WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Thu, 05 Jun 2025

Josh Homme manifested an 18-year-old dream to perform a Queens of the Stone Age concert in the Catac...

Mon, 02 Jun 2025

John Mulaney has been through a lot since the last time he was on the show, so it’s nice he can id...

Thu, 29 May 2025

Scott Frank is one of Hollywood’s most prolific screenwriters but he still has perpetual anxiety a...

Mon, 26 May 2025

Nick Kroll was one of the first dozen guests on WTF and in the nearly sixteen years of his life sinc...

Thu, 22 May 2025

Peter Wolf didn’t want to write the typical rock and roll memoir filled with lurid tales and score...

Mon, 19 May 2025

Sarah Silverman and Marc go back more than 30 years and although they know a lot about each other fr...

Thu, 15 May 2025

Carol Leifer has been a standup comic for almost 50 years, but the knowledge she can impart from her...

Mon, 12 May 2025

When Bridget Everett was growing up in Kansas, the question “How are you feeling?” was not often...

Thu, 08 May 2025

Singer-songwriter Samantha Crain wasn’t sure if she’d ever be able to make music again after a c...

Mon, 05 May 2025

While he was once known for all manner of comedy involving animals, both alive and dead, Tom Green’...

Thu, 01 May 2025

David Harbour and Marc met in the garage seven years ago at the height of Stranger Things and the be...

Mon, 28 Apr 2025

David Cronenberg starts making each new film of his as though he’s making a movie for the first ti...

Thu, 24 Apr 2025

Jessica Kirson was a guest on WTF six years ago, when she talked with Marc about her start in comedy...

Mon, 21 Apr 2025

Comedian Liza Treyger is frequently mystified by human behavior. Why are people so mean when leaving...

Thu, 17 Apr 2025

Jillian Bell’s history of anxiety goes back to when she was a baby and would hold her breath until...

Mon, 14 Apr 2025

As a writer and director, Ryan Coogler is drawn to stories about identity. He made Fruitvale Station...

Thu, 10 Apr 2025

By all accounts, Gavin Matts has carved a successful path for himself as a comedian, actor and write...

Mon, 07 Apr 2025

Peter Weller knows that most people think of him as RoboCop. But he also knows that when they approa...

Thu, 03 Apr 2025

When Lynne Margulies was 25 years old, she met Andy Kaufman on the set of the film My Breakfast with...

Mon, 31 Mar 2025

Delroy Lindo can take pride in many accomplishments - his family, his career, his educational - whil...

Thu, 27 Mar 2025

Some comedians think of comedy as a higher calling, but Modi Rosenfeld knows exactly where the call ...

Mon, 24 Mar 2025

Nick Thune is a comic Marc is always happy to welcome back on the show. But this time, it’s very f...

Thu, 20 Mar 2025

Unlike many comedian guests on WTF, Chris Fleming had a lot of support and encouragement from his fa...

Mon, 17 Mar 2025

Jane Marie’s early life in Michigan didn’t necessarily put her on the glide path to the future w...

Thu, 13 Mar 2025

When Mike Elias wanted to learn the guitar, his dad told him he had to teach himself. Mike took that...

Mon, 10 Mar 2025

W. Kamau Bell and Marc are similar comedians in that neither of them will ignore the current politic...

Thu, 06 Mar 2025

Prolific singer-songwriter Will Oldham has been able to maintain what Marc calls “a haunting and e...

Mon, 03 Mar 2025

Don Johnson’s life took him far from where he thought it was going growing up in Missouri and Kans...

Thu, 27 Feb 2025

When Chris Hayes was last on the show almost ten years ago, it was a much different world. Barack Ob...

Mon, 24 Feb 2025

As someone from a working class Ohio family, Carrie Coon didn’t think much about acting as a plaus...

Thu, 20 Feb 2025

Mo Amer was new to America when he was nine years old and his brother took him to see his first stan...

Mon, 17 Feb 2025

Brady Corbet spent years in front of the camera until he resigned from the job of actor. The new car...

Thu, 13 Feb 2025

James Mangold writes and directs films across multiple genres, but the one style he uses as a prism ...

Mon, 10 Feb 2025

Ariana Grande can link one song to her entire life as a performer, from her childhood days singing f...

Thu, 06 Feb 2025

Demi Moore has been a searcher since she was a kid, with intense interest throughout her life in thi...

Mon, 03 Feb 2025

Ke Huy Quan’s remarkable Hollywood story continues to add more storybook chapters. From coming to ...

Thu, 30 Jan 2025

Noah Wyle spent 11 seasons in a fictional medical environment on the show ER. So what made him want ...

Mon, 27 Jan 2025

A lot of people know Erin Brockovich’s story thanks to the movie based on her legal work in a grou...

Thu, 23 Jan 2025

Sophie Buddle is living in LA and doing comedy all around the United States, but since she spent mos...

Mon, 20 Jan 2025

Bill Burr is trying to put things to bed. Whether it’s the anger he’s held onto throughout his l...

Thu, 16 Jan 2025

After evacuating her home and consoling family members who lost their house in the LA fires, comedia...

Mon, 13 Jan 2025

Richard Gadd created the Netflix series Baby Reindeer as a way to work through traumatic events in h...

Thu, 09 Jan 2025

Mike Leigh’s films are known for their observant depictions of the working class, their tragicomic...

Mon, 06 Jan 2025

Adrien Brody does a lot of research for his roles, but his performance in the new movie The Brutalis...

Thu, 02 Jan 2025

Marc’s been answering listener questions on the Fulll Maron bonus feed for two and a half years. T...

Mon, 30 Dec 2024

Ron Livingston just came over to chat. While most people come to the garage with something to promot...

Thu, 26 Dec 2024

Marc presents a special compilation of mini-series created for The Full Maron feed on WTF+ called W...

Mon, 23 Dec 2024

Bruce Vilanch is best known for his time as the head writer of the Oscars, but he is actually a vest...

Thu, 19 Dec 2024

Filmmaker Justin Kurzel is drawn to stories about outlaws and outsiders. Growing up in South Austral...

Mon, 16 Dec 2024

Bobbi Althoff’s podcast success story is much different than Marc’s podcast success story. In fa...

Thu, 12 Dec 2024

When Marc first met Andy Blitz during the rise of the alt-comedy scene in New York City, Andy still ...

Mon, 09 Dec 2024

Not too many guests come into the garage and tell Marc he changed their lives forever. In fact, Jess...

Thu, 05 Dec 2024

Dwight Yoakam is a multi-platinum recording artist with many number one albums and singles, as well ...

Mon, 02 Dec 2024

Filmmaker Luca Guadagnino is attracted to the ways in which we’re all imperfect beings. That expla...

Thu, 28 Nov 2024

Steve Furey’s path to comedy started with youth football. Once he realized he wasn’t great at fo...

Mon, 25 Nov 2024

Anthony Jeselnik is back in the garage more than 13 years since the last time he and Marc talked on ...

Thu, 21 Nov 2024

Rosemarie DeWitt never really thought she would become an actor because she felt like no one was bet...

Mon, 18 Nov 2024

Cynthia Erivo has some tips for Marc on how to get more out of his time on set. For example, she alw...

Thu, 14 Nov 2024

Josh Brolin is a natural guest to return to the garage for a second chat because he and Marc relate ...

Mon, 11 Nov 2024

Jessica Lange admits she’s always drawn to the darkness and madness of her characters, whether it’...

Thu, 07 Nov 2024

Robby Hoffman knows she comes in too hot. But that kind of in-your-face enthusiasm helped her go fro...

Mon, 04 Nov 2024

Mo Mandel would like you to enjoy his new comedy special, see him perform live and, if you’re a st...

Thu, 31 Oct 2024

Filmmaker Billy Corben got an early taste of show business as an aspiring child actor. That aborted ...

Mon, 28 Oct 2024

The world learned who Robert Patrick was when he showed up as the T-1000 in Terminator 2, but prior ...

Thu, 24 Oct 2024

Keith Urban may seem like an outsider who conquered Nashville, but as he tells Marc, he was an outsi...

Mon, 21 Oct 2024

Many films in the career of Robert Zemeckis, including his new one called Here, involve some form of...

Thu, 17 Oct 2024

Al Pacino created indelible memories for generations of moviegoers. But while he was writing his own...

Mon, 14 Oct 2024

Joe Boyd is part of the music industry in so many ways, as a producer, label founder and more, that ...

Thu, 10 Oct 2024

Langston Kerman named his new Netflix comedy special Bad Poetry, harkening back to his time as a hig...

Mon, 07 Oct 2024

Sebastian Stan believes creativity is the best therapy. So even when he's playing an unappealing per...

Thu, 03 Oct 2024

Connie Chung’s consummate professionalism and journalistic rigor worked against her as she put tog...

Mon, 30 Sep 2024

It’s all a combination of old and new for Kaitlin Olson. She’s just finishing up shooting the fi...

