NC: Sometimes the best kind of work comes out of grief, it comes from tragedy. With Netflix, you don’t even know what’s on there but HBO as a brand does maintain its integrity to a degree. MM: Yeah, because you go on there and they have a handful of things. NC: When you’re watching something on HBO it really does feel like an event. I think that most of my audience or people who would engage with what I do are HBO viewers, so for a number of reasons it was a tremendously exciting thing to have an HBO hour I got tremendous support from HBO, and they curate their content, and there are great shows on there. It was almost like a childhood bucket list thing to do an HBO special. It meant something and so I was honored in some weird way. HBO, when I was coming up, was not unlike a Letterman slot. Whatever the algorithm honors is who gets the big cash and who is put in a position to do more and more specials no matter the quality. I did two or three specials for Netflix and within a week it becomes difficult to find on the platform. Despite what anybody says, I think the Netflix model has done more damage than good in terms of quality in stand up in a way that there are many things on there that you can’t find. Because of that, does this stand up feel different? For so long, having a comedy special on HBO meant you’ve made it. What’s the alternative? To have people say it’s terrible, and it really made me sad. Niki Cruz: It feels weird to say because of the nature of the stand up, but I enjoyed From Bleak to Dark. Over time that goes away, and you’ve reached a level of comfortability up there.” Photograph by Oluwaseye Olusa/HBOĪwards Radar sat down with Marc Maron over zoom to talk about what it’s like to have a special on HBO, his process of developing From Bleak to Dark and balancing his multi-hyphenate career. It was shallow in thinking I’m the angry comic, but really it was about hiding something-fear primarily. “I have grown okay with sort of profound vulnerability up there.” Said Maron. There’s no corner Maron doesn’t explore in the HBO special from his grief over the sudden death of his girlfriend and director Lynn Shelton to talking about anti-woke comics, and his renewed relationship with his father, Maron is wide open, and he might be at his funniest because of it. He’s recently had a few big profiled comedy specials, but his most personal special, From Bleak to Dark, breaks new ground. Then there’s the large listening audience of his podcast and the way he effortlessly connects with WTFers on social media-he feels accessible.īefore his podcast, in the 90s and early aughts, Marc Maron was a stand-up comic, appearing on the late night circuit, being a regular at The Comedy Store, and experiencing the ebbs and flows of that life. His interviews with guests on his WTF podcast are often insightful and cut through the artifice into profound, more meaningful conversations with some of the biggest names in pop culture and Hollywood. And no, Joe Rogan does not make our list.One of the most engaging qualities about Marc Maron is his vulnerability and his ability to connect with someone (we saw that when he spoke to Joey here last year). Here, we’ve got everything from true crime and comedy to science and narrative fiction, and from historical podcasts to sex advice. Below are the 20 top podcasts to get your teeth into that are streaming right now, all only available on Spotify. Fear not, keen listeners, we’ve got you covered. But with over 3 million pods on the platform, it can be very, very tricky to know where to begin. Some of the greatest podcasts around can only be found on Spotify, and nowhere else. But parts of Spotify still lay undiscovered for some of us – it’s also really, really great for everyone’s other favourite thing: podcasts.Īnd if you haven’t dipped your toes in yet, you’re missing out. We even get to see what all our friends are listening to, if we’re really nosy. Long gone are our days of downloading songs off dodgy websites and finding the album artwork ourselves.
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