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"Silver Snakes: a stacked team 90 percent of the time."
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Hero status Jeff Van Gundy and his brother Stan have a good discussion on sports media, coaches lying and that Dwight guy on Grantland.
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The B.S. Report: Louis C.K. returns
C.K. discusses his love of hatewatching Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, shooting season three in other states/countries, training with Mickey Ward, the value of internet backlashes to the backlash, upcoming Louie guest stars (Maria Bamford!, Parker Posey, Melissa Leo, Robin Williams, Jerry Seinfeld), his love of boxing, starting out in Boston and other fun stuff.
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Not THE longform piece about Maron (that’s still forthcoming—who’s gonna write it? I hope it’s Pappademas) but definitely A longform piece about Maron, and a wonderfully observant and measured one. Choice cut:
Maron’s interviews exist somewhere outside of the polite Tonight Show format, where one humbler, funnier person asks a self-involved, possibly vapid person some questions that have been prescreened by an army of publicists. Every Letterman and Leno interview goes down easy in the same way. Every Maron podcast self-combusts, picks itself back up, and drags itself across the 75-minute mark. The repetition of his specific traumas — “the Lorne meeting,” cocaine, and comedy clubs — creates something of a narrative structure for every unctuous, predictable talking point. Maron is narcissistic, chauvinistic, and still living in the drugged-out comedy clubs of the late ’80s and ’90s, but he somehow pulls all these things into a powerful, compelling, and, most important, funny neurosis.
