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WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Description

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
  • 2025 / 6 / 19
    Episode 1653 - Megan Stalter

    Megan Stalter sees her comedic persona as a representation of both supreme confidence and a nervous breakdown simultaneously. It’s a demeanor that served her well, whether on the improv stages in Chicago or...

  • 2025 / 6 / 16
    Episode 1652 - Cristin Milioti

    Cristin Milioti’s portrayal of the ruthless Sofia Falcone in The Penguin might seem like a departure for her. But Cristin tells Marc her goal has always been to avoid being pigeonholed. Also, the tone of The...

  • 2025 / 6 / 12
    Episode 1651 - Mike Birbiglia

    Perhaps a reason there’s always tension between Mike Birbiglia and Marc is they have a lot in common. That’s also probably the reason that, despite this tension, Mike has made multiple trips to the garage....

  • 2025 / 6 / 9
    Episode 1650 - Seth Meyers

    Seth Meyers doesn’t get out to LA very often, but when he does he’s able to visit longtime friends, go on other late night shows, and head over to the garage to talk with Marc. This time they get into how...

  • 2025 / 6 / 5
    Episode 1649 - Josh Homme

    Josh Homme manifested an 18-year-old dream to perform a Queens of the Stone Age concert in the Catacombs of Paris. Josh tells Marc why it was such a meaningful undertaking two years after he survived a bout...

  • 2025 / 6 / 2
    Episode 1648 - John Mulaney

    John Mulaney has been through a lot since the last time he was on the show, so it’s nice he can identify the present as, in his words, a happy time that he can appreciate. John offers Marc his reflections on...

  • 2025 / 5 / 29
    Episode 1647 - Scott Frank

    Scott Frank is one of Hollywood’s most prolific screenwriters but he still has perpetual anxiety about his job security. Scott and Marc talk about the impulse that keeps him grinding away, whether he’s...

  • 2025 / 5 / 26
    Episode 1646 - Nick Kroll

    Nick Kroll was one of the first dozen guests on WTF and in the nearly sixteen years of his life since then, loved ones have been lost, babies have been welcomed to the world, and Nick can now see things about...

  • 2025 / 5 / 22
    Episode 1645 - Peter Wolf

    Peter Wolf didn’t want to write the typical rock and roll memoir filled with lurid tales and score settling. Instead he wanted to write a collection of short stories that stem from his serendipitous...

  • 2025 / 5 / 19
    Episode 1644 - Sarah Silverman

    Sarah Silverman and Marc go back more than 30 years and although they know a lot about each other from the past, they can both acknowledge that they haven’t stopped growing and learning and changing right up...

  • 2025 / 5 / 15
    Episode 1643 - Carol Leifer

    Carol Leifer has been a standup comic for almost 50 years, but the knowledge she can impart from her lifetime of experience isn’t limited to the standup stage. That’s why Carol co-wrote the new book How to...

  • 2025 / 5 / 12
    Episode 1642 - Bridget Everett

    When Bridget Everett was growing up in Kansas, the question “How are you feeling?” was not often asked. That’s part of the reason why Bridget embraced singing and making music as her primary way to connect...

  • 2025 / 5 / 8
    Episode 1641 - Samantha Crain

    Singer-songwriter Samantha Crain wasn’t sure if she’d ever be able to make music again after a car accident left her without the ability to play instruments or physically write songs. Samantha talks with Marc...

  • 2025 / 5 / 5
    Episode 1640 - Tom Green

    While he was once known for all manner of comedy involving animals, both alive and dead, Tom Green’s relationship with the animal kingdom is now much more traditional, as he spends most of his time doing farm...

  • 2025 / 5 / 1
    Episode 1639 - David Harbour

    David Harbour and Marc met in the garage seven years ago at the height of Stranger Things and the beginning of a new phase in David’s career. Now with the Marvel movie Thunderbolts coming out, David and Marc...

  • 2025 / 4 / 28
    Episode 1638 - David Cronenberg

    David Cronenberg starts making each new film of his as though he’s making a movie for the first time. Marc sees connective tissue through all of David’s work, consisting of “the meat, the machine, mutations...

