W. Kamau Bell and Marc are similar comedians in that neither of them will ignore the current political environment in their acts. Kamau and Marc talk about how that’s shaping up today versus how it was during the first Trump administration and what they each feel about the balance between civic responsibility and entertainment. They also talk about Kamau’s decision to play the Kennedy Center despite the Trump takeover, his five year break from comedy, and what happened after he released his documentary about Bill Cosby. 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? I'm Marc Maron, this is my podcast WTF, welcome to it. We're still going, we're still happening. So many years, so many episodes into this thing. I'm in a hotel room. I'm in a weird old kind of, it's not musty, but I would say it's complicated.
It's a strangely complicated hotel here in San Antonio, Texas, right on the Riverwalk. I can open up my window, step out onto a balcony and see just parades of tourists just trudging along down the Riverwalk. And it's weird to be back in San Antonio. I don't feel like I've been here for a while. And I've got some memory. It's an odd thing when you've been doing comedy as long as I have.
That every town you go to that you've been to more than once in your life doing comedy over the arc of your comedy career is somewhat of a trauma trigger. Because at different points in your life you have a different set of fears and panic and professionalism. And there's definitely some major trauma triggers here in San Antonio, Texas for me. There's a couple of good times.
I think if you go back in the catalog, I don't remember... Which episode it was. It might be the Lucas Melandes episode. We were out in the world, wandering around San Antonio. I think we went to the Alamo. And then we ended up at some Conjuto music festival. That was one of the better times. But really early on, man, they used to have this club here called the River Center Comedy Club.
And I remember when it opened. I can't even put a year on it. It must be... Ich weiß nicht, aber als sie es geöffnet haben, war alles hochwertig, Mann. Es war wie, das ist ein heißer, neuer Club und wir haben dir einen heißen, neuen, modernen Kondos zu bleiben. Und es war einfach das Beste. Und dann, Jahre später, ging ich zurück und niemand kam mehr in den Club und der Kondo war Garbage.
Es war nicht mal der gleiche Kondo. Comedy-Kondos sind, jemand sollte ein Dokumentar über diese Erfahrung machen. Because once a condo has been around for a while and enough monsters and comics and weirdos have come through over the years, you might not want to sit on that leather couch. Certainly you don't want to open anything in the refrigerator.
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