Thu, 26 Sep 2024

Kathleen Hanna’s life and career exist at the nexus of punk rock, outsider art, photography and fe...

Mon, 23 Sep 2024

Marvel fans around the world know Elizabeth Olsen as The Scarlet Witch, but Elizabeth says she has a...

Thu, 19 Sep 2024

As a kid, Jason Ritter felt a lot of pressure as the son of a beloved actor who audiences felt like ...

Mon, 16 Sep 2024

While putting together his new memoir, Eric Roberts developed a fuller understanding of his life as ...

Thu, 12 Sep 2024

Hundreds of WTF guests have show business origin stories, but nobody has one like comedian Ali Macof...

Mon, 09 Sep 2024

She may have won an Oscar for her first film role, but Lupita Nyong’o spent the early part of her ...

Thu, 05 Sep 2024

It took Chris Robinson a long time to accept being a rock and roll frontman. Even at the height of T...

Mon, 02 Sep 2024

Drew Lynch never planned on being a comedian. But his pursuit of an acting career got derailed by a ...

Thu, 29 Aug 2024

When the topic of past guests comes up, Marc often mentions Brendon Walsh, a comedian who was on sev...

Mon, 26 Aug 2024

Greg Fitzsimmons returns to WTF after a 13 year absence, but his dynamic with Marc remains the same ...

Thu, 22 Aug 2024

Over the past four years, Paul W. Downs has been one of the people responsible for constructing the ...

Mon, 19 Aug 2024

Michael Rooker is known for playing a variety of menacing and intense characters. But menace was som...

Thu, 15 Aug 2024

Blair Socci comes from an athletic family with a hardened ancestral backstory involving throat slash...

Mon, 12 Aug 2024

When Moon Zappa was on the show back in 2013, she and Marc started dating shortly thereafter. Now th...

Thu, 08 Aug 2024

When Marc saw Beth Stelling’s Netflix special, he knew there was something he found familiar. It t...

Mon, 05 Aug 2024

One of the reasons singer-songwriter Jimmie Dale Gilmore didn’t get a solo record deal until he wa...

Thu, 01 Aug 2024

Moving from place to place throughout her childhood was difficult on Anna Akana, but it was growing ...

Mon, 29 Jul 2024

For Wolfgang Van Halen, learning the drums, guitar and bass came easier than learning to deal with t...

Thu, 25 Jul 2024

When two comics are on tour together, one of the best places to get to know each other is in a car w...

Mon, 22 Jul 2024

Shalom Auslander gave voice to something Marc was thinking for most of his life: That he’s been li...

Fri, 19 Jul 2024

First, hear Marc's 2014 conversation with Bob Newhart from Bob's home in Bel-Air. Then, a follow-up ...

Thu, 18 Jul 2024

It’s been a long time since Dan St. Germain had his first big gig as an opener with Marc in Sacram...

Mon, 15 Jul 2024

Despite Phish’s enormous following, frontman Trey Anastasio still sees himself as an outsider. Tre...

Thu, 11 Jul 2024

Clarence Maclin was uniquely suited to make his film debut in the new movie Sing Sing, starring alon...

Mon, 08 Jul 2024

Stavros Halkias titled his Netflix special Fat Rascal in part because he doesn’t know any other re...

Thu, 04 Jul 2024

Julianne Nicholson came over to the garage at the right time. With Marc deep in the middle of an act...

Mon, 01 Jul 2024

When Paul Scheer was on WTF back in 2010, he spoke about things in his past that he never before spo...

Thu, 27 Jun 2024

Gareth Reynolds was struggling in show business as a comic, a writer, an actor, you name it. But not...

Mon, 24 Jun 2024

Jewel Kilcher left her troubled home life in Alaska as a teenager, hitchhiking her way across the co...

Thu, 20 Jun 2024

As bassist and lyricist for Black Sabbath, Geezer Butler has a lifetime of rock and roll stories to ...

Mon, 17 Jun 2024

Jude Law and Marc made a movie together but they never actually got to meet during it. They remedy t...

Thu, 13 Jun 2024

Comedian Ali Siddiq draws from his life experiences to create his comedy shows. Now in the midst of ...

Mon, 10 Jun 2024

Ed O’Neill’s his early days working in an Ohio steel mill and contemplating a potential career h...

Thu, 06 Jun 2024

Larry David says he regrets saying yes to everything right after he agrees to do it. But it’s too ...

Mon, 03 Jun 2024

After twenty-four years and twelve seasons as Susie Greene on Curb Your Enthusiasm, Susie Essman’s...

Thu, 30 May 2024

Despite a family name that goes back to the dawn of Hollywood, Tony Goldwyn’s father did not want ...

Mon, 27 May 2024

There was a time when Molly Ringwald knew she had to get out of America for a while so she didn’t ...

Thu, 23 May 2024

In a role reversal for WTF guests, Steph Tolev thought Marc didn’t like her. And as Marc usually f...

Mon, 20 May 2024

Daniel Stern made a radical decision in show business after achieving success and financial independ...

Thu, 16 May 2024

When Marc saw Billy Strings play live on stage at Willie Nelson’s birthday show, he watched a born...

Mon, 13 May 2024

Before discovering comedy, A. Whitney Brown dropped out of the eighth grade, bounced around reform s...

Thu, 09 May 2024

Joe Mande’s past appearances on WTF involve him being a sort of merry comic prankster, like back i...

Mon, 06 May 2024

Chris Pine is in the position to offer Marc some advice. As the first-time director of the new movie...

Thu, 02 May 2024

Before Tiffany Haddish rocketed to stardom with Girls Trip, she saw Marc at the back entrance of The...

Mon, 29 Apr 2024

While watching Neal Brennan’s new Netflix special, Crazy Good, Marc learned new things about Neal ...

Thu, 25 Apr 2024

Nearly 30 years ago in the alt-comedy scene of New York City, Marc crossed paths with an evangelical...

Mon, 22 Apr 2024

Paula Pell is often celebrated as one of the funniest people alive by some of the other funniest peo...

Thu, 18 Apr 2024

When Marc asked Jimmy Carr to be a guest on WTF years ago, Jimmy admits he wasn’t ready for it. He...

Mon, 15 Apr 2024

When Malcolm McDowell left behind Liverpool to pursue acting in London, he didn’t imagine it would...

Thu, 11 Apr 2024

Alex Edelman is the kind of comic who makes Marc immediately anxious. But it’s quickly apparent th...

Mon, 08 Apr 2024

Carol Burnett turns 91 later this month and is still going strong with a featured role in the new se...

Thu, 04 Apr 2024

Standup comedy transformed Dina Hashem’s life. So why is she at a point, right after releasing her...

Mon, 01 Apr 2024

Celebrated singer-songwriter and guitarist Alejandro Escovedo made one of Marc’s favorite albums, ...

Thu, 28 Mar 2024

David Krumholtz lives and breathes Hollywood because, according to him, he has no other choice. The ...

Mon, 25 Mar 2024

Tig Notaro’s new comedy special is called “Hello, Again” which serves as a reintroduction of s...

Thu, 21 Mar 2024

This is Eddie Pepitone’s 25th appearance on WTF, by far the most appearances on the show for anyon...

Mon, 18 Mar 2024

Dave Attell and Marc have known each other for 35 years but really only converse at length on this p...

Thu, 14 Mar 2024

When Todd Glass was on WTF back in 2012, he decided to do something that changed his entire life. No...

Mon, 11 Mar 2024

Sonic Youth founding member Thurston Moore is not just an influential figure in the evolution of Noi...

Thu, 07 Mar 2024

Rory Scovel is back in the garage, fresh off premiering a new standup special on Max that Marc found...

Wed, 06 Mar 2024

Hear Marc’s conversations with past WTF guests who are nominated for Oscars this year: Paul Giamat...

Mon, 04 Mar 2024

Ben Mendelsohn is a prolific actor with a dynamic range, and yet most of his training came from watc...

Thu, 29 Feb 2024

Mae Martin is Canadian, has a background in sketch comedy, spent a lot of time doing standup in Engl...

Thu, 29 Feb 2024

Richard Lewis was a comedy hero and inspiration to Marc. They spent their first extended time togeth...

Mon, 26 Feb 2024

Lily Gladstone knows that people project all manner of emotions and intentions onto her when she giv...

Thu, 22 Feb 2024

Rodrigo Prieto is the cinematographer of two of last year's most celebrated films: Barbie and Killer...

Wed, 21 Feb 2024

America Ferrera didn't expect that her performance in Barbie would lead to an Oscar nomination but f...

Mon, 19 Feb 2024

Before Mark Ruffalo became the Hulk, he deeply understood what it felt like to be two peop...

Thu, 15 Feb 2024

Da’Vine Joy Randolph is in the midst of the highly competitive Hollywood award season, but the com...

Mon, 12 Feb 2024

Ed Zwick’s career as a director, writer and producer in Hollywood lends itself to the full memoir ...

