, doesn't want to just have comedian friends on for long interviews for the third time, and B, has become one of the default press junket places for celebrities to go to if they're plugging something. So he keeps getting guests who are just "a celebrity looking to talk about their current thing". Hardwick's relaunched Nerdist podcast (ID10T, which I think is an awful name) is having the exact same problem. They can't either lean on their friends for interviews for the fifth time, or get "new" people cuz they've run out, so it's just whoever is currently looking to promote a new thing. Sometimes either gets an interesting guest, but it's not been the norm as of late.
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