Marc Maron's End Times Fun has the "thundering resonance of prophecy"

The New York Times

"Sometimes, pessimism pays off," Jason Zinoman says of Maron's Netflix comedy special that feels especially resonant now even though it was filmed last year. "In End Times Fun, released on Netflix last week, Maron, 56, imagines doomsday scenarios with baroquely grim imagery: skies aflame, waters rising, lizard infestations, melting faces, technological singularity," says Zinoman. "His apocalyptic mood might have once seemed like typical hyperbole, the latest gloom and doom from a neurotic progressive in the age of Trump, but it now has the thundering resonance of prophecy. Maron meets the moment not just because we are all inching closer to his dark worldview, but also because he’s the rare comedian to ask the really big questions, the existential ones that take on more urgency in a crisis."