The PRCM Show: Scorching the Earth with Marc Maron

I first spoke with comedy legend Marc Maron in May of last year when I covered The Stand Uppity Tour which featured Maron, Andy Kindler and Eugene Mirman. At the time I was thrilled but nervous about interviewing Maron because of his onstage persona. I was afraid he was going to yell at me.

He didn’t. In fact was one of the nicest, most open and down to earth entertainers that I’ve worked with and that interview is still one of my all time favorites. At the time, Marc Maron was in the midst of a sort of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder- having been left by his wife and was covered by the shadow of an inevitable divorce.

Since then he has partnered up with Sam Seder for a live daily webshow called “The Break Room Live” (Maron v Seder) which airs every day at 3pm central on Air America. The show is amazing and hysterical, Marc sits surrounded by his vices- coffee, nicotine, his blackberry and talks about ideas and ‘isms’ and the state of the collective human consciousness or lack thereof. Meanwhile Sam, who honestly has more political and historical information stored in his brain than any human I’ve seen except maybe James Lipton, shoots Maron the occasional “OK you’re cuckoo” look and sticks closely to facts and figures. What you have is a right brain v. left brain situation that is delightful to behold.

Marc Maron has also created a work- always- in- flux one man show called “Scorching the Earth” which centers around the loss of his wife, the divorce and his feelings of abandonment, betrayal, anger, love and grief. The show has received rave reviews, with audience members actually thanking Maron for the experience. That’s what “Scorching the Earth” is, more so than a stand up routine, it is an experience that the audience shares with Maron and that experience changes as Maron moves through the stages of reconciling what has happened to him.

Over the past several months Marc Maron has become a dear friend of mine. When he found out it was just going to be the two of us doing the show he said, “Well shit Amanda, it’s just going to sound like us talking on the phone!”. But I asked him some hard questions and there are some uncomfortable moments where his voice gets soft and he touches on some of the pain that he’s going through and he drifts through memories that have become metaphors for his life and his relationship with his ex-wife. During this interview you will experience Marc the comedian and Marc the man whose heart is broken, and somewhere in between you will get a taste of “Scorching the Earth”.

Marc will be performing “Scorching the Earth” every Sunday this Month at 7pm at The Green Room on Bleecker St. in NYC. Go here for tickets or call 212- 253- 5555 for more information. (sponsored by Punchline Magazine)

Don’t forget to watch “The Break Room Live” everyday at 3pm.

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