Thu, 08 Feb 2024

John Oliver is one of those people who just gets Marc. It’s not surprising, considering John has b...

Mon, 05 Feb 2024

Laurie Kilmartin can make comedy out of the darkest situations in her life, from her father’s hosp...

Sat, 03 Feb 2024

Marc's 2014 conversation with Wayne Kramer, co-founder of the legendary rock group MC5, covering the...

Thu, 01 Feb 2024

In the thirteen years since Bobby Lee was last on WTF, he and Marc have grown to like each other mor...

Mon, 29 Jan 2024

Jon Cryer has been in show business for most of his life and has seen the changes, both rapid and gr...

Thu, 25 Jan 2024

Moshe Kasher already wrote a memoir about his years as a teenage substance abuser growing up in an o...

Mon, 22 Jan 2024

Jacqueline Novak’s new Netflix standup special is a rite of passage story about a girl finding her...

Thu, 18 Jan 2024

It’s the return of two past WTF guests who have lots of stories and common experiences to share wi...

Mon, 15 Jan 2024

Billie Joe Armstrong and Green Day are heading out on a global tour as they celebrate the 30th anniv...

Thu, 11 Jan 2024

The last time Greta Gerwig was on WTF, she had just directed her first solo feature, the indepe...

Mon, 08 Jan 2024

Joel Edgerton’s decision to start a filmmaking collective with his brother and friends in Australi...

Thu, 04 Jan 2024

Paul Giamatti and Marc have so many similar interests - amassing books, admiring marginal geniuses, ...

Mon, 01 Jan 2024

For New Year’s Day, Marc introduces you to The Friday Show, a weekly episode available to Full Mar...

Thu, 28 Dec 2023

Matt B. Davis is unique among WTF guests in that he did comedy for more than a decade, got out of th...

Mon, 25 Dec 2023

For Christmas Day, Marc presents a special collection of exclusive segments that were published this...

Thu, 21 Dec 2023

Growing up in Ghana, director Blitz Bazawule relied on three things to transport him to other worlds...

Mon, 18 Dec 2023

Tammy Pescatelli and Marc were recently on the same show, performing for thousands in a basketball a...

Thu, 14 Dec 2023

As one of country music’s most prolific singer-songwriters, Rodney Crowell talks with Marc about t...

Mon, 11 Dec 2023

Peter Sarsgaard is always a memorable presence on screen and on stage. But in his latest role, he’...

Thu, 07 Dec 2023

Taylor Williamson’s obsession with comedy led him to club gigs as a teenager and national press co...

Mon, 04 Dec 2023

Kate Simon’s love of photography started with a Polaroid camera and her talents put her right in t...

Thu, 30 Nov 2023

Jesse David Fox thinks comedy is serious business. As the comedy reporter at Vulture, he’s been wr...

Mon, 27 Nov 2023

A conversation more than a dozen years in the making, Albert Brooks finally agreed to sit down with ...

Thu, 23 Nov 2023

When Marc was living in Highland Park, he found out something interesting about his neighborhood opt...

Mon, 20 Nov 2023

Taika Waititi has his hands in dozens of projects at any given time, but he says the connective thre...

Thu, 16 Nov 2023

Fisher Stevens left a lasting impression on Marc in the early ‘80s when Fisher was in Brighton Bea...

Mon, 13 Nov 2023

Chef José Andrés could have been best known as the owner of some of the most celebrated restaurant...

Thu, 09 Nov 2023

Before he was Laraaji, Edward Larry Gordon was a gig musician with a background in composition, an a...

Mon, 06 Nov 2023

While John Wilson spends his time filming everything around him, one question he’s constantly aski...

Thu, 02 Nov 2023

Lou Adler’s career in the music industry is one of the most accomplished in history, writing and p...

Mon, 30 Oct 2023

Nearly fifteen years ago, Dan Soder and Marc were talking at a comedy club right after they were bot...

Thu, 26 Oct 2023

Jennette McCurdy turned the pain of her abusive upbringing and the resentment she had toward her sho...

Mon, 23 Oct 2023

Joan Baez is in the midst of examining her life as the subject of a new documentary, Joan Baez: I Am...

Thu, 19 Oct 2023

It’s another comic double-header with two of Marc’s favorites. Doug Stanhope is back to talk abo...

Mon, 16 Oct 2023

Fans know Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford as the Metal God. But he says there’s one guy called R...

Thu, 12 Oct 2023

Arnold Schwarzenegger likes to focus on life’s victories. That makes for an interesting contrast w...

Mon, 09 Oct 2023

Tom Papa’s last trip to the garage was mostly about his comedy past, reflecting on how he and Marc...

Thu, 05 Oct 2023

Larry Charles always knew he liked comedy but he also knew he liked being a button-pusher. Those pre...

Mon, 02 Oct 2023

Les Claypool is the first guest who flew himself to his WTF interview. Whether he’s studying aviat...

Thu, 28 Sep 2023

LeVar Burton was on track to join the priesthood early in life. But that actually turned out to be t...

Mon, 25 Sep 2023

Chevy Chase plays a pivotal role in the history of American comedy, from his work on the National La...

Thu, 21 Sep 2023

Aparna Nancherla says the self-fulfilling prophecy of imposter syndrome is convincing yourself you d...

Mon, 18 Sep 2023

When Gary Gulman was on WTF in 2013, he and Marc talked about Gary’s mental health in relation to ...

Thu, 14 Sep 2023

Hannah Einbinder was a fan of WTF as a teenager and drew inspiration from Marc’s conversations wit...

Mon, 11 Sep 2023

Naomi Klein was faced with a rather common problem. She was consistently mistaken for someone else. ...

Thu, 07 Sep 2023

Bernie Taupin is a songwriter responsible for many of the most beloved songs ever recorded. But he a...

Mon, 04 Sep 2023

Michael Symon’s food journey has taken many unexpected turns, from revitalizing the Cleveland rest...

Thu, 31 Aug 2023

Jeff Sharlet is a reporter Marc turned to regularly during his days as a radio host to help explain ...

Mon, 28 Aug 2023

Maria Bamford is not only one of Marc’s favorite comics, she’s one of Marc’s favorite people t...

Thu, 24 Aug 2023

Andrew Leland started having trouble seeing when he was in high school. He learned about his degener...

Mon, 21 Aug 2023

Amanda Seales was on the show Insecure, but only when she had an actual crisis of confidence did she...

Thu, 17 Aug 2023

Nimesh Patel got advice from his comedy hero Chris Rock that comics need to get personal in order to...

Mon, 14 Aug 2023

Jessica Chastain is one of our most celebrated actors, with a recent Oscar win, a Tony-nominated Bro...

Thu, 10 Aug 2023

Adam Conover felt out of place in a family of scientists, but his decision to pursue a philosophy de...

Mon, 07 Aug 2023

Alex Winter was an actor for much of his young life until he realized it wasn’t his preferred way ...

Thu, 03 Aug 2023

Gary Mule Deer's career has spanned more than 60 years, but he's got enough in it to fill at le...

Mon, 31 Jul 2023

Melissa Villaseñor spent six seasons on Saturday Night Live and left her mark with a wide array of ...

Thu, 27 Jul 2023

George Schlatter's lifetime in show business encompasses way more than Marc could cover during Georg...

Mon, 24 Jul 2023

There's a reason Jim Gaffigan is back for his seventh appearance on the show. No matter how much old...

Thu, 20 Jul 2023

Michael Rowe and Marc knew each other decades ago from the comedy club scene, but Mike says there wa...

Mon, 17 Jul 2023

Cillian Murphy knew he wanted to become an actor when he saw A Clockwork Orange. Not the Kubrick fil...

Thu, 13 Jul 2023

Sarah Tiana and Marc are very much co-workers. They see each other at “the office” regularly but...

Mon, 10 Jul 2023

Lukas Nelson doesn’t fear any comparisons with his father, Willie, because his dad taught him by e...

Thu, 06 Jul 2023

Joanna Gleason lives in a vibrant community of artistic people. In a way, it's what she's alway...

Mon, 03 Jul 2023

Marc admits to a certain amount of conspiracy-driven paranoia when he was younger, which gives him a...

Thu, 29 Jun 2023

A bike accident and a cracked bone delayed Clifton Collins Jr.’s appearance in the garage, but now...

Wed, 28 Jun 2023

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Mon, 26 Jun 2023

Kyle Kinane is a comedian Marc enjoys so much, he had him on multiple early episodes of WTF. But at ...

Thu, 22 Jun 2023

Comedian Tom Dreesen was hanging out with Marc in The Comedy Store parking lot, telling stories of s...

Mon, 19 Jun 2023

Ben Kingsley believes his job is to reflect truth and in order to do that he keeps many voices in hi...

Thu, 15 Jun 2023

Felicia Michaels and Marc started at The Comedy Store around the same time. They got to see the ‘8...

