Episode 969 - Kenneth Lonergan

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2018

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Kenneth Lonergan doesn’t think there’s a real difference between comedy and drama, at least not in the way he writes and directs. The playwright-screenwriter-director talks with Marc about the lie of sentimentality, how ideas collapse when he’s writing and new ideas emerge, and why he hopes to get to 95% satisfaction with his work (he’s gotten to about 90% so far). That work includes Manchester By The Sea, Margaret, You Can Count On Me, and plays like The Waverly Gallery, which is now on Broadway. This episode is sponsored by Loop Jewelry, Screen Dive from 20th Century Fox, YouTube Music, and Stamps.com.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:10.8	How are you?
0:11.8	What the fuckers?
0:12.8	What the fuck buddies?
0:13.8	What the fucksters?
0:14.8	What's happening?
0:15.8	I'm Mark Marren.
0:16.8	This is my podcast.
0:17.8	How's it going?
0:18.8	Are you alright?
0:19.8	This is it.
0:20.8	This is the week.
0:22.3	The beginning of the holiday season.
0:24.8	This is where we've already weighed whether it may be some of you still are on the fence.
0:28.9	I don't know.
0:29.9	We've already weighed whether or not we're going to have people over.
0:32.3	We're going to have family over.
0:33.6	We're going to go see our families.
0:35.2	We're not going to see our families.
0:36.6	We're going to go to a thing at someone else's house.
0:38.9	We don't really like that much, but we don't have any other plans and we can put up with
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