Even though Gallagher stormed out, Marc Maron ‘kind of’ loves that infamous interview

Marc Maron has the late comic Gallagher on his thoughts years after their contentious podcast dialog in 2011.

Hours after Gallagher died of organ failure on Friday, Maron reshared the “WTF” podcast episode that includes the watermelon-smashing comedian. Gallagher infamously walked out of the January 2011 interview when he was pressed about jokes he made about marginalized communities.

“This one’s a novel interview as a result of it’s actually the primary time the place a visitor has died and, frankly, won’t need this episode remembered,” Maron stated in Friday’s new podcast intro. “However it’s an sincere illustration of who he was 11 years in the past and in addition who I used to be.”

The comic and host stated the chat in Portland, Ore., “went sideways fairly rapidly” earlier than Gallagher finally stormed out of the resort room.

“We obtained into it as a result of he had gotten a status for being a little bit of a bigot and a bully and doing previous, horrible racist and gay-bashing jokes,” he stated.

Within the 2011 interview, Maron confronted Gallagher about making jokes about Black and homosexual individuals. The podcast host informed his visitor that “you reaffirm prejudice.” The 2 engaged in a heated dialog about which comedians can inform what jokes.

Minutes later, Gallagher obtained up from his seat and walked out.

“Why did you need me to do that interview, should you don’t suppose I do know something about what you’re asking?” he requested Maron.

The abrupt ending prompted Maron to mirror on “the place a profession in comedy can find yourself.”

“God is aware of there’s loads of individuals on the market which are experiencing frustration as a result of they’ve reached a sure age they usually don’t really feel helpful anymore,” he stated within the authentic episode. “There’s anger there … you positively see who he’s.”

In Friday’s intro, Maron stated he has “empathy for the man” and that he “sort of [loves] this interview.”

“He was an fascinating, aggravated, cussed previous man, and now he’s gone and now we have this dialog,” he stated.

On Twitter, Maron remembered Gallagher as “one in every of a sort. A singular entertainer. A tough man.”

“RIP Gallagher (if attainable),” he tweeted Friday. Maron will deliver his “This Might Be the Final Time” tour to the Carpenter Performing Arts Heart in Lengthy Seaside on Saturday night time.

Gallagher died in Palm Springs, his longtime supervisor, Craig Marquardo, stated. He was 76.