Ed Asner from 2015

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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From 2015, Marc talks with actor Ed Asner about his legendary career, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, the time he played Marc's dad, and more. Ed died on August 29, 2021 at age 91.

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0:00.0	You and I did a short pilot. You played my father and you yelled at me in the driveway.
0:13.0	Yeah.
0:14.0	And then you were unavailable to do the series.
0:17.0	I was.
0:18.0	Yeah, unbelievable. You were doing theater.
0:21.5	Yeah.
0:22.5	You had a theater run of something. It was not the FDR thing. It was some grace in New
0:28.0	York.
0:29.0	How did that go?
0:30.0	It was very well except the fucking hurricane hit.
0:34.0	And then that was it?
0:36.0	No, I'd kicked a shit out of the business for a couple of weeks.
0:39.8	But we were on a limited run anyway.
0:42.9	Do you love doing theater more than anything else?
0:45.0	No.
0:46.0	It's a lot of work.
0:47.0	It's a lot of work.
0:48.0	Yeah, it's a lot of work.
0:49.0	And there are a lot of conditions that I seem to solve.
0:54.7	It conditions more easily than I do theatrical problems.
1:00.0	We've been doing the FDR thing for a long time, right?
1:02.5	Four years.
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