![]() Podcasting is still a new thing, and there are still many more people not listening to podcasts than listening to them. “I don’t know about TV,” he says, “but terrestrial radio is certainly taking a hit. That’s success by any measure, but Maron expresses doubts that new media shows like WTF might do to TV talk shows what has done to brick-and-mortar booksellers. Maron won’t say what he makes for an episode, but a February 2012 profile on reported that it was as much as $15,000. Every episode is sponsored, many by or Comedy Central. Maron’s online venture is remarkable in another way: it makes real money. And starting the first week of May, he will play himself in a half-hour television series on the Independent Film Channel (IFC). Since launching his twice-weekly podcast from his garage in 2009, he has become a Renaissance man in the comedy world, as well as something more interesting: a new media talk show host, whose searing candor attracts millions of listeners-2.5 million to 3 million downloads a month-figures that often make him number one on the iTunes comedy chart. Maron’s days of struggling in gritty or far-flung venues are long gone. And they’d give you a map and $75, and you’d travel anywhere from 25 to 500 miles in your car to do a two-man show and open for one of these guys. ![]() “When I started doing comedy around here,” says Maron (CAS’86), who lives in Los Angeles, “basically what you would do is you’d get about 25 minutes of material and then you get booked through an agency. The last time Maron was in Boston, he was a fresh-faced comic commuting from New York City to open for top-shelf comics like Jimmy Tingle and Tony V, both of whom share the stage with him this January night in 2012, in a performance whose crowd magnet is clearly Maron himself. “The worst memories in my life are in this town,” he cracks, explaining his discomfort. No one has anything bad to say about Lynn Shelton, that’s for fucking sure.MARC MARON is sitting on stage in a crowded Wilbur Theatre in Boston, hosting a live version of his wildly popular podcast WTF with Marc Maron, and feeling, for someone who makes a living revealing painful personal flaws, strangely exposed. And I did that…And now this process is happening. ![]() Maron continued, “They let me into the hospital after she died to spend some time with her. I called 9-1-1 and they got her…They tried very hard at two hospitals, they were amazing. “We were going to go to the doctor for blood tests on Friday and in the middle of the night I heard her collapse in the hallway on her way to the bathroom,” Maron said. Shelton’s fever did not break for several days, so Maron pushed for a return trip to the doctor. Maron said Shelton then consulted her doctor online from home and the two of them continued to treat the illness as if it was a normal bout of strep throat. Maron said last week that he and Shelton initially believed that the filmmaker had strep throat, though she was also tested for Covid-19, though her results came back negative. Marc Maron Claims ‘Awful’ ‘To Leslie’ Distributor ‘Botched’ Awards Run Before Riseborough’s Oscar Nom ![]() … I was able to exist in a place of self-acceptance because of her love for me. I was so comfortable with this person, with Lynn Shelton. I was getting used to love in the way of being able to accept it and show it properly in an intimate relationship. “I don’t know that I had ever felt what I felt with her before. And she loved me, and I knew that,” Maron said at the beginning of the episode. ![]() The bulk of Maron’s latest “WTF” podcast episode is a rebroadcast of his 2015 interview with Shelton, but the host prefaces the conversation with a heartbreaking tribute to the late indie director. The pair, creative and romantic partners, most recently collaborated on Shelton’s 2019 comedy-drama “Sword of Trust,” starring Maron as a pawn shop owner trying to sell a sword that allegedly proves the South won the Civil War. Marc Maron has devoted the entirety of the May 18 episode of his “WTF” podcast to remembering Lynn Shelton, the beloved independent filmmaker who passed away May 16 from an unidentified blood disorder. ![]()
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