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WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Sep 29, 2011 7

Bay Area comedian Will Franken performs as many different characters on stage, but in Marc's garage he's largely himself. Will and Marc try to figure out what's underneath the desire to perform as someone else. Plus, Will recalls his pre-requisite tension with Marc and how it made him look at himself differently. This episode is sponsored by Stitcher and by Comedy Central.

7 Comments
  • 6 months ago
    Watanabe Keisuke
    Wow, what a mess this show was. Franken was rambling along uninteresting trivialities in a bored stoner-voice, while Maron mumbled passive agressive, uninterested questions, if they even were questions or just "yeah's" or "really's". "Bought some cake from Safeway - yah yah yah".

    Absolutely low point in terms of chemistry and energy between interviewer and interviewee.

    That being said, I'd love to have Ricky Gervais on and have Marc grill him a bit because he's so overrated.

    If Gervais is unavailable, get Stephen Merchant or Armando Iannucci. More UK comics please!
  • 8 months ago
    lynxminx
    Thought about it and realized what else was bothering me- *Franken* didn't seem to hear the edge in Maron's voice. And I haven't seen his act, but I don't even want to imagine how he or anyone else would go about making Charles Crumb funny to a nightclub audience. :shudder:
  • 8 months ago
    lynxminx
    Maron clearly went into this interview with prejudice. Franken comes across as devoid of personality, but I don't know to what extent my empathy with Maron fed this impression. Maron called him out in the first five minutes for delivering a tame stereotype he might have delivered himself on a different day, and from that moment on my skin was crawling. Because I like Maron, not because I didn't like Franken...and I hate hearing that edge of anger and contempt in his voice. :(
  • 8 months ago
    Ken
    That was only an hour long? I went from thinking, 'jeez, Marc is being too rough on this guy,' to thinking, 'ah, Marc doesn't really like this guy,' to thinking, 'when the hell is this going to end?' Of course I had to suffer the banality to the very end, just to see how my man Marc would handle it...
  • 8 months ago
    ziggy
    I don't know him but thought Marc was very unwelcoming. The tone was quite apparent. Repeatedly going after him as a Jew hater because he thinks they are hard working and self reliant was a bit much.
  • 8 months ago
    Joe
    Interesting interview. For such a mess of a guy, during the interview he seemed totally unflappable and immune to all the worst Maronisms. Even after Maron called him a crying baby, all he did was pause and amicably say "ouch" before moving on.
  • 8 months ago
    Eric
    "Amp Up the Jew" - Marc's next album