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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 / 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...

  • 2025 / 1 / 2
    Episode 1605 - Ask Marc Anything: A Full Maron Special Presentation

    Marc’s been answering listener questions on the Fulll Maron bonus feed for two and a half years. This is a collection of Marc’s answers from across the first 18 installments of the Ask Marc Anything bonus...

  • 2024 / 12 / 30
    Episode 1604 - Ron Livingston

    Ron Livingstone just came over to chat. While most people come to the garage with something to promote, Marc and Ron were happy to be two guys getting to know each other on the microphones with no other...

  • 2024 / 12 / 26
    Episode 1603 - WTF Origins: A Full Maron Special Presentation

    Marc presents a special compilation of mini-series created for The Full Maron feed on WTF+ called WTF Origins. In this series of recordings from the past year, Marc and WTF producer Brendan McDonald talk...

  • 2024 / 12 / 23
    Episode 1602 - Bruce Vilanch

    Bruce Vilanch is best known for his time as the head writer of the Oscars, but he is actually a vestige of a fabled era of show business. Bruce talks with Marc about how he went from being a child actor to...

  • 2024 / 12 / 19
    Episode 1601 - Justin Kurzel

    Filmmaker Justin Kurzel is drawn to stories about outlaws and outsiders. Growing up in South Australia and living in Tasmania, he’s seen the fragile nature of small communities and the people who can prompt...

  • 2024 / 12 / 16
    Episode 1600 - Bobbi Althoff

    Bobbi Althoff’s podcast success story is much different than Marc’s podcast success story. In fact, the concept of a podcast is very different than when WTF got started. Bobbi explains how she grew up in a...

  • 2024 / 12 / 12
    Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz

    When Marc first met Andy Blitz during the rise of the alt-comedy scene in New York City, Andy still thought show business was magical. And why wouldn’t he? As he tells Marc, he was a kid who grew up in the...

  • 2024 / 12 / 9
    Episode 1598 - Jesse Eisenberg

    Not too many guests come into the garage and tell Marc he changed their lives forever. In fact, Jesse Eisenberg might be the only one. Jesse and Marc go over that formative moment and what it says about both...

  • 2024 / 12 / 5
    Episode 1597 - Dwight Yoakam

    Dwight Yoakam is a multi-platinum recording artist with many number one albums and singles, as well as multiple Grammy wins. But despite all his accomplishments as a musician, including his new album Brighter...

  • 2024 / 12 / 2
    Episode 1596 - Luca Guadagnino

    Filmmaker Luca Guadagnino is attracted to the ways in which we’re all imperfect beings. That explains why a clash of personalities is central to so many of his movies, including A Bigger Splash, Suspiria and...

  • 2024 / 11 / 28
    Episode 1595 - Steve Furey

    Steve Furey’s path to comedy started with youth football. Once he realized he wasn’t great at football, he started selling drugs. Once he realized he wasn’t good at selling drugs, he started comedy. In...

  • 2024 / 11 / 25
    Episode 1594 - Anthony Jeselnik

    Anthony Jeselnik is back in the garage more than 13 years since the last time he and Marc talked on the mics. With many career successes and some failures in the rearview, Anthony talks with Marc about where...

  • 2024 / 11 / 21
    Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt

    Rosemarie DeWitt never really thought she would become an actor because she felt like no one was betting on her. In fact, later in life her father said, “I can’t believe that you’re successful.” Marc finds...

  • 2024 / 11 / 18
    Episode 1592 - Cynthia Erivo

    Cynthia Erivo has some tips for Marc on how to get more out of his time on set. For example, she always makes sure to get her steps in. So when you see her playing Elphaba in Wicked, she’s wearing her fitness...

  • 2024 / 11 / 14
    Episode 1591 - Josh Brolin

    Josh Brolin is a natural guest to return to the garage for a second chat because he and Marc relate on many levels. They both find themselves chasing addictions even when they’re sober. They’re both...

  • 2024 / 11 / 11
    Episode 1590 - Jessica Lange

    Jessica Lange admits she’s always drawn to the darkness and madness of her characters, whether it’s Frances Farmer or Blanche DuBois or her most recent performance as The Great Lillian Hall, which dealt with...

  • 2024 / 11 / 7
    Episode 1589 - Robby Hoffman

    Robby 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 / 4
    Episode 1588 - Mo Mandel

    Mo 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 / 31
    Episode 1587 - Billy Corben

    Filmmaker 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 / 28
    Episode 1586 - Robert Patrick

    The 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 / 24
    Episode 1585 - Keith Urban

    Keith 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 / 21
    Episode 1584 - Robert Zemeckis

    Many 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 / 17
    Episode 1583 - Al Pacino

    Al 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 / 14
    Episode 1582 - Joe Boyd

    Joe 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 / 10
    Episode 1581 - Langston Kerman

    Langston 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 / 7
    Episode 1580 - Sebastian Stan

    Sebastian 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 / 3
    Episode 1579 - Connie Chung

    Connie 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 / 30
    Episode 1578 - Kaitlin Olson

    It’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 / 26
    Episode 1577 - Kathleen Hanna

    Kathleen 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 / 23
    Episode 1576 - Elizabeth Olsen

    Marvel 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 / 19
    Episode 1575 - Jason Ritter

    As 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 / 16
    Episode 1574 - Eric Roberts

    While 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 / 12
    Episode 1573 - Ali Macofsky

    Hundreds 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 / 9
    Episode 1572 - Lupita Nyong'o

    She 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 / 5
    Episode 1571 - Chris Robinson

    It 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 / 2
    Episode 1570 - Drew Lynch

    Drew 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 / 29
    Episode 1569 - Brendon Walsh

    When 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 / 27
    BONUS Producer Cuts - Marc's Monologues from July

    It'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 / 26
    Episode 1568 - Greg Fitzsimmons

    Greg 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...