Mon, 12 Jun 2023

In 2019, Ramy Youssef surprised Hollywood by coming out of nowhere to win the Golden Globe for Best ...

Thu, 08 Jun 2023

Jeff Stilson only had two goals as a comedian: Get on Johnny Carson and write for David Letterman. A...

Mon, 05 Jun 2023

Anthony Ramos was ready to give up on acting but seeing the musical In The Heights on Broadway gave ...

Thu, 01 Jun 2023

William Shatner has lived long and continues to prosper. At 92 years old, he has dozens of projects ...

Mon, 29 May 2023

Vir Das doesn’t worry about fitting in. He was born in India, grew up in Nigeria, went to school i...

Thu, 25 May 2023

Amy Sherman-Palladino says working on a TV show takes over your whole life. This is why Amy went fro...

Mon, 22 May 2023

Smokey Robinson just released his 26th studio album, but he’s been writing songs since the age of ...

Thu, 18 May 2023

For Warren Zanes, music has been a salvation. In his troubled teen years, his brother put him in the...

Mon, 15 May 2023

Paul Schrader’s upbringing was steeped in the contradictions of religion, which helped him explore...

Thu, 11 May 2023

Ice Cube never stopped thinking about making music, from the moment he started writing raps in typew...

Mon, 08 May 2023

Rachel Weisz and her collaborators totally knocked Marc for a loop with the new series Dead Ringers,...

Thu, 04 May 2023

When comedian Shane Mauss was on the show in 2016, he and Marc talked about the new trajectory in hi...

Mon, 01 May 2023

Tituss Burgess was in the movie Respect alongside Marc, playing gospel singer James Cleveland. But i...

Thu, 27 Apr 2023

Both David Mandel and Marc were obsessed with the early years of Saturday Night Live, in large part ...

Mon, 24 Apr 2023

J. Smith-Cameron gets just as surprised while watching Succession as you do. With all the footage th...

Thu, 20 Apr 2023

As the daughter of Jill Clayburgh and playwright David Rabe, Lily Rabe felt a lot of pressure not to...

Wed, 19 Apr 2023

From February 2013, Marc talks with comedian Darryl Lenox about the struggles he faced throughout hi...

Mon, 17 Apr 2023

The last time Ray Romano was on the podcast, he was making the show Men of a Certain Age. Now Ray an...

Thu, 13 Apr 2023

It's a series of firsts for Alex Borstein: The release of her first comedy special, her first podcas...

Mon, 10 Apr 2023

Three episodes into the Netflix series Beef, Steven Yeun's character is emotionally overwhelmed...

Thu, 06 Apr 2023

Kelly Reichardt’s latest movie Showing Up is about the life of artists, but Kelly had no experienc...

Mon, 03 Apr 2023

Brooke Shields is able to look back critically on the toxic culture and misogynistic power structure...

Thu, 30 Mar 2023

Cathy Ladman just made her tenth appearance on The Tonight Show, a milestone in a career that starte...

Mon, 27 Mar 2023

Karina Longworth grew up in Los Angeles and was fascinated by the haunted memories of Old Hollywood....

Thu, 23 Mar 2023

Nick Youssef found himself on the receiving end of anti-Arab hate when he took the standup stage sho...

Mon, 20 Mar 2023

Laurie Anderson says she never made art to express herself, she didn’t care about having a “styl...

Thu, 16 Mar 2023

First up in this two-for-one episode, Marc talks with comedian Ashely Barnhill, who used to work for...

Mon, 13 Mar 2023

O’Shea Jackson Jr. grew up around music with Ice Cube as a father. But it was a school teacher who...

Fri, 10 Mar 2023

A special compilation of this year's Oscar nominees talking about their nominated works. Hear excerp...

Thu, 09 Mar 2023

Bobby Farrelly knows he was lucky to grow up in small town Rhode Island, which was, in his words, ma...

Mon, 06 Mar 2023

Ronny Chieng has been in America for less than a decade and he’s cementing himself as a prolific f...

Thu, 02 Mar 2023

Hong Chau owes her acting career to social anxiety and a fear of performing in public. It was the de...

Mon, 27 Feb 2023

Austin Butler devoted the past four years of his life to Elvis, the last year of which has been spen...

Thu, 23 Feb 2023

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert share a first name, a passion for filmmaking and now awards for Bes...

Mon, 20 Feb 2023

Michelle Yeoh travels through the multiverse in Everything Everywhere All At Once. But when she was ...

Thu, 16 Feb 2023

Tim Blake Nelson always impresses Marc with his acting and, since the last time he was on the show, ...

Mon, 13 Feb 2023

Most people know Marc Summers as the host of Double Dare on Nickelodeon and Unwrapped on Food Networ...

Thu, 09 Feb 2023

As documented in the Wrestling With Marc series on The Full Maron, Marc undergoes a full immersion i...

Mon, 06 Feb 2023

Wayne Brady is making himself happy again when he’s performing. He makes other people happy hostin...

Thu, 02 Feb 2023

Dave Franco is a successful actor but that doesn’t mean he was full of confidence when he began di...

Mon, 30 Jan 2023

Radhika Jones just celebrated her fifth year as Editor-in-Chief of Vanity Fair and, as far as Marc i...

Thu, 26 Jan 2023

Brendan Fraser is receiving awards and accolades for his performance in The Whale but his reasons fo...

Mon, 23 Jan 2023

Sarah Polley has a lot to say about memory, narratives and the stories we tell. That’s because she...

Thu, 19 Jan 2023

Octavia Spencer’s career started behind the scenes, as she worked in casting departments on film s...

Mon, 16 Jan 2023

Todd Field toyed with many pursuits before he ever directed a film. First there was close-up magic. ...

Thu, 12 Jan 2023

Andrea Riseborough can't lie. She's terrible at it. But she believes that trait helps her as an acto...

Mon, 09 Jan 2023

Katt Williams is a one-of-a-kind comic performer, so it’s only natural he should have a one-of-a-k...

Thu, 05 Jan 2023

Colin Hanks knows there are public perceptions of him that are tricky to navigate. For one, the man ...

Mon, 02 Jan 2023

Ben Foster was 14 years old and when he had what he calls a breakdown. Ben had a moment while acting...

Thu, 29 Dec 2022

Guitarist and singer-songwriter Eric McFadden is a blast from Marc's past. They knew each other when...

Mon, 26 Dec 2022

Courtney Love is finishing up her first record in more than a decade while she lives in London, perh...

Thu, 22 Dec 2022

Writer-director Scott Cooper says the best thing to came out of his acting career was the friendship...

Mon, 19 Dec 2022

Rian Johnson revived the mystery genre with his movie Knives Out and now he’s seeing what other pl...

Thu, 15 Dec 2022

James Austin Johnson figured out at a very young age that he could do impressions. When he got older...

Mon, 12 Dec 2022

Comedian Tommy Tiernan knows a fellow traveler when he sees one. Ever since he saw Marc perform, he ...

Thu, 08 Dec 2022

Elvis Mitchell waited his entire life to make the new documentary Is That Black Enough For You?!? As...

Mon, 05 Dec 2022

It’s the holidays, which means Clea DuVall’s movie the Happiest Season is once again part of a n...

Thu, 01 Dec 2022

Filmmaker James Gray had crisis of confidence after watching a rough cut of his first movie, Little ...

Mon, 28 Nov 2022

Rob Delaney says the last time he was on the show, he didn’t have two coins to rub together. After...

Thu, 24 Nov 2022

Live from The Bloomsbury Theatre in London, Marc welcomes comedian and writer David Baddiel to the s...

Mon, 21 Nov 2022

Writer-director Robert Siegel wanted to explore a career in either comedy or journalism. It turns ou...

Thu, 17 Nov 2022

When Marc reads the works of author and screenwriter Bruce Wagner, he starts to question reality. Br...

Mon, 14 Nov 2022

American Beauty completely changed Wes Bentley’s life and is still doing so today, considering he ...

Sun, 13 Nov 2022

From November 2012, Marc talks with Budd Friedman, the man behind the comedy club boom in America. B...

Fri, 11 Nov 2022

Marc revisits his 2011 interview with comedian Gallagher, recorded in Portland, Oregon on January 27...

Thu, 10 Nov 2022

Quinta Brunson didn’t pave the traditional path to a hit network sitcom. In fact, she paved a path...

Mon, 07 Nov 2022

Elizabeth Banks says she’s the kind of person who likes to get ‘A’s on tests. And in show busi...

Thu, 03 Nov 2022

Chris Redd knows what it’s like to have dreams and then watch them shift in the face of reality. I...

Mon, 31 Oct 2022

Veep creator Armando Iannucci knows his job as a purveyor of political satire becomes more difficult...

Thu, 27 Oct 2022

Ron Carter is one of the architects of modern jazz. The Guinness Book of World Records cites him as ...

