Waiting for the Punch: Words to Live by from the WTF Podcast [B0398]

2017 HCDJ 1st Edition in excellent condition. "Public figures as you rarely if ever hear them: strikingly personal, surprisingly open, and profoundly emotional."-Entertainment Weekly. "I'm British, so I'm medically dead inside, but even I can't help but open up whenever I talk to Marc. He uses his honestly like a scalpel, cutting himself open in front of anyone he's talking to, and in doing so, invites you to do the same."-John Oliver. From the beloved and wildly popular podcast WTF with Marc Maron comes a book of intimate, hilarious and life changing conversations with some of the funniest, and most important people in the world like you've never heard them before. Waiting for the Punch features the stories and thoughts of such luminaries as Amy Schumer, Mel Brooks, Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler, Sir Ian McKellen, Lorne Michels, Judd Apatow, Lena Dunham, Jimmy Fallon, RuPaul, Louis CK, David Sedaris, Bruce Springsteen, and President Obama. This book is not simply a collection of these interviews, but instead something more wondrous: a running narrative of the world's most recognizable names working through the problems, doubts, joys, triumphs, and failures we all experience. With each chapter covering a different topic: parenting, childhood, relationships, sexuality, success, failures and others, Punch becomes a sort of everyman's guide to life. Full of stories that are at once laugh-out loud funny, heartbreakingly honest, joyous, tragic and powerful, Waiting for the Punch is a book to be read from cover to cover, but it is also one to return to again and again.

From Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Let's start with a confession: I have never listened to the WTF Podcast. I picked up this book because I love interviews and I love the idea of a collection of interview snippets. Every chapter is a different topic - parenting, childhood, mental health - and a wide range of guests wax poetic about their successes, failures, hopes and dreams. Best of all, skip the interviews you don't like, read it out of order, put it down and pick it up again weeks later... There's a lot of solid hard won wisdom in these pages."; "I found myself wishing this was organized by person, with longer snippets from each interview, as opposed to very short moments from interviews based around specific subjects."; "I had heard a lot of these interviews before but it was really refreshing to hear all these different perspectives, experiences, and opinions. It's such a great thing to hear how many people are even more fu**ed up, neurotic, worried, curious, smarter, and funnier than you are."