Opie and Anthony: Marc Maron on Gallagher

Marc Maron in studio discussing the Gallagher interview from WTF. With Joe DeRosa, Jimmy's out for the day.
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07-25-2011

[@GabeIsko]

When Gallagher got up to leave, Maron should have started shouting "Lock the Gates!"

[@KingMandrillTTV]

+Gabe Isko Made my day xD

[@djordan22]

Boomer lives!

[@jmgmarcus808]

Gabe Isko ha.....ass.

[@NxDoyle]

Gallagher's funeral should feature his carcass being smashed to bits.

[@LambertBowden56]

Haha I haven't laughed that hard in a while.

[@camco7829]

Love seeing this being that he died literally today

[@xGrundisx]

Whelp

[@nukeninmgt1504]

Time to bring out the sledge o matic

[@noaht3087]

That's unnecessary, it's not like he did anything actually terrible. He just had/has some really bad ideas. This interview is wild though, pretty brutal! 😂

[@unclejimmyray]

"He screeches like this old queen..." Fucking spot-on description of Gallagher's voice!

[@jamesbuddell7307]

Yes Marc Maron went after him for supossedly making gay jokes. He later admitted he never heard it or had any examples. It was just something he heard second hand in Seattle news paper. So he then doesn’t do any research but decided to go after him about. And then claimed he screamed like an old queen. So it’s okay for me to tell gay jokes at you. Because I heard second hand that you did exactly what I’m doing. And Gallagher is the D bag. Wow Marc Maron is a total clown and a nobody but he is making fun one of the most popular comedians of all time. The irony is unbelievable

[@fosbury68]

@@jamesbuddell7307 So are you disputing the FACT that Leo screeches like an old queen?

[@mr.brenman2132]

​@@fosbury68No he's pointing out the hypocrisy which is pretty obvious. You must be a Marc Maron fan.

[@tobysgamingworld1550]

@@mr.brenman2132Maron is a hypocrite. He loves to do the hurt liberal routine but he’s as bad or worse than the next person.

[@Brandknob]

That moment when Gallagher said "everyone" wants to play state fairs was sad. He sounded so defeated, like a man realizing that he doesn't understand the world of stand-up comedy anymore.

[@rustymertz]

@Sammy R. I agree. He’s a delusional narcissist that always thinks he’s right and the smartest person in the room, and if you actually disagree with him, he feels you’re arguing with him.

[@FreeMan-pp4ve]

@@rustymertz photon or electron???

[@SquareNoggin]

Lol Maron's impression of gallagher is spot on.

[@SquareNoggin]

Minus Opie I could listen to these guys all day.

[@fredrickmiller6534]

Harry Flashman Derosa stinks.

[@spooninspoon]

What a great mental image Gallagher working the produce section at the Mega Wall-Mart selling used VHS copies of "Melon Crazy" of which he bought off of Amazon.

[@ReginaldForman]

Rip gallagher. Saw him in vegas in 2011 and he told the lot of us that this gallagher they experienced is a character. He was completely normal with great stand up the night we caught him. It was a character the whole time and everyone bought it.

[@YokozunaNumber1]

Imagine how pathetic your life must be if you're lining up for three days to be the first in line to buy tickets to Gallagher's show at the Utah State Fair.

[@howdareyou41]

I'm just here to see melons smashed, and hopefully a few jew jokes as well

[@duffharris3172]

I pay to see Gallagher talk about metaphysics. Maybe he can smash Descartes with a mallet.

[@transporterIII]

Hey Descartes is more metaphysical than his "Scientific Method" would suggest. The notion of which was downloaded into him in a visionary experience. He does gets docked for being a member of a murderous cult.

[@edwarddubois7046]

I bet that old queen Gallagher agrees with Berkeley on metaphysics.

[@weircali]

You're an old queen​@@edwarddubois7046

[@Timoth1983]

When I was 13 I knew a girl who went to see Gallagher with her parents and the next day I asked her how messy she got. She just said "he was really really racist and mean". Hahaha.

[@mayormc]

Gallagher might do well in Branson.

