Episode 1491 - Albert Brooks

**Marc Maron** (0:00)
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All right, let's do this. How are you, what the fuckers? What the fuck, buddies? What the fuck, Knicks? What's happening? I'm Marc Maron, this is my podcast, WTF. Welcome to it. Kind of a big day today. Kind of a big day today.
Right, I talked to Albert Brooks. Albert Brooks is on the show today. I'll give you that for right now, but let me just take care of some business. I'll be doing a live talk with Cliff Nesterov about his new book, Outrageous, at the New York Public Library this Wednesday, November 29th. It's a free event and you can go in person or watch the live stream. Go to nypl.org/events. My Los Angeles dates are these. I'm at Dynasty Typewriter on December 1st, 13th and 28th, The Elysian on December 6th, 15th and 22nd, and Largo on December 12th and January 9th. San Diego at the Observatory North Park on Saturday, January 27th for two shows. San Francisco at the Castro Theater on Saturday, February 3rd. Also in San Francisco on the 4th, February 4th, I'll be hosting McCabe and Mrs. Miller at the Roxy Theater. We've contacted the theater. They should be putting up something for you to buy tickets with soon. I'll be at Portland, Maine at the State Theater on Thursday, March 7th. Medford, Massachusetts outside of Boston at the Chevalier Theater on March 8th, Friday. Providence, Rhode Island at the Strand Theater on Saturday, March 9th. And Tarrytown, New York at the Tarrytown Music Hall on Sunday, March 10th. Go to wtfpod.com/tour for tickets. And look, let me just take you through the evolution of wtfpod.com in the 14 years since we started doing the show. At first, we just had a splash page to announce the guests for the week, that was it. Then we had to add the actual audio player so people could listen to the show and we needed a database for all the past episodes and an area for selling merch. By that point, we knew we needed help and that's when we turned to Squarespace. With Squarespace, we had a site that looked great on every device. We had the ability to play our episodes right on the homepage and we had a site that could support our archive. You can get all that and much more. Squarespace gives you the tools to build a great online platform but you can also set up Squarespace member areas to give premium access to your most devoted users. There's also Squarespace Video Studio and the Squarespace email campaigns to help you stay connected. Go to squarespace.com/wtf for a free trial and then don't forget to use offer code WTF when you're ready to launch. That gets you 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. That's squarespace.com/wtf, offer code WTF. All right, here we go. Listen up. This is it, Albert Brooks.
I love Albert Brooks. Who doesn't love Albert Brooks? I feel close to Albert Brooks. I feel like he's part of my comedy vocabulary.
I feel like he had a profound influence on me. I don't know if you can see it or feel it, but he's in there. He's a special, special man, a special funny man. Now this, me trying to get Albert on the show goes back a while. The first tweets that I sent him asking him to come on the show were like in 2011 Now we didn't even have a booking system back then. It was just whoever we could get, whoever I reached out to, friends of friends, people on Twitter, occasionally that worked. Not too many times. I think only once maybe, David Crosby, maybe not, maybe more. I don't know, I've done like 1500 of these things.
So I started pestering Albert in 2011 In August of 2013, I tweeted, come on, let's end this charade, I'll come to you. And he replied, then you won't want me anymore, it's more fun this way, the fuck, right?
But he knew, he knew, he knew, all right?
And then in April of 2014, I sent a letter to him through his reps asking him to be guest for the 500th episode. That would have been special. And they responded, quote, Mr. Brooks is well aware of Marc and his wonderful podcast. When the time is right, we will let you know, but at this time he is working on a project. He wanted me to let you know that it will happen before one of them dies, unquote.