Episode 1096 - Ben Schwartz

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2020

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Ben Schwartz was afraid to do plays in high school. In fact, if it wasn’t for his college girlfriend pushing him to audition for the school improv group, his life would be dramatically different. Ben talks with Marc about his early comedy ambitions which prompted him to sneak into MTV looking for a job, get an internship at the UCB, and become a page for The Late Show with David Letterman. Ben also explains how his confidence grew on camera playing Jean-Ralphio on Parks and Rec, why his mind is blown doing the upcoming show Space Force, and how he’s gravitating toward things he loved as a kid, like Sonic the Hedgehog. This episode is sponsored by Duncanville on Fox, Zoro.com, Capterra, and ZipRecruiter.

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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-knicks, what the fuck-buddies, what the fuck-wads,
0:16.5	what the fuck-aholics, how's it going, I'm Mark Marin, this is my show, WTF, and I'm
0:21.2	trying to sit casually in a chair, and there's just like a certain angle where I have shooting
0:27.8	pains in my back.
0:30.0	It's not always, it's not even sometimes, it's just occasionally if there's just a little
0:35.1	turn to the-no man right there, right there.
0:40.2	So given the old adage, the old joke, Doc, it hurts when I do this.
0:45.8	Yeah?
0:46.8	Well, don't do that.
0:47.8	I don't know, it's a little worse than that.
0:50.2	I'm going to the doctor in a couple weeks.
0:51.8	Thanks for bearing with me through this difficult time of back pain, shooting back pain.
0:59.5	Someone sent me the nicest little sculpture, like this weird little almost caricature like
1:03.7	a piece of plastic sculpture, some sort of ceramic plastic of La Fonda.
1:09.8	The late La Fonda has been mortalized in painting and now in sculpture.
1:16.4	It's very exciting.
1:17.4	I like the fan art and I like the memorials photos as well to my late great cat La Fonda,
1:25.3	RIP.
1:26.8	This will-I'll get enough to create a shrine.
1:30.1	I'm going to talk to Ben Schwartz today.
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