Marc Maron’s Kaddish

Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Marc Maron is an American comedian, podcaster, writer, and actor. He is best known for hosting the popular podcast "WTF with Marc Maron," in which he interviews a wide range of guests, including comedians, actors, and musicians. Maron is also a stand-up comedian and has released several comedy albums. In addition to his work in podcasting and stand-up comedy, Maron has appeared in a number of TV shows and films, including "Maron," a television series he starred in and co-created. The last time Marc Maron was on Good One, it was the early days of the pandemic. We're talking late March 2020. A month and change later, his girlfriend Lynn Shelton unexpectedly passed away. Marc's newest special, From Bleak to Dark, explores that grief. Together, Marc and host Jesse David Fox discuss the concept of "too soon," and processing pain with comedy. Watch From Bleak to Dark on HBO. Follow Marc on Twitter and Instagram. Follow Jesse David Fox on Twitter and Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Good One, a podcast about jokes.
0:13.2	I'm your host, Jesse David Potts.
0:15.6	Each episode of Guess Comes On, a playclip of one of their jokes, and then discuss how
0:18.9	they wrote it and how it represents what they're trying to do with their comedy.
0:22.5	This week, Mark Marin returns to the show.
0:25.0	I last interviewed Mark for the podcast on March 13, 2020.
0:29.5	I remember the exact date because it was the day Donald Trump declared a state of emergency
0:34.4	concerning COVID-19.
0:36.6	Two months later, Mark's girlfriend and collaborator, the director Lynn Shelton, died unexpectedly
0:41.8	of undiagnosed leukemia.
0:43.9	I say that because you should be warned that is the focus of this conversation.
0:49.6	This is a somewhat intense conversation at times, but at other times it is some of the
0:54.2	most fun I've ever had during this show.
0:56.3	So what you're about to hear is how Mark took the first steps to try to take all he was
1:01.3	feeling and experiencing about grief and mourning and turn into something that was funny, if
1:07.5	you can believe it.
1:09.4	The result is about a 20-minute section in the middle of his new special from Bleak to
1:12.8	Dark, which premieres on HBO on February 11th.
1:16.1	We're going to start with the opening few minutes from that chunk in which Mark discussed
1:20.0	the very prospect of trying to do material about what happened.
1:23.8	So here is Mark Lairon.
1:27.3	But the point I was trying to make is that the mortality thing, the idea of impending
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