WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

By Marc Maron

Comedy

What's WTF with Marc Maron Podcast about?

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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Episode 1407 - Wayne Brady

02.06.2023

Wayne Brady is making himself happy again when he’s performing. He makes other people happy hosting Let’s Make a Deal and being part of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, but only in recent years does Wayne feel like he’s combatting ...

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02.06.2023 Episode 1407 - Wayne Brady Wayne Brady is making himself happy again when he’s performing. He makes other people happy hosting Let’s Make a Deal and being part of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, but only in recent years does Wayne feel like he’s combatting ...
02.02.2023 Episode 1406 - Dave Franco Dave Franco is a successful actor but that doesn’t mean he was full of confidence when he began directing his first feature. Dave tells Marc how he overcame the fear of the unknown once he stepped on set to call ...
01.30.2023 Episode 1405 - Radhika Jones Radhika Jones just celebrated her fifth year as Editor-in-Chief of Vanity Fair and, as far as Marc is concerned, she plays a major role on the front lines of the American culture war. Radhika tells Marc why she remains optimistic ...
01.26.2023 Episode 1404 - Brendan Fraser Brendan Fraser is receiving awards and accolades for his performance in The Whale but his reasons for taking on the role go much deeper than wanting to earn well-deserved praise. Brendan and Marc talk about the many layers of pain, ...
01.23.2023 Episode 1403 - Sarah Polley Sarah Polley has a lot to say about memory, narratives and the stories we tell. That’s because she believes they’re all fluid, which creates a sort of moving target for a writer and director of films, as she is. Sarah ...
01.19.2023 Episode 1402 - Octavia Spencer Octavia Spencer’s career started behind the scenes, as she worked in casting departments on film sets. Director Joel Schumacher said she should read for the role of Sandra Bullock’s nurse in A Time To Kill and set her on a ...
01.16.2023 Episode 1401 - Todd Field Todd Field toyed with many pursuits before he ever directed a film. First there was close-up magic. Then he went to school on a music scholarship. He also hoped to become a baseball player, working as a batboy for a ...
01.12.2023 Episode 1400 - Andrea Riseborough Andrea Riseborough can't lie. She's terrible at it. But she believes that trait helps her as an actor because there's no hiding her emotions. Marc can attest to this, having acted opposite Andrea in To Leslie, but she's been at ...
01.09.2023 Episode 1399 - Katt Williams Katt Williams is a one-of-a-kind comic performer, so it’s only natural he should have a one-of-a-kind backstory. Katt tells Marc about his travels as a teenager, trying to make it on his own in Florida, then in Haiti, then around ...
01.05.2023 Episode 1398 - Colin Hanks Colin Hanks knows there are public perceptions of him that are tricky to navigate. For one, the man known as America’s Dad is his actual dad. There’s also the fact that people have a hard time seeing him in roles ...
01.02.2023 Episode 1397 - Ben Foster Ben Foster was 14 years old and when he had what he calls a breakdown. Ben had a moment while acting where he completely lost himself and he needed to get back to that place at all costs. Marc talks ...
12.29.2022 Episode 1396 - Eric McFadden Guitarist and singer-songwriter Eric McFadden is a blast from Marc's past. They knew each other when they were teenagers growing up in Albuquerque, fostering their creative passions in art studios, record stores and guitar shops around town. After coming in ...
12.26.2022 Episode 1395 - Courtney Love Courtney Love is finishing up her first record in more than a decade while she lives in London, perhaps permanently. Courtney fled LA because, as she tells Marc, she needed to get out of the “overculture.” It’s one of many ...
12.22.2022 Episode 1394 - Scott Cooper Writer-director Scott Cooper says the best thing to came out of his acting career was the friendship he struck up with Robert Duvall. At Robert’s suggestion, Scott started writing his own films, including one he sent to Jeff Bridges. And ...
12.19.2022 Episode 1393 - Rian Johnson Rian Johnson revived the mystery genre with his movie Knives Out and now he’s seeing what other places he can take it, both with the sequel Glass Onion and his new detective series Poker Face. But that’s the kind of ...
12.15.2022 Episode 1392 - James Austin Johnson James Austin Johnson figured out at a very young age that he could do impressions. When he got older and started doing comedy, he wanted to figure out a way to do them that didn’t feel like a Las Vegas ...
