Episode 1318 - Guy Torry

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2022

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Guy Torry spent 13 years creating and running the most famous all-black comedy night in America at The Comedy Store. And now Guy just spent another 13 years making a documentary about that influential weekly comedy show, Phat Tuesdays. Guy and Marc talk about the limited opportunities for Black comedians in mainstream clubs and how the racially divided climate of 1990s Los Angeles highlighted the need to fill a comedy void. Guy explains the importance of comedian Robin Harris in mentoring young comedians and how comics like Martin Lawrence, Bernie Mac and others thrived in the new environment.

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1:09.3	All right, let's do this. How are you? What the fuckers? What the fuck buddies? What the fucksters?
1:26.5	What's happening? I'm Mark Marin. This is my podcast. Welcome to it. I don't think I've spoken to
1:32.2	you really since the Oscars. The last episode I did was recorded before that. I was actually
1:38.6	writing in my update about Chris Rock at the Comedy Store when Chris Rock got assaulted on camera
1:46.8	in front of the world by Will Smith. I think I might have something to say about it. I talked
1:54.3	a little bit about it last night at the Comedy Store on stage. Let's see if I can put my thoughts
1:59.5	together. But first off, Guy Torrey is on the show today. Guy Torrey, the comedian. Well, he's an actor,
2:06.6	but started as a comedian. His brother's a Joe Torrey. He was a regular on deaf comedy jam and all
2:11.7	the typical comic shows that were going on in the 90s. But around that time, he also created Fat
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