Episode 631 - Jerrod Carmichael

**Marc Maron** (0:00)
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All right, let's do this. How are you, WTFers, WTF buddies, WTFsters? How are you, WTFineers, WTFadelics? Yes, yes, this is Marc Maron. This is my show, this is WTF, the podcast. I'm talking. Today on the show, we have the wonderful Jerrod Carmichael, a young gun, a guy with the goods. It was good talk, man. It was intense and funny and lit up. He's all lit up, this dude. He's got a show on, what is it? Where's that show gonna be happening? It's gonna be the Carmichael Show. Premiers this week, actually, Wednesday at 9, 8 Central on NBC. And I'd reached out to him before because there was a lot of buzz, there was a lot of heat on this man, Carmichael.
Smart, funny fucker. I did Real Time the other day. I was on Real Time with Bill Maher and I think it went pretty well. I felt good about it and I approached it a different way than I usually do. Now, I think Bill's great.
I like Bill. I know he's a difficult personality for some people. Some people love to hate him. Some people love to love him, but he's very good at what he does. He's very on top of it. He does his homework. He's part of the dialogue. It's all real and happening right then. His monologues are written by brilliant dudes. I know a lot of them, Billy Martin, Chris Kelly, and he delivers jokes like a dirty Johnny Carson. He's a classic television monologist and the show is what it is. It's political, but it's been around for 13 seasoners or so. It's a working machine and sometimes it packs a punch, man.
So I'm always thrilled when I get to go on there, but it does mean I have to re-immerse myself in the world of politics a bit and get up to speed. And I'm always surprised at just how far I've drifted.
Yes, I interviewed the president, but I used to spend a lot of time on the pulse of politics every fucking day crunching the news, figuring out the angle, getting involved with the pace of the bullshit. And I gotta be honest with you, choosing to pull myself out of that was the best decision I ever made in my life.
But sometimes I feel a little out of the loop. So getting up to speed was exciting. Doesn't take much to get up to speed. But the point was or is that generally, when I get the topics for real time, I just freak out and I'm like, I gotta write a bunch of jokes. I gotta write a bunch of jokes. I gotta find my place to put them in there. And I had some opinions on some stuff and I had some things I wanted to talk about. But I also didn't want to come off as a self-righteous strident angry asshole.
I know that guy. That guy lives within me. That guy is a guy that wants to take me down from the inside. And he's punching my brain right in the right behind my eyes right now. Sometimes. But I know for me that when I get that kind of fire going, when I feel that crack hit of rage that it's not always about what's coming out of my mouth or what I think it's about. It's usually about that crack hit of rage.
And I think there's consensus on cracks not good for you and rage isn't great for you either.