When President Obama popped in for a chat in the garage

US comedian Marc Maron tells Richard Fitzpatrick about the time Barack Obama came for a chat in his garage.

IT’S NOT everyday that the sitting president of the United States comes to visit your house for a chat. That’s exactly what happened to Marc Maron back in June. Barack Obama’s handlers reached out to the stand-up comic and long-running host of the podcast WTF with Marc Maron last year via his website to see if he was interested in having the president on his show for an interview. He was.

When the Obama entourage hit Highland Park, Los Angeles, to conduct the interview in Maron’s garage, they turned his house upside down. White House staffers and LAPD cops shuffled around his house.