Episode 1261 - Tim Reid

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Tim Reid's life changed on a New Year's Eve in the 1960s when he lucked his way into a club to see a hot young comedian. That club was Mister Kelly's, that comedian was Richard Pryor and nothing has been the same for Tim since. Tim tells Marc about his segregated upbringing, how he and Tom Dressen created the first interracial comedy team, how he got out of comedy and into acting with roles like Venus Fly Trap on WKRP in Cincinnati, and why he's currently spending a lot of his time on historical preservation.

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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 nicks?
0:15.0	What's happening?
0:16.0	I'm Mark Marin.
0:17.0	This is my podcast WTF.
0:18.0	Welcome to it.
0:19.0	How's everybody doing?
0:21.2	Tim Reed is my guest today.
0:22.6	Tim Reed.
0:23.9	I imagine most of you know him as Venus Flytrap from WKRP and Cincinnati.
0:30.5	I don't know that my younger listeners would know that.
0:33.0	He also had a show, a fairly revolutionary show just in the sense it was a black lead.
0:40.0	But that was a Frank's place.
0:41.9	And I mean, he's been on dozens of TV shows and he's a director as well.
0:47.0	But he's been working for, you know, at least 50 years.
0:50.4	And he started as a comic.
0:53.1	This is the intent.
0:54.7	This is what brought me to him.
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