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Comedy fans got a surprising treat on Friday night when comedian, OG podcaster and actor Marc Maron got up on the Cambrian Hall stage in Mount Pleasant to work on some new material during the Jokes Please! show.
The host of the popular podcast WTF, Maron is in Vancouver shooting the yet to be titled Owen Wilson Apple TV series.
The series, according to mentions Maron has made on WTF, is about a washed-up pro golfer, played by Wilson, who discovers a young talent on the driving range and sets out to help him become great. Maron plays the Wilson character’s best pal and former caddy.
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The Friday night Jokes Please! show saw Maron close out the night with a 30-minute spot in front of a crowd of 150.
“He got a very warm welcome and he was truly hilarious and the other thing is from my point of view it looked like he had a great time, which I like to see,” said show organizer and host and comedian Ross Dauk. “He was working on a lot of new material … So you just don’t want audiences to go nuts over nothing. You want some real feedback. I think he enjoyed it. The audience loved it.”
Maron, who used the Jokes Please! stage twice in June to work on material, reached out to Dauk a couple of hours before the show. Dauk said the comedy community is very small and comedians tend to share with other comedians the locations where they can work out material. Jokes Please!, now in its 10th year, is one of those places. Aside from Maron, top comics like Rory Scovel, Todd Barry, Beth Stelling and Michelle Buteau have dropped by to do a spot.
“I’m a big fan of Marc’s. I’ve seen him at his Vogue shows and stuff like that but he is also one of those comedians that if you see them in a smaller venue it can really amplify the personal nature of how he does comedy and I love when people click with it,” said Dauk.
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Maron took his time on stage to work through some new bits, including dating a much younger woman and some dark childhood stuff.
“He also spoke about his ailing dad and yeah, he covered some trauma stuff, some very dark things,” said Dauk. “He talked about Vancouver a little bit. Audiences always love to hear that.”
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Dauk said Friday’s Maron drive-by meant a lot to him because he has been listening to Maron’s WTF podcast since it started back in 2009.
“The thing with Maron … is he also started the podcast when I started doing comedy, so I listened to his podcast the whole time,” said Dauk. “Whenever you work with a big comedian it’s fun but this one was pretty moving for me because I’ve been in lock step with this guy.”
WTF, which began with Maron talking almost exclusively to fellow comedians, grew to be one of the most listened to podcasts — 600,000 downloads per episode — and has a library of over 1,600 episodes of interviews with actors, directors, comedians, musicians, writers and even former U.S. president Barack Obama.
In the last decade Maron has been building a strong acting resume that includes the TV shows Glow and Maron and the films Sword of Trust, Joker and the animated hit The Bad Guys. He is the author of three books as well as numerous comedy albums and TV specials, his most recent special is 2023’s From Bleak to Dark on HBO.
Jokes Please! runs every Friday night starting at 9 p.m. at the Cambrian Hall at Main and 17th. July 19 the five comedian show will be headlined by Chris Gordon. You can reserve tickets at eventbrite.ca.Dgee@postmedia.com twitter.com/dana_gee
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