Marc and Doug Stanhope sit down for their first-ever conversation to mull over the possibility of going off the grid. Plus, Janeane Garofalo drops by to join in the conversation, complete with a Rashomon-like retelling of a violent encounter Marc had with a club-goer in the mid-90s.
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I think it was interesting that you brought up Bill Hicks. It made me think, what would Bill Hicks be doing now if his show hadn\'t been cancelled forever? I liked that you engaged his assumed influence honestly, because Bill remains a hurdle. It\'s ok that comedy doesn\'t surpass what he did. He confronted the religious right, which remains to this day the last stronghold of ignorance. But he also had as much faith in religion as he did in science, which makes him an outdated outsider today.
I see in your work and in Doug\'s an attempt to ready people against their own biases. I imagine there is a readying happening, but sadly your generation has to die before the embrace. It\'s you transitional figures in American comedy that are the remembered throwaways to a new enlightenment.
And what is this newness? It\'s apolitical, silent religion, and children with better science and math scores. Whether or not you want that as your ultimate effect, it is.
Bill did. And you do. Doug does, and Janeane wants it, too. Don\'t succomb to pigeon-holeing an idea in ideology like libertarianism or liberalism or conservatism. These things don\'t abide. There\'s a joke here somewhere, and it\'s really, really funny, or it\'s really, really sad. But it\'s waiting to be told and listened to.
I\'ve got my co-worker hooked on Maron now.
And I also think Janeane is hot!
And you were right, Marc, Garofalo was and is still totally crushworthy.
Great show!
Was from suburban Hou same time as Hicks & JG...it wasn\'t till napster\\kazaa came out, that i heard Bill Hicks tapes, did I really figure he was the guy I\'d seen years before, that I still remembered lots of his jokes I\'d heard in high school (pit bulls on crack).
That comedy style is about figure/ground reversal..like clearing a room. Setting a \'funny\' bit against against truth(ontology)..ie not funny bit.
Never really had a JG crush but her persona was useful in pursuing countless other creative/crazy women into process.
Ummm I would assume every male comedian would have had a crush on Garofalo. Considering Comedians are of a type anyway, sensitive etc...
Pete Dominick made an observation (not really a bit)that its really partly due to scarcity. I.e not too many hot politicians so Palin stands out etc...
So the same names stand out in Comedy, Gaorfalo and Silverman. Probably unfair and patronising but true.
Favorite episode so far, I always look forward to your podcasts each week, keep up the good work man!
She is as visually appealing as she it mentally appealing.
To be completely crass: \"I\'d hit it\"
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An Hour long interview with Janeane:
on BreakThroughRadio:
May 2009:
http://www.breakthruradio.com/index.php?show=6998
YouTubes of Marc on the road Oct.2008:
http://pws.prserv.net/jmach1p/Misc/Marcs-trip.htm
Maron v Seder / Break Room Live used it as well -- and I\'d like to hear more of it -- WTF is it called? Can I iTune it?!?!?!!
And add my name to the Janeane-Garofalo-Is-Hot group!