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Don't listen to the J Mascis one.
I spent most of the Solondz interview wondering when he was gonna drop the voice.
Todd Solondz is my favorite Fred Stoller character.
“We’ve built a bridge of friendship and carried our goats across. Lay them in the grass with me, Jeff! One’s named Petey and one’s named Sweetie!”—Pete Holmes to Jeff Garlin, Doug Loves Movies
Michael Keaton was fantastic. I really liked how he was on the ball and kind of understood the format of the show. Spent a lot of time talking about his part of comedy history and what he saw. He really had an amazing (movie) career and you don't often get to hear someone with that perspective talk at such length.
Kind of ironic that the guy who ended up doing Splash (Hanks) went on to have the career that Keaton was angling for.
Does anyone know what happened to the Steve-O episode and why it never aired? I'm curious because it seems odd that's it's been nearly a year since it was going to originally air and it never has since then.
Proof that it was going to air.
I don't want to tweet Marc just in case this information is already known, but I may do so if it isn't because it's been bugging me.
I seem to remember hearing about it also but I think he has a lot in the can and maybe he is trying make each week "balanced" what with all the musicians he has been doing but who knows?
I wish he would do some musicians I actually care about like Mark Arm or David Yow...
"I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes." HST
That... is true. I should have listened first. I really could have sworn that an episode was recorded and there was a preview, but now I'm thinking I just saw that title back then and assumed incorrectly.
Marc and Dick Van Dyke finding out they are both still addicted to nicotine was one of my all-time favorite moments of WTF. So endearing.
Yeah but I was hoping one of them would bring up the movie Cold Turkey:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Turkey_%28film%29
Man I hope I am as lucid as these guys are when I'm their age...
"I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes." HST
I liked both of them a lot, but could not believe how appalling the ad for Audible was that Maron sandwiched in while Reiner was in the middle of a sentence. "Hey, This is important to me, and it's important to Carl, too" Argh!
I can't believe he had to go into a whole explanation about the James Franco interview. Am I the only one who didn't pick up any weird vibes whatsoever during the interview? Didn't even realise there was something that had to be explained.
It only got weird there at the very end when Maron asked the snarky question. You can't hear Franco's reaction so I don't know what happened, but you can definitely hear Maron freak out a little bit.
Based on the Jason Stuart intro, it was weird from the very beginning and the weirdness was mostly physical. It was probably more noticeably weird in person.
The discomfort seemed pretty palpable to me. But it didn't seem like it was about Marc so much as it was about how guarded Franco has become. And can you blame him when everyone is on his fucking dick at all times?
If life is an amusement park, that dude is riding ALL the rides. He is awesome. And after Pineapple Express and 50 episodes of General Hospital, I don't think he needs to prove to anyone that he has a sense of humor.
Also -- Jason Stuart is funny and adorable. What a great conversation.
I haven't heard whatever episode had Marc explaining himself, but in the live ep it seemed to me that he kept trying to get Franco to admit that stuff like the soap opera acting and such were goofs, that he was being condescending or funny by doing them. Franco explained (rather eloquently, I thought) why that's not how he saw it, Marc interpreted that as him "taking himself seriously" and made a kind of shitty sarcastic remark about it. Marc didn't seem terribly comfortable during the Harmony Korine part either, I got the sense he was a little intimidated by what he saw as Art People, but that's probably me reading too much into it.
TV innit
Yeah, that's how it came off to me, too. And Franco seemed (understandably) a little paranoid that he was there to be the punchline. It was an interesting conversation, regardless.
On a lighter note, I thought the Bargatze interview was a delight. The dude is becoming one of my favorite comics, he's just naturally funny.
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