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Episode 199 - Aubrey Plaza

Aubrey Plaza deadpans her way into the garage at the Cat Ranch. The “Parks and Recreation” star talks about surviving a stroke, stalking Fred Armisen, hiding from Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen, and living in Astoria, Queens. Plus, Marc comes to terms with getting older while still liking new things. This episode is sponsored by Comedy Central Records, presenting Marc’s new CD, THIS HAS TO BE FUNNY.

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Scott August 08, 2011 at 7:52 am


How can someone sit in a room with Aubrey Plaza and not want to kiss her on the mouth?  I don’t think it can be done.

Felipe Sobreiro August 08, 2011 at 8:41 am


Great work, Marc! I hope you get to talk to Nick Offerman, that guy is amazing on P&R

Nate August 08, 2011 at 9:20 am


You did a great job of drawing Aubrey out. She was almost a different person at the end of the show. Congratulations on your 12 year sobriety date tomorrow. I’ll have 5 years junk free in September.

Ben August 08, 2011 at 9:36 am


Great interview, I feel like I relate to Aubrey in some ways, in how emotionally detached and afraid to emote I am, but also having real anxiety issues. So you did a great job getting her to be able to articulate it.

Ben August 08, 2011 at 10:27 am


Also I like how Aubrey brought an almost paternal side to Marc. It was quite endearing although I’ve a feeling you might hate me saying that.

Susan Cook August 08, 2011 at 12:42 pm


Nice to have funny women on your podcast. Stating the obvious here but you don’t have nearly enough of them.

Matt August 08, 2011 at 1:45 pm


Baby’s First Interview?

another LonelyDJ August 08, 2011 at 1:48 pm


umm…there’s gonna be a vinyl record release party too, right?  :(

Robert Martin August 08, 2011 at 2:27 pm


The Jeannie Tate Show is a hoot, you can find it & some of Plaza’s other stuff on her account at Tumblr - http://aubreyplaza.tumblr.com/

Felipe Sobreiro August 08, 2011 at 4:07 pm


“Ben: Also I like how Aubrey brought an almost paternal side to Marc. It was quite endearing although I’ve a feeling you might hate me saying that.”

I also thought that! When Marc said “I’m proud of you” I laughed out loud…

James August 08, 2011 at 5:23 pm


Alright, look.

This was a weird, awkward interview that actually made me feel sad for Marc towards the end. With all due respect to Audrey, she clearly had an effect on Marc that made him act like a strange teenage boy, asking odd questions and chuckling all the time.

It’s fine, still enjoyed listening, but for real if Marc acted this way in every interview WTF would have never gotten off the ground as a podcast.

Crate&Trauma; August 08, 2011 at 8:08 pm


Whatever James

Congrats on the 12 years Marc!

WannaGoNightNight? August 08, 2011 at 11:12 pm


I LOVED this interview—everything about it—Marc coaxing Aubrey out of her shell, Aubrey eliciting Marc’s paternal side, the overall dynamic.  Great stuff.  I had this minimized in the background and when I clicked back on the page, I realized there was only a 5 minutes left in the podcast, my heart actually sank a little bit—I realized I wasn’t ready for it to end.

Sidenote: Congrats on being 12 years sober—an amazing accomplishment indeed.

WhatTheFuckineer#3 August 09, 2011 at 12:57 am


Another great show! Can’t wait for the 200th!

Jessie August 09, 2011 at 7:43 am


Can’t help but agree with James.  Maybe it was part of the schtick to sound like a creepy “cool” older dude.

Gloria August 09, 2011 at 6:34 pm


Have to agree with James and Jessie.  The constant nervous chuckling was a little weird, though it may have just been a space-filler for some awkward pauses.  Not much of a talker, is she?  I guess I’m in the minority because I’ve never heard of this woman, didn’t see any of her movies, and don’t watch P&R, so this ep was kind of “meh.”  A hearty congrats on 12 years sober, dude.  That takes some balls of steel.

Joe Tily August 10, 2011 at 2:39 am


I really tried to finish this episode but her voice was too soporific . . . at least i know what to listen to next time i cant sleep . . . zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

sassylibrarian August 10, 2011 at 12:53 pm


First WTF to boring to even finish…

kathryn August 10, 2011 at 5:40 pm


Love Aubrey, thanks for having her on.

