“Oh, sure, I certainly have an asshole that lives in me,” he says, looking up. Glow’s executive producers approached him to play Sam, and I ask if he thinks they saw connections between him and the character. Instead, it turns out that interviewing Maron is a lot like listening to his podcast: the emotional truths spill out fast. ![]() It seems worryingly as if he might be a guarded interviewee. I don’t think she likes me that much,” he replies, not looking up from his phone. Maron often says that he tries to establish a “connection” with people on his podcast so, in order to establish a connection of my own, I tell him that we have a common acquaintance in New York. The day after his show I meet him in a hotel room in central London. Once this schtick would have come across as bitter now Maron just seems tickled. “Maron? He’s been reliably inconsistent throughout his career, but he’s on a bit of roll now,” he says on stage, imagining how his fans describe him to friends who have never heard of him. He can convey both cynicism and regret in a single look, spitting out lines such as “I have a flaw in my conflict style, according to my ex-wife’s cognitive-behavioural therapist” with relish. It’s his first starring role in a series that he hasn’t written (he played himself in his heavily autobiographical series Maron, which ended after four seasons) and he is absolutely terrific in it there have been nominations for SAG and Critics’ Choice awards. He is currently appearing in Glow, Netflix’s extremely enjoyable feminist-ish drama about a women’s wrestling team, in which he plays the grizzled, cocaine-snorting TV director Sam. Photograph: Pete Souza/The White HouseĪfter decades of resentfully watching his contemporaries, including CK, Sarah Silverman and Jon Stewart, soar to huge heights, Maron’s time has come he is the overnight success 30 years in the making, the hot new thing at 54. Special guest: Barack Obama joins Maron in his garage for his podcast in 2015. He was known as a comedian’s comedian, which is a nice way of saying the industry liked him, but audiences didn’t. Back then, he was a struggling standup, with a style that was often described as angry and arrogant – or, as his friend Louis CK once put it, “a huge amount of insecurity and craziness”. WTF now gets 7m downloads a month.īut in the 90s, when I first discovered him, Maron was not known for his empathetic dialogues rather, he was seen as an aggressive monologuer. Obama talked about the racism and African American stereotypes that shaped his sense of self. In 2010, Robin Williams talked about his depression and addictions, four years before he killed himself. ![]() He conducts most of the interviews from his garage in LA, and they are almost always revealing and always entertaining. These days Maron is best known for his hugely popular podcast, WTF with Marc Maron, which he started in 2009, and on which he has interviewed everyone from Barack Obama to Keith Richards and Chris Rock. ![]() The night before I meet Marc Maron, I go to his standup show in London.
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