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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Jeff Mauer is the brains behind I Might Be Wrong, here on Substack. He was head writer for Last Week Tonight, with John Oliver and before that, wrote speeches at the EPA. He’s smart, funny, and thoughtful — and savvy enough to shut the fuck up when Chris Rock walks into the room.

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0:00.0	Radio Mano, Papa Chango Well, hello. How are you?
0:32.5	Good to perceive you again in my imagination.
0:39.7	After 653 episodes of this podcast, I'm always on the lookout for new ways to say,
0:47.7	what's up?
0:48.4	How you doing?
0:49.5	Welcome to another edition of Tangentially Speaking.
0:52.8	My guest this week is a very cool guy named Jeff Marr.
0:57.3	Marr? Marr? Not sure how to pronounce that. I probably should have asked him when we were
1:04.4	talking. It's spelled M-A-U-R-E-R. Jeff is a stand-up comedian and a comedy writer, formerly a speech writer for the
1:16.6	DEA. I don't know how A connects to be there, but he wrote for, I think he mentioned he was
1:25.4	doing something on the daily show, and then he was the head writer on the John Oliver show until about five years ago, maybe.
1:37.1	This is so stupid.
1:38.9	I talked to him yesterday, and I'm here now, like, trying to remember the dates and the specifics, and I'm failing miserably.
1:47.5	I'm sorry about that.
1:48.6	Anyway, just listen to the damn conversation.
1:50.8	We talk about all this.
1:52.4	But he was a head writer on the John Oliver show, and then he left just before COVID.
2:00.4	And so, yeah, about five years ago.
2:02.2	And then he has a substack.
2:05.9	And it's called, I might be wrong, which is a sentiment I very much appreciate.
2:11.7	We all might be wrong.
2:13.1	And we're very wrong if we forget that we might be wrong.
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