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Marc Maron welcomes comedians, actors, directors, writers, authors, musicians and folks from all walks of life to his home for amazingly revealing conversations. Marc's probing, comprehensive interview style allows guests to express themselves in ways listeners have never heard.
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Episodes
- 2024 / 11 / 7Episode 1589 - Robby HoffmanRobby Hoffman knows she comes in too hot. But that kind of in-your-face enthusiasm helped her go from being one of ten kids in a Hasidic Jewish family to a burgeoning standup comic and television writer....
- 2024 / 11 / 4Episode 1588 - Mo MandelMo Mandel would like you to enjoy his new comedy special, see him perform live and, if you’re a studio executive, greenlight one of his scripts. But Mo also wants to make sure he doesn’t become too...
- 2024 / 10 / 31Episode 1587 - Billy CorbenFilmmaker Billy Corben got an early taste of show business as an aspiring child actor. That aborted career path eventually turned into a new vocation as a maker of documentary films, including celebrated...
- 2024 / 10 / 28Episode 1586 - Robert PatrickThe world learned who Robert Patrick was when he showed up as the T-1000 in Terminator 2, but prior to that break out, Robert saw himself as a failed athlete and alcoholic who was lucky to get a chance at...
- 2024 / 10 / 24Episode 1585 - Keith UrbanKeith Urban may seem like an outsider who conquered Nashville, but as he tells Marc, he was an outsider in his home country, too. Coming from what he calls an oddball family in Australia who owned American...
- 2024 / 10 / 21Episode 1584 - Robert ZemeckisMany films in the career of Robert Zemeckis, including his new one called Here, involve some form of time travel. As Robert explains to Marc, nothing does time travel better than movies. Robert talks with...
- 2024 / 10 / 17Episode 1583 - Al PacinoAl Pacino created indelible memories for generations of moviegoers. But while he was writing his own memoir, Sonny Boy, Al kept coming back to mental scenes of his days in the South Bronx, running around the...
- 2024 / 10 / 14Episode 1582 - Joe BoydJoe Boyd is part of the music industry in so many ways, as a producer, label founder and more, that his new memoir And The Roots of Rhythm Remain also serves as a history of global music, a political roadmap...
- 2024 / 10 / 10Episode 1581 - Langston KermanLangston Kerman named his new Netflix comedy special Bad Poetry, harkening back to his time as a high school teacher. But as someone with an MFA in poetry, Langston knows enough about the dividing line...
- 2024 / 10 / 7Episode 1580 - Sebastian StanSebastian Stan believes creativity is the best therapy. So even when he's playing an unappealing person, like Jeff Gillooly in I, Tonya or Donald Trump in the new film The Apprentice, Sebastian knows there's...
- 2024 / 10 / 3Episode 1579 - Connie ChungConnie Chung’s consummate professionalism and journalistic rigor worked against her as she put together her new memoir. Her impulse is to report the facts, but her editors told her she needed to include other...
- 2024 / 9 / 30Episode 1578 - Kaitlin OlsonIt’s all a combination of old and new for Kaitlin Olson. She’s just finishing up shooting the first season of her ABC detective series High Potential and is now about to begin shooting the seventeenth season...
- 2024 / 9 / 26Episode 1577 - Kathleen HannaKathleen Hanna’s life and career exist at the nexus of punk rock, outsider art, photography and feminism. Now that she’s been able to put it all into her memoir, Rebel Girl, Kathleen talks with Marc about her...
- 2024 / 9 / 23Episode 1576 - Elizabeth OlsenMarvel fans around the world know Elizabeth Olsen as The Scarlet Witch, but Elizabeth says she has a different alter ego inside of her— that of an elderly New Yorker living on her own in the big city....
- 2024 / 9 / 19Episode 1575 - Jason RitterAs a kid, Jason Ritter felt a lot of pressure as the son of a beloved actor who audiences felt like they knew personally. He didn’t feel pressure from his parents, but rather pressure from the world,...
- 2024 / 9 / 16Episode 1574 - Eric RobertsWhile putting together his new memoir, Eric Roberts developed a fuller understanding of his life as an actor. As someone whose parents did not help him establish a sense of self, his journey through various...
