Alison Brie & Marc Maron Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions

Hi, I'm Alison Brie.

Oh, yeah, I'm Marc Maron.

And we're doing a WIRED Autocomplete Interview.

Autocomplete?

Oh, I-- Oh, just you wait,

Okay. Marc Maron.

So you know what we're doing?

I'm hosting this interview. Alright,

she's on top of it.

(upbeat music)

Do you want me to read them?

And then I'm supposed to answer them?

(upbeat music)

How did Alison Brie and Dave Franco meet?

We were introduced by a mutual friend

at Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Mardi Gras?

That's all you need to know.

Wow, were you drunk?

Yeah. Okay.

Didn't Alison Brie-- Didn't

Alison Brie balloons?

I did not. What does that mean?

Is that a weight thing?

I did not balloons,

No, because I can make balloon animals.

I actually do think I know what this is related to,

because I used to work as a clown

for kids' birthday parties Right.

in my youth, and I can make balloon animals.

Didn't Alison Brie rap? Rap?

Yeah, I've rapped. Yeah.

I used to rap on Community,

because I worked with Donald Glover a.k.a. Childish Gambino,

who was always making like real amazing music,

so I would jokingly rap a lot

and then people wanted to make me rap

all the time, Yeah.

similarly to the balloon animal thing

and I had to draw a line. What's wrong with you?

I've done it a million times,

[Marc] This is where someone steps in.

Google it, you'll find it.

Maybe you could do something integrating the two,

like rap and then like,

do a dog? Don't give them ideas.

[Marc] Didn't Alison Brie

English accent? English accent.

I did do an English accent

in the movie The Five-Year Engagement,

I played Emily Blunt's sister.

Did you get a teaching tool,

that you listen to in your car,

and you would drive around Yes.

going, hello. Exactly.

Okay, Didn't Alison Brie Elmo impression?

Also true, also from The Five-Year Engagement.

In one scene, we have like a very serious conversation,

while doing Elmo and Cookie Monster respectively.

What was the preparation

I actually think for Elmo and? (laughs)

Elmo is what got me the part,

because I went to the table read for the movie,

Yeah.

not having been cast officially

and Elmo brought the house down.

Oh, you killed? I don't even

really remember, yeah,

how I just had it in me. They didn't even care

if you could do a English accent?

And I also remember, no, that Judd Apatow

thought I actually was British after that,

I was like, wow, you've really never seen my other work?

Maybe he thought I was doing an amazing American accent

on Mad Men. I didn't, you,

this is where I'm just gonna turn into my Dad,

who is the lady in the skating movie?

Margot Robbie,

I didn't know she was an American.

in I Tanya, she's not American.

What is she, Australian or something?

Australian, Australian?

I think.

[Interviewer] Let's bring in the next one.

(laughing)

Let's talk more about Margot Robbie.

Looks like the tables have turned, Marc Maron.

Oh boy, Is Marc Maron-- Is Marc Maron

drum roll, please.

Is Marc Maron podcast?

I am podcast. Are you?

Oh!

I am podcast. Wow.

I host a podcast, I do it twice a week,

I interview celebrities like Alison Brie

and writers and musicians,

I've interviewed people like Neil Young

and President Barrack Obama.

So I was counting the seconds to see how long,

till you said Barrack Obama.

I don't do, I don't put that one right up front,

I'll throw like Randy Newman in there,

you know, Wanda Sykes, then I'll throw in Obama.

You put it up front.

Is Marc Maron married?

It's a common mistake,

He's not. being married,

I've been married twice,

I'm not though now, Not currently.

but I'm with somebody, I think she'd get married,

if I would bring it up.

Good space to talk about that.

I've been married twice,

is there a point to another one?

I've said this to her. Okay.

Is it too much?

Let's move on.

Where is Marc Maron from?

I'm genetically New Jersey, I was born in New Jersey,

then I moved to Alaska for a couple of years

and then New Mexico, I think

is where I did the primary growing up, Albuquerque.

Oh, there's more and the first thing that comes up is

What is Alison-- What is Alison Brie

[Marc] She's,

[Alison] up to?

Ah, talk about the show,

we did a show. It's a fascinating life.

Season two of the show. Oh, yeah,

I've been shooting the show, GLOW,

Right. Season two.

