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WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Episode 989 - Allison Janney

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.629.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Allison Janney won an Oscar playing the mother of a figure skater, but when she was younger she actually wanted to be a figure skater. That dream was cut short by a freak accident as a teenager and her acting career didn’t really take off until she was 38. In between, she tells Marc how she became friends with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, took an aptitude test that told her to become a systems analyst, and was told by casting agents that she could only play lesbians or aliens. Allison also talks about the grueling shooting days on The West Wing, why her Oscar win was such a relief, and how a personal tragedy was part of the reason she did the show Mom. This episode is sponsored by TurboTax Live, the New York Times Crossword App, and Stamps.com.

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0:00.0

fucking gay!

0:09.2

Alright let's do this, how are you? What the fuckers? What the fuck buddies? What the fuck, Nick's what's happening?

0:15.7

I'm Mark Marin. This is my podcast.

0:18.4

WTF? Welcome to it. If you're new here, hang out for a minute, get to know some of the other people.

0:25.6

You don't have to- you know you can talk if you want

0:28.7

want you can talk back to me and to my guest while you're listening you can get mad you can

0:37.0

laugh do whatever you need to do just hang out and see if it works for you. I'm not everybody's

0:43.5

cup of tea but that's okay that's a weird thing about getting older or getting more comfortable.

0:51.4

I don't know but I'm not I'm not really competing with anybody anymore you know why because who gives

0:59.4

a fuck it takes too much energy to be jealous or compare yourself to other people because if you're

1:07.8

doing okay if you're just doing okay you're probably winning and I don't like to use the word

1:13.7

winning first I want to say that Allison Janney the Allison Janney Oscar award winning Allison

1:20.7

Janney they what are the most amazing actresses and presences is that a word presences

1:28.3

from the show she's on the show mom but you've seen her in many movies she's in the west wing

1:33.7

she's in she's been in a million things but Allison Janney is here all right hey look I've got some

1:38.7

announcements so a couple of big breakthroughs but mostly I'd like to tell the people of the UK

1:46.6

in Ireland that I'm coming there in April I'll be at the Lowry in Southford April 4th I'll be at

1:54.0

the Royal Festival Hall back in London April 6th I'll be at the Birmingham rep on April 8th and

2:02.6

on April 11th I'll be back in Dublin at Vickers Street you can go to wtfpod.com slash tour

2:10.6

for all the ticket info for the upcoming I think four or five more dates at the dynasty typewriter

2:16.8

here in Los Angeles through February those are Sundays at seven o'clock so they're they're

2:24.7

they're nicely positioned time wise for those of you who need to get sitters or whatnot those

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