Episode 799 - Jason Zinoman / Hank Azaria

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2017

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

New York Times comedy critic Jason Zinoman is the one person analyzing comedy from the most prominent journalistic platform in the world. So naturally Jason and Marc would want to talk about the nuts and bolts of creating comedy and, very specifically, the origin of David Letterman's influential brand of comedy, which is the subject of Jason's new book. Plus, Hank Azaria is back in the garage to talk about bringing a gleefully drunk sportscaster to your televisions.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Music
0:09.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:10.8	How are you, what the fuckers?
0:12.0	What the fuck buddies?
0:13.0	What the fuck in here?
0:14.0	What the fuck in Daleks?
0:15.0	What the fuck tuckins?
0:17.0	What the fucks' against?
0:19.0	What's happening?
0:21.0	I'm Mark Marin.
0:22.0	This is my show.
0:24.0	Today on the show, I talk to the New York Times comedy critic.
0:29.0	That's Jason, this is Xeniman.
0:33.0	I'll be honest with you, I didn't want to like the guy when we started and I found it
0:37.0	to be a great conversation.
0:38.8	He's got a book coming out.
0:41.5	He had sort of amazing access to David Letterman and he wrote Letterman, The Giant of
0:46.0	Late Night.
0:47.0	That comes out a little later this month.
0:49.8	Is it April?
0:50.8	Yeah, it is, right?
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