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WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Episode 1009 - Bruce McCulloch

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.629.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Bruce McCulloch’s characters and disposition on The Kids in the Hall would lead you to conclude he’s somewhat shy, sensitive and kind. And while that may be true now, Bruce says he was an angry young man, a drinker, a fighter. Growing up in Calgary, there didn’t seem to be much of a future for him, but improv comedy became the way out. Bruce talks with Marc about the darkness lurking beneath the Kids and why the group dissolved after making the movie Brain Candy. Bruce also talks about his friendship with the late Gord Downie of The Tragically Hip, his career behind the camera, and his new role producing and directing a sketch comedy troupe called Tallboyz. This episode is sponsored by Leesa.

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0:00.0

Fuck the game!

0:01.0

The Last Game

0:09.3

Alright, let's do this. How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fucksters, what's happening?

0:15.2

Uh, this is WTF. Did you know what you tuned in for? Did you want a double check?

0:20.6

What, did I do it right? I was playing with a knob.

0:24.3

But I'm in a hotel room still, I've been away so long now. I'm in Dublin, Ireland, right now.

0:30.8

I'm sitting in Dublin in a hotel room and there's a pastry problem.

0:34.9

Yeah, I can't even, ugh, they're just over there. I'll explain to you a minute.

0:39.9

Anyways, Bruce McCullough of the Kids in the Hall is on the show today and he is, I think,

0:46.3

there's five of them, right? So this will be four out of the five. All I'm missing is a McKenny.

0:51.1

Bruce is here, it was great to talk to him. He sounds uniquely like himself.

0:55.9

There's no doubt who I am talking to. He's been on the road with his one man show, Tales of Bravery

1:03.8

and Stupidity and he's turning that into a book and he's also, I guess, the executive producer and

1:09.4

director of the upcoming sketch comedy show called Tall Boys. So on Sunday, what I did was,

1:16.4

today's Thursday I haven't talked to you since Monday but I didn't tell you about Sunday.

1:20.1

So Sunday was a big day. It was the day before I did Birmingham, England, which was a good show,

1:26.8

it was an interesting show. So on Sunday, I went down to the Hayward Gallery and that's down

1:32.4

by South Bank Center where I did the show. This is in London. I was going to go see the Diane Arbyshow.

1:37.2

They have a Diane Arbys exhibit of early photographs of Diane Arbys. So I'm I've seen most of them I

1:42.8

hadn't. It was sort of before she found her style in a way. You could see it coming but she was

1:49.1

still using a 35 millimeter camera before she went with the, I think it's two and a half by two

1:53.9

and a half square. Maybe also blood type of stuff for one of the other bigger cameras and she did a

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