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Since 2009, WTF with Marc Maron has been one of the most widely
listened to and influential podcasts in the country. Each week over
a million and a half listeners tune in to hear Marc and a guest do
something remarkable: talk. Described as a "must-listen" by the New
York Times, WTF perfects the lost art of conversation while
attracting guests as varied and prominent as Amy Schumer, Jerry
Seinfeld, and even President Barack Obama. In the course of more
than 700 hours of conversation, Marc Maron and his incredible
roster of guests have tackled life's most pressing issues and
deepest concerns. Waiting for the Punch is not simply a collection
of these interviews, but instead a running narrative of the world's
most recognisable names working through the problems, doubts, joys,
triumphs, and failures we all experience. With chapters covering
parenting, childhood, relationships, and more, Punch is an
everyman's guide to life. Barack Obama candidly discusses the
challenges of the presidency, and the bittersweet moments of seeing
your children grow up and away from you. Robin Williams opens up
about the burdens of fame and his struggles with addiction. Taken
together, these voices form a chorus discussing both life's biggest
questions, and smallest, most intimate moments. Full of stories
that are at once laugh-out-loud funny, heart breakingly honest,
joyous, tragic and powerful.
"There is nothing funnier than wrong when it is done right. Jim
does it right." -- Marc Maron "That's Jim, the cloud guy. The guy
whose book of fake obituaries has now made me unable to consider
eating chicken again." -- Rachel Maddow Mourning Remembrance is a
collection of mocking obituaries based on the lives, and deaths, of
real people. It's 276 pages of relentless insensitivity for the
whole family Created by Jim Earl, Emmy and Peabody Award winning
comedy writer and former staff writer at the Daily Show with Jon
Stewart. Mourning Remembrance celebrates the legacies of all those
dead individuals whose accomplishments spanned the spectrum from
the harmlessly stupid, to the horribly evil, and helped transform
our lives into the Orwellian nightmare it is today. Cover art by
Tony Millionaire, and illustrated throughout by Nathan Smith.
This is an irreverent and punishingly funny memoir about love,
addiction, and failure from the host of the wildly popular WTF
podcast. It is a story about the wild interior life of a grown-up
facing the black chasm of failure and finding a way, however
crazily, through it all, told with Maron's trademark wit, honesty,
absurdism, and occasional flights of genius.
The Gospel according to Maron: a spiritual memoir of your average hyperintelligent, ultraneurotic, superhip Jewish standup comedian and seeker.
The Jerusalem Syndrome is a genuine psychological phenomenon that often strikes visitors to the Holy Land_the delusion that they are suddenly direct vessels for the voice of God. Marc Maron seems to have a distinctly American version of the Jerusalem Syndrome, which has led him on a lifelong quest for religious significance and revelation in the most unlikely of places.
Maron riffs on Beat phenomena with its sacred texts, established rituals, and prescribed pilgrimages. He spends some time exploring the dark side of things, as his obsessions with cocaine (known to Maron as “magic powder”), conspiracy theories, and famous self-destructive comedians convince him that the gates of hell open beneath Los Angeles. As his quest matures, he reveals the religious aspects of Corporate America, pontificating on the timeless beauty of the Coca-Cola logo and even taking a trip to the Philip Morris cigarette factory, where the workers puff their own products with a zealot-like fervor. The culmination of Maron’s Jerusalem Syndrome comes during his own tour of the Holy Land, where, with Sony camcorder glued to his eye socket, he comes face-to-face with his own ambiguous relationship to Judaism and reaches the brink of spiritual revelation_or is it nervous breakdown?
Marc Maron has considerably adapted and expanded his praised one-man show to craft a genuine literary memoir. Whether he’s a genuine prophet or a neurotic mess, he’ll make you laugh as you question the meaning of life.
“Marc Maron is blazingly smart, rapid-fire, and very funny . . . A brilliant and relentless screed.” –David Rakoff, author of Fraud
“Marc Maron is the first crazy person I’ve ever envied. In his brainiac-memoir-meets-hilarious-travelogue, he demonstrates the ability to tell a story with an extraordinary provocative intelligence that is regrettably shared by few.” _ Janeane Garofolo, comedian
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