Marc Maron just isn’t keen on being simply one other podcaster in a sea of mediocrity.
In a brand new interview, the comedian — who not too long ago introduced the top of his well-liked and long-lived podcast “WTF” — criticized the present podcast panorama as awash in meh.
“Issues had been higher earlier than everybody had a voice,” Maron advised the Hollywood Reporter in an interview printed Wednesday. “Now there’s simply a whole lot of teams of two or three white guys, sitting behind mics, speaking concerning the final time they s— their pants as adults. We reside in a world of mediocre afternoon drive-time radio.”
“Plenty of yammering in makeshift studios. It’s reducing the bar for all the things,” he added.
Maron began “WTF” in 2009 out of his storage, the place he interviews friends. By means of the years, he has talked to comedians, actors, musicians and even a sitting president. Throughout an episode with comic John Mulaney in June, he introduced the present will come to an finish “someday within the fall.”
Distaste for mediocrity has been a theme for the comedian in latest weeks. “The world has modified a bit and, you recognize, the type of uniqueness of regardless of the hell’s taking place,” Maron mentioned throughout his look final week on the “Howie Mandel Does Stuff” podcast. “There’s sufficient folks yammering on the planet.”
In his newest comedy particular, Maron pokes enjoyable at how sure podcast hosts are, in his eyes, pandering to the far proper.
“If Hitler had been alive right now, I believe he’d in all probability seem on Theo Von’s podcast,” the comic jokes in “Panicked,” which premiered Aug. 1 on HBO.
In his podcast, Von explores numerous subjects, together with his struggles with drug abuse and psychological well being, with completely different friends — who embrace politicians in addition to comedians.
Maron continues by taking part in out a scene during which the comic host of “This Previous Weekend With Theo Von” questions Hitler concerning the quantity of meth the Nazis consumed. At one level, Maron impersonates Von blaming the hate Hitler had on the quantity of medicine he did.
“WTF” continues with episodes popping out Mondays and Thursdays till it ends within the fall. Maron didn’t reply to a request for a remark earlier than publication.
