Episode 1107 - Utkarsh Ambudkar

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

The world took notice of Utkarsh Ambudkar with his freestyle performance on the Oscar telecast but he was almost a classic cautionary character: The guy who blows his big break because of struggles with substance abuse. Utkarsh tells Marc about his early love of hip-hop, how rap battles and general swagger opened doors for him on Broadway and in Hollywood, and why he knew he had to sober up when he torpedoed his shot at a little musical called Hamilton. Utkarsh also talks about his friendship with Lin-Manuel Miranda, his hero worship of Ice Cube, and his scene-stealing turns in The Mindy Project, Pitch Perfect and Brittany Runs a Marathon. This episode is sponsored by Squarespace and SimpliSafe.

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0:00.0	and plenty of it.
0:01.6	Fuck the game!
0:10.8	All right, let's do this.
0:12.3	How are you? What the fuckers? What the fuck buddies?
0:15.2	What the fucksters? What's happening? I-I am, uh...
0:18.6	squeaking my mic.
0:20.6	I'm at home. I hope you're at home. I hope we're...
0:23.6	handling this together. All right. It's hard to know, I know people are craving...
0:27.8	uh...
0:29.3	some sort of something to distract themselves, to stay engaged with something, to stay connected.
0:34.9	Uh, I know there's a lot of people out there alone, and I want to say, hey, what's up?
0:41.4	Everything okay? You have enough food?
0:44.4	You got stuff in the cabinet? Don't-don't eat too much.
0:47.8	You don't-don't just sit and eat. Do some exercises.
0:51.4	Take a walk.
0:53.4	I hope that- that- call your friends.
0:55.8	You know, you're right.
0:57.8	I'm sorry you're going through this alone, but uh, I just want you to know that a lot of us are here with you.
1:03.8	And that we're thinking about you and we're staying connected.
1:06.8	We're trying to stay connected. At least stay engaged with something live, if you can.
1:12.8	Even if it's on TV or on your computer. Stay engaged with information.
1:16.8	Don't drift.
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