![]() By the time I did the podcast, I had no bosses, nobody telling me what to do…and people were able to get a sense of my entire personality. People in show business are like, “Oh, he’s this guy,” or, “Oh, he’s that guy.” They try to box you in, and the process really stuck. But that was who I was, it wasn’t some sort of weird device. ![]() I was always me, but it’s like, what do people know about anybody? I mean, for years I did a very angry kind of comedy. Is it more like performing stand-up, or is it acting, or is it just you? The podcast seems like it’s authentically you, especially the intro where you talk about your life, your cats, feeling bad about eating too much pizza. So that insecurity that comes from not knowing if you’re going to make a living or a life out of what you’ve chosen to do is gone. And I seem to have a place in the world where I can do things that I’ve worked my whole life to do, with some success. I’m a little more grounded, because I’m not terrified of being broke every f*cking day. How are you different than when you started it? Your WTF podcast, now in its 10th year, could be described similarly, and it’s consistently ranked as one of the nation’s top 25 comedy podcasts on iTunes. It’s never really a downer, and a lot of it’s pretty heavy. It’s fun as well as serious and a very interesting show in terms of how deep the issues can get, yet it’s still not medicine. I also think the executive producers were able to capture the period without being too campy. So I’m not surprised at all, in terms of the attention it’s getting or the sort of discussion it creates. Then you also have the personal lives of the women, so it’s a very unique universe. You have this world, you have this time period, and then you have this conceit of this women’s wrestling team where everyone has to take on characters and participate in theatrical fighting. ![]() It’s hard to create a show in such a unique universe that is able to straddle so many different, I guess you would call them representations of women. It’s a comedy that somehow manages to tackle big questions around identity, power, motherhood, and relationships. Maron: I’m proud of the work I’ve done, but you know, I’m sort of like, am I working hard enough? Am I really challenging myself? And does it really matter that I’m doing any of this? Am I making a difference? I mean, haven’t we been entertained enough? When are we going to start doing the work necessary to save the f*cking world? You work with an almost entirely female cast on GLOW, which chronicles the lives of a fictionalized women’s wrestling team in the 1980s. Q &A With Marc Maron Bostonia: You must be feeling pretty good about your career right now. Maron comes to Boston’s Shubert Theatre on October 12 for two shows. The 56-year-old New Jersey native is starring in three films this year: Joker, opposite Robert DeNiro and Joaquin Phoenix, the crime drama Wonderland with Mark Wahlberg, and Sword of Trust, which premiered at SXSW.īostonia spoke with Maron (CAS’86), who talked, with trademark obscenity-laced candor, about whether success has led to happiness, about his early acting failures, and how he finds humor in obstacles, mishaps, and revelations. (The late comedian Robin Williams, former US President Barack Obama, and rock legend Keith Richards are just a few.) Maron also stars in the hit Netflix show GLOW, which was just signed for a fourth season after receiving five major award nominations this year.Īnd this Maron moment isn’t slowing down. Maron’s podcast, WTF with Marc Maron has more than six million listeners worldwide, and thanks to his audacious conversational style and ability to connect with his show’s guests, it features interviews with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, comedy, and politics. It’s because the comedian, actor, writer, and podcaster (not to mention BU alum) who thrives on sardonic self-scrutiny and impatient observations of life’s micro and macro struggles, is in the midst of the most successful period in his 30-year career. Marc Maron is uneasy, but not because he’s off nicotine (lozenges) or coffee.
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