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WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Episode 774 - ​Martha Plimpton / Laurie Kilmartin

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.629.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2017

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Martha Plimpton says she learned how to act on the job. She talks with Marc about her childhood roles in movies like The Goonies, how those paved the way for her work on Broadway, and what she does to overcome crippling stage fright. Plus, Marc's friend Laurie Kilmartin stops by to talk about how she was able to take overwhelming grief and turn it into a new comedy special.

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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 fucking ears, what the fuck

0:14.8

of doodles?

0:15.9

Yeah, through a new one in there.

0:18.6

What's happening?

0:19.6

Mark Marin, this is my podcast, WTF.

0:22.1

Welcome to it.

0:23.4

Martha Pimpton is on the show, and also I did a short interview with my friend, Laurie

0:28.4

Kill Martin, who's a new special 45 jokes about my dead dad is on CISO.com.

0:37.6

Laurie and I go way back to the Bay Area, she's a writer at Conan O'Brien, always one of

0:42.6

my favorite comics, and I like her company, and she's solid.

0:49.6

She did a WTF a while back, it's good stuff.

0:52.0

Oh, you know what I wanted to say?

0:54.2

As some of you know, the Bruce Springsteen episode picked up a lot of traction, we obviously

1:02.6

did some lifting for the cable news world, and he gets out there in this way, this quick

1:14.8

baby sort of way, where I don't know if people really engaged, I know most of you did,

1:22.4

and most of the Bruce fans didn't certainly people listen to this show did, but what

1:25.9

the quick bait diminishes, and what pulling a couple of quotes that Bruce made about

1:32.6

Trump out of that interview is it sort of diminishes the scope and breadth of the interview.

1:38.9

That was a very unique and compelling and deep conversation with a great artist that

1:46.1

just gets caught up in this whirlwind of cable news bullshit.

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