We’re living in some dark days right now, and I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from Marc Maron. How would the famously battle-scared, not exactly optimistic comedian — whose most recent HBO special was titled From Bleak To Dark — react to Donald Trump’s first days in office or the deadly fires near his home in Los Angeles, not to mention just in general how much fun it is to be a man in your 60s.
Maron addressed the herd of elephants in the room right from the get-go when he said, “I’ll try to entertain you, but I don’t have any solutions.”
And then he proceeded to do just that. Chronicling the rich progressive reaction to Trump’s immigration policies (“I don’t know, I’ve never moved my own lawn before. I’m pretty good at cleaning my own house, but I don’t know about dusting.”), and making a pretty solid argument as to why evacuating for the fire with his three somewhat feral cats and only one cat carrier ( “I usually only take one of them to the vet at a time.”) was actually more difficult than if he had three small children.