The podcast WTF by Marc Maron is a delight. Marc Maron is a stand-up comedian with lots of experience, contacts and friends in the comedy world. He interviews celibrities, friends, and comic geniuses, and digs into their personal lives. His interview style is up-close and personal which is made possible by his own disclosures and self-analysis. Maron is a very talented figure who might have missed the best opportunities in his career by being psychologically challenged. It is possible that it took him too much time to straighten himself out for him to succesfully make the best of his many talents. In any case, that does not stop him from being fantastically entertaining in his interviews, his telephone calls to family and friends, his comments on regional peculiarities in the States, on recent political developments, and on his relationship to life, work, love and comedy. His podcast aims, amongst many other things, to paint a landscape of comedy, american and international, stand-up and otherwise. He also informs the listener of the various professional steps necessary towards success and points out many pitfalls of varying type.
Indeed, Maron's podcast becomes extremely interesting when listened to as a guide to mistakes one should not make in attempting to be succesful in any enterprise. It is a perfect illustration to the tragedy of talent, the fading of resentment, and the fruition of an original viewpoint on adulthood, life and how to contribute to society in a most original and uplifting manner.
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