- 2024 / 9 / 12Episode 1573 - Ali MacofskyHundreds of WTF guests have show business origin stories, but nobody has one like comedian Ali Macofsky, whose impulsive phone call to Ryan Seacrest live on the radio when she was seven years old got the ball...
- 2024 / 9 / 9Episode 1572 - Lupita Nyong'oShe may have won an Oscar for her first film role, but Lupita Nyong’o spent the early part of her life hiding her desire to be an actor. Lupita tells Marc about growing up under autocratic rule, living in a...
- 2024 / 9 / 5Episode 1571 - Chris RobinsonIt took Chris Robinson a long time to accept being a rock and roll frontman. Even at the height of The Black Crowes’ success, he just thought they were just a group of dudes from Atlanta playing roots music....
- 2024 / 9 / 2Episode 1570 - Drew LynchDrew Lynch never planned on being a comedian. But his pursuit of an acting career got derailed by a traumatic brain injury that left him with a stutter and no career prospects. Drew tells Marc the reason he...
- 2024 / 8 / 29Episode 1569 - Brendon WalshWhen the topic of past guests comes up, Marc often mentions Brendon Walsh, a comedian who was on several early WTF episodes as well as Marc’s IFC sitcom. Diving into a full conversation more than a decade...
- 2024 / 8 / 27BONUS Producer Cuts - Marc's Monologues from JulyIt's an all-monologue edition of Producer Cuts, with some chunks of Marc's monologues that were cut for time in the month of July, with digressions about flying coach, Vancouver, politics, Marc's favorite...
- 2024 / 8 / 26Episode 1568 - Greg FitzsimmonsGreg Fitzsimmons returns to WTF after a 13 year absence, but his dynamic with Marc remains the same as it was when they were comics starting out in Boston almost four decades ago. With a new comedy special...
- 2024 / 8 / 22Episode 1567 - Paul W. DownsOver the past four years, Paul W. Downs has been one of the people responsible for constructing the ongoing story of a lifer standup comic on the show Hacks. Paul talks with Marc about how his comedy...
- 2024 / 8 / 19Episode 1566 - Michael RookerMichael Rooker is known for playing a variety of menacing and intense characters. But menace was something he was always good at, as the protective older brother of six sisters. And intensity is often...
- 2024 / 8 / 15Episode 1565 - Blair SocciBlair Socci comes from an athletic family with a hardened ancestral backstory involving throat slashing and exile. But despite her exterior toughness, Blair spent her youth enjoying poetry, journaling and...
- 2024 / 8 / 12Episode 1564 - Moon ZappaWhen Moon Zappa was on the show back in 2013, she and Marc started dating shortly thereafter. Now that Moon has just written her memoir, Earth to Moon, she and Marc sit down for their first real conversation...
- 2024 / 8 / 8Episode 1563 - Beth StellingWhen Marc saw Beth Stelling’s Netflix special, he knew there was something he found familiar. It turns out they both have a similar process of making comedy out of trauma. Beth talks with Marc about the...
- 2024 / 8 / 5Episode 1562 - Jimmie Dale GilmoreOne of the reasons singer-songwriter Jimmie Dale Gilmore didn’t get a solo record deal until he was in his 40s is because he took an extended time away from music to live in a spiritual community. Jimmie and...
- 2024 / 8 / 1Episode 1561 - Anna AkanaMoving from place to place throughout her childhood was difficult on Anna Akana, but it was growing up alongside the internet that really changed her life. Anna tells Marc how her career as a comedian and...
- 2024 / 7 / 29Episode 1560 - Wolfgang Van HalenFor Wolfgang Van Halen, learning the drums, guitar and bass came easier than learning to deal with the trolling and resentment he faced for being the son of Eddie Van Halen. Wolfgang tells Marc how touring as...
- 2024 / 7 / 25Episode 1559 - Clare O'KaneWhen two comics are on tour together, one of the best places to get to know each other is in a car while driving between gigs. Clare O’Kane and Marc didn’t have much history together before Clare started...
- 2024 / 7 / 22Episode 1558 - Shalom AuslanderShalom Auslander gave voice to something Marc was thinking for most of his life: That he’s been living in a world of Feh. What that Yiddish word means and why Shalom believes it’s an organizing idea that’s...
