“I give them to my neighbors sometimes,” he said of the pints. Louis-based Clementine’s Creamery last year. Indeed, Maron received a gigantic shipment of ice cream from St. And it drives me nuts, because I love it, but I can’t have eight pints of ice cream in my house.” Louis - they send me ice cream sometimes. I drink so much coffee that I need a nap. “But I seem to have a handle on it, “ he said. I think it’s helpful as much as it is sad in retrospect.”Īs to his own journey at present, Maron called it “a little exhausting to have a brain like mine.” “And I think to lose somebody like that, who was that alive and that aware of the sickness of addiction, it’s powerful on a couple of different levels. “I mean, he was very candid about having relapsed before, having struggled with sobriety, but also very much living in the day and understanding that that’s all he really had. And in retrospect, in light of how he died, it becomes a very poignant and sad but exciting conversation,” Maron said. “Him and I had the common language of sobriety to have a conversation about. Williams, known for portraying Omar in “The Wire.” He also touched on his February 2021 conversation with the late actor Michael K. “And I have a certain amount of space in my heart to understand what brings us to this point, to be this profession, to be these kind of people.” “I am sensitive to who we are as comedians, my sort of love and understanding of people who do this job, this craft, is deep,” Maron said. Maron said he isn’t sure what it is about himself that often makes his guests “kind of emotional and connected.” “But I made the space available, and I was excited to talk to him. I had never really talked to either of them at length, ever, and I didn’t really know Norm that well,” Maron said. “I think that conversation and also the one with Robin are totally unique in terms of who those guys were. Maron discussed the loss of several of the podcast’s past guests, including comedian Norm Macdonald, who died Tuesday. “So really, it doesn’t matter who it is or how well I think I know them - it always really is sort of surprising.” “Usually a friendship is based on some sort of consistency and trust, but that doesn’t mean you know somebody,” he explained.
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Even in those cases, he said, the conversations are often full of new information and reflection. Given his many years working in the entertainment industry, Maron’s guests on “WTF” are sometimes people he’s worked with before or has friendships with. So when the interaction becomes real, it becomes very apparent, and it’s exciting.” “Because I don’t really set out to have control over that. “I don’t know how a conversation is going to go, ever,” he told host Sarah Fenske. Maron kept talking with actors and other celebrities - Yo-Yo Ma, Hunter Biden and Nicole Kidman, to name a few - and those public figures kept opening up to him in remarkable fashion. And even as film sets and stand-up touring shut down early last year during the pandemic, the podcast carried on. Maron released his 1,261st episode earlier this week, the number itself a striking reminder of the show’s persistence over the course of that time. Twice a week, as Maron drops new episodes of “ WTF,” the comic’s show still feels fresh - and still reaches millions of listeners each month.
For 12 years now, he’s hosted deep-diving conversations with fascinating humans, mostly from the comfort of his LA garage, and that work continued without major pause the past year and a half. Maron has been keeping plenty busy during the COVID-19 pandemic, even before this return to the road. “So I’m not everybody’s cup of tea, but it’s definitely an engaging hour or so that I’m working on right now.” “It’s more like, ‘Let’s go headfirst into the reality and see if we can put it into a perspective that we can handle,’” he said. He noted that his style of show has never been about taking the audience on an escape from reality. Louis where, when I do the type of shows I do, and people know where I’m coming from intellectually and politically, you do get the sense that most of the people there, it’s almost like a safe space,” the comic said with a laugh.
“Missouri in general, I don’t think, is a Marc Maron state. Louis - appearing Thursday through Saturday at the Helium Comedy Club in Richmond Heights.Īs Maron refines his latest stand-up material, the Midwest stop is part of his current focus on “doing certain clubs in certain markets where I don’t have a huge draw,” he said Wednesday on St. LA-based comedian and podcaster Marc Maron is back on tour, and this week he’s headed to St.
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