President Obama will on Friday sit down for an interview with comedian Mark Maron and his popular podcast, “WTF With Marc Maron,” Deadline reported on Thursday morning.
Maron then said in his Thursday podcast that he would be sitting down with the President in his Los Angeles garage to tape an interview for his Monday show.
“Brace yourselves. Are you sitting down? Okay. Take a breath. All right. If everything goes as planned, on Monday, I will post a WTF – an episode of this show that you’re listening to now – featuring myself in conversation, talking to at my home in my garage … me, talking to the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama,” Maron said during the podcast, according to Entertainment Weekly. “If everything goes well [Friday]. I’m talking to him [Friday]. If everything goes as planned.”
This won’t be the first time that Obama sits down for an interview on a popular online show. The President joined Zack Galifinakis on his faux-interview show, “Between Two Ferns,” last year.
I am so disgusted with Obama I don’t want to hear another word he has to say.
interesting…please explain…
Holy crap.
I have been listening to Marc Maron for years and could not be more excited to check this out. If you’re not familiar, I’d recommend his recent interview with Terry Gross as a primer on who he is. I strongly suspect someone in the white house heard it and decided this was a good idea.
Before starting the podcast, Maron was told by his manager he could not book him anywhere, leading Maron to consider suicide in his garage. Instead, he began interviewing people there, and with decades in comedy was able to tap into a wide rolodex of working comedians. His important early shows include his confrontations with Carlos Mencia and Dane Cook. He then started getting major guests like Ben Stiller, Judd Apatow, Louis CK, and over a couple years sat down for long-form interviews with other leading voices in comedy.
These conversations are not traditional show business interviews. They are extended conversations that cover everything from the interviewee’s upbringing, why they chose comedy, an overview of their career, their approach to comedy now, and how they feel about the world in general. Beyond that, Maron will regularly chime in with his own stories to provide context or insight from his own life.
There is no interviewer I’d rather see the President sit down with for an extended interview. This is tremendously exciting for me.
Cue right-wing outrage about Obama doing this while people are killed in churches. Seriously, some hater will say it if they have not already.