Saudi Arabia’s upcoming Riyadh Comedy Festival is drawing controversy with several U.S. comedians blasting the star-studded event and Human Rights Watch asking participating artists to “request a meeting about Saudi Arabia’s human rights crisis,” the org. said in a statement. “The seventh anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s brutal murder is no laughing matter, and comedians receiving hefty sums from Saudi authorities …
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As Saudi Arabia’s star-studded debut comedy festival prepares to kick off this weekend, Marc Maron is one of several comedians to call out the event. The WTF podcast host recently put his comedian peers on blast for participating in the Riyadh Comedy Festival as he joked about Saudi officials’ roles in 9/11 and the 2018 assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. …
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Marc Maron recently appeared on “Pod Save America” (via Vulture) and doubled down on his criticisms of Bill Maher. While the “WTF” host acknowledged that he joined Maher on HBO’s “Real Time” three times in the past, he has since turned on Maher in recent years. Maron already called Maher out earlier this summer for being partial to “some of …
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Most mornings, Marc Maron wakes up spiraling. Each turn of the globe brings a fresh catastrophe, a crisis, real or imagined, that sends the comedian back into battle with his tenacious anxiety. This isn’t great for mental health, but it does make for good material. And today, his psyche is playing the hits. “I got cat problems,” Maron sighs, a …
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Photo: Amy Sussman/Getty Images Marc Maron had about the most intense induction into the Swiftie Hall of Fame as a person can get. As described in his latest special, Panicked, Maron fell hard for Taylor Swift. Literally, he passed out while listening to Midnights. Maron was on a hike, mourning the death of his partner Lynne Shelton and also wondering …
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Marc Maron says his dream guest for his final episode of “WTF With Marc Maron” would be Barack Obama. The former president appeared on a previous episode of Maron’s show back in June 2015. “If we could get President Obama back, that would be good to give us a little hope or some sense of reflection,” he told Variety Wednesday …
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