Episode 731 - Seth Meyers

**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 fucking ears? What the fuck tuckians? What the fuck greekens? What the fucksikens? How's it going? I'm Marc Maron, this is my podcast, WTF Welcome. If you have not been here before. On the show today, Seth Meyers, one of the missing links of the SNL, well, obviously there's dozens of people that have been on SNL, but I've done Seth's show. He's a nice fella. We talked about some stuff. We talked about riding it out, locking in and realizing your limitations, acknowledging your limitations perhaps is a better way to put it. It was a good conversation. I think you'll enjoy it. There's no way to say he's not a decent fella, that Seth Meyers with all those S's. So what else? I've got big news, big news that I'm afraid to utter aloud. That is, I'm afraid to speak it because it's one of those things many of you know. I did not think a lot of things were going to happen and a lot of things happened that I had let go of, which is about, honestly, about realizing your limitations or at least being realistic about where the fuck you are in your life for a second, long story, short, 700 and some odd episodes, short. I just didn't anticipate a lot of things.
But I will say this.
I, Marc Maron, will be playing, performing standup comedy at Carnegie Hall on November 4th for the New York Comedy Festival.
The presale will run from Wednesday, August 10th at 10 a.m. Eastern Time to Sunday, August 14th at 10 p.m. Eastern Time. Tickets go on sale for the general public Monday, August 15th at 10 a.m.
And that's happening. I am playing Carnegie Hall.
It is insane. I would never have thought. I hope I can fill it. I feel like I can. I did all right at BAM last year. But but and on some level it is, you know, it is just a big venue, but it's fucking Carnegie Hall and I'm feeling the pressure. So if you were wondering why I've been so diligent about working on my standup, that's why.
That that is why. Because, frankly, I want to have my shit as together as possible for Carnegie Hall.
And the weird thing, I don't even know how to process it. I've really I'm just trying not to focus on it. I believe Nate Barghetti will be opening for me. I've reached out to Nate, who is one of my favorite comics at this juncture in the history of the medium, of the craft, of the form. And he's into it. So I think that's going to happen. So it's going to be me and Nate at Carnegie Hall. I'm putting together the act for Carnegie Hall. And then I guess after that, I can just stop, right? I can quit. I've done everything that I thought I would never do.
Here's the fucked up thing about the life, is that all those years of spite and envy and struggle and fuck that guy and why can't I have this and why am I not on that? I would not have been able to do it.
I would not have been able to function given the opportunities. It would not have gone well. And sometimes it's weird. Sometimes people know better.
You don't know.
You know, if you're stupidly proud and selfishly myopic as I am, you think you're ready for everything. I can do that. I'm ready. Let's go. It's the act of desiring and fighting and competing and struggle. Give me mine. Where's my entitlement?