Comedian Marc Maron talks about taking comedy risks, failure and unfunny edgelords in this Salon.com interview about his HBO comedy special "From Bleak to Dark." Maron opens up about navigating gnarly grief after the sudden 2020 death of his partner filmmaker Lynn Shelton, overcoming embarrassment and why he admires sloppy guitar players like himself. And, Maron calls out the Academy for the controversy surrounding his "To Leslie" costar Andrea Riseborough's 2023 Oscar nomination. "There was no crime at hand, and there was no malfeasance, and there was no shady business," he said. "Why they chose to make an example out of her is very dubious and really disappointing."