![]() "You should rethink this." And I did and I stopped doing it.Īudio interview produced and edited by: Lauren Krenzel and Thea Chaloner.Īudio interview adapted to NPR.org by: Bridget Bentz and Molly Seavy-Nesper. And those were the consequences, that is the dialogue. So I have taken the risks and I have honored the feedback. And I was schooled on that, that it's not about the people who are mentally challenged or intellectually challenged or whatever the correct word is now, it's really about everyone who loves that person and everyone in that family that when you say the R-word, it hurts all the people who have someone in their life who has those challenges. I had been called out for a trans joke years ago. I've been in that zone, when I was a younger comic, and I would definitely say insensitive jokes, but I also thought there was some craft to them. ![]() and it doesn't matter how shocking it is. There was a time in my life where I was of the belief that you should be able to joke about anything. On receiving feedback about jokes that were considered offensive and changing his material Like, the idea that the audience has been sitting in my void for an hour - in my mind, it didn't really land, but to me it was a fairly profound poetic truth. It's 99.9% Ashkenazi void and you've all been sitting in it for an hour.". I found out that my void began in the chest of a tailor's wife in Belarus in the 1800s. The idea is that if you have an emotional void where your heart should be, it will pass down through generations and I say, "You can track your void on 23 & Me. On his favorite joke in the special, about his generational trauma The people that really get the best of me are audiences that I walk away from. But I'm so terrified of it and guarded in certain ways. I'm still trying to let myself love in a way just to have a relationship. But I have sort of a difficult time experiencing love with humans in general. And I think that there's something about the selflessness necessary and the type of love that's available there that I'll never experience. I think that there is something that stifles my emotional growth because I don't have kids. I don't know why would I need someone in my house telling me that every couple of days? I can't present myself as some emotional wizard or some psychologically stable person in terms of relationships. ![]() So I don't know what that means about me. By the end of any day, I feel like I've had a pretty full day by myself and a pretty satisfying day generally by myself. I play guitar, I listen to records, and then I'm interviewing people for the podcast. Marcus David Maron (born September 27, 1963) is an American stand-up comedian, podcaster, writer, actor, and musician. I like doing little things around the house. Sometimes I'll cook for hours just for myself or for the woman I'm seeing now. I'll shop at two or three supermarkets a day. People ask me, "Why don't you get a personal assistant?" I'm like, "Well, what would I do with my life?" I mean, I like going to the post office.
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