Episode 15: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Marc Maron, and the Broads of 'Broad City'

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Politics, Arts, News, Wnyc, Books, David, Storytelling, Society & Culture, Yorker, New, Remnick

4.2 • 6.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week, stars of the stage, screen, and earbuds. Marc Maron tells Kelefa Sanneh why talking into a mic saved his life. The magazine’s TV critic, Emily Nussbaum, speaks with Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer about their raunchy and joyful TV comedy “Broad City.” And Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and star of “Hamilton,” takes comfort in knowing that dirty politics are as old as America.

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0:00.0	This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:11.0	He's very excited to be having a conversation with someone when they have that revelation right in mind.
0:16.0	He's really smart.
0:17.0	He's actually someone who's kind of savvy, you know, every parent.
0:20.0	Maybe looking at this case, it could be an interesting process piece.
0:24.8	Okay.
0:29.5	Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick.
0:32.9	Without a doubt, one of the big sensations of 2015 was the musical Hamilton, which opened just about a year
0:39.8	ago. I first heard about the show from my colleague Rebecca Mead a long time before that,
0:45.6	who was writing a profile of its creator, Lynn Manuel Miranda. You can sum up Hamilton by saying
0:51.5	it's a hip-hop musical based on the life of Alexander Hamilton,
0:55.3	in which all the founding fathers and mothers are played by actors of color rapping.
1:00.9	But that might sound gimmicky, and this show is anything but.
1:05.6	It's got a real vision of America, and it takes our history very seriously.
1:09.6	It actually takes as its inspiration, Ron Chernoe's
1:13.1	authoritative biography of Alexander Hamilton. Lynn Manuel Miranda wrote the music, the lyrics,
1:19.5	and the book, and he stars as Hamilton. He spoke with Rebecca Mead at the New Yorker Festival this fall,
1:25.9	and what you'll hear right at the top
1:27.7	is a video of the cast doing the big number, My Shot.
1:31.7	Here we go.
1:32.1	I'm past patiently waiting.
1:33.6	I'm passionately smashing every expectation, every action's enact a creation.
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