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WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Episode 608 - Kurt Metzger

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.629.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2015

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Kurt Metzger is currently a staff writer on Inside Amy Schumer, which is a far cry from his first TV writing job on a game show hosted by Marc. Kurt tells Marc how he broke out of his life as a Jehovah's Witness, became a comedian, and found himself embroiled in an online controversy about his comedy.

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0:00.0

F**K THE GAME!

0:09.2

Alright, let's do this. How are you? What the f**kers? What the f**k buddies? What the f**kin' ears? What the f**ksters?

0:14.8

What the f**k abilities? What's happening? I am Mark Marin. This is WTF. I am broadcasting from my mobile studio

0:23.5

at the Bowery Hotel. It's a beautiful day. You know, it was like two or three days of rainy shit,

0:29.5

just a depressing f**king rain, and then it opened up. I got one good day. I was starting to take it personally.

0:36.0

I got one good day. Somehow or another, I think I strained my neck sleeping. Is that possible?

0:40.9

That I hurt my neck while I was sleeping. It must have been a rough dream. I must have been active.

0:49.2

Things must have been going on. I threw my neck out in a dream, and now I'm having a hard time moving it,

0:56.5

and I got a special to tape on Saturday. So, am I going to do my special in Chicago,

1:00.7

which you should all come to see me at the Vic Theatre in Chicago. It would be nice.

1:06.3

I think we're doing alright. I think we're going to have enough people there.

1:08.5

The hockey situation did not. I was undaunted. I was not going to be bullied by hockey.

1:14.8

Apparently, it's not even in Chicago, but people watch TV. I think both shows are looking

1:19.7

people enough to do a special. I think the stage is going to look beautiful. I'm excited to do it.

1:25.6

Now, I'm just a little concerned that my neck, my neck, like I'm going to have that weird,

1:32.8

you know, I'm performing. I'm going to have that weird kind of like, instead of turning my neck,

1:36.8

I turn my entire upper body. Do that thing on my special for posterity.

1:43.0

That I will have this compromised movement. We'll see. We'll see. I don't know. Today on the show,

1:49.8

Kurt Metzger, brace yourself. Kurt Metzger, the comedian, he also writes for the Amy Schumer show.

1:56.6

You know, he's an outspoken dude. He's an envelope pusher. He's one of the funniest guys I know

2:02.5

and the best joke writers I know. I think I gave him one of his first writing jobs a million years

2:08.0

ago in a doomed, thank God, a doomed project, a remake of a English game comedy show called Never

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