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Re: Marc Maron
« Reply #465 on: March 27, 2011, 09:58:49 PM »
I liked Carolla's story about the carpenter guy. 'I can do it all!' 'No, you can't, or you wouldn't be here, you would be doing it.'

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Re: Marc Maron
« Reply #466 on: March 28, 2011, 12:33:54 PM »
I'm several weeks behind & pickin' and choosin' at this point ... anyone heard the Tom Rhodes ep? I always loved that guy.
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« Reply #467 on: March 28, 2011, 01:28:15 PM »
I'm several weeks behind & pickin' and choosin' at this point ... anyone heard the Tom Rhodes ep? I always loved that guy.

If you like him, the episode is well worth it. I wasn't really familiar with him but I enjoyed the episode. Lots of crazy road stories.
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Re: Marc Maron
« Reply #468 on: March 28, 2011, 01:41:55 PM »
I'm several weeks behind & pickin' and choosin' at this point ... anyone heard the Tom Rhodes ep? I always loved that guy.

If you like him, the episode is well worth it. I wasn't really familiar with him but I enjoyed the episode. Lots of crazy road stories.

Imagine if Wooderson from Dazed & Confused stopped hanging around with high schoolers & became a stand up comedian.
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« Reply #469 on: March 30, 2011, 05:36:17 PM »
I've sort of winced through three interviews now (Carollo, Slayton, Rogan), so I'm kind of looking forward to the Conan interview next week. 
I don't why I do this to myself, listening all the way through.  I think it's mostly because I listen at work, so it's not a huge time loss or anything. 
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Re: Marc Maron
« Reply #470 on: April 01, 2011, 08:30:37 AM »
Showalter interview----CRINGE WORTHY at times.  He actually said, and I quote, "I wanted to go to Brown because I was tired of being the smartest person in the room."

I really, really don't like this dude. 

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« Reply #471 on: April 01, 2011, 09:02:02 AM »
The one time I saw Showalter perform, as part of a Eugene Mirman package, he was rrrrrreally unfunny.  He seemed unprepared, like he thought he could just get up onstage and wing it.

Dude--there's a reason that's a common nightmare: It usually just doesn't work very well.
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Re: Marc Maron
« Reply #472 on: April 01, 2011, 10:47:48 AM »
The one time I saw Showalter perform, as part of a Eugene Mirman package, he was rrrrrreally unfunny.  He seemed unprepared, like he thought he could just get up onstage and wing it.

Dude--there's a reason that's a common nightmare: It usually just doesn't work very well.

I hope this one time was the (sort of) ill-fated comedy stage at last year's Pitchfork Festival, since the stage was close enough to the music stage to have a lot of sonic interference. Hannibal Buress took it in stride (he had a great joke about being mad enough over the music volume to start "the most obscure beef ever" with Liars) and Mirman killed it, but the setup seemed to shake Showalter into this total state of trainwreck passive-aggressive surliness. If that's what he's like in a normal comedy club situation, I don't know what to say other than maybe "eesh".
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Re: Marc Maron
« Reply #473 on: April 01, 2011, 10:51:32 AM »
Naw, it was at Prospect Park last summer.
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Re: Marc Maron
« Reply #474 on: April 01, 2011, 12:00:17 PM »
I really liked the Showalter interview and didn't at any point find it cringeworthy.

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Re: Marc Maron
« Reply #475 on: April 01, 2011, 12:10:57 PM »
As usual, I am 8 episodes behind.

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Re: Marc Maron
« Reply #476 on: April 01, 2011, 01:53:39 PM »
I really liked the Showalter interview and didn't at any point find it cringeworthy.

I'm with Martin. Although I'm only about 15 minutes in, I wanna give the dude a hug.

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« Reply #477 on: April 02, 2011, 10:31:32 AM »
I saw Showalter in Austin on his first comedy tour.  The show had been advertised as starting an hour earlier than it did, so he went out 45 minutes before he was supposed to and improvised and interacted with the crowd; it was fun, though not particularly funny and a really nice thing to do. 

Unfortunately, when his "real set" started, he couldn't get the crowd under control after he'd been asking them to shout things to him and he couldn't handle it.  Bombed hard.
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Re: Marc Maron
« Reply #478 on: April 03, 2011, 09:52:16 PM »
Well, after listening to the Showalter episode I can say that it made me like him more than seeing him perform did. Not love him, but he seemed like an OK dude. I bear no ill will toward the eggheads, having aborted an academic career myself.
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Re: Marc Maron
« Reply #479 on: April 04, 2011, 05:56:06 PM »
So, the Conan episode was awesome.
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