[@littlesarahr]

This is disturbingly accurate, from personal experience.

[@tunelowplayslow5623]

Magnetic tables!

[@ScreaminSavior]

Maron's Gallagher impersonation is great lol; funny and accurate!

[@JoseGonzalez-oq8ev]

"You wanna smash some fruit"- Dave Chappell- Funny skit.

[@spooninspoon]

+Jose Gonzalez black gallagher was awesome

[@chriskuhn9028]

"I got warrants!!!"

[@DutchComedian]

That leprauchan's on acid!

[@StevenEveral]

I remember that podcast. Gallagher seemed like someone who knew that he was at the end of his career, but didn't want to admit it. He also seemed really jealous of other comics' success.

[@moonlily1]

Yes, I agree. He wanted things that he didn't get, so he wants to overcompensate by denigrating people who are more successful than him, which is a lot of people. All the people who he says aren't rule comics like himself, it's like, seriously dude, you just wear a silly hat and smash fruit, but you're the only true comic? And he's trying to shit on Marc, but Marc's had has IFC show, he's on GLOW, his podcast is pretty successful, he just had a Netflix service. Nobody wants Gallagher for fucking anything, except for the all-exaulted state fair.

[@guyemail6799]

Pauly Shore is the same...he thinks he should be more famous than MTV

[@ClibanariusJJ]

I fucking love how O&A is such a great place for comedians to talk about this kind of thing. It's just endlessly interesting, to me. I start with one thing on O&A and end up going from there to Patrice plus comedian X, Y, or Z, then that comedian on O&A, then they were on with Bill Burr once and that entire bit was great, et cetera. It's great and all the posters of O&A material can't get enough praise from me.

[@Yesiamblind]

"Oh c'mon, Gallagher!"

[@apophis9356]

No black man would ever go see Gallagher.

[@retardexposer1385]

Watermelon joke. You’re a hack.

[@patrickprendergast9589]

why not did u see black gallagher

[@KingMandrillTTV]

Joe DeRosa and Marc Maron ftw!

[@markwilliams7054]

Gallagher made the same state fair reference on O&A

[@NeonLeonNoel]

The way Marc Maron describes Gallagher is exactly how he acted in the O&A talk with Patrice. Gallagher is really jaded when he talks about career-related things. And when he tries to bring up an observant point, like when he tries to talk about how black comics only talk about the difference between white and black, he angrily approach it so bluntly that his idea never gets across, and he just sounds rude and annoying.

[@ChadParenteau]

I heard the entire Gallagher podcast. Gallagher was contradicting himself, saying they were just jokes then just saying that they weren't even his. Going on about him doing one Arab joke because "they're the enemy." But then saying it was one joke out of many when he earlier related an Iranian joke he did early in the career. The difference between Gallagher and Gottfried is that Gottfried always owned what he said, and Gallagher didn't. His mind is a sad mess of crazy contradictions.

[@deadpooh]

Gallagher makes me very uncomfortable. When I was a child, I loved his act. He's changed.

[@chuktt]

Gotthatgoin4me read the comment before you betray that you are a complete idior

[@chuktt]

Idiot

[@MsJenniferwilson]

no, sjw asshats changed

[@ShawnRavenfire]

The worst thing is that I could very easily see myself turning into the same kind of crazy... if I'm not there already.

[@limeownsj00]

I can understand both sides of the argument, but I do think it would serve Gallagher well to look up the term "troll" on an online dictionary.

[@maxthefoooool]

Marc is such a real dude, I respect him so much. He's never afraid to say what he's thinking which is so rare in comedians, there's a reason all the greats respect him

[@mondaywar]

marc is fuckin hilarious, not for everyone, but hilariousnonetheless

[@Bob-ow2tx]

I went to a state fair recently and there wasn't a comedian and I was so disappointed

[@bigblue62220]

In the 80s I saw Gallagher in concert two or three times. He was GREAT! Original, clever, funny and entertaining. A one man show. Not just a stand up like most comedians. Gallagher is an icon. He made it to the top of the comedy mountain. One in a million.

