![]() ![]() I mean, you can talk about it all day long: “Everyone’s gonna die, everyone’s gonna die.” But you don’t want to, and you don’t think about it, and it’s not part of your daily thought, generally. It is, I think, in the abstract for most people, the idea that we die. I agree, and that was why I stayed in the groove with it. I think it does help normalize these things that are not often televised or recorded exactly as they are. I went back and then I listened to the beginning of the next few months of episodes, and it is really compelling to see a person not necessarily work through it completely, but just sort of evolve in it. Grief is a strange thing, and tragedy and all this stuff: You hear about it happening all the time, but all of a sudden, you’re in it. I just thought in that moment that maybe in this emotional state, my reaction would be helpful to somebody else. I wasn’t looking for recognition or even love or anything else. Whatever.” And I just thought for some reason, maybe selfishly but maybe not, that to sort of stay in the groove with this thing and be honest with my emotions, even though they were completely out of control and … shattered, to be public with them. This is really up to you, how you want to handle it - if you want to handle it - or if you just want to take a month off or a year off. I was on the phone with people when she was in the hospital for that short period of time, and he’s like, “Look, we don’t have to do it. I was shattered and beside myself, and it was really a conversation with myself and with my producer, Brendan, who had been riding it out with me. I was in complete shock and severely traumatized. How do you think about that episode that you put out? Obviously, this was a special circumstance, but I’m curious how it felt in the moment. The next day, you did what you always do with WTF, which is rerelease the interview with a person with an intro where you express your feelings. Two months into the pandemic, Lynn passed. You can listen to the full episode below, and tune in to Good One every Thursday wherever you get your podcasts. Maron spoke at length on Good One for the first time about the process of writing material about losing Shelton. ![]() Getting people to laugh at how social distancing made the mourning process lonely and awkward: Now that’s challenging. She died of undiagnosed leukemia in May 2020, and in the special’s centerpiece, Maron offers a portrait of grief, humorously exploring the possibility that she was reincarnated as a hummingbird and haunting him through theater lighting systems. In his new HBO special, From Bleak to Dark, out on February 11, the comedian, actor, and podcaster Marc Maron offers an alternate vision of what actually difficult material looks like - by talking, and making jokes about, the unexpected passing of his girlfriend and collaborator, the director Lynn Shelton. It is a trope for supposedly transgressive comedians to show how willing they are to go there by introducing a word they are not supposed to say, then saying it a bunch of times. ![]()
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