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« Reply #405 on: February 14, 2011, 11:44:02 AM »
Great interview.

My favorite stuff is about Tom talking about Bob Grant's influence on him. It's not something you'd expect -- Bob Grant was Rush Limbaugh before Rush Limbaugh was Rush Limbaugh -- but it makes complete and total sense after he explains it.
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« Reply #406 on: February 14, 2011, 12:12:46 PM »
Man, PFT later in the week too!

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« Reply #407 on: February 14, 2011, 12:39:49 PM »
"KFMU"

Maron fucked up the call letters.

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« Reply #408 on: February 14, 2011, 10:51:02 PM »
"KFMU"

Maron fucked up the call letters.

He also acknowledged it. Crazy to mess up call letters of a radio station. Who doesn't have them all memorized???

Regarding the Tobolowsky interview.  1) I have a LOT of vivid memories from my fifth year on earth. 2) I can't believe nobody has jumped on the fact that he referred to a woman as "an old colored woman."  Took me about five minutes to get my bearings after that.

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« Reply #409 on: February 15, 2011, 01:43:36 AM »
"KFMU"

Maron fucked up the call letters.

He also acknowledged it. Crazy to mess up call letters of a radio station. Who doesn't have them all memorized???

Regarding the Tobolowsky interview.  1) I have a LOT of vivid memories from my fifth year on earth. 2) I can't believe nobody has jumped on the fact that he referred to a woman as "an old colored woman."  Took me about five minutes to get my bearings after that.

The "Maron fucked up the call letters." was actually quoting what he said people were going to say.

At any rate I'm pretty convinced that his forgetfulness is deliberate. It's like what my mom does when she doesn't want to seem like she's totally down with everything that's going on.

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« Reply #410 on: February 15, 2011, 03:36:14 AM »
"KFMU"

Maron fucked up the call letters.

He also acknowledged it. Crazy to mess up call letters of a radio station. Who doesn't have them all memorized???

Regarding the Tobolowsky interview.  1) I have a LOT of vivid memories from my fifth year on earth. 2) I can't believe nobody has jumped on the fact that he referred to a woman as "an old colored woman."  Took me about five minutes to get my bearings after that.

The "Maron fucked up the call letters." was actually quoting what he said people were going to say.

At any rate I'm pretty convinced that his forgetfulness is deliberate. It's like what my mom does when she doesn't want to seem like she's totally down with everything that's going on.

Ha, I'm a moron.

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« Reply #411 on: February 15, 2011, 07:16:25 PM »
Great interview.

My favorite stuff is about Tom talking about Bob Grant's influence on him. It's not something you'd expect -- Bob Grant was Rush Limbaugh before Rush Limbaugh was Rush Limbaugh -- but it makes complete and total sense after he explains it.

It was also a little surprising to hear that Stern was an influence, but like Grant it made total sense when he explained it. Then again I also recall Ira Glass doing an interview where he said  he was influenced by Stern so I guess his influence is more widespread than you'd think.

I also thought it was kind of funny that not once did Tom resort to "toilet talk." Tom apppears to have a genuine aversion to cursing.

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« Reply #412 on: February 15, 2011, 10:01:04 PM »
Tom apppears to have a genuine aversion to cursing.

He's gone blue on Twitter once in a great while.  I believe him that "in front of a microphone" is the bright line.
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« Reply #413 on: February 16, 2011, 12:36:56 AM »
Tom apppears to have a genuine aversion to cursing.

He's gone blue on Twitter once in a great while.  I believe him that "in front of a microphone" is the bright line.

A radio mike, maybe.  Watch the Merge celebration intros.
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Re: Marc Maron
« Reply #414 on: February 16, 2011, 10:37:03 AM »
Great interview.

My favorite stuff is about Tom talking about Bob Grant's influence on him. It's not something you'd expect -- Bob Grant was Rush Limbaugh before Rush Limbaugh was Rush Limbaugh -- but it makes complete and total sense after he explains it.

It was also a little surprising to hear that Stern was an influence, but like Grant it made total sense when he explained it. Then again I also recall Ira Glass doing an interview where he said  he was influenced by Stern so I guess his influence is more widespread than you'd think.

