The comedian and podcaster recently chatted with Esquire‘s editor-in-chief Michael Sebastian about his (one-sided) rivalry with The Daily Show host, admitting that it was “fully fueled” by his own “insecurity.” He added, “Jon never did anything to me,” and that he “was just jealous” of Stewart and the career he had built.
“When I was coming up, he was this smart, cute Jewish guy,” Maron said, adding that Stewart was a “disciplined careerist” who understood how to “harness” his talent and then “capitalize on it” on his own terms.
However, the Wtf with Marc Maron host said of his early career days, “I never had any control over my talent. I never knew its limitations or what it was. I was just all in and just demanding a place in the world of comedy.
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