  • 2025 / 4 / 24
    Episode 1637 - Jessica Kirson

    Jessica Kirson was a guest on WTF six years ago, when she talked with Marc about her start in comedy and her personal background. This time, she came back just to hang out and have some laughs. And for Marc...

  • 2025 / 4 / 22
    BONUS Mike Birbiglia Just Called (and David Cronenberg Just Left)

    Marc and Brendan talk about the phone call from Mike Birbiglia that was prompted by comments made by Marc and Liza Treyger on Monday's WTF episode. Then Marc gives some details about his talk with director...

  • 2025 / 4 / 21
    Episode 1636 - Liza Treyger

    Comedian Liza Treyger is frequently mystified by human behavior. Why are people so mean when leaving internet comments? Why do adults continuously repeat the patterns of children? Why are friendships so hard...

  • 2025 / 4 / 17
    Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell

    Jillian Bell’s history of anxiety goes back to when she was a baby and would hold her breath until she passed out. But she didn’t let panic attacks stand in the way of her dream to get hired at SNL or her...

  • 2025 / 4 / 14
    Episode 1634 - Ryan Coogler

    As a writer and director, Ryan Coogler is drawn to stories about identity. He made Fruitvale Station to confront his own thoughts and fears about being a Black man in America. He made Creed as an extension of...

  • 2025 / 4 / 10
    Episode 1633 - Gavin Matts

    By all accounts, Gavin Matts has carved a successful path for himself as a comedian, actor and writer at the young age of 30. But he can’t shake the feeling that he came into show business at the tail end and...

  • 2025 / 4 / 7
    Episode 1632 - Peter Weller

    Peter Weller knows that most people think of him as RoboCop. But he also knows that when they approach him to talk about RoboCop, it’s his opportunity to talk to them about art, jazz, theater and many other...

  • 2025 / 4 / 3
    Episode 1631 - Lynne Margulies

    When Lynne Margulies was 25 years old, she met Andy Kaufman on the set of the film My Breakfast with Blassie. Two years later, just shortly before he died, Andy made Lynne promise she would keep his work...

  • 2025 / 3 / 31
    Episode 1630 - Delroy Lindo

    Delroy Lindo can take pride in many accomplishments - his family, his career, his educational - while being aware that he’s still in the process of finding himself. Delroy and Marc, despite their differences,...

  • 2025 / 3 / 27
    Episode 1629 - Modi Rosenfeld

    Some comedians think of comedy as a higher calling, but Modi Rosenfeld knows exactly where the call came from. He points to a story of two comedians in the Talmud, men who gave cheer to those who were...

  • 2025 / 3 / 24
    Episode 1628 - Nick Thune

    Nick Thune is a comic Marc is always happy to welcome back on the show. But this time, it’s very fortunate that Nick is able to join Marc in the garage at all because there was a time in which he spiraled...

  • 2025 / 3 / 20
    Episode 1627 - Chris Fleming

    Unlike many comedian guests on WTF, Chris Fleming had a lot of support and encouragement from his family when it came to pursuing a career in comedy. In fact, it was his mother who got him started at open...

  • 2025 / 3 / 17
    Episode 1626 - Jane Marie

    Jane Marie’s early life in Michigan didn’t necessarily put her on the glide path to the future world of podcasting, but an internship at This American Life gave her a crash course in the type of journalism...

  • 2025 / 3 / 13
    Episode 1625 - Mike Elias

    When Mike Elias wanted to learn the guitar, his dad told him he had to teach himself. Mike took that rule and ran with it for the rest of his life, teaching himself everything from sewing to metal fabrication...

  • 2025 / 3 / 12
    Issa Rae on Friendships That Need to Go, from IMO

    Sharing a new show from our friends at Higher Ground. On IMO, Michelle and her big brother Craig Robinson bring their candid perspectives to the everyday questions shaping our lives, relationships and the...

  • 2025 / 3 / 10
    Episode 1624 - W. Kamau Bell

    W. Kamau Bell and Marc are similar comedians in that neither of them will ignore the current political environment in their acts. Kamau and Marc talk about how that’s shaping up today versus how it was...

  • 2025 / 3 / 6
    Episode 1623 - Will Oldham

    Prolific singer-songwriter Will Oldham has been able to maintain what Marc calls “a haunting and elated tone” over the course of his career, whether in his collaborations with other artists or under the name...

