Marc Maron could interview extra Hollywood A-listers than anybody within the enterprise. His massively standard podcast, WTF with Marc Maron, was on the bottom ground of the podcast craze, and within the course of cornered a large a part of the market when it got here to each comedy and superstar interviews. Nevertheless, podcasts weren’t at all times accepted as a professional type of leisure, and Maron just lately informed me an amazing story about Bryan Cranston and Jon Hamm exhibiting as much as file in his storage.
I just lately caught up with Maron to debate his new HBO comedy particular From Bleak To Darkish. When reflecting on the early days of his now-famous podcast, he mentioned this:
You realize, there are moments within the driveway, you understand, strolling into the storage again within the day. They’re at all times form of humorous at the start as a result of, you understand, as a result of podcasting was comparatively new and most of the people had not been to Highland Park. So I received a variety of pretty huge stars going, ‘The place the hell am I?’ … I keep in mind when (Bryan) Cranston was coming in, he was kind of like, ‘What is that this?’ And I am like, ‘Hamm was right here, I had Jon Hamm,’ and he was like, ‘Oh, Hamm did it? OK.’
So it sounds just like the Hamm seal of approval made Bryan Cranston really feel extra snug about venturing into Marc Maron’s storage. As of late, in fact, we will assume that the comic has a extra professional studio, however again then, garages had been an ordinary podcasting location.
Maron should have made loads of mates within the business, as these are some large names to be getting within the early days. It is smart that Jon Hamm could be down, because the actor notoriously doesn’t take himself too significantly. He famously gave up an enormous chunk of his Fletch wage to verify the film received made, and he nearly fired his brokers after they advised Prime Gun: Maverick was under his pay grade. Bryan Cranston is, in fact, additionally a beloved actor, who has a lot to watch on streaming in the event you’re a fan of the Breaking Dangerous star.
As for Maron, he has a lot occurring exterior of podcasting. He just lately starred within the Academy Award-nominated movie To Leslie, which fortunately you may stream now. His efficiency even acquired props from main stars like Kate Winslet, regardless of the awards snubs. Hell, he even got here near showing in Avatar: The Approach Of Water, and dropped some F-bombs reflecting on it in basic Maron trend.
Regardless of all of this success, he’ll at all times be a stand-up comedian at the start, and you’ll see his model new particular From Bleak To Darkish on HBO Max proper now (opens in new tab)! When you nonetheless haven’t signed up, we’ve the lowdown on subscribing to HBO Max.