Mon, 24 Oct 2022

Jeremy Strong can’t help being honest. His honesty around his job as an actor is what leads to mag...

Thu, 20 Oct 2022

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. believes we must understand who we were in order to understand who we are. Th...

Mon, 17 Oct 2022

Everyone knows Ralph Macchio as Daniel LaRusso from The Karate Kid. In fact, so many people know him...

Thu, 13 Oct 2022

Béla Fleck is more than a virtuoso banjo player. He’s also a banjo missionary, an evangelist for ...

Mon, 10 Oct 2022

Zahn McClarnon’s early experiences with reservation life helped him add some personal touches as a...

Thu, 06 Oct 2022

Jann Wenner’s life as the co-founder and publisher of Rolling Stone Magazine has been chronicled i...

Mon, 03 Oct 2022

Writer-director Tony Gilroy is the man behind one of Marc’s favorite movies of all time, Michael C...

Thu, 29 Sep 2022

Abigail Disney feels the burden of her last name, particularly due to the practices of the global co...

Mon, 26 Sep 2022

Multiple generations of audiences love Sigourney Weaver, whether it’s because of Ghostbusters or A...

Thu, 22 Sep 2022

Sam Rockwell and Marc have talked with each other a lot since Sam was last on the show. Granted, dur...

Mon, 19 Sep 2022

Adrian Belew’s career in music was influenced by many and has influenced many more. As a completel...

Thu, 15 Sep 2022

Since the last time he was on WTF, Bradley Whitford spent a lot of time listening to the show while ...

Mon, 12 Sep 2022

Documentary filmmaker Brett Morgen likes to go into the deep end with his films. He never wants to r...

Thu, 08 Sep 2022

Singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten creates personal, deeply felt songs that also provide her with re...

Mon, 05 Sep 2022

Al Ruddy's life as a producer taught him one major lesson: The making of every movie is itself worth...

Thu, 01 Sep 2022

Whitney Cummings left the garage twelve years ago after a conversation with Marc and couldn’t shak...

Mon, 29 Aug 2022

Simu Liu is now an entrenched member of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, thanks to his portrayal of su...

Thu, 25 Aug 2022

Singer-songwriter S.G. Goodman creates songs about complex people and conflicting ideas. She sings a...

Mon, 22 Aug 2022

Andrew Garfield was terrified of being Spider-Man. As a 27-year-old who was not yet known to the wor...

Thu, 18 Aug 2022

Jerrod Carmichael has been busy since the last time he talked with Marc in the garage. He directed h...

Mon, 15 Aug 2022

Christina Ricci grew up around enough chaos to make her want constant control. Which is why the show...

Thu, 11 Aug 2022

Patton Oswalt returns to the garage more than a decade since his last appearance, but he and Marc ha...

Mon, 08 Aug 2022

Journalist Sam Quinones blew Marc’s mind six years ago with his book Dreamland: The True Tale of A...

Thu, 04 Aug 2022

Comedian James Acaster caught Marc’s attention when he released four hour-long Netflix standup spe...

Mon, 01 Aug 2022

Neil Gaiman’s writing - from The Sandman to American Gods to Good Omens to hundreds of comics, nov...

Thu, 28 Jul 2022

Comedian Zainab Johnson can survive anything in the comedy world after she survived growing up with ...

Mon, 25 Jul 2022

Talking Heads and The Modern Lovers are two of the most influential bands of the ’70s and many wou...

Thu, 21 Jul 2022

Nikki Glaser returns to the show because Marc finds her so easy to talk with, probably because they ...

Mon, 18 Jul 2022

When Michael Mann talks with Marc about his 1995 crime epic Heat, he has such command of the deep ba...

Thu, 14 Jul 2022

Orny Adams says that being a comedian is the one thing he knows he’s good at. He also says that be...

Mon, 11 Jul 2022

Comedian and writer Naomi Ekperigin is a cheerful person who also finds herself paralyzed with rage....

Thu, 07 Jul 2022

Jerry Stahl is one of Marc’s best friends. But sometimes you have no idea your best friend lived i...

Mon, 04 Jul 2022

Jason Kander was a rising star in national politics. In fact, he was staging a run for the Presidenc...

Thu, 30 Jun 2022

Singer-songwriter Laura Veirs has something to prove with her latest album, Found Light. After divor...

Mon, 27 Jun 2022

Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka has familiarity with garages. But unlike Marc, she didn’t start a podcast...

Thu, 23 Jun 2022

Dana Gould is in his 40th year of doing standup. He and Marc talk about what they’ve learned in th...

Mon, 20 Jun 2022

Kate Berlant’s comedy defies easy categorization. That’s okay with Kate, who thinks people use a...

Thu, 16 Jun 2022

When Jen Statsky and her collaborators were creating the show Hacks, they knew they needed to nail t...

Mon, 13 Jun 2022

Marc has a very direct question for his old friend Greg Proops: “Did we lose?” In the fight for ...

Thu, 09 Jun 2022

For a while, Lara Beitz could only get on stage to do comedy if she was hammered. She'd drink to fee...

Mon, 06 Jun 2022

Oscar and Emmy-winning visual effects artist Phil Tippett is responsible for some of the most memora...

Thu, 02 Jun 2022

Jesus Trejo knows he put in the work to become a paid regular at The Comedy Store, spending years do...

Mon, 30 May 2022

Rosie Perez initially thought success would paper over her trauma. But the emotional ramifications f...

Fri, 27 May 2022

From 2018, Ray Liotta talks with Marc about getting his start in soap operas, the debt he owes to Me...

Thu, 26 May 2022

Joey Camen left a dysfunctional home in Detroit as a teenager and, thanks to an ad he saw in a Playb...

Mon, 23 May 2022

This is an episode about history. Collective history and personal history. Marc finds himself in Was...

Thu, 19 May 2022

Michael Che wanted out his life on the Lower East Side, but his initial path was not comedy. It was ...

Mon, 16 May 2022

Sandra Oh spent much of her career believing certain opportunities weren't going to come her way bec...

Thu, 12 May 2022

The Doobie Brothers is a band with almost twenty official members throughout its five decades of exi...

Mon, 09 May 2022

Marc remembers the life and comedy of Dan Vitale, a comedian whose raw and unapologetically personal...

Thu, 05 May 2022

Nicole Holofcener has trouble breathing. She finds herself holding her breath for too long, which co...

Mon, 02 May 2022

Tony Hawk walked into Marc's garage on a broken leg, the result of a recent skateboarding trick gone...

Thu, 28 Apr 2022

It's normal for everyone to call Troy Andrews by his stage name, Trombone Shorty, because he's been ...

Mon, 25 Apr 2022

Vanessa Bayer knows her comedic talent comes from a decidedly unfunny place. Vanessa's teenage cance...

Thu, 21 Apr 2022

Children's book author Aaron Blabey can measure success by the more than 30 million books he's sold....

Mon, 18 Apr 2022

Robert Eggers was never into Vikings or hand-to-hand combat or macho stuff. And yet he just made the...

Thu, 14 Apr 2022

The guiding philosophy in the life of Harvey Fierstein is simple: Say yes. As he put together his ne...

Wed, 13 Apr 2022

From 2012, Gilbert Gottfried talks to Marc about his comedy peers, his one-year stint on SNL, the ti...

Mon, 11 Apr 2022

Bonnie Raitt doesn't feel the need to slow down. With the release of her 18th studio album and the s...

Thu, 07 Apr 2022

Zazie Beetz and Marc were in three things together - Joker, the Netflix series Easy, and the new ani...

Mon, 04 Apr 2022

Comedian Adam Ray was a high school athlete, a musical theater performer, and an acting student with...

Thu, 31 Mar 2022

Comedian Guy Torry spent 13 years creating and running the most famous all-black comedy night in Ame...

Mon, 28 Mar 2022

The Red Hot Chili Peppers have been around for almost 40 years and Flea has been there for every min...

Thu, 24 Mar 2022

Sam Jay has a lot of irons in the fire. She's on the comedy series Bust Down, she has her own HBO la...

Mon, 21 Mar 2022

Jeff Foxworthy still cringes when he knows other comics are watching his work. That persistent insec...

Thu, 17 Mar 2022

Ariana DeBose knows there was no way for her to prepare for what's happening right now. There's no i...

Mon, 14 Mar 2022

It's been almost seven years since Marc smoked a cigarette with Keith Richards in a radio studio in ...

Thu, 10 Mar 2022

Mike O'Brien has the distinction of being responsible for Marc Maron crossing over into the world of...

Mon, 07 Mar 2022

Not many people know Marc the way Caroline Rhea does. They have a history that runs through the many...

Thu, 03 Mar 2022

Mira Sorvino has a lot of talents beyond acting. She speaks Mandarin Chinese, she dances ballet, she...

Mon, 28 Feb 2022

Sam Elliott plays a lot of tough guys - cowboys, bikers, soldiers - who can (and often do) beat peop...

