Ever-outspoken standup, actor, speak present staple, and “WTF with Marc Maron” host Marc Maron talked about his “nemesis” Jon Stewart on the NPR sequence “Wild Card with Rachel Martin.” Means again within the ’90s, Maron was considered one of Stewart’s successors as host of Comedy Central’s “Brief Consideration Span Theater,” which was canceled shortly after he took over. Maron, after all, went on to greater and higher issues, as did Stewart, however Maron mentioned that he wanted a rivalry to maintain going.
“I at all times have a nemesis… like most of that’s fueled by resentment, insecurity, jealousy, or no matter,” he defined. “It’s behavior and it’s the by no means ending kind of, you already know, wrestle in opposition to performing out of insecurity… or resentment, self-acceptance.”
For years, Maron continued, Stewart stuffed that position for Maron, since — as he remembers — “he had figured it out” when it got here to being a comic book. “I at all times used to assume it was simply ’trigger he dedicated to a haircut and… a means of presenting. However like, he was simply all over the place,” Maron mentioned. “And he was a standup however… he was all over the place… He was the king of the factor… politics, satire, no matter.”
Maron mentioned that he felt a whole lot of jealousy about Stewart’s success, and that the 2 even had confrontations about it and “aren’t pals.” He mentioned that Stewart “doesn’t significantly like” him. However Maron appears to place the onus of the stress on himself. “It was resentment,” he defined. “It was me being type of… small minded.”
Maron reached out to Stewart and tried to fix the fences when he recorded an episode of his eponymous podcast with comic Gallagher as a visitor in 2011.
“I reached out to him, and I keep in mind… he known as me again. I used to be in a lodge room in Portland,” Maron recalled. “And he goes, ‘Hey, you already know, it’s, it’s Jon Stewart.’ I’m like, ‘Hey man, the way you doing?’” Maron then proceeded to clarify the podcast he was doing and invited him to take part. Stewart replied, “I’m not doing that.”
“He mentioned, ‘Look, you already know, it’s like no matter you’re doing… there’s no love right here.’ After which he mentioned… ‘I’m certain what you’re doing could be very artistic, however… I’m simply — there’s no love right here.’ And I’m like, ‘Received it, dude.’ And uh yeah… so, I assume it was fairly artistic,” Maron mentioned.
Maron at present is buying a documentary a extremely private documentary function, “Are We Good?” The movie premiered at SXSW in March and performed Tribeca in June.
Stewart, in the meantime, continues to be main Comedy Central‘s “The Every day Present.” On July 17, he addressed the unsure way forward for the sequence, simply hours earlier than the announcement of the cancellation of “The Late Present with Stephen Colbert,” which airs on Paramount sister community CBS — and at present the corporate is making an attempt a merger with Skydance.
“Sadly, we haven’t heard something from them,” he mentioned on his podcast “The Weekly Present With Jon Stewart.” “They haven’t known as me and mentioned, ‘Don’t get too comfy in that workplace, Stewart.’ However let me let you know one thing, I’ve been kicked out of shittier institutions than that. We’ll land on our ft. I actually don’t know.”