12.12.2022 Episode 1391 - Tommy Tiernan Comedian Tommy Tiernan knows a fellow traveler when he sees one. Ever since he saw Marc perform, he recognized a kinship, which is something Marc notices himself when he’s in Tommy’s home country of Ireland. Tommy and Marc talk about ...
12.08.2022 Episode 1390 - Elvis Mitchell Elvis Mitchell waited his entire life to make the new documentary Is That Black Enough For You?!? As a film critic, professor, chronicler of the entertainment business on his show The Treatment and, most importantly, a lifelong movie fan, everything ...
12.05.2022 Episode 1389 - Clea DuVall It’s the holidays, which means Clea DuVall’s movie the Happiest Season is once again part of a new tradition for people everywhere. That’s still taking time to sink in for Clea because it’s a film she wrote and directed that ...
12.01.2022 Episode 1388 - James Gray Filmmaker James Gray had crisis of confidence after watching a rough cut of his first movie, Little Odessa. Now that he’s made his most personal film yet, Armageddon Time, James and Marc talk about what it took to rebuild his ...
11.28.2022 Episode 1387 - Rob Delaney / Sam Lipsyte Rob Delaney says the last time he was on the show, he didn’t have two coins to rub together. After that, he started a family, moved to London, created the hit show Catastrophe and saw his career take off. Then ...
11.24.2022 Episode 1386 - Live with David Baddiel Live from The Bloomsbury Theatre in London, Marc welcomes comedian and writer David Baddiel to the stage. In light of David’s new book and accompanying documentary, Jews Don’t Count, Marc and David talk about what it’s like to make sure ...
11.21.2022 Episode 1385 - Robert Siegel Writer-director Robert Siegel wanted to explore a career in either comedy or journalism. It turns out he got to do both as Editor-in-Chief of The Onion. But while The Onion was mostly comedy tinged with tragedy, Robert tells Marc how ...
11.17.2022 Episode 1384 - Bruce Wagner When Marc reads the works of author and screenwriter Bruce Wagner, he starts to question reality. Bruce’s depictions of Hollywood personalities and show business darkness cut close to the bone and leave Marc trying to make sense of the life ...
11.14.2022 Episode 1383 - Wes Bentley American Beauty completely changed Wes Bentley’s life and is still doing so today, considering he got his current role in Yellowstone because of his performance as Ricky Fitts. But the sudden exposure to fame started Wes down a path of ...
11.13.2022 Budd Friedman from 2012 From November 2012, Marc talks with Budd Friedman, the man behind the comedy club boom in America. Budd died on November 12, 2022 at the age of 90. Sign up here for WTF+ to get the full show archives and ...
11.11.2022 Gallagher Marc revisits his 2011 interview with comedian Gallagher, recorded in Portland, Oregon on January 27, 2011. Their conversation about comedy, language and cultural tolerance led to Gallagher walking out on the interview, the first and only time that happened on ...
11.10.2022 Episode 1382 - Quinta Brunson Quinta Brunson didn’t pave the traditional path to a hit network sitcom. In fact, she paved a path that didn’t really exist. Quinta and Marc talk about how she was one of the first people on Instagram to hit it ...
11.07.2022 Episode 1381 - Elizabeth Banks Elizabeth Banks says she’s the kind of person who likes to get ‘A’s on tests. And in show business, directing feature films for Hollywood studios is the ultimate test. Elizabeth and Marc talk about how her imposter syndrome faded over ...
11.03.2022 Episode 1380 - Chris Redd Chris Redd knows what it’s like to have dreams and then watch them shift in the face of reality. It happened first with the dream of being a rapper, but then Chris realized he had a knack for this comedy ...
10.31.2022 Episode 1379 - Armando Iannucci Veep creator Armando Iannucci knows his job as a purveyor of political satire becomes more difficult as politicians become more absurd and cartoonish. In fact, just hours before recording this episode, the Prime Minister of the U.K. resigned after a ...
10.27.2022 Episode 1378 - Ron Carter Ron Carter is one of the architects of modern jazz. The Guinness Book of World Records cites him as the most recorded bassist in history and his influence has stretched well beyond jazz to a host of musical genres and ...
10.24.2022 Episode 1377 - Jeremy Strong Jeremy Strong can’t help being honest. His honesty around his job as an actor is what leads to magazine profiles where he’s portrayed as “intense” and “serious.” His honesty also allows him to admit that he was afraid to do ...