[@happyscooter228]

Someone should do a web series where Gallagher breaks out the hammer whenever something in his life isn't working or when someone doesn't understand him. (at Starbucks... on a date ... etc.)

[@AngryNerdBird]

8:23 ahahahaha yesssss

[@Caligula138]

Smashing a can of Water chestnuts is hardcore? C'mon Marc

[@bYtealiEnSzen]

Some comedians are philosophical and others are clowns. I was in a hotel in Orlando and saw him bumming around the large lobby, thinking first he looked out of place. I recognized him and took a selfie with him. He was totally morose until it was time to say cheese. He did. Face off/ face on.

[@brandonb3174]

Around when was this?

[@bYtealiEnSzen]

@@brandonb3174 2008-2010. I would need to go back and find the picture but that is my best guess.

[@brandonb3174]

@@bYtealiEnSzenoh wow he was great on OnA too.

[@theironsheik6322]

Philosophers are the worst. Clowns are fun.

[@bYtealiEnSzen]

@@theironsheik6322 depends on the depends

[@ErizotDread]

Are we listening to the same clip? I didn't hear him say anything about being bothered by it...I heard him say he wanted to ask him about that as a shift in his act.

[@BilltheButcher1855]

If only Jimmy was there. He would have caused a hurricane with all the funny one liners

[@JoseGonzalez-oq8ev]

14:33 was the funniest part.

[@rval588]

And to this day, Marc Maron has not played a state fair!

[@ramiz2923]

Gallagher had the right to shit on Marc Maron who the fuck is Marc.. and Patrice definitely had love for Gallagher, that whole interview was hilarious...

[@NoDontBugMe]

The Fredo reference lol

[@Lvillemartinishot]

Maron is one of the most intelligent and relevant comedians today. And, he is, despite his tone and reputation as a bully, one of the nicest and generouse comics in the biz. Good guy! Quick on his feet! Check out "Lunch with Maron"

[@tipr8739]

Dude gallagher still fucking gets me yuck in it up

[@Mandy7D7]

That interview with Marc really surprised me. I had no idea Gallagher was such a P.O.S. He claimed something crazy like all comics should come to him if they really want to be funny. That EVERYONE wants to do a state fair. Just off the wall stuff he was only saying just to say something becuase he's an empty, angry, garbage non-existent comic. I also watched be a host Gotham and his jokes were HORRIBLE. Funny he says notes on stage are unexceptionable becuase for his horrible jokes, he took out his notes.

[@davidkulczyk678]

before Maron became the Merv Griffin of his day

[@FrenkMelk]

It's an odd, wild, and useless talent that Marc has in as much that he can slip in so effortlessly into a convincing Gallagher impersonation as he speaks

[@BobRobsstrikesagain]

“Sledge O Matic “ Lmao

[@RFXCrunner]

One of my top five all time O&A moments, Patrice had been talking about Gallaghers racial material for a few minutes and cut to the chase. Patrice: "Are you a racist?" Gallagher: "...Why?"

[@chuckplaysgames7925]

Opie “are you a racist?”* can’t believe no one corrected you after 9 years smh

[@scorcoz]

You're definitely misremembering this. Opie asked that

[@cmnyc3493]

Not a fair description of that episode

[@EdtheTraveler]

Funny how these comics are making fun and mocking Gallagher when his success and popularity in the 80’s and 90’s blows their careers away. They have never came close to his success. He was a comedic genius that choose his own path and brought laughter and joy to families everywhere. Disgusting how these comics speak about a true pioneer of comedy.

[@jrsmith3344]

I loved Gallagher when I was 10! Hahaha

[@SHILLGATESCRYPTO]

Arent there 2 Gallaghers?

[@jamesahern9864]

Yes. They were brothers, one is a psycho. He stole his brother's act. That's probably who they met.

[@cheapthrilll6323]

I guess when Gallagher did the Gathering of the Juggalos, he smashed a pineapple with collard greens on it and said it was for President Obama.

