Episode 1023 - David Letterman

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2019

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

David Letterman started out doing the very thing that scared him to death - getting up in front of strangers and trying to make them laugh. Now after wrapping up a legendary and influential career as late night host, Dave talks with Marc about his early days at The Comedy Store, his enjoyment of the longform interviews he’s doing for Netflix, and his focus on the hard work of becoming a better person. Dave also reveals his favorite thing about his old show and the one comic he always thought was the funniest, despite everything else that happened between them. This episode is sponsored by Turo and Starbucks Tripleshot Energy.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:11.0	How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fucking ears, what the fucksters,
0:15.2	what's happening?
0:16.2	I'm Mark Marin, this is my podcast, WTF, which I do out of my home.
0:22.2	I generally do it out of the garage, but to let them do the work that needs to be done
0:27.1	in the garage, it's now in my house upstairs, in my house, right next to my bedroom, right
0:33.1	down the hall from the bathroom, it's in my house.
0:36.5	I don't know why I'm making a point of saying that, but I just wanted to make a point of
0:40.3	saying that.
0:41.3	Today, on the show, my guest in my house is David Letterman.
0:48.8	Now I'm going to talk about that experience or how I felt leading up to that experience,
0:54.0	but first I want to, for some reason I need to talk about John Lennon for a minute.
0:57.5	Last night, I guess this is mostly about, you know, reverence and people that have an
1:03.5	effect on your life or people that you look up to, I'm talking primarily about artists.
1:09.3	Well, you know, we're all the same, we are all people, but there are amazing people
1:14.2	and there are people that, for whatever reason, in your life, that you develop a relationship
1:19.6	with, you know, in your heart, in your mind because of their work, and I just had the weirdest
1:24.7	experience last night because I was, it was a documentary.
1:28.4	I watched this documentary on Netflix.
1:30.6	It was called Above Us Only Sky.
1:34.3	I didn't know what it was and you know, you get to a point in life where you think you've
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