Marc Maron Treasure Trove
Marc Maron's second run on Air America Radio, with "The Marc Maron Show," recently ended. We're sad to see Marc off the air, but amazed at the online treasure trove of interviews that are his show's legacy.This amazing stash includes interviews with lots of great comics, including Patton Oswalt, David Cross, Todd Barry, Sarah Silverman, Stephen Colbert, Chris Elliott, Harry Shearer, Mort Sahl and a million others.
Here's a download list, thanks to Mason Proulx of AST. Another AST user was nice enough to create this RSS feed for a podcast of the files: http://odeo.com/channel/131082/rss. You can subscribe to that in iTunes -- just copy the URL, then open iTunes, choose the "Advanced" menu, and "Subscribe to Podcast." Paste the URL in the box and click OK.
All of these are courtesty of The Snot-Green Sea, which has an astonishing archive of Maron broadcasts.
If you're a fan of Maron's, you might enjoy this TSOYA broadcast from 2005, which featured an interview with the man himself.
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posted by Jesse Thorn at Saturday, September 30, 2006
5 Comments:
New font? Classy.
Hopefully at least legible.
Thanks for this, Jesse. I was a huge fan of Morning Sedition, and it was grievously boneheaded of Air America to take it off the air. The skits on that show often struck gold, and they were able to discuss politics in a way that didn't induce narcolepsy. I'm more or less in the same political column as Air America, but most of their shows are a snoozefest.
Maron's second show was also pretty good, but it never really found its rhythm like "Morning Sedidtion" did. Jim Earl was Maron's sidekick on the second show, and their relationship was very odd. Earl wrote some great pieces for both of the Maron shows ... if you go to thesnotgreensea.com, I highly reccomend the recurring bits "Rapture Watch" and "Morning Remembrance".
I've listened to most of these, and I have to say, Maron's a pretty awful interviewer. He's a little better with people he knows like Todd Barry, but he just has no idea what to do most of the time.
They're still kind of funny, but I can see why a lot of people didn't like his show as the early morning thing.
I posted them so obviously I feel the opposite. Maron's become one of my favorite interviewers. If your criteria for a good interviewer is a professional who keeps things objective and keeps the focus on the interviewee, then yes Maron's style is the opposite of that. He keeps it very loose, intimate and lets people in on the process of on his mind. I find it's more fun that way and makes me as an audience member feel like I'm right there with them.
Besides, those particular clips are more like on air conversations with his longtime comedian friends than interviews.
For the record, Jesse, you're a swell interviewer too (hear that vacuous sound? that's me sucking up).
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