[Marc] Yeah, Is Alison Brie related to Laura

[Alison] Marano?

Who's Laura Marano? I have no idea.

Oh oh. And we're not related,

I don't think, I've never done 23andMe,

maybe if I did, I would discover

I wanna do that, I wanna do that.

Yeah, me too kind of.

'Cause I think I'm thinking I have Viking in me.

Okay.

[Marc] Is Alison Brie single?

Mm, mm. No,

sorry you guys,

married. No,

she's married to Davie.

I'm the least amount of single.

Come on. Yeah.

Get up to speed. Hello.

[Marc] Who does Alison Brie look like?

Oh, you know, I get Natalie Imbruglia more than anything,

since I was 15 and still, when my hair's short,

Oh yeah? now again, yeah.

I think since I saw you do the Audrey Hepburn,

your impression, yeah,

I think there's a Audrey Hepburn thing.

Thank you. But no one remembers her,

I'm not sure I do, but I know who she is.

[Alison] Well, yours are sort of normal.

I don't have a long history of balloon animals

and rapping on camera.

Where is Marc survey says.

[Alison] Maron's house?

I'm not gonna tell you where it is,

[Alison] Smart.

so you don't come over to my house,

just linger, looking at it.

There's not many of you, but you know who you are.

I get why people ask this,

because I feel like on your podcast,

one of the number one things people comment on

is where am I, Yeah, where am I?

what is this neighborhood? And then they get

in the garage and like, this creepy garage.

Yeah. Are you gonna murder me?

Right.

Did that?

Wait a minute, What?

That's a little much. No, I don't think.

What is Marc Maron's address? (laughs)

God, people really are,

The reason I know why honing in.

this happens is because it's on there,

that you can just Google my old address

and it just comes up.

I'm glad you moved.

I know, I moved, but now this is gonna cause problems,

now someone out there's gonna take it upon themself,

Oh, he thinks he bought in the trust,

he can hide it from us. Don't do it, don't do it.

Don't do it. Don't do it.

Don't be that guy. I'm living at,

I live right down the street from Alison.

(laughing)

[Alison] Where did Marc Maron go to college?

I went to a small liberal arts college

for middle class Jewish kids for one year

and then I transferred to a slightly better college.

What was the name of these colleges?

The first one was Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts,

but they let people like me in,

you know, people who were like, Fuck it,

I don't wanna go to college, okay, I do, I do,

and then I transferred to Boston University,

I did five years undergrad and it really paid off.

Although Curry College sounds a little made up.

No, it's real, it was a real place.

Okay. Why would I say that?

Why would I make up this little school I went to?

Does Alison Brie have-- An Instagram?

Yes, @AlisonBrie.

[Marc] Does Alison Brie have--

Yes, an older sister, Lauren.

Can Alison Brie-- Definitely,

Yes. I used to have a cover band

with my friends called The Girls.

What was your most popular cover?

Maybe Rich Girl by Hall & Oates.

Hm, did you dance? Kind of.

Why, Marc Maron, why? I know, this is gonna--

[Alison] Why does Marc Maron hate everyone?

(laughing)

I don't think I hate everyone,

I think that I'm cranky sometimes

and at times, resentful of other people's things,

but that is past, 'cause I have my own things now.

[Alison] Why does Marc Maron say, Boomer lives?

Boomer was a cat that I had years ago, that disappeared,

it was traumatic and it became sort of this rallying cry

at the end of my podcasts

as a sort of homage to my missing cat.

Yeah? We never knew

what happened to him.

You like to think that he lives?

He became mythic.

How to contact Marc Maron?

People really wanna get to you, my friend.

Oh, let me just give you my number, it's 917--

No, Marc, no.

Now they know that, Oh, God.

that's enough, someone's gonna figure it out.

That is it, you're gonna get a million phone calls.

[Marc] I kept my New York number though.

[Alison] How tall Marc Maron?

I believe I'm still 5' 11, though I am getting older,

I might shrink a little.

[Alison] How to watch Marc Maron More Later?

(laughing)

Oh, that was a special I did

for the very popular cable outlet called Epics.

Do you have it?

Yeah, you don't know. I think I do.

Well, you think you do, that was the problem,

you can get More Later on ITunes.

How long are we doing this?

Is it just-- You heard it here first,

thank you for your time.