Fri, 25 Feb 2022

From 2013, Sally Kellerman talks with Marc about being his TV mom, embracing Hot Lips, and working w...

Thu, 24 Feb 2022

W. Kamau Bell has talked with Marc before about his life, his comedy and his thoughts about the worl...

Wed, 23 Feb 2022

From 2014, Marc talks with John Szeles, better known as The Amazing Johnathan, about his life doing ...

Wed, 23 Feb 2022

From 2017, Marc talks with Mark Lanegan, the former frontman of Screaming Trees, about the '90s grun...

Mon, 21 Feb 2022

Andy Garcia says it's surreal to look back on his early life as a shy Cuban exile who was idolizing ...

Thu, 17 Feb 2022

Roy Wood Jr can't be angry on stage. He wants to be angry. But he believes his face is too round to ...

Mon, 14 Feb 2022

Ana Gasteyer learned a major life lesson from Will Ferrell and it has nothing to do with their time ...

Mon, 14 Feb 2022

From 2014, Marc talks with filmmaker Ivan Reitman about his career, his movies and his relationship ...

Thu, 10 Feb 2022

Chris Spencer is the kind of guy the White House calls when they need a show business favor. How did...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022

Judd Hirsch is interested in the pursuit of truth. That's why he loved math as a student, that's why...

Thu, 03 Feb 2022

Sam Richardson thinks desperation is the key to comedy. His characters from shows like Detroiters an...

Mon, 31 Jan 2022

Tony Kushner is one of the most important American playwrights of the past 50 years who is now a cre...

Thu, 27 Jan 2022

Film critic Dana Stevens took her love for Silent Movie Era star Buster Keaton and told the story of...

Mon, 24 Jan 2022

Peter Dinklage spent a good portion of his life trying to come to terms with ambition. It's somethin...

Fri, 21 Jan 2022

Hear Marc's two conversations with comedian and actor Louie Anderson from June 2016 and April 2018. ...

Thu, 20 Jan 2022

John Mellencamp considers his whole career to be a total fluke. Maybe that's because he never planne...

Mon, 17 Jan 2022

Nicole Byer hosts the hit shows Nailed It! and Wipeout, is working on her new standup hour, hosts fo...

Thu, 13 Jan 2022

Drew Michael wants his comedy to feel different. He wants the audience to have a unique experience. ...

Mon, 10 Jan 2022

Javier Bardem finds lots of inspiration in his native Spain: the art, the creativity, the history, t...

Mon, 10 Jan 2022

Marc pays tribute to comedian Bob Saget and revisits his three WTF appearances from September 2010, ...

Fri, 07 Jan 2022

From 2015, Marc talks with director Peter Bogdanovich about his life as a filmmaker, his days in the...

Thu, 06 Jan 2022

Most people who know David Manheim don't know him as David Manheim. To fans of the Dopey podcast, he...

Mon, 03 Jan 2022

Recently, Marc talked with television historian David Bianculli about The Smothers Brothers Comedy H...

Thu, 30 Dec 2021

When Rory Cochrane started acting, he knew he didn't want to be a movie star. He wanted to be a frei...

Mon, 27 Dec 2021

Aida Rodriguez wanted her first HBO special to be more than a comedy show. She wanted to depict the ...

Thu, 23 Dec 2021

Guillermo del Toro believes in one universal truth: We all get to a moment in our lives when we see ...

Mon, 20 Dec 2021

Despite multiple Oscars and billions of dollars in box office returns, Peter Jackson still has the s...

Thu, 16 Dec 2021

At one point, Chan Marshall was in a band called Cat Power. But it's appropriate for someone like Ch...

Mon, 13 Dec 2021

Halle Berry wasn't supposed to be in the movie Bruised. And she definitely wasn't supposed to direct...

Thu, 09 Dec 2021

Still only in his early 30s, Jesse Plemons has already delivered a laundry list of indelible perform...

Mon, 06 Dec 2021

Jennifer Hudson didn't start singing with her eyes open until she was 19 years old. That's not a met...

Thu, 02 Dec 2021

Benedict Cumberbatch is a busy man. When he's not holding the Marvel Universe together as Doctor Str...

Mon, 29 Nov 2021

Bill Pullman's upbringing in rural Western New York prepared him for a multifaceted life, since he a...

Thu, 25 Nov 2021

WTF takes over the historic Paris Theater in New York City for the first live audience episode of th...

Mon, 22 Nov 2021

Ridley Scott has a secret weapon as a filmmaker and it probably has a lot to do with his career long...

Thu, 18 Nov 2021

Kenneth Branagh had a lot on his mind when making the movie Belfast, a film based on his own childho...

Mon, 15 Nov 2021

George Clooney is 60. Which means, much like Marc, he's always reminding himself that he doesn't kno...

Thu, 11 Nov 2021

Marc is trying to get to the bottom of something. What does it really mean to be 'canceled' in comed...

Mon, 08 Nov 2021

The challenges of standup comedy were nothing compared to the obstacles Felipe Esparza faced through...

Thu, 04 Nov 2021

How did Bob Spitz become the preeminent biographer of the most important and influential names in ro...

Mon, 01 Nov 2021

Being from Queens is as much a part of Ricky Velez's personality as his humor, his dyslexia and his ...

Thu, 28 Oct 2021

Jennifer Lee Pryor was there for Richard Pryor's highest highs and his lowest lows. She experienced ...

Mon, 25 Oct 2021

Hasan Minhaj took the pressures put on him to become a lawyer and channeled them into the ambition n...

Thu, 21 Oct 2021

David Chang wouldn't have opened his first restaurant if he wasn't depressed. Now, with his Momofuku...

Mon, 18 Oct 2021

Jane Goodall has hope. Yes, even in these times. That doesn't mean the good doctor looks at the worl...

Thu, 14 Oct 2021

As Connor Roy on Succession, Alan Ruck finally has the kind of role he's been waiting to get for mor...

Mon, 11 Oct 2021

Taraji P. Henson says all her f***s are behind her now. But after three decades in show business, Ta...

Thu, 07 Oct 2021

Kelefa Sanneh has been writing about music for his entire career. Drawing on his experience as the m...

Mon, 04 Oct 2021

American audiences fell in love with Julie Delpy as the romantic French traveler Celine in Before Su...

Thu, 30 Sep 2021

Rosebud Baker knows all about the fine line between sadness and funny. She's learned how to get laug...

Mon, 27 Sep 2021

Even when he was a kid, B.J. Novak wanted to achieve greatness. His hard work and ambition brought h...

Thu, 23 Sep 2021

Franklin Leonard helped change the way movies get made in Hollywood. It's not what he expected as a ...

Mon, 20 Sep 2021

No one is harder on David Chase than David Chase. Even after a successful career as a screenwriter, ...

Thu, 16 Sep 2021

Melanie Vesey has a dividing line in her life: Before and after she got shot. The before part includ...

Tue, 14 Sep 2021

From October 2011, Marc's revelatory conversation with Norm Macdonald about life, comedy, gambling, ...

Mon, 13 Sep 2021

Tim Reid's life changed on a New Year's Eve in the 1960s when he lucked his way into a club to see a...

Thu, 09 Sep 2021

Steve Buscemi has covered a lot of ground in New York City: standup comedy, experimental theater, in...

Tue, 07 Sep 2021

Marc revisits his conversation from earlier this year with actor Michael K. Williams. Michael died a...

Mon, 06 Sep 2021

Sasheer Zamata doesn't have a ton of free time. She's on the Hulu series Woke, the ABC sitcom Home E...

Sat, 04 Sep 2021

From 2015, Marc talks with actor Ed Asner about his legendary career, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, the...

Thu, 02 Sep 2021

When Zoe Lister-Jones found herself dealing with the anxiety and uncertainty we all encountered duri...

Mon, 30 Aug 2021

Billie Jean King is forever remembered as the winner of the Battle of the Sexes, but the battles she...

Thu, 26 Aug 2021

Ever since Marc and Kimmy Gatewood said goodbye to each other and their fellow castmates on the set ...

Mon, 23 Aug 2021

Barry Jenkins is grateful that he's been able to harness the tools of filmmaking in order to tell th...

Thu, 19 Aug 2021

When Liesl Tommy got hired as a first-time feature film director to make the new Aretha Franklin mov...

Mon, 16 Aug 2021

Marlon Wayans and Marc spent their time on the set of the movie Respect cracking each other up and t...

Thu, 12 Aug 2021

Sterlin Harjo is relishing the opportunity to depict Native lives and stories on mainstream televisi...

Mon, 09 Aug 2021

Tom McCarthy approaches his films like a journalist, even when he's creating a work of fiction. Just...

Thu, 05 Aug 2021

Marc is concerned about the erosion of critical thinking as a broad part of American society. So who...

Mon, 02 Aug 2021

Joseph Gordon-Levitt's long career in show business has left him with a keen sense of the problems c...

