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WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Episode 922 - ​Vanessa Hollingshead

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.629.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2018

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Vanessa Hollingshead can honestly say that a cruise ship saved her life. She tells Marc what led to a comedy career in the first place after a childhood spent in communes, foster homes, and around lots of grown-ups on acid and other psychedelic drugs. Vanessa got a hot start in comedy and her big break was right in front of her, and then it all went away, followed by a crushing personal tragedy. And if it wasn't for that cruise ship, she might not be here telling this story.

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0:00.0

Fuck the game!

0:01.0

Alright, let's do this.

0:10.9

How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fucking ears, what the fucksicles?

0:17.2

That's a summer one.

0:18.5

I just decided on it.

0:20.3

How's it going?

0:21.3

Today on the show, I talked to Vanessa Hollingshead.

0:25.8

Vanessa Hollingshead and I go way back.

0:28.5

Way back to New York.

0:29.6

Back in the day, she was a little younger than me and I remember her starting out.

0:33.6

She started after me but she made a very big impact.

0:37.5

She was very, did a lot of big character stuff, a lot of like, I thought she was going to

0:41.7

be like the new Lucille ball.

0:44.4

Just had a lot going on and then I didn't hear from her, see her for a long time.

0:49.6

I had heard weird stuff.

0:51.1

I didn't know what was happening with her.

0:52.9

I was recently going through my memory, checking in with everybody I once knew in my mind.

0:59.0

I think I'd gotten an email from somebody who had been on a ship working with her.

1:03.1

She does comedy on boats now and I was just curious as to how, what happened to her life?

1:09.4

Is she okay?

1:10.4

What she doing comedy wise?

1:11.4

I mean, she used to, she was married to the owner of the comic strip, not the owner,

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