In “From Bleak to Dark,” Marc Maron digs deep to turn the tragic loss of his partner Lynn Shelton into comedy gold. mattwilstein has more on the new HBO stand-up special in our beastobsessed review.
But when Shelton has come up on WTF, the mention of her name has more often than not brought Maron to tears, especially as he came to realize how much her luminous presence meant to so many of the actors, writers, and comedians with whom she worked closely during a career that was cut far too short.It takes him a while to get there. As the title suggests, Maron starts with the bleak nature of our collective existence in 2023 before reaching into his own personal darkness.
But then, about 30 minutes into the hour-long show, everything changes. As he teased on his podcast and confirmed in a, the first laugh Maron gets after broaching the topic of Shelton’s death is for something he had never said on stage before it came out of his mouth during the HBO taping. From there, he finds a way to laugh at his own lowest moments of grief before turning around to roast the terrible advice he got from friends on how to get through it. A memory about the “mystical” experience of truly believing Shelton had been reincarnated as a hummingbird pays off with a perfect callback about her catching him having sex with a new woman.
Which is exactly what he pulls off moments later, when he shares the first joke he wrote about Shelton’s death. The idea came to him moments after the horrendous experience of saying goodbye to her in the hospital once she had already passed. Because of how upsetting that setup is, Maron spends four full minutes telling the story without eliciting any real laughs from the audience. When the one-word punchline hits, the tension shatters and the audience breaks into applause.
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