10.24.2022 Episode 1377 - Jeremy Strong Jeremy Strong can’t help being honest. His honesty around his job as an actor is what leads to magazine profiles where he’s portrayed as “intense” and “serious.” His honesty also allows him to admit that he was afraid to do ...
10.20.2022 Episode 1376 - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. believes we must understand who we were in order to understand who we are. That goes for individuals, which is at the core of his PBS series Finding Your Roots, as well as society, which is ...
10.20.2022 Episode 1376 - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. believes we must understand who we were in order to understand who we are. That goes for individuals, which is at the core of his PBS series Finding Your Roots, as well as society, which is ...
10.18.2022 To Leslie Extra - More with Michael Morris There was twice as much conversation with To Leslie director Michael Morris that didn't make it into Episode 1374 due to the length of the episode. So here is the rest of that talk, with Marc and Michael going in ...
10.17.2022 Episode 1375 - Ralph Macchio Everyone knows Ralph Macchio as Daniel LaRusso from The Karate Kid. In fact, so many people know him as Daniel LaRusso, he wrote a book about spending his life as that character. Ralph and Marc talk about his memoir Waxing ...
10.17.2022 Episode 1375 - Ralph Macchio Everyone knows Ralph Macchio as Daniel LaRusso from The Karate Kid. In fact, so many people know him as Daniel LaRusso, he wrote a book about spending his life as that character. Ralph and Marc talk about his memoir Waxing ...
10.13.2022 Episode 1374 - Béla Fleck / Michael Morris Béla Fleck is more than a virtuoso banjo player. He’s also a banjo missionary, an evangelist for an instrument he feels is often misunderstood and pigeonholed. Béla talks with Marc about how he wanted to move banjo music away from ...
10.13.2022 Episode 1374 - Béla Fleck / Michael Morris Béla Fleck is more than a virtuoso banjo player. He’s also a banjo missionary, an evangelist for an instrument he feels is often misunderstood and pigeonholed. Béla talks with Marc about how he wanted to move banjo music away from ...
10.11.2022 Ask Marc Anything #3 Marc answers more listener questions and gives his current thoughts on Joe Rogan, Louis CK, Gallagher, Canada, Bob Dylan, and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
10.10.2022 Episode 1373 - Zahn McClarnon Zahn McClarnon’s early experiences with reservation life helped him add some personal touches as a cast member of Reservation Dogs. But it was actually his experience with the musical Jesus Christ Superstar that got him into acting in the first ...
10.06.2022 Episode 1372 - Jann Wenner Jann Wenner’s life as the co-founder and publisher of Rolling Stone Magazine has been chronicled in other books, but Jann says he needed to write a memoir to declare what his generation actually stood for. Jann and Marc talk about ...
10.06.2022 Episode 1372 - Jann Wenner Jann Wenner’s life as the co-founder and publisher of Rolling Stone Magazine has been chronicled in other books, but Jann says he needed to write a memoir to declare what his generation actually stood for. Jann and Marc talk about ...
10.04.2022 We Love This - Michael Clayton Marc and Brendan use the occasion of Tony Gilroy's recent WTF interview to talk in-depth about a movie they both love dearly: Tony's 2007 masterpiece Michael Clayton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
10.03.2022 Episode 1371 - Tony Gilroy Writer-director Tony Gilroy is the man behind one of Marc’s favorite movies of all time, Michael Clayton. They get into everything it took to get that movie made and its surprising legacy. But the rest of Tony’s career and the ...
10.03.2022 Episode 1371 - Tony Gilroy Writer-director Tony Gilroy is the man behind one of Marc’s favorite movies of all time, Michael Clayton. They get into everything it took to get that movie made and its surprising legacy. But the rest of Tony’s career and the ...
09.29.2022 Episode 1370 - Abigail Disney Abigail Disney feels the burden of her last name, particularly due to the practices of the global company that was founded by her grandfather Roy and grand uncle Walt. Marc talks with Abigail about her social awakening earlier in life ...
09.28.2022 Marc on Movies - Sigourney Weaver, Movie Stars and Documentaries Marc and Brendan share their thoughts stemming from this week's episodes with Sigourney Weaver and documentarian Abigail Disney about the intangible quality of movie stars, the nature of documentary films, and lots more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more ...

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