Marc Maron: Thinky Pain (TV Special 2013)

Marc Maron: Thinky Pain: Directed by Lance Bangs. With Marc Maron, Sam Lipsyte, Tom Scharpling. Marc Maron returns to his old stomping grounds for an intimate special in which he takes stock of himself. More than ever, Maron is raw and hilariously honest as he dissects his own neuroses and self-loathing while providing outrageous anecdotes from his personal life, in which he starts to realize the hurt isn’t real, it’s just “Thinky Pain.”

“I originally discovered Maron through the WTF podcast – he was interviewing someone I really liked and I found myself listening to it on my iPod much more than once, which I do sometimes when I especially enjoy an interview. Took me a few months to realize I was re-listening to it because I liked Maron.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eStarted downloading other episodes of WTF, a lot of them, and when his TV show came on, I watched that as well. Also watched some of his you tube clips but I didnu0026#39;t think they were that funny. In this Netflix outing, however, the perfectly-titled Thinky Pain, heu0026#39;s straight out hilarious.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eEverything about this show works. Maronu0026#39;s demeanor, his spot-on observations, his priceless personal stories and the way he tells them, his superb timing, his palpable and oddly endearing angst, and most of all, his willingness to lay it all out there and share himself fearlessly, to just trust that he will be able to hold the audienceu0026#39;s attention in an organic way, which he does effortlessly here. Cannot recommend highly enough. Boomer Lives!”