Episode 704 - Ali Wong

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2016

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Ali Wong wants you to know what "leaning in" is like for a working stand-up comic who also happens to be a new mother. Marc talks with Ali about her new life as a mom and her continuing life as a road comic who is bucking conventions on the stage and in the writers' room on the show Fresh off the Boat. Their conversation features something that has never happened on WTF.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:10.8	How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fuck in here is, what the fucksters?
0:15.7	What's happening, I'm Mark Maren, this is my podcast WTF.
0:19.5	Welcome.
0:20.5	Thank you for joining.
0:22.5	As you can tell, I'm still a little sickish.
0:25.6	My voice is still a little fucked up, the trip to New York that I just got back from today
0:30.5	and I'm talking to you now, this is now, well this will be the day after my show on
0:35.9	IFC, Maren, premieres with the first two episodes last night.
0:41.1	I hope you liked it.
0:42.7	It's definitely different.
0:44.6	We're going a different direction with the same guy, not a happy direction initially,
0:50.1	but is it ever?
0:51.1	Isn't that the big question?
0:53.0	If you did miss it, I can direct you to these other places.
0:56.0	Today, the day after the show, you can go to IFC.com, you can go to Amazon, you can go to iTunes
1:02.3	to pick up those episodes.
1:04.3	We're all very proud of this season and very excited about it and very interested in
1:11.0	how it is received, but I love it and it was a great experience for me, so I hope you
1:16.3	enjoy that.
1:17.6	I don't know if you saw me on Thal and the other, I guess I'm going to to my own horn
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