Jumped on the podcast train early and mimicked NPR so well that he drew in a large hipster following.

I wonder if we could blame him for the "Trying to Be Funny By Acting Faggoty" Hipster Comedy fad.

Also, Workaholics

Marc Maron and Workaholics are two of the worst things in male comedy in the past 20 years.

Eventually all jews get a turn holding the celebrity stick.

Bespectacled sweater-wearing pseudointellectual urban dwellers between age 22-45 who want to find everything terribly interesting and enjoy coffee roasters, NPR, and the United States' National Soccer teams (both men's and women's).

Extremely accurate

The internet. He has attracted a fanbase of miserable liberal bores who find the idea of a man whining into a mic interesting.

He was on Air America for a little while with Sam Seder hosting a liberal themed talk show. They fired him. That's pretty much what led to his podcast career. With that said, I used to be as insufferable as him with respect to being a liberal, but after listening to his podcast for awhile I decided I no longer wanted to identify with people like him.

Air America went bankrupt. His podcast's first bunch of episodes were from the Air America studio.

I know his first podcasts were from the studio. He used to sneak in after he was fired. But he was fired before Air America went under.

Not really. I mean you can check out their wiki. He was fired by them twice but both were right along with them filing for bankruptcy & closing down. The reason him & Sam could "sneak" in with their passes into a corporate building was because no one was in their offices using the place. Air America was broadcasting syndicated shows the last couple of months in between releasing all the contracted talent & ultimately going off air completely. Marc has a way of taking a business he didn't own, going out of business very personally. "It was a HORRIBLE time. I had just been FIRED. I was thinking about ending it all. Then luckily Boomer & a microphone were THERE for me in my GARAGE."

How did calling shit "a thing" become "a thing" on this subreddit? Quit reading xojane, sista

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A complete lack of self awareness allowed him to just persevere in his attempts to be a comedian despite the fact he's unarguably talentless.

He has been around for ages and was always more popular than the O&A crowd of comics everyone loves. Not saying he was amazing, but he was a slight cut above the rest of the neurotic, angsty jew acts from around that period, most notably Richard Lewis.

He was a semi known NY comic. I wouldn't really call him more popular. He was just always in with the Alt-comic crowd of the early to mid-90s. So he was on Conan a lot, was with Garafalo, etc. The guy couldn't really tour before WTF podcast. Most of the first two years of that podcast was about how he was too interesting to entertain Middle America.

Marc Maron throughout the mid 90's to now was more popular than Jim Norton, Rich Vos, Patrice O'Neal, and Bob Kelly. Colin Quinn was more famous mostly because of SNL and probably MTV.

WTF podcast gave him the fame he has. He's an amazing interviewer.

He stinks as a comedian, but he is a great interviewer. He knows when to push the pace, and when to shut his mouth and let the other person talk. When he is with a strong personality such as a comedian, he has no problem letting them dominate the conversation. Or with a vapid actor he can push the pace.

Anybody I talk to who listens to WTF regularly says they pretty much skip his shitty opening monologue.

He's been around a while. He used to host Short Attention Span Theater on The Comedy Channel (now known as Comedy Central) back in the 90s.

Faggot Hipsters thats how

Honestly, Maron is very similar to Jimmy in the sense that him being sober and being in the program is a HUGE part of his identity as a comedian and pop culture figure.

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Hey WhatTheFuckers!!!

His goddamn podcast is insufferable. Im surprised the cockroaches in here said he's a great interviewer. He's the worst

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His tv show is a complete Louie ripoff as well.

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Has it ever occurred to you people that you are not the final authority on funny??? The pretentiousness of the bottom feeders that constitute the majority of this sub is mind boggling, considering the caliber of comedy that was the staple of the show this sub named after.

you are not the final authority on funny

yes i am

It's posts like these that only validate the "civilians don't understand" attitudes.

No he's awful.

his punchlines are presented as obvious observations that tricks insecure liberals into thinking he's clever or talented

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