[@sskoog]

^^ This is a real thing. August 2010. He joked about Ted Kennedy being grateful for terminal brain cancer because "he could die with a hole in his head, like his brothers," he wise-cracked about how there were no Mexicans in the audience "until it was time to clean up afterwards," and he smashed a plate of collard greens, remarking "this should have pineapple on it, so it could represent our president." One out of those three is halfway funny, but, ugh, not a good trend.

[@no1raniuk]

Anyone know if Maron ever had Gallagher back on?

[@nickjacobs9890]

Yeah, he didn't.

[@silkypixel]

"...out of the fucken BLUE?"

[@orenthalsimpson]

Mark maron sounds a lot like Gallagher

[@ontologicallysteve7765]

If you're smart--- it'll be self evident. We know that Gallagher is smart ----- *because he told us so* . Otherwise, we'd have never known. This overtly implies a *lack* of intellectual capability.

[@SenorZorrozzz]

No, he is very funny doing just standup. He has been a writer and a manager for several huge names. He is a good guy. He has long standing friendships with big performers. He has friends who are black, gay, white, young, old. He still has thousands showing up at his performances.

[@Mayo_Mane]

Can anybody send this episode to me? its not on itunes anymore.

[@2tommyrad]

"screeches like an old queen" hahahahah =D I love Marc. Gallagher is a self-loathing clown, attempting to reconstruct himself as highly intelligent... neva gonna happen.

[@ontologicallysteve7765]

If you're smart--- it'll be self evident. We know that Gallagher is smart ----- *because he told us so* . Otherwise, we'd have never known. This overtly implies a *lack* of intellectual capability.

[@michaelpadan6375]

i'm going to the state fair to watch gallagher, i like his squeaky squeaky squeaky voice

[@sdm1568]

I saw gallagher in his later years - he screamed out "yall wanna smash some FRUIT?!?!?!?!" and then he jumped down off the stage and beat me with a hammer. 😢

[@LadyMercutia]

Oh God, for real.

[@gestalticavia322]

didn't Gallagher sell his routine to his brother, who assumed the same persona onstage? Does that have something to do with the weird abrupt jokes?

[@WolverinePete]

Gallagher had to sue his brother because he did let him do the "Sledge-o-matic" routine but only under the condition he not sell himself as the original Leo Gallagher. He tried to pass himself off as Gallagher and lost in court the right to do the routine.

[@DanOfTheDead]

DeRosa summed up Gallagher pretty succinctly at the end there, wants to be regarded like Carlin, but smashed fucking watermelons for a career.

[@davidfoust4607]

Gallagher is a jerk, who is he to say what comedy is? If you make people laugh then you have done your job, if NO ONE laughs THEN you aren't a comedian.

[@richardgray8593]

If no one laughs, then you're Gallagher.

[@Halloween111]

Or Dennis Miller

[@mhks68]

Or Bill Maher

[@cmnyc3493]

In the interview, that’s exactly the point Gallagher made.

[@clmabry]

I challenge anyone to show me anything that Gallagher has ever said that could by definition be considered racist.

[@sammulvey3693]

***** splitsider.com/2013/04/gallagher-said-racist-stuff-on-a-podcast-again/

[@clmabry]

Sam Mulvey FACT: Nothing that Gallagher said in that podcast can by definition be considered racist. My challenge still stands.

[@alexander_dean]

***** Is that you, Gallagher?

[@MsJenniferwilson]

sjws ruin everything

[@anancientaliennamedstevie9982]

Lol listen to his last appearance with Patrice all the way to the end. It's effing fantastic

[@transporterIII]

My street diagnosis: Paranoid Schezophrenia

[@snatt420]

marc maron is gallagher

[@TrudyPatootie]

Gallagher is as funny as Jerry Lewis when he puts a shot glass in his mouth. It never gets old... (snark) I was drug to a comedy club ( very small) Gallagher was there with his usual stick...I groaned as I walked in... and I groaned more as I walked out covered in Watermelon bits. I later found out that it was Ron his younger brother. You couldn't tell the difference. Nowhere did the advertisement tell you that. Well Leo sued Ron and won the use of the stupid sledgehammer fruit bit. and Ron was told that he could know longer try to look like his brother..hahahaha.. True Story.

