WTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast)

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That will forever be the start and finish of my associations for Robert Wuhl. There was four(!) copies of that card in the first pack of Batman trading cards I ever bought.

Haven't listened yet, but Curt Kirkwood!

Or Kirk Curtwood, even.

!

wuhl was really great talking abt nicholson getting advice from john wayne -- lol @ "no.....one.....talks......slower......than.....i........do"

am a little ways into the kirkwood interview -- it's nice! he sounds SOOO nervous though, it's kinda cute. makes me like him even more

The Monty Hall interview is stellar. I love the old comedy/show biz guys he gets - the interviews with Mel Brooks, Dick Van Dyke and Hall are just great, and you realize just how talented those dudes were, and how hard they worked back in the day.

Also - Maron has a healthy amount of respect/ reverence for those guys, so his interruptions are kept to a minimum.

i've been listening to jeff garlin's podcast, it's a nice change of pace from maron, but maron's episode is actually the funniest one so far. maybe that's when he's at his best comedically (for my tastes anyway), in conversation but when it's not his show so he's free to be a dick.

also if you think maron interrupts his guests, you have no idea.

I liked the Kirkwood interview for his input, but was pretty dissatisfied with Maron's end of things. "What do you think of Captain Beefheart?" "What do you think of Frank Zappa?" He just didn't ask very many great questions. Curt was amiable and gracious. Hope he's doing alright though. At points, he sounded like he was struggling a little to speak or something.

Loved the Kirkwood interview but "So, do you know how to pick?" cracked me up.

maron's episode is actually the funniest one so far. maybe that's when he's at his best comedically (for my tastes anyway), in conversation but when it's not his show so he's free to be a dick.

Maron being a dick on Walking The Room is hilaires

garlin & walking the room appearances are a+

The first Garlin episode with Larry David was A++, I generally can't handle his interruptions with other guests though. So much worse than Maron.

i liked the Lena Dunham conversation

I've interviewed Curt before, and he was super fun to speak with. Just talked and talked and talked.

He seems like a lovely kinda guy

I had to stop listening to the Henry Rollins appearance on Garlin. He really enjoyed laughing at his own jokes and only seemed vaguely aware of who Henry Rollins was.

the colin hay one is weird, like listening to 2 strangers talk in a departure lounge

Veg OTM that Lena Dunham convo was great. The recent Bob Odenkirk one was pretty good too. And of course LD.

Garlin is Baron Von Festival

The other interview podcast I listen to alongside WTF is Alec Baldwin's.

i cant stand that podcast even though i love alec baldwin.

i was really psyched for the Baldwin one but it bums me out that the conversations are so short and weirdly edited with voiceover and shit

that Dick Cavett convo should have been 2 hours at LEAST

I've listened to a few of Jeff Garlin's podcasts now, and they're pretty good (even the JJ Abrams one is good for gossipy showbiz anecdotes), it's just a shame that they're recorded before an audience. Richard Herring's Theatre Podcast is the same, and the problem with this format is that both guest and host end up forever going for a gag, as opposed to the slightly more conversational WTF. But whatever.

true im not a fan of all the 'oh oh do the one where x x and x'

Every time I think I'm done he gets someone like Laura Dern who overwhelms his tics and knocks it out of the park.

Yeah, that was a great one. Probably one of the best.

I love that he still has great difficulty remembering when things happened in the eighties, though. i.e. there is NO WAY Blue Velvet could've come out in 1981.

Drug abuse does a number on your perception of time.

I think it's more that he's in denial about how old he is. Laura Dern was talking about being a teenager when she starred in Blue Velvet so he decided he must have been in high school then too.

what up what the fuckers, what the fuckanettes, what the fuckanauts

― Mordy, Monday, April 18, 2011 9:45 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i hate this every time

I enjoyed him saying "what the fuckCanucks" the other week when I was actually in Toronto and saw him twice

lock the gates

are we doing this?

someone should do a WTF bingo card with all his tics and go-to stories.

"there's no plan b"
"who were your guys?"
"Old Dad"
"tubes"

so what's lorne like

"yeah i've played there"

Pow!

lol @ who were ur guys

"If you just keep doing it long enough in Canada (or UK), they just give you your own TV show"

at least a half-dozen Canadian comedians have politely told him this isn't true by now.

haha that too

Maron to trick-or-treaters: "So, who is your guise?"

"Oh yeah, he was the real deal."

also boring discussions about where in New Jersey Maron's family is from relative to where in New Jersey the guest's family is from, followed by discussions of where in Florida their respective relatives live now

when he talks about "jewing it up" with a guest

lol @ polyphonic

England and his go-to Stewart Lee story

are we doing this?

― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, October 9, 2013 2:56 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whenever i hear the bit that's like what am i ~doing~ in this intro i am transported vividly into some scene of him in the studio doing repeat takes trying to get the neurotic inflection right, i can't bear it

Maron's tics are pretty tolerable compared to garlin's

they're a big bowl of tolerable