Episode 1480 - Doug Stanhope / Louis Katz

**Marc Maron** (0:00)
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All right, let's do this. How are you, WTFers, WTF buddies, WTFniks? What's happening? I'm Marc Maron, this is my podcast. Welcome to it. How's it going?
Today's an exciting show.
It's another comedian double header.
Both of these guys have been on before.
They're back, because I like talking to both of them.
Louis Katz is a comedian who was working with me pretty regularly right before the launch of WTF in 2009 He's been on the show several times since then, including a full length episode in 2019 and a live episode back in 2010 And he's releasing a new comedy special on his YouTube channel tonight. Tonight, Louis Katz is releasing a special. I think he's a very funny guy. I think you'll enjoy it. And the other guy who's on today is Doug Stanhope. And Doug has been coming on since the very beginning, episode 22, episode 204, episode 712 Now, he's got a movie coming out called The Road Dog, capturing the life of a mid-level road comic, a journeyman, a comedy troubadour out there living the life and I think they got a lot of things right. It was nice talking to Doug and Louis and you'll get to enjoy that shortly. I will be in Boston at the TD Garden for Comics Come Home on Saturday, November 4th, Denver, Colorado. I'll be at the Comedy Works South for four shows, November 17th and 18th and Los Angeles. I'm at Dynasty Typewriter on December 1st, 13th, 28th. I'm at the Elysian on December 6th, 5th, 22nd, and Largo again on December 12th and January 9th. You can go to wtfpod.com/tour for tickets. That's a lot of comedy I'm doing.
I did some comedy last night and I was like, I can't get too polished. I got to keep it rough. Got to figure out how to... There's some bits I need to get tight, but man, that's a lot of comedy. But it's what I do, man. It's who I am, man. So look, the other day, I was talking to you about the Bellingham show and about seeing that family of kids. And I've got some emails. And look, I've rethought it a little bit. Again, I don't know if... Obviously, it's up to a parent, unless it's absolutely no children allowed kind of thing.
But I would have been pretty excited, probably, to see me if I were a young me. I like seeing grown-up stuff. So there's wiggle room around it in terms of age. But I got some emails. Hey, Marc, my wife and I have seen you live in Portland, Oregon multiple times. We've seen all your specials. We have a five-year-old and a three-year-old. We talk to our kids a lot about feelings, emotions, and how to express them and process them in a healthy way.
No, we're not therapists. I think it's good for kids to see adults talk openly about their feelings, especially the ones that are hard to talk about.
You do that a lot and you come from a genuine place. You talk about real feelings, real experiences, your real struggles in processing them, and you manage to make it hilarious. Some comics use their struggles as sort of a prop in their comedy or a means to an end. I, any quotes, quote, I used to be an alcoholic. Here's some funny stuff that happened. I wouldn't want my 9- to 12-year-old seeing that. It's fine. It can be funny, but it's flippant. You talk about serious shit and make it hilarious without downplaying the struggle or the depth of the emotion. Very few comics can do that. You, Bamford Chappelle, Roy Wood Jr., Tomlinson.
Don't worry, I won't be bringing our kids to your shows anytime soon, even if they were older because I wouldn't want to cause you stress, but you can understand why parents would make that choice. Thank you for everything, Marc, Matthew. All right. Well, I get that, but still, you know, there's still, I guess there's something because I don't have kids. Here's another one from another Matt. You have values, you're principled, and kids can handle it. Thanks for all your work.
Yeah, but okay. Let's see what this one says. Almost 20 years ago, I brought my 13-year-old to Caroline's. It was called the New York Comedy Festival, and John Heffern was performing, and we had come from New Hampshire to a family gathering. We'd watched the last comic standing, and I knew he was a clean comic. They warned us at the door, but we went in anyways. Russ Meneve opened.