Marc Maron: End Times Fun

This is Maron at his best. He’s calm, cool, collected, a comedic leader for this crazy time in our lives.

End Times Fun is punctuated throughout with Maron’s heavy sigh and echoing refrains along the lines of “I just don’t know any more.” Luckily, Maron’s got a sly showmanship to his curmudgeon’s laments that stubbornly refuses to let his 71-minute set lapse into the tedium of the bitter old guy on the bus.

This is Maron’s moment to shine. The comedian, actor, podcast host, and oddly empathetic interviewer of people from Brad Pitt to Barack Obama is, for the chronically angsty, a surly priest of powerlessness. ... It’s consoling to watch Maron dismantle this particular moment in history so ruthlessly—refusing to allow for the possibility of absolution, but still crankily taking the turmeric anyway. Because in the end, you just don’t know.