Thu, 29 Jul 2021

Lindsey Buckingham wasn't going to let anything - from the pandemic to major heart surgery - stand i...

Mon, 26 Jul 2021

Matt Damon's continuing presence and popularity in American films can be summed up in four words: He...

Thu, 22 Jul 2021

Sovereign Syre and Marc have been friends for several years, sharing career paths in comedy, podcast...

Mon, 19 Jul 2021

Rick Rubin's love of music led him to help popularize hip-hop, rejuvenate artists' careers, and leav...

Thu, 15 Jul 2021

Comedian Rick Ingraham is a Comedy Store institution. But he's also the last of a system that was in...

Mon, 12 Jul 2021

LCD Soundsystem is one of the hippest, most beloved bands of the early 21st century, but its frontma...

Thu, 08 Jul 2021

John Swab could have been a real world version of the characters from his films who are casualties o...

Mon, 05 Jul 2021

There are Hollywood tough guys and then there's Danny Trejo. No need to front when you've lived a li...

Thu, 01 Jul 2021

There's a reason Steven Soderbergh's movies are always so unlike whatever movies he's made before. H...

Mon, 28 Jun 2021

The pandemic forced a lot of changes on all of us, but for Quentin Tarantino, he was already undergo...

Thu, 24 Jun 2021

If he hadn't been getting laughs as a high school basketball coach, Erik Griffin may never have gone...

Mon, 21 Jun 2021

Ellen Burstyn doesn't stop working. She's an Emmy, Oscar, and Tony winner with iconic performances i...

Thu, 17 Jun 2021

David Hidalgo has been making music and touring the world with his bandmates in Los Lobos for almost...

Mon, 14 Jun 2021

Anthony Carrigan set out to become an actor despite growing up with alopecia, an autoimmune disease ...

Thu, 10 Jun 2021

Jackson Browne is one of the most prolific singer-songwriters in modern music. He talks to Marc abou...

Mon, 07 Jun 2021

Helen Hunt: Oscar winner, Emmy winner, filmmaker, mother, and self-proclaimed “worst celebrity...

Thu, 03 Jun 2021

Danny Elfman did not set out to become one of the most prolific film composers in history. He was a ...

Mon, 31 May 2021

William Zabka spent the ‘80s playing a variety of bullies all seemingly modeled after his star...

Thu, 27 May 2021

Andrew Santino and Marc didn't know much about each other, aside from both being Comedy Store regula...

Mon, 24 May 2021

Whether he was getting booked on The Tonight Show or becoming the first standup to have a hit sitcom...

Thu, 20 May 2021

Rickie Lee Jones is, first and foremost, a storyteller. She realized at a young age that she could p...

Mon, 17 May 2021

American audiences know Eric Bana from his complex performances in movies like Munich, Black Hawk Do...

Thu, 13 May 2021

Kristin Hersh needs to make music. Whether it's with her bands Throwing Muses and 50FOOTWAVE or in h...

Mon, 10 May 2021

Steve Miller didn't expect to become a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer with hit songs that stand the tes...

Thu, 06 May 2021

Mark Normand is relieved to get back to the comedy clubs after a year of doing outdoor shows and oth...

Mon, 03 May 2021

Nancy Wilson is one of the world's great guitarists, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and crea...

Thu, 29 Apr 2021

Robert Smigel became best known for having a foul-mouthed dog puppet on his hand, but the truth is h...

Mon, 26 Apr 2021

Richard Kind knows his face is memorable, but he still thinks he uses it too much. He knows his char...

Thu, 22 Apr 2021

On the day this episode is released, John Waters is celebrating his 75th birthday. But he's still do...

Mon, 19 Apr 2021

Tom Jones doesn't feel like resting on his laurels. He tells Marc there's one main reason he's going...

Thu, 15 Apr 2021

Yo-Yo Ma remembers a moment in his childhood where it all began to make sense. As a seven-year-old p...

Mon, 12 Apr 2021

Sally Struthers is thinking a lot about the passage of time these days. For one, this year is the 50...

Thu, 08 Apr 2021

Katey Sagal is known by the public in ways she doesn't see herself. She's known as an actor, but alw...

Mon, 05 Apr 2021

Marc only knew Hunter Biden from what he saw in the news. He never heard him speak, he had no sense ...

Thu, 01 Apr 2021

Daniel Kaluuya doesn't want to stop the journey. Getting nominated for Oscars, winning a Golden Glob...

Mon, 29 Mar 2021

Writer-director Azazel Jacobs was born into the world of experimental film. But it was a combination...

Thu, 25 Mar 2021

Eddie Huang has been fighting for things his whole life. Whether fighting for respect from a culture...

Mon, 22 Mar 2021

Christopher Lloyd has a career spanning more than 60 years on stage, TV and film. But Marc was enamo...

Thu, 18 Mar 2021

Serj Tankian from System of a Down says he is dedicated to the truth in a very naive way. That basic...

Mon, 15 Mar 2021

Laraine Newman titled her memoir May You Live in Interesting Times, a phrase many people believe to ...

Thu, 11 Mar 2021

Hugh Grant thinks he's only getting better as an actor now. The work he's done for the past few year...

Mon, 08 Mar 2021

In order for Eddie Murphy to become “Eddie Murphy” he had to become a comedian. Eddie te...

Thu, 04 Mar 2021

Jake Gyllenhaal knows he has a great job as a celebrated film actor. But the thing that brings him t...

Mon, 01 Mar 2021

Tim Allen has embodied enough different personas - Tim Taylor, Mike Baxter, Buzz Lightyear, Santa Cl...

Thu, 25 Feb 2021

Michael K. Williams knows that a lot of people consider his character, Omar Little, to be the best c...

Mon, 22 Feb 2021

Melissa Leo's acting style is a combination of gut instincts and a compulsive need to ask questions....

Thu, 18 Feb 2021

Sam Neill never had any ambitions as an actor, which is not true about his ambitions as a wine maker...

Mon, 15 Feb 2021

Jodie Foster came out on the other side of being a child actor as a two-time Oscar winner, a celebra...

Thu, 11 Feb 2021

Mark Harris is a writer, journalist, critic and lover of film, which is why Marc wanted to talk with...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021

Salma Hayek says she survived in Hollywood because she didn't let anger get the better of her. And s...

Thu, 04 Feb 2021

Stanley Tucci is fortunate that he broke into the mainstream with his movie Big Night because it com...

Mon, 01 Feb 2021

David Duchovny knows you know him from The X-Files. He knows you know him from Californication. But ...

Thu, 28 Jan 2021

Not unlike a lot of comedians, Marc's relationship with Rick Glassman started out with an apology. B...

Mon, 25 Jan 2021

For a guy who's been working at the top of the comedy scene since the 1970s, George Wallace has held...

Sat, 23 Jan 2021

From 2013, Marc talks with talk show icon Larry King about his start in the business, how he got ove...

Thu, 21 Jan 2021

When Marc first met Andy Zaltzman, Andy was in his element at the Edinburgh Fringe. They talk about ...

Mon, 18 Jan 2021

There's a good chance Daniel Lanois is responsible for some of your favorite music ever and it's all...

Thu, 14 Jan 2021

Kate Winslet is all about learning on the job. She never trained to be an actor, she just observed h...

Mon, 11 Jan 2021

Nicole Kidman keeps going for a very simple reason: She feels like her job helps her understand the ...

Thu, 07 Jan 2021

Thundercat thinks bass players run the world and not just because he's a great one. The multi-talent...

Mon, 04 Jan 2021

Mandy Patinkin is a renowned star of stage and screen, beloved for his roles in The Princess Bride a...

Thu, 31 Dec 2020

David Ritz is one of the most prolific biographers of music industry titans, writing about the lives...

Mon, 28 Dec 2020

Patty Jenkins's connection to superheroes runs deep. Long before she became the first woman to direc...

Thu, 24 Dec 2020

Sam Tallent felt compelled to write a book about the guy he was afraid to turn into. As a comedian p...

Mon, 21 Dec 2020

Andrew Bird's music defies categorization, so much so that he's not even sure how to categorize it h...

Thu, 17 Dec 2020

Bootsy Collins is one of the world's preeminent practitioners of The Funk, although that might not b...

Mon, 14 Dec 2020

Scott Glenn is convinced that every good thing that's ever happened to him has been an accident. Tha...

Thu, 10 Dec 2020

The first time Brad Williams got on a stand-up stage, he was just an audience member. Brought up on ...

Mon, 07 Dec 2020

Zach Braff and Marc both dealt with a lot of loss in the past year. For Zach, keeping it all in pers...

Thu, 03 Dec 2020

John Densmore was the drummer for one of the most influential bands of the ‘60s, The Doors, bu...

Mon, 30 Nov 2020

It may not surprise you that James Caan has been in a few fights. He also played football, boxed and...

Thu, 26 Nov 2020

Mike Campbell was more than Tom Petty's bandmate. He was more than a friend, too. He was a partner w...

