Carol Leifer has been a standup comic for almost 50 years, but the knowledge she can impart from her lifetime of experience isn’t limited to the standup stage. That’s why Carol co-wrote the new book How to Write a Funny Speech, applying the building blocks of comedy to weddings, graduations and anywhere else one might speak in public. Carol and Marc talk about how to be funny at a memorial, her experience writing for the recent Oscars, and how she’s tapped into the current zeitgeist thanks to her teenage son. 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, welcome to it. I'm sitting here in my studio amongst random garbage, detritus of my life, a life's worth of detritus. I'm sorry, I've only been home a few days and I've been through a lot.
over the last couple of years kind of burning into that special that I taped on Saturday. And now right away it just picks up. Like, all right, what are we going to do for the marketing? What are we going to do for the ads? What do you like? Let's look at some pictures. What are we doing? Still coming down, man. But, you know, I don't... I'm making some progress, folks.
And it's progress in a mental health kind of way, I think. I've talked to you about it. I've been on that... I can't really tell if it works. I can kind of tell because something's happening. I can see the zone of my anxiety is somewhere in between who I am and the things I do to make myself crazy. Okay, some of those things are, you know, legit.
There's no reason not to feel anxiety about certain things if they should cause anxiety. But there is reason to perhaps not make it your life's work, which my life, it kind of is on some level, part of it. But I think the Busporn has given me a little space within who I really am now and what I've become now.
and whatever journey I've been on and the things I've overcome to make me who I am and the part of my brain that's just sort of like, nope, you're not him. And hey, how come we haven't done anything today to feel shitty about ourselves? We don't have to. I can still beat the shit out of you for no reason. You want to get hypercritical about, how about your special?
You remember that one line that you don't think went that well, even though they got two shows of it from nine different cameras and maybe if you have to do ADR, you can do it, but that doesn't matter because you fucked it up. You fucked it up. You fucked Fuck. All right, let's move through that one. Let's let that go. But, you know, it's always right there for you.
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