[@fosbury68]

Gallagher should have a show on Fox "News". He'd fit right in.

[@BrandonOsborn404]

Poor Leo, he's such a douche bag his heart's trying to escape from his brain.

[@TrevBoyThe2nd]

I like how Marc begins to talk about the Gallagher situation and Opie interrupts him to tell him to talk about the Gallagher situation. How can someone be such an awful host after +15 years.

[@SteveCoteGotHisAssBeat]

Shut up

[@jakepayne2985]

@@SteveCoteGotHisAssBeat Opie?

[@SteveCoteGotHisAssBeat]

@@jakepayne2985 Gallagher?

[@brandonb3174]

I don’t think Gallagher ever did the show again

[@retired4365]

He sounds like a hoot on stage. lol

[@swingingfordearlife]

@MusicJew158 apparently you don't understand how the show works. if the rest of the room is bashing someone then you need a good cop, anthony was playing good cop. if everyone's bashing the guest like opie and louis were, then he hangs up.

[@oncethriving]

Listen to Maron's interview with Gottfried where he sympathizes with Gottfried losing the AFLAC job for "just one joke." They say it's just a joke and it to taken out of context. They even go on to defend Michael Richards' infamous rant. When Gallagher makes the same argument that his jokes about lesbians were just a few jokes in a three-hour act, Maron attacks him. If you listen, Gallagher was right. Maron just kept interrupting and disagreeing with everything he said.

[@shawngregory1429]

He stopped smashing shit at most shows because the venues starting paying less for the clean-up.

[@kdgfg]

Gallagher could make his act all edgy and modern if he started smashing pig and cow heads

[@Muthaphuckka]

pretty sure that's Edward Snowden with a moustache

[@BilltheButcher1855]

Marc Maron saying he’s not politically correct is fuckin nauseating. Listen to the interview and he is full on SJW. He said that Gallagher was racist and homophobic cuz he had a few jokes about them. And then proceeded to say that when comedians “roast” others that that is in context. Gallagher, racist or not is still a comedian who when he says a joke should be taken in context

[@Hermunkle]

Sure I know I am all kinda wrong but I still have a spot for late 70's early 80's Gallagher. Low brow? All Brow? Hell I don't know but it draws me. After that? Ouch! That cat went down in a tied burlap sack.

[@shawngregory1429]

He stopped smashing shit at most shows because the venues starting deducting the costs of the extensive clean-up from his check.

[@andym8557]

I'd work a state fair

[@Russianman90]

Isn't Gallagher doing GEICO commercials nowadays yet he trashes other "hacky" comedians, especially after that Comedy Central list a few years ago.

[@paradoarify]

Patrice pwnd gallagher. Hard

[@bigrobrooks6869]

I don’t know. I don’t like Both comedians but I think Gallagher has more credits and is more Prolific the Marc.

[@randonceccoli8428]

I literally just listened to the interview and Marons painting it very dishonestly

[@advancedraymondology2914]

Idk about the whole interview, but there's a clip on here of the last five minutes or so. It's pretty much word for word how Maron portrays it. Blowhard Gallagher going off about what is and isn't comedy, downing other comics, letting a little of his obvious racial issues out, acting like the state-fair circuit is something every comic desires, etc. Maron was actually being more than fair. Where was the lie? I'd give him the benefit of the doubt that it was a bad day, but after listening to two-plus hours of him on O&A, this is just how this guy is. He's an unfunny, angry little man. He thinks everyone from Carrot Top to Blue Man Group stole his act. And his ideas are batshit. He's just a miserable old cunt. It sure is interesting though, I'll give him that. Edit: search "WTF Gallagher walks out." Everything Maron says happened happened. I am no particular Maron fan, he can be a total dick, but where was he dishonest here? Gallagher is insane and only unintentionally funny.

