WTF With Marc Maron: A bunch of insecure rants with an occasional interview

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indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

I had to stop listening to the podcast. I love Marc's comedy and although he was nothing but a pleasant nice man the time I was lucky enough to eat lunch with him, he seems like a really genuine dyed-in-the-wool rear end in a top hat, and I found it harder and harder to empathize with him. I used to relate to (or at least understand) a lot of the depressive poo poo he typically rants about at the top of the episodes, but it just became clear at some point that he can still be a hardheaded unrepentant dick which was the cause of a lot of those issues. It's weird to hear guests who've been on his show and seemingly made peace with him and were friendly later comment on some other podcast/messageboard/interview/twitter that they had a run-in with him and he was dismissive and mean to them.

I will listen to the occasional episode where he gets a guest I'm really into like Hamm or Cranston, but even then I usually skip the intro and get frustrated when he tries to force his interpretation of their life experiences onto them. It seemed like he kept wanting to make Cranston buy into this privileged-child-of-destiny narrative despite Brian's gentle insistence otherwise. It's a really bad interview technique.

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indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

Dr.Radical posted:

Out of curiosity, please tell us about eating lunch with him.

I went to MaxFunCon in 2010 and he was one of the guests. At lunch one day I wound up at a table with him and Al Madrigal, it was really awesome. We talked comedy, sports, WTF, comic books. Near the end of the meal Marc started interrogating the three of us at the table to list what they'd had for lunch, and once everyone had told him he said (paraphrased) "Oh ok, so everyone else ate more than me? That means I won't look like a slob if I go ask for another couple cookies?" Then he came back with some cookies. It was really endearing and funny.

# ¿ Dec 23, 2011 11:21

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

He's brilliantly funny and his comedy is often at least as compelling as the podcast

# ¿ Dec 25, 2011 08:20

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

You sound like a really great guy to hang out with

# ¿ Dec 25, 2011 08:26

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