Ever-outspoken standup, actor, discuss present staple, and “WTF With Marc Maron” host Marc Maron talked about his “nemesis” Jon Stewart on the NPR sequence “Wild Card with Rachel Martin.” Approach again within the ’90s, Maron was one in every of Stewart’s successors as host of Comedy Central’s “Brief Consideration Span Theater,” which was cancelled shortly after he took over. Maron, after all, went on to larger and higher issues, as did Stewart, however Maron mentioned that he wanted a rivalry to maintain going.
“I at all times have a nemesis… like most of that’s fueled by resentment, insecurity, jealousy, or no matter,” he defined. “It’s behavior and it’s the by no means ending kind of, you recognize, battle towards performing out of insecurity… or resentment, self-acceptance.”
For years, Maron continued, Stewart crammed that function for Maron, since — as he remembers — “he had figured it out” when it got here to being a comic book. “I at all times used to suppose it was simply ’trigger he dedicated to a haircut and… a manner of presenting. However like, he was simply in all places,” Maron mentioned. “And he was a standup however… he was in all places… He was the king of the factor… politics, satire, no matter.”
Maron mentioned that he felt lots of jealousy about Stewart’s success, and that the 2 even had confrontations about it and “will not be buddies.” He mentioned that Stewart “doesn’t notably like” him. However Maron appears to place the onus of the strain on himself. “It was resentment,” he defined. “It was me being form of… small minded.”
Maron reached out to Stewart and tried to fix the fences when he recorded an episode of his eponymous podcast with comic Gallagher as a visitor in 2011.
“I reached out to him, and I bear in mind… he referred to as me again. I used to be in a lodge room in Portland,” Maron recalled. “And he goes, ‘Hey, you recognize, it’s, it’s Jon Stewart.’ I’m like, ‘Hey man, the way you doing?’” Maron then proceeded to elucidate the podcast he was doing and invited him to take part. Stewart replied, “I’m not doing that.”
“He mentioned, ‘Look, you recognize, it’s like no matter you’re doing… there’s no love right here.’ After which he mentioned… ‘I’m certain what you’re doing may be very artistic, however… I’m simply — there’s no love right here.’ And I’m like, ‘Bought it, dude.’ And uh yeah… so, I suppose it was fairly artistic,” Maron mentioned.
Maron presently is procuring a documentary a extremely private documentary function, “Are We Good?.” The movie premiered at SXSW in March and performed Tribeca in June.
Stewart, in the meantime, continues to be main Comedy Central‘s “The Every day Present.” On July 17, he addressed the unsure way forward for the sequence, simply hours earlier than the announcement of the cancellation of “The Late Present with Stephen Colbert,” which airs on Paramount sister community CBS — and presently the corporate is making an attempt a merger with Skydance.
“Sadly, we haven’t heard something from them,” he mentioned on his podcast “The Weekly Present With Jon Stewart.” “They haven’t referred to as me and mentioned, ‘Don’t get too comfy in that workplace, Stewart.’ However let me inform you one thing, I’ve been kicked out of shittier institutions than that. We’ll land on our ft. I truthfully don’t know.”