- 2024 / 7 / 19Bob Newhart from 2014 and 2018First, hear Marc's 2014 conversation with Bob Newhart from Bob's home in Bel-Air. Then, a follow-up conversation from 2018 where Marc and Bob talked on the phone. Bob Newhart died on July 18, 2024, at age 94....
- 2024 / 7 / 18Episode 1557 - Dan St. GermainIt’s been a long time since Dan St. Germain had his first big gig as an opener with Marc in Sacramento. As the years have gone by, Dan took a few breaks from standup, worked as a writer on several TV series,...
- 2024 / 7 / 15Episode 1556 - Trey AnastasioDespite Phish’s enormous following, frontman Trey Anastasio still sees himself as an outsider. Trey talks with Marc about his earliest influences, which were not jam bands, but groups like the Jackson 5 and...
- 2024 / 7 / 11Episode 1555 - Clarence MaclinClarence Maclin was uniquely suited to make his film debut in the new movie Sing Sing, starring alongside Coleman Domingo. That’s because the film is based on a real life group of incarcerated men at Sing...
- 2024 / 7 / 8Episode 1554 - Stavros HalkiasStavros Halkias titled his Netflix special Fat Rascal in part because he doesn’t know any other reality than a life with addictive food issues. Marc is no stranger to addiction or food-based trauma, so he can...
- 2024 / 7 / 4Episode 1553 - Julianne NicholsonJulianne Nicholson came over to the garage at the right time. With Marc deep in the middle of an acting job, it was helpful for both his curiosity and his confidence to talk to an expert actor like Julianne...
- 2024 / 7 / 1Episode 1552 - Paul ScheerWhen Paul Scheer was on WTF back in 2010, he spoke about things in his past that he never before spoke about publicly. That conversation with Marc started Paul on a journey of self-discovery that continued as...
- 2024 / 6 / 27Episode 1551 - Gareth ReynoldsGareth Reynolds was struggling in show business as a comic, a writer, an actor, you name it. But not unlike Marc, he finally broke through when he started hosting a podcast along with fellow comic Dave...
- 2024 / 6 / 24Episode 1550 - JewelJewel Kilcher left her troubled home life in Alaska as a teenager, hitchhiking her way across the country and living in her car before becoming a music superstar known globally by her first name. Jewel talks...
- 2024 / 6 / 20Episode 1549 - Geezer ButlerAs bassist and lyricist for Black Sabbath, Geezer Butler has a lifetime of rock and roll stories to tell. From the band’s working class roots in Birmingham to their early days as a traditional blues band to...
- 2024 / 6 / 17Episode 1548 - Jude LawJude Law and Marc made a movie together but they never actually got to meet during it. They remedy that at the production offices of Jude’s latest project, as he sits down with Marc to talk about the...
- 2024 / 6 / 13Episode 1547 - Ali SiddiqComedian Ali Siddiq draws from his life experiences to create his comedy shows. Now in the midst of a four part comedy special called The Domino Effect, Ali is exploring everything from his tough upbringing...
- 2024 / 6 / 10Episode 1546 - Ed O'NeillEd O’Neill’s his early days working in an Ohio steel mill and contemplating a potential career hustling for mobsters didn’t seem like a path to Hollywood. Nor did his days playing football and coming up short...
- 2024 / 6 / 6Episode 1545 - Larry DavidLarry David says he regrets saying yes to everything right after he agrees to do it. But it’s too late to back out of the garage now, so he’ll try to convince Marc that he actually has a much better...
- 2024 / 6 / 3Episode 1544 - Susie EssmanAfter twenty-four years and twelve seasons as Susie Greene on Curb Your Enthusiasm, Susie Essman’s life has become strangers seeing her on the street and asking her to curse them out. Susie tells Marc the ins...
- 2024 / 5 / 30Episode 1543 - Tony GoldwynDespite a family name that goes back to the dawn of Hollywood, Tony Goldwyn’s father did not want him to get into the family business. It took Tony achieving his own success and landing a lead role in the...
- 2024 / 5 / 27Episode 1542 - Molly RingwaldThere was a time when Molly Ringwald knew she had to get out of America for a while so she didn’t have to be That Girl anymore. Now, with a career that includes being a jazz singer, a novelist, and a...