Episode 1229 - Gabe Kaplan

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Whether he was getting booked on The Tonight Show or becoming the first standup to have a hit sitcom based on his act or finding success as a professional poker player, Gabe Kaplan says it all happened in spite of his lack of ambition. Gabe tells Marc how he really wanted to become a professional baseball player, how his athleticism served him well in Battle of the Network Stars, and how his initial years in standup were spent opening for strippers and bellydancers. They also talk about the making of Welcome Back, Kotter and how playing Las Vegas got Gabe into poker.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:11.0	How are you?
0:12.0	What the fuckers?
0:13.0	What the fuck buddies?
0:14.0	What the fuck Knicks?
0:14.9	What the fucksters?
0:17.2	Today we talk to, I talk to, who's we?
0:19.8	Me, Gabe Kaplan.
0:22.6	Gabe Kaplan, welcome back, Kotter.
0:24.8	Gabe Kaplan out of nowhere is pitched to me.
0:28.0	Would you like to talk to Gabe Kaplan?
0:29.5	Sure, I would like to talk to Gabe Kaplan.
0:32.2	Of course.
0:33.2	I remember Gabe Kaplan.
0:34.8	Gabe Kaplan holds a big part of my brain somehow, just that hair and that mustache and
0:38.8	that delivery.
0:39.8	I remember him for when I was a kid.
0:40.8	I was young enough to watch.
0:43.2	Welcome back, Kotter, when I was a kid.
0:44.4	I remember him as a stand-up.
0:45.8	But I don't know anything about him or what he's been doing.
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