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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey the Aaron Johnny Mack with another commentary episode. I’m not gonna start doing this every day. I just had two things on my mind yesterday afternoon. I dropped one about Howard Stern.
Today is about Mark Maren and I’ve become just fascinated on comedy threads. It’s like people discovered Mark Maron exists. He’s the talk of Threads. You know, he’s been around. He’s had a podcast for sixteen years.
You could have listened. One of the interesting side effects of all this says people are rallying behind Mark Maren. I keep seeing tweets like this one. You like Mark Maron, now good, It’s deserved, but rewatch them. Jen Kirkman, she was basically blackballed for saying the same stuff over the years.
Another one, Mark Maron is great for calling out Edge Lord’s, but Jen Kirkman deserves way more credit. I mean fine. I know personally, I did a Jen Kirkman c K story once and she blocked me. So I don’t know w come out. Bell has a substack.
He wrote, there’s a new comedy sheriff in town. If you’re a comic, Mark Maron needs to know if you’ve been in the vicinity of Donald Trump love it. Bell writes about the bit from Maren’s current special about if Theovonne had hitler On as a guest. I don’t know if you’ve seen the special yet. It is fantastic.
Bell writes, that’s what I thought. This is it the resistance against fascist comedy finally goes mainstream. And it’s true. I’ve seen other like minded comics aka comics with minds celebrate Maren’s bit about THEO. As I type this, Mark Maren is a trending topic on threads.
Yes he is, he has been. Let me just see what’s going on right now. I’m gonna just search Mark Maron and see what people are saying here in top all right, just to bring this all together. And again, no script today, I’m just talking off the top of my head. Somebody named Sean Ryan Shark came at Jen Kirkman and wrote, thrilled you could make one of the most important moments in social media history about yourself, whoever you are.
Jen Kirkman wrote back, yes on my page, what a sin, sir. Please go back to your male lonely epidemic. You do not have the critical thinking skills for my post. Mark is a friend of mine and he would agree with me not you enjoy your weekend, whoever you are. Apparently my post is doing well where I wrote It’s a shame Mark Maron only started podcasting last week.
People seem to like what the guy has to say. If you’re on threads, I’m at Daily Comedy News, Jen Kirkman again. Sorry, I’m all over the place again. No script today? Was I blackballed?
I don’t want to spread false things. Maybe definitely harassed into PTSD better now and I’ve learned how to talk stuff online and make it fun. I honestly think I was mostly just ignored. But I do think Mark makes a bigger impact because he’s more in the clubs with those guys. I always avoided them, so no one wants to hear from the chick who never occupied the same literal space.
Mark Maron has a pretty big podcast and he’s out promoting a product on HBO. That’s why people are paying attention. Sean of Killy Posts. Mark Marin is arguably the inventor of comedian interview podcast and the dude going scorched earth on a lot of the people he influenced, but who’ve used the medium in the worst hackish way on the way out is kind of awesome. Jennifer right, smart man is right.
Comedy used to be observational, introspective, and rooted in real emotion, bringing relatability and catharsis to the masses. Now it’s protein shakes, peacocking and prepubescent punchlines for clicks. Alice Waterland, comedian posted, don’t get me wrong, I’m glad Mark is doing his thing with an A, but being vocal about this stuff has probably negatively affected my career and has certainly affected my mental health.
And now everyone is having a much needed conversation we’ve been begging you …
It’s the way it works. I wouldn’t change a thing I ever said or did anyway. W camal Bell posts Maren has specifically chosen comedy podcasts that are friendly with the Trumpedians. He then plays a clip from Bad Friends. I played that same clip on the main show the other day, but since I have it here, I will play it.
He’s talking about somebody in Austin. Some people think it’s Joe Rogan. As he’s running half the planet out of Texas. Yeah, he’s got a tight hold on the enlightened me, said. Dude, Maren’s disdain.
It’s not a it’s reasonable criticism, reasonable criticism. Ye, what do you think the Austin shelf life is going to be? Well, you don’t know, Like I think that it’s so effectively tribalized at this point it really comes down to material I mean, at what point, like, at what point it’s like whatever they represented in terms of policy, and it’s not a stretch. It’s like they won trans people are frightened. They have no ability to get healthcare anymore, and they’re afraid of being alive and have no freedom left.
So that’s done. When do you stop with the jokes unless you’re a hack bell? Right, So, I’m old enough to remember the East Coast Rappers versus West Coast Rappers beef of the nineties. This feels like that, you know, I think he just kind of nailed it. Comedy comes in all forms, and some people like Maren, some people like Rogan.
I like both. I’m also a free thinker. I listen to things and I go, huh interesting, where I go that’s stupid? And I decide for myself personally, I thought Mark Marin Special was really funny. I thought the theo Vaughn Bitt was really good.
As I’ve talked about guys like Andrew Schultz being like, I can’t believe Trump lied. Yeah you think. I mean, I know, I’m supposed to go down in the middle myself and you’re not. At l and A. People want to hear Schultz say that.
I’m just like, really, dude, Bell writes, Maren is the perfect person to take on the Trump Medians and the entire Rogan sphere. No one can question Mark’s comedy bonafides. He started a stand up career in the late eighties and he take no prisoners comedy scene of Boston. If Mark Maron wants to be the sheriff of America’s twenty twenty five comedy scene, then we’re lucky to have him. That’s it, no real conclusion.
I’m just fascinated by everyone just being like, oh, this Mark Myron guy has a lot to say, you think, uh yeah, And you know, Mark’s wonderful. I’m going to miss his podcast. I’d love to get him as a guest someday that I have no chance right now. If he’s doing the top shelves. But maybe you know, in eighteen months after he’s been on a little while and he’s doing something quiet, or maybe get down a movie junket or something.
I would love to talk to him just in general what I would I didn’t want to talk comedy with him. I’ve listened to him. I speak on his own podcast about living in Queens. That’s what I want to talk to him about. I did throw deep one day.
I have an old email from my days. It’s sirious, and I just was like, hey, gonna take a shot here. I did not hear back. All right, that’s a little extra commentary for today. Back in the Morning with a normal episode.