  • 2025 / 3 / 3
    Episode 1622 - Don Johnson

    Don Johnson’s life took him far from where he thought it was going growing up in Missouri and Kansas. But at this point, he’s confident that nearly everything he knows in life he learned from the women in it....

  • 2025 / 2 / 27
    Episode 1621 - Chris Hayes

    When Chris Hayes was last on the show almost ten years ago, it was a much different world. Barack Obama had just recently been in the garage and Donald Trump had just declared his candidacy for President....

  • 2025 / 2 / 24
    Episode 1620 - Carrie Coon

    As someone from a working class Ohio family, Carrie Coon didn’t think much about acting as a plausible career path. But her post-college work in regional theater led her to Steppenwolf in Chicago, which in...

  • 2025 / 2 / 20
    Episode 1619 - Mo Amer

    Mo Amer was new to America when he was nine years old and his brother took him to see his first standup show. From that point on, he knew what he wanted to do with his life. Then at age 17, he took advice...

  • 2025 / 2 / 17
    Episode 1618 - Brady Corbet

    Brady Corbet spent years in front of the camera until he resigned from the job of actor. The new career he took up, that of filmmaker, has led to ten Oscar nominations for his newest movie The Brutalist....

  • 2025 / 2 / 13
    Episode 1617 - James Mangold

    James Mangold writes and directs films across multiple genres, but the one style he uses as a prism for so much of his work is the American Western. James and Marc talk about how A Complete Unknown fits into...

  • 2025 / 2 / 10
    Episode 1616 - Ariana Grande

    Ariana Grande can link one song to her entire life as a performer, from her childhood days singing for her grandpa to her life as a global pop superstar to her performance as Galinda in Wicked. That song is...

  • 2025 / 2 / 6
    Episode 1615 - Demi Moore

    Demi Moore has been a searcher since she was a kid, with intense interest throughout her life in things like spiritualism, psychology and, of course, acting. Demi talks with Marc about how she never stopped...

  • 2025 / 2 / 3
    Episode 1614 - Ke Huy Quan

    Ke Huy Quan’s remarkable Hollywood story continues to add more storybook chapters. From coming to America as a refugee to his global stardom as a child actor to leaving acting behind for several decades to a...

  • 2025 / 1 / 30
    Episode 1613 - Noah Wyle

    Noah Wyle spent 11 seasons in a fictional medical environment on the show ER. So what made him want to return to a trauma ward setting for his new series The Pitt? Noah tells Marc the reason, which had a lot...

  • 2025 / 1 / 27
    Episode 1612 - Erin Brockovich

    A lot of people know Erin Brockovich’s story thanks to the movie based on her legal work in a groundwater contamination case. But the story that really guided her life is one central to her Kansas roots: The...

  • 2025 / 1 / 23
    Episode 1611 - Sophie Buddle

    Sophie Buddle is living in LA and doing comedy all around the United States, but since she spent most of her life in Canada, she’s in a unique vantage point to give Marc the lowdown about the country to the...

  • 2025 / 1 / 20
    Episode 1610 - Bill Burr

    Bill Burr is trying to put things to bed. Whether it’s the anger he’s held onto throughout his life, or the sadness from he’s uncovered from his childhood, or even his old tensions with Marc, Bill’s been...

  • 2025 / 1 / 16
    Episode 1609 - Mo Welch

    After evacuating her home and consoling family members who lost their house in the LA fires, comedian Mo Welch acknowledges that she’s visiting Marc’s garage while still somewhere on the trauma spectrum. But...

  • 2025 / 1 / 13
    Episode 1608 - Richard Gadd

    Richard Gadd created the Netflix series Baby Reindeer as a way to work through traumatic events in his life that were hard to process. But it became equally difficult to process the runaway success of the...

  • 2025 / 1 / 9
    Episode 1607 - Mike Leigh

    Mike Leigh’s films are known for their observant depictions of the working class, their tragicomic tones, and their improvisational construction. But there are some misconceptions about his work that Mike...

  • 2025 / 1 / 6
    Episode 1606 - Adrien Brody

    Adrien Brody does a lot of research for his roles, but his performance in the new movie The Brutalist was shaped largely by his family’s immigrant experience and it aligned with his desire to play characters...