Mon, 23 Nov 2020

Johnny Flynn and Marc already developed a rapport while they were road-tripping through Canada. They...

Thu, 19 Nov 2020

Michael J. Fox didn't intend to be an inspiration but he's glad he can help out. As Marc learned fro...

Mon, 16 Nov 2020

It took Glenn Close a long time to open up about some aspects of her past. Shame was stubbornly in t...

Thu, 12 Nov 2020

Better Call Saul features characters who are not honest about their lives and identities, so it's ap...

Mon, 09 Nov 2020

Mel Brooks once told Frank Langella, “Nobody would believe you're from Bayonne. You look like ...

Thu, 05 Nov 2020

With the world still wondering what this year's Presidential election really means, it's the right t...

Mon, 02 Nov 2020

David Cross is one of Marc's oldest friends in show business. And right now is a good time for them ...

Thu, 29 Oct 2020

If comedy equals tragedy plus time, comedian Melinda Hill has reached the point where she can make s...

Mon, 26 Oct 2020

When Hari Kondabolu was a college student, he interviewed Marc for a research paper about standup co...

Thu, 22 Oct 2020

These are appropriate times for reflection and Matthew McConaughey just went through the process of ...

Mon, 19 Oct 2020

Patti Smith has been at the vanguard of art, poetry, rock and roll, and other forms of self-expressi...

Thu, 15 Oct 2020

Everyone needs to let off some steam these days and there are few people better who do it better tha...

Mon, 12 Oct 2020

Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne was in Los Angeles and decided to stop by the garage for a rare pa...

Thu, 08 Oct 2020

Wynton Marsalis created a profound examination of America, race, class, politics and human impulses ...

Mon, 05 Oct 2020

John Cusack is always trying to stay engaged with the world. From a young age when activist priests ...

Thu, 01 Oct 2020

Barbara Kopple is known for her acclaimed documentary films, but for Marc the most memorable time Ba...

Mon, 28 Sep 2020

The adage “you can never go home again” didn't apply to Cecily Strong. She did, and it's...

Thu, 24 Sep 2020

Barry Levinson finds himself waking up in disbelief to every outlandish and shocking item in the day...

Mon, 21 Sep 2020

It's a New York City doubleheader! First up, Marc talks with the woman behind the modern day New Yor...

Thu, 17 Sep 2020

Wendell Pierce isn't doing a lot of acting during the pandemic, but he's keeping busy. He's spending...

Mon, 14 Sep 2020

Toni Collette might be the first actor to tell Marc that, yes, she does learn about herself through ...

Thu, 10 Sep 2020

Even in the face this year, Martin Short remains an optimistic guy. Maybe it's because he's had a ca...

Mon, 07 Sep 2020

One year ago, Marc used the Labor Day episode of WTF to find out why so much bad stuff in the world ...

Thu, 03 Sep 2020

J.K. Simmons faced a tough balancing act when his lifelong nonchalance about awards for acting came ...

Mon, 31 Aug 2020

Chelsea Peretti joined Marc in the garage more than ten years ago on a very early episode of WTF. Si...

Thu, 27 Aug 2020

It's been 20 years since Marc demanded that someone “lock the gates” on Billy Crudup and...

Mon, 24 Aug 2020

Whether it's Gus from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul or Buggin' Out from Do The Right Thing or Mo...

Thu, 20 Aug 2020

A lot is going on for Kieran Culkin right now. He's a new dad, he has an Emmy nomination, he's deali...

Mon, 17 Aug 2020

Kerry Washington has a lot to talk about with Marc, but it's appropriate that they spend the first p...

Thu, 13 Aug 2020

[NOTE: This episode and its synopsis were published on August 13, 2020.] At the time when Juno becam...

Mon, 10 Aug 2020

Sarah Snook plays a character on Succession who exists in the center of the American power structure...

Thu, 06 Aug 2020

Joe List shot his new standup special a week before everything shut down, but that doesn't mean he's...

Mon, 03 Aug 2020

Tumultuous times call for sensible comments from voices of reason. Who better to speak to the issues...

Thu, 30 Jul 2020

Not only is Marsha Warfield one of the early pioneers of the Comedy Store scene, she was also there ...

Mon, 27 Jul 2020

Trigger warning if you are an anti-Semite: First of all, why are you listening to this show? Get los...

Thu, 23 Jul 2020

Chris Fairbanks lives the life of a comic, which means a lot of his life is on hold right now. Chris...

Mon, 20 Jul 2020

Tom Scharpling and Marc spend some time talking about the kind of things we all cared about when lif...

Thu, 16 Jul 2020

Jim Carrey just wrote his first novel, a semi-autobiographical look at show business and an examinat...

Mon, 13 Jul 2020

Colin Jost has 15 years of Saturday Night Live under his belt but the time in his life he feels he's...

Thu, 09 Jul 2020

Dame Helen Mirren is a winner of the Oscar, the Tony, the Emmy, and the BAFTA, and is in the middle ...

Mon, 06 Jul 2020

John Legend is a multiplatinum recording artist, a winner of the coveted EGOT, a loving family man a...

Thu, 02 Jul 2020

George Lopez says much of his career is driven by spite. He talks with Marc about how the people who...

Tue, 30 Jun 2020

From 2013, Marc talks with Carl Reiner about his journey from writing to acting to directing, as wel...

Mon, 29 Jun 2020

One thing Alan Zweibel learned by being a writer for so many funny people is you have to set your eg...

Thu, 25 Jun 2020

As Marc dealt with personal grief, he looked around the Internet for some guidance on coping with lo...

Mon, 22 Jun 2020

Janelle Monáe is not going to stop creating, but right now she feels the urge to use her crea...

Thu, 18 Jun 2020

It's been five years since President Obama joined Marc in the garage and WTF is marking the occasion...

Mon, 15 Jun 2020

Joe Pantoliano is widely known for playing bad guys, lowlifes and disreputable characters. He even h...

Thu, 11 Jun 2020

Stacey Abrams believes deeply that the problems facing America today - police brutality, racial disc...

Mon, 08 Jun 2020

WTF started as a comedy podcast. It’s a show made by a comedian who wanted to talk to other comedi...

Fri, 05 Jun 2020

Chris Cooper was a guy who worked with his hands. He was raised to be a cowboy on his father’s ran...

Wed, 03 Jun 2020

G.E. Smith started playing guitar when he was four. As he grew up, he liked The Beatles fine but it ...

Mon, 01 Jun 2020

Film and television production is on hold, but Jeffrey Wright is using the time to focus on his comm...

Thu, 28 May 2020

Kenya Barris retreated from the abusive situation in his childhood home by listening to party record...

Mon, 25 May 2020

Samantha Bee says there was a point in her teenage years when she was clearly headed toward a life o...

Thu, 21 May 2020

Marc revisits his 2012 conversation with comedic actor Fred Willard, in which they discuss Fred’s ...

Mon, 18 May 2020

Marc pays tribute to his creative collaborator and romantic partner Lynn Shelton, who passed away at...

Thu, 14 May 2020

Filmmaker Eliza Hittman talks with Marc about telling the stories of teenagers in ways that feel lik...

Mon, 11 May 2020

Conventional wisdom holds that Cate Blanchett is one of the world’s greatest living performers, bu...

Thu, 07 May 2020

Filmmaker Liz Garbus knows the importance of telling stories. Her father is one of America’s preem...

Mon, 04 May 2020

The OTHER Dan Levy joins Marc to talk about the Canadian perspective of America, the rite of passag...

Thu, 30 Apr 2020

Comedian Whitmer Thomas and Marc made a movie together in Alabama. But while Marc was just a visitor...

Mon, 27 Apr 2020

Laura Linney thinks about mortality a lot and not just because of the current global predicament. He...

Thu, 23 Apr 2020

Director Barry Sonnenfeld had zero interest in film and went to college mainly to get away from his ...

Mon, 20 Apr 2020

In a first for WTF, Rosie O’Donnell joins Marc over video chat for a bicoastal conversation about ...

Thu, 16 Apr 2020

The other half of a quarantined comedy couple, Sam Morril joins Marc in the garage at a six-foot dis...

Mon, 13 Apr 2020

Taylor Tomlinson is possibly the first guest who grew up listening to WTF and learned the comic trad...

Thu, 09 Apr 2020

Fran Drescher has a distinctive personality, but she says it wasn’t until her forties that she tru...

Wed, 08 Apr 2020

From Episode 746, Marc's conversation with John Prine about Kris Kristofferson, Steve Goodman, Bob D...

Mon, 06 Apr 2020

A lot of comedians spend years or decades finding their voice on stage, but Jeff Dunham was very you...

Thu, 02 Apr 2020

One thing Byron Bowers knows for sure is that comedy taught him who he is. He needed it after a chil...

Wed, 01 Apr 2020

From Episode 348, Marc's conversation with songwriter and musