![]() Today on the show I talk to the wonderful Constance Zimmer who played my girlfriend in the premiere episode of ‘Maron’ this season. Not that I paid very much attention to continuity issues that second show but we’ll see. All I know is we’ll have a lot to choose from. I think I nailed it first show and the second show was pretty free form. The audiences for both shows, give or take a drunk lady, were amazing. What a beautiful thing to have two great independent filmmakers working on my special. And he’s going to edit the stuff he shot. It was great to have him around and shooting and talking before the show. It was really just me and Joe wandering in the basement/dressing room area before both shows. We hadn’t really conceived of a way to bookend the special and we thought that would be amazing if he wanted to. ![]() I said not only should he do that but he should ask him if he wants to grab a camera and shoot backstage. The night before the special Bobcat asked if he should reach out to Joe Swanberg and see if he wanted to come. I flew to Chicago the next day and spent the day doing soundcheck and interviews and gearing up. I felt gross because of all the food but I think I need a little self-hate to fuel the machine. It was good to stretch out and do the hour plus again. Had an amazing show at Playhouse Square and ate some very rich food at The Greenhouse Tavern which was also amazing. Ate some heavy deep dish pizza, crashed, then flew to Cleveland. I flew to Chicago on just to do a walk through of the venue because I had never been there. Then I started to panic about the special. I was in NYC shooting the pilot for the VICE Portraits series I’m hosting. EPIX hired a set designer, Bobcat got a crew together and it all came together in a matter of weeks. I had never been to The Vic but I knew that people had shot specials there before. Bobcat Goldthwait was available to direct and we got on it. I could’ve waited and done it after the tour proper but we just made it happen. In other words, it was kind of an afterthought. We chose to shoot in Chicago after the tour dates were already in place. So, this process of moving toward the special has been relatively fast. Please check the calendar for exact dates and come see the show! The taping of the EPIX special went amazingly well at The Vic Theater in Chicago.īefore I get into that whole story I want to make sure the people of Red Bank, NJ, Huntington, NY, Port Chester, NY and their surrounding areas know that I am coming their way toward the end of this month. He came by to do a short one to promote a couple of things and we ended up doing a long one. On Thursday I have a rare return guest for the whole show in Judd Apatow. He’s been bugging me for a while and we just couldn’t get it together. On Monday I finally sit down with Godfrey. I’ve snorkeled, hiked, eaten, freaked out, been blown away, napped, read, recorded on the beach, saw turtles, almost threw up, took a few pics (check marcmaron on Instagram) and basically tried to level off a bit. I’ll tell you a little bit about my vacation. I hope to see some of you in Red Bank, NJ, Huntington, NY, Port Chester, NY, BAM Opera House BKLYN, Boulder and Denver,CO and the shows in Portland, OR. I’m not sure I feel like doing this right now. I will talk a bit about the aftermath, both immediately following the talk with Obama and after it posted. On Thursday my producer, Brendan McDonald, and I will share our reactions to the event and talk about how it happened and the lead up to the interview. We will post the entire interview with the President today. I would like to say this: Whatever your politics are or whatever your opinions may be and however you think you would have handled it, I just have to tell you it is an overwhelming and beautiful experience, as an American, to meet and talk to the President of the United States. It was an amazing and a completely bizarre experience. I shake my head and well up with emotion. I have moments when I’m just doing something during the day and a shudder runs through me in flash of excitement over the monumental fact that I hung out with the President and had a conversation with him in my garage. I still can’t really wrap my head around it or believe it happened. IT WAS INSANE! The conversation wasn’t insane. I sat with the President and talked to him for an hour. As some of you may know, last Friday, June 19th, 2015, Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States of America, came to my house to talk to me in my garage for today’s episode of WTF.
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