Marc Maron – Photograph: Michael S. Schwartz/Getty Photos
Craft Recordings has launched the digital album debut of Marc Maron’s acclaimed HBO stand-up particular, From Bleak to Darkish.
The legendary comic, actor, and podcaster’s fifth stand-up particular (and first for HBO), which premiered in February on HBO and is now streaming on MAX, discovered Maron getting extra private than ever.
Within the years between his final particular, 2020’s Marc Maron: Finish Instances Enjoyable (Netflix) and From Bleak to Darkish, Maron’s world was turned the wrong way up. Between a worldwide pandemic, political upheaval, and the sudden lack of his companion, there actually wasn’t a lot to snicker about. But, Maron—who has amassed tens of millions of followers for his stark honesty, pathos, and cynicism (each on stage in addition to by way of his landmark podcast, WTF with Marc Maron)—was well-equipped to deal with probably the most troublesome moments of his life by way of humor.
Written and carried out by Maron and filmed in entrance of a reside viewers at New York Metropolis’s City Corridor, the hour-long particular finds the comic overlaying a large breadth of fabric—from the perils of getting older and the prevalence of getting cats over kids to antisemitism and religion. In a few of comedy’s most disarming and candid moments, Maron speaks concerning the loss of life and grief whereas opening up about re-establishing his sophisticated relationship along with his father, who suffers from dementia.
Produced by Avalon (Final Week Tonight with John Oliver, Starstruck) and government produced by David Martin, Kelly Van Valkenburg, and Maron, From Bleak to Darkish obtained large acclaim upon its premiere. Margaret Lyons at The New York Instances praised, “What’s most potent right here is the sense of consideration, of evolution, and Maron incorporates his redrafting course of into the act itself. The particular is certainly each bleak and darkish, and it is usually viciously humorous.” Richard Roeper at The Chicago Solar-Instances hailed that the particular “shed[s] mild on the human situation each joke alongside the way in which.”
Purchase or stream From Bleak to Darkish.