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WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Episode 1304 - Chris Spencer

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.629.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Chris Spencer is the kind of guy the White House calls when they need a show business favor. How did he become so connected? In Chris's words, Black Hollywood is a small place. Chris talks with Marc about how his early comedy career paved the way for a big break as a late night talk show host. But when that opportunity fizzled from the start, Chris had to figure out how to redirect his talents. That new approach led to a lot of comedy writing and directing his first feature film with Kevin Hart, Wesley Snipes and Tiffany Haddish. 

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0:00.0

What up world this is your boy Kevin Hart aka the committed rock star and guess what I'm coming to a city near you

0:05.7

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0:14.4

Make sure you're in the building don't miss your chance to get your tickets Kevin Hart reality check tour at arenas across the UK

0:20.6

April 2023 to get some sale now at live nation dot code UK go to Kevin Hart nation dot com now

0:41.6

All right, let's do this how are you what the fuckers what the fuck buddies what the fuck nicks?

0:47.0

It's me Mark Marin. This is my podcast WTF welcome to it. It's been a fun run lately a lot of good conversations

0:54.0

I enjoy talking to creative people that do interesting things. I worry about it sometimes I worry about when you talk to somebody like

1:04.0

Let's say Tony Kushner last week when you talk to somebody that has a sort of intellectual and elevated sense of creativity and a sophistication and a sense of purpose

1:15.0

And an idea of moving things forward in a progressive way and you look at the culture we live in and you start to think like

1:22.0

Well, is all that going to go away is all of that when does that get steam rolled by stupidity when does the sort of movements of

1:31.0

Progressive creativity start getting steam rolled by stupidity. I mean they're already almost all marginalized to some degree

1:39.0

And this is just output. I'm not talking about individuals. I'm not talking about people. I'm talking about art in and of itself

1:46.0

Painting jazz poetry things that were sort of kind of soul sustenance things that you may not do every day

1:56.0

But when you when you do that you're sort of like why don't I do these things every day?

2:00.0

Why don't I nourish my brain with this type of of creativity?

2:05.0

I don't know what happens to it all and maybe I'm just becoming an old guy, but it just seems that there's a consolidation of

2:12.0

You know dumb dumb output going on that seems to be kind of like a tsunami just kind of steam rolling and blowing over

2:21.0

The kind of more delicate more fragile more personal actually more risky voices and output. I don't know. I don't know.

2:31.0

I just think that you know once the stupid decide on a uniform roll and trouble and I guess we'll all be eating the same thing and listening to the same marching band.

2:40.0

Who knows right? How's it going everybody okay? Chris Spencer's on the show today. He's a comedian. I work with him all the time.

2:48.0

He came up to me like a couple weeks ago and he's like can I do your show? I'm like haven't you been on the show? Have I done that many podcasts where now I'm sort of like

2:57.0

Donnie I'm not sure who's been on and who hasn't I guess so it's got to be almost 1300 I guess that happens.

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