Kara August 11, 2011 at 9:31 am


Great Interview! I had never heard of her but I remembered her face from Scott Pilgrim. Now I just finished watching every episode of The Jeannie Tate Show on youtube and I officially love Parks and Recreation. I’m up to 3 of your podcasts a day at work!

Bam August 11, 2011 at 2:30 pm


I love Aubrey Plaza and the podcast was great as always.  The only thing that irked me was Aubrey would say “literally” way too much.  I think she said it 4 or 5 times in one sentence.

brian August 12, 2011 at 1:56 am


i can’t listen to her talk…her stories just fall out of her mouth; she sounds like she’s texting while being interviewed.

chaz August 13, 2011 at 12:51 pm


Like, I mean, stuff, you know?

Uggghhhhh,

Now I can clearly see why I don’t like this chick.

Fake modesty, she got the golden ticket, how I do not know.  I guess grating, detached yet superior atitudes are in right now.

You are too cool Aubrey!

Lebowski August 14, 2011 at 1:37 pm


This was a pretty fascinating WTF. I downloaded it without knowing who she was but then realised when she talked about Funny People.

It could’ve been nervous laughter and a ‘paternal’ angle, but to me it just sounded like he was flirting with her. It made me cringe for myself because it made me realise that Marc’s style is the same as mine. But shit man, who wouldn’t?

Great episode Marc and congratulations on the 12 years.

Melomane August 16, 2011 at 12:33 pm


I agree with James and the rest, Marc was obviously quite taken with Aubrey, which is understandable considering how gorgeous she is. But it made the interview a little hard to listen to. However I do think it is in keeping with all of Marc’s interviews, in the sense that he has no idea how to get out of his own way. The world revolves around Marc and that’s why we love him. Also, i’m sure if one could actually see the interview and not just hear it, it might not come across so fawning and giggly, but i think audio presents its own version of truth that is very interesting in these overly-visual times we live in.

ColinJ August 17, 2011 at 6:56 am


That was really interesting. I always assumed Plaza’s demeanor was just schtick. I didn’t know she had real issues.

Still, I wish Marc had said what we were all thinking, which was “Look, Aubrey, you’re young, beautiful and successful… CHEER UP!!”

ann August 23, 2011 at 12:10 am


I don’t agree with James here at all, I think Marc showed his interviewing skills like he’s never had to before. Trying to bring an absolute zero - emotion, monotonous speaker out of her shell would have any host sweatin’.

Then when she spoke about her stroke, I got another perspective on why she was like that but Marc still made an otherwise dull conversation a very listenable one.

andrew m August 25, 2011 at 3:59 am


this guy sounds like that kid that doesn’t want anything bad to happen and when it does
he gets add (attention deficiet disorder) flips out and fucking gets all OCD with shit
he generalizes his feelings about whatever he does. good job fuckng Marc Maron
good job

these are expressions of Marc Maron
cooL! gross! dude! fuck!
you watch breaking bad cool! gross! dude! fuck!

but his interviews drag on. interviews are only good if the guest is funny. Marc Maron interviews are like being apart of a conversation with your parents that your parents are having with one of their friends and you are their in the middle of that conversation and don’t wont to be rude and get up and walk out so you put up with it, but it kind of isn’t about anything and drags and is boring

jay October 18, 2011 at 7:33 pm


Andrew, you are a moron. You don’t ‘get’ ADD, you have it. it’s not a momentary thing, it has nothing to do with ‘flipping out’, and it is a separate and unassociated disorder from OCD. Please take a moment to think about the meanings of words before opening your lips. Thank you.

barny drood October 27, 2011 at 1:31 am


she’s got ET eye’s….......

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Snaggle May 10, 2012 at 1:03 pm


I couldn’t even get past the first 15 minutes of the interview. This is one of the last WTF’s that I hadn’t listened to, which is the only reason i bothered, I guess. Her character on Parks and Rec is annoying as hell… drags the whole show down. So it’s no suprise I couldn’t stand her here I suppose. I hate people like her, too afraid to actually engage emotionally with life so they maintain this lame, stupid ironic distance. Fucking pain in the ass bitch.




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