When Marc first met Andy Blitz during the rise of the alt-comedy scene in New York City, Andy still thought show business was magical. And why wouldn’t he? As he tells Marc, he was a kid who grew up in the rough East Village of the 1970s and found himself dealing with depression and panic attacks in college. Andy talks about how his days at Luna Lounge paved the way for his job as a writer and sketch performer on Conan, and how that in turn opened doors for writing on shows like Human Giant, Review and Master of None. Sign up here for WTF+ to get the full show archives and weekly bonus material! https://plus.acast.com/s/wtf-with-marc-maron-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Alright, let's do this. How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fuck nicks, what's happening? I'm Marc Maron, this is my podcast again. How are you? Thank you for all the feedback recently. It seems that everybody enjoyed the Dwight Yoakam. I knew that was a good talk and I knew that was a good record. Sometimes, you know, it all just comes together.
Have a good time, talk about the stuff. Today on the show I talked to Andy Blitz. Blitz is a guy I have known for a long time. He was a regular at the Luna Lounge back in the day. I kind of used to see him around. He has a very specific tone, a very specific speed, a very specific personality. But he was definitely present during that time in the mid 90s in New York City.
And, you know, sometimes I like to reflect and reconnect. And I... I had seen Andy around occasionally, but he's kind of a mysterious character. But I thought, well, hell, let's get him in here after all these years and have a conversation. So he was working at Conan for years as a writer and he was in a lot of sketches. He's written for television a lot since then. You know, he told me he's...
He's going to be working on this new late night show. They call it Late Night, starring Jason Kelsey. That's going to be on Friday nights in January on ESPN. He's also writing for Ted on Peacock. And he's connected into the fabric of the great comedy blanket that I'm knitting. I'm at Largo in LA tomorrow night, Friday, December 13th, for a comedy and music show.
For those of you, I don't even know if there's tickets for that, but I can give you the song list. I can tell you what me and my late boomer slash Gen X cusp band are doing. I don't even know how old most of them are. I don't know how old anybody is. But the song list for tomorrow, I think we're going to do Stepping Out, the Blues Breakers version, so me and Jason can...
play guitar cool and then we're gonna do what goes on by the velvet underground which is a favorite of mine and i just played it in new york so it's still in my head we're gonna do going going gone uh the bob dylan song which i find is very um relevant to my place in life now i think we're gonna do carmelita the warren zevon song because we enjoyed playing that before then we might step out on a limb
und versuche, Lust for Life von Iggy Pop zu machen, was leicht klingt, aber es ist sehr schwer für mich, diesen Beat zu halten, während ich singe. Wir werden sehen. Es ist entweder das oder Call Me The Breeze, die Lynyrd Skynyrd-Version der J.J. Cale-Song. Dann glaube ich, wir werden New Speedway Boogie machen. Das ist eine Grateful Dead-Song. Wie viele sind das?
Das scheint die meisten, nicht wahr? Das scheint eine gute Auswahl von Tönen zu sein. Well, I feel like there's one other one. God damn it. But yeah, so we're gonna, that's what we're doing. Friday night, I'm gonna do comedy. Fahim Anwar is gonna do comedy. I'm not sure who the other comic will be. We'll find out.
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