[@randonceccoli8428]

@@advancedraymondology2914 wow bro im not even reading that I don't care that much I got to "I didnt listen to the whole interview" and I thought why in the hell would I read all of that from someone that doesnt know what theyre even talking about? Spend the 40 minutes or so and come back for a debate, although, I probably wouldnt read what you had to say anyway but appreciate your passion

[@advancedraymondology2914]

@@randonceccoli8428 you not only read it, you're cleaning your waifu doll off with it right now. Pervert.

[@404autism]

lmao

[@smokyp3nguin]

@HeLovesCulture Yeah, but Lisa doesn't mean those things. She's not a racist homophobe, and Gallagher is, that's what makes it so offensive.

[@josephwilson4491]

Actually... Gallagher is smart. He has a chemical engineering degree from the University South Florida.

[@TheRamsesII]

Gallagher always had a long, diverse act with the Sledgeamatic as the last bit. I get he's become an ass, but to say he never had any other good jokes and bits is fucking ridiculous. He was a very clever entertainer for a long time. Not sure about the racist jokes...never saw that act...

[@ThisIsTommyT]

+TheRamsesII he was great back in the 80s .grew up on the VHS'S from me local video rental store when i was a kid. always laughed. he had tons of word play jokes and stuff. the gay hate jokes ive seen arent cool. but yea. he was cool at a time for sure

[@jmarddm1737]

go watch the interview with marc, he admits to it

[@kgt7500]

Yeah.. like "why do you drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?!" Wocka Wocka!

[@TheRamsesII]

LOL! well, there ARE better examples.....

[@caetanosilveira153]

He wasn't just that one act, and he was popular in his time sure. He was an entertainer and a successful one. But people who enjoyed his act growing up act like he was Lenny Bruce. (He wasn't Lenny Bruce)

[@vdelrio999]

These guys all got together to criticize how Gallagher thinks he knows so much. Odd. Isn't that what they usually do about everything else?

[@mhks68]

9:50 Smashing water chestnuts is “a little hardcore?!?”

[@sskoog]

They're all referring to -- but won't directly cite -- an August 2010 performance (Gathering of the Juggalos, Illinois), where Gallagher did a three-fer involving Ted Kennedy ("brain cancer, now he can die with a hole in his head, just like his brothers"), Mexicans ("I don't see any in the audience yet, maybe when it's time for cleanup afterwards"), and Obama ("I'm gonna hammer-smash this plate of collard greens, I wish it had pineapple on it so it could represent our president"). This was supposedly representative of his comedy at the time. Note that both Maron and O&A tried to get him on their shows soon afterwards -- everyone could smell blood in the water, wanted their turns to hit him.

[@Panwere36]

I think it is hilarious that so many haters of Gallagher are on here.. and he is STILL performing.. and STILL loved, while so many of those who stole from him and whom he wrote for are either dead or miserable. But then, Opie and Anthony are "woke", meaning they will never be legit honest about anything being wrong with SJW "comedy".

[@TheMotherfer]

Now I have to watch Gallagher's stuff, and remember how hacky it was.

[@urgfswallows]

+TheMotherfer At the time, it was never done before, therefore it was not hacky. Also, you're calling an act that was done in the early to mid 80's hacky. Do you realize how ridiculous you sound??? You have no argument!

[@booates]

Those two things aren't at all mutually exclusive.

[@user-nv7pu3rn5i]

I think Gallagher is just the ultimate panderer. Utterly devoid of any intrinsic philosophy, he's just a huckster who finds it quite convenient to be well versed in all things metaphysical. What is metaphysics? It's the study of understanding how to know things. What better subject to master when you're trying to pander to a crowd of so-and-so's? He's the opposite of the pure stand-up comic who is telling the truth - his truth changes with regard to his audience.

[@davidhill2020]

One of the funniest things about "The Aristocrats" is that three or four people rag on Gallagher. I know he tries to do "politically incorrect" humor, which is to say that he says bigoted things and people who agree with him laugh, but he doesn't sound any different from any other pundit, plus he throws in some old jokes and a gimmick.

[@user-nv7pu3rn5i]

And it's a good goddamn way to make money.

[@lukesta12]

I miss Patrice

[@ksim43]

@kalpal67 Except that's the opposite of what he said.