Mark Maroun not to get a “panic” while talking about the truth to power (as well as Ashis comedians and PodCasters)

Mark Maroun It has a hot summer, literally and professionally.

The comedian and actor is the axis of the documentary, Are we good?It was just captured for the theatrical distribution this fall after making the festival circle this year in both SXSW and Tribeca.

He also participated in the stars alongside Owen Wilson in the Apple TV+golf comedy. TearWhat happened just It was renewed for the second season About links. It also performs tours as part of the large moving screen, Bayers 2And he took a well -deserved curtain call on the podcast that helped him to hack greatly 16 years ago, WTF with Mark Maron.

As for the comedy fans, it is scheduled to release his sixth, and the second for HBO, Mark Maroun: panicFriday. I sat with him over Zoom recently to talk about the distinguished, about the playing host of the late radio dialogue Alan Berg in ArrangementThe importance of speaking the truth to power now.

Resolution: Great special. congratulations.

Maron: Oh, good. This looked serious and without hesitation. Thank you, my friend.

I’m honest now!

I know. It is a new shun.

Progress, not perfection. When talking about that, how do you feel you do personally when it comes to entertainment? I know that you talked a little about it in the hour, and it seems that you felt more nascent when you were pretending to be a different comic.

Oh really? The “anti -mothers” man?

Whether the Thyu von or Alaska glykis Alaska, in both cases you are the most animation.

Yes, it’s interesting. Because I am very familiar with the structure with these things and there are a lot of things in this elegant. When I think about it, I am talking to people on this topic and I see what bits are landing on it. Then I realized like, my God, there is a lot there. I mean, you have downloaded this thing. It could have been two special offers. But I think you are right. But I think the speed, the shift in the speed, there. I think I am in many different forms. As in the opening decisions. I see it more in the actions of the actions now, some of these special offers, just as I converted my dialect to political things. So he was a little more conversation unlike. Then somewhat, find a maneuvering room to make fun of the left and also achieve my points. It was difficult because it is easy to speak like this, and if you feed the anger to make it unattractive. But I was very careful about these things because I wanted everyone to be. So I was aware of that.

And then when I did fun stories, I played them. Just as I was all at that old pace that I used to own all the time, which was a little obsession, because I thought the story required it. Then when it goes down. Then I withdrew. And I believe that the reason is that these two things are talking about, whether the thyo, which I think I am better now (as impersonation on the stage), but after it is too late. And an anti -sex children’s sexy man, is that there is space for it. Like when it was closed in these, the surrounding space is very deliberate. So they highlight a lot, as you know, but yes, it is fun.

Resolution: I mentioned that it is less severe. So I am curious to know. I ask this not to break any kind of tradition, but only to use the common languages that we have and translated into real life: Do you also feel that you, at the age of 61, are transferred from deacon bleeding to the older statesman, in terms of comedy?

I think I feel more comfortable or comfortable as I felt. I think I was really closed with this special than any of them, which is growth, which is good. As if I was not even doing the things I do to make myself crazy without anxiety or anything else.

I felt that the production design was very beautiful and deliberate. The theater was very intended. I had a relationship with all these things. My clothes were very intended. There was nothing that was not part of what I was trying to do. Regarding deacon bleeding, well, I think I am less angry in terms of where it comes from. I think there was a part of me, I will not say the position of situations, but, as you know, due to the insecurity or a certain amount of fear, or anger only. I had no significant control over this on a way I thought this is what it should be. With the passage of years and after another special, From dark to darkThe type of creativity area that opened for me, which was a very dark but deep vulnerability, gave me a different place to work from it. So I think the older statesman, I think I am more comfortable in my view. I realized, and that was really aware of about a week before the registration, that if the gateway came out of the gate and similarly, in an attempt to get this angry point, as you know, this is strange. As you know, it is generally alienated. I was this man in general, too, in life. So it was just a simple disk to make it a conversation because we live, all of us, regardless of who you are politically, in the same reality. It is very difficult to have no kind of fatigue, either afraid, or if you are on the other side of it, it is exciting for it, but it is crazy. So as soon as I closed in the fact that all of this is crazy. Just let us, right? Contrary to admiration, this is a ridiculous thing, as you know, like that, but he was aware. So I mean, I think I will take the oldest man, although I get a little bleeding from the deacon that was recently about the state of comedy if I left to speak for a long time.

But as I and others have noticed, it is great that someone from your position is ready to do this because many people are not.

Yes. I mean, I do this in ways that are not, in one way or another between me and Brendan (McDonald, his podcast producer) and I, without Brendan, to be dragged into the broader cultural dialogue of division. And only, as you know, become a kind of wrestling match.

So the way I do on my terms, whether I write about it or talk about it without mentioning the names and things that may disturb people who have a Clickbait brain or the dwarf side. But yes, I was very frank and before the curve on it too, because many of them began to bail a little.

right. It seems that you were taking your own advice that you were giving with progressive progress in that you will not be a bowl.

Well, yes, I think it is difficult because it becomes clear, as I said in the distinguished, that there is no unified ideology and depends on politics. So the fact that they call everyone the liberal left or anything else, I mean, it is a good thing like calling the name, but most people are alone. They have very specific things they are excited. Whether it will make a difference in the end, just not related to real political action, I do not know. But this is what they chose to determine their personality in terms of their battle. And I think there is a way to talk about it in a wider way that is not impossible.

Also, I will be limited if I do not mention your distinguished role in the movie ArrangementIt is great. What did you take from the imaging experience in terms of, you play a realistic man who was very frank about the danger that was there.

The danger that took his life in the end was not even on his radar. But he was a young man who believed in democracy, and a man who believed in a kind of social tolerance and justice. But he was an interesting man. I knew about him before I presented this role. They gave me the role and said, Do you want to play Alan Berg? And I said, from the other will play it?

It is in your home.

Yes, it is a moving house. It was interesting because I was able to manufacture the appearance because I got a beard and was able to make my hair. There is not much of it is available to listen to it. But I got a feeling of it. And I think it was important for me to be part of this film, in this role, just clarifying the risks there, because now there are one hundred orders or 500 requests, and it is almost overwhelming.

Do you feel better about it now?

about what?

About real life?

no! I mean, every day overwhelming. This is part of the dumping plan. It becomes very difficult to divide, in general. So you can live a life without worry if you have some psychological tendency, as you know, as you know, you know, panic, anxiety or rational thought.

So it is anxiety mania, as you say.

Yes, this is what I am concerned, but I feel okay today. I didn’t sleep well, so I’m a little tired, sometimes helps.

Especially reaching a full day of the press. Yes, I appreciate your time. Did your reaction or exaggerate his reaction during the fires in Los Angeles in January?

Well, I think. I mean, I find that when I am on the wall, I can usually close and do what to do. But also, I don’t know how to deal with it because it seems that the authoritarian problem is different from the climate problem. I mean, the only thing you realize when these things happen, but in the end you go to a specific denial of adaptation is that this will not stop happening, especially with the climate. So yes, this is the new reality. And you have to take life options around it, you are like, I must get out of here. But then, as you know, passes half a year, the year passes. You are like, well, well, may not be this bad this year. As you know, you are doing what you should do, to adapt and survive. With tyranny. I don’t know. I think we will see how far things go, but the whole thing is in its place as he wants. I really don’t know how to deal with it unlike going day after day, as you know, and I hope they will not come to me.

Mark Maroun: The first panic show on Friday, August 1 on HBO and HBO Max.