I also thought it was kind of funny that not once did Tom resort to "toilet talk." Tom apppears to have a genuine aversion to cursing.

I don't think it's possible to have a longform comedy radio show without being influenced by Howard. And Howard was completely unavoidable for everyone in the NYC radio market when he was breaking out.

Tom's a different comedian with a different sense of humor. But the reason why both shows work is because the crux of each show is Tom/Howard's interactions and relationships with callers/staff. Both are also great with guests -- Howard's an amazing interviewer (his interview with Paul McCartney was amazing) and Tom has a natural rapport with Paul F., Patton, Hodgman, Paul Scheer, Ted, etc and they just click. And both also have great bits -- the Scharpling/Wurster stuff is brilliant and I really love Sal and Richard's phone calls (which probably reveals my immaturity).

Howard does use the smutty stuff as a crutch and it's lazy (hence why it's ripped off by so many untalented goofs) but he's still really awesome at what he does.
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« Reply #415 on: February 16, 2011, 01:27:18 PM »
Great point, Greggulator.  As a (fairly) long-time Stern fan, I've been turned off recently with the smutty stuff; it's not b/c I'm offended or "shocked" by it; I just don't find it all that funny.  I still listen mostly everyday though.  I wonder what Tom thinks of the Stern Show today vs. 10 years ago, or even 5 years ago, when they first moved to Sirius.  I feel like it wasn't as filthy when the show first started on satellite.

Anyway, I read an interview with Tom where he talked about the long-form radio bit, and how it's a dying art.  Stern's always been quite good with longer bits, and using the medium in brilliant ways, while still keeping the audience interested (I think this is why the Stern radio show is better than the Stern TV segments - when you have the ability to see behind the curtain, it takes away a certain element of surprise and imagination that radio offers).  The show - the longer bits, the cast of characters, the idea that Stern, on air, is a bit of an exaggerated version of himself in real life - has definitely influenced people in radio today.  NPR sidenote: Besides Ira Glass, I think Terry Gross has mentioned she's a fan of the show, too.

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« Reply #416 on: February 17, 2011, 05:59:26 PM »
Two things:

1. I don't know that Stern's smuttiness is so much out of laziness, as much as it's out of the fact that he knows there's a certain segment of the population that pays for him, tuning in just to hear that kind of stuff. It's that smutty stuff that brings in the lions share of his subscribers - it's keeping him fed, and allowing him to keep doing all the other stuff.

2. Check out Tom's first appearance on Am I Right?? - he goes a bit more into his opinions on Stern and how they've changed over the past years... Before Maron even mentioned it!

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« Reply #417 on: February 18, 2011, 05:42:40 AM »

I don't think it's possible to have a longform comedy radio show without being influenced by Howard. And Howard was completely unavoidable for everyone in the NYC radio market when he was breaking out.


I started listening to Stern when he was in DC  - '80? '81? - he was massive, right away. I think he was barely in DC for a year or two before he got in trouble and eventually headed up to NYC, but even then he was pure genius ... as much a comedy influence on me as Python SNL SCTV, weird old comedy records etc etc that I was slurping up. Me and my friends would talk constantly about the shit he said that morning. He would do bits, for crying out loud.

Depending on where I lived and how far Stern was syndicating at that point, I would always check him out if I could - does anyone remember his silly show on WOR? Even in the last days of the terrestrial tenure, if you managed to catch the show before they started in on a 20 minute block of commercials and he didn't have a porn star in the studio, he was insanely funny, like even just teeing off of Robin's news stories. Half a dozen things off of the news wire would take half an hour to get through, and you'd be sad when it was over.

It's weird to see people's reactions to Stern now, especially if it seems they really only have the massive horndog version of Stern to go off of.
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Re: Marc Maron
« Reply #418 on: February 18, 2011, 09:35:29 AM »
2. Check out Tom's first appearance on Am I Right?? - he goes a bit more into his opinions on Stern and how they've changed over the past years... Before Maron even mentioned it!

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« Reply #419 on: February 18, 2011, 11:45:14 AM »
I just realized I have to post it - it's from pre-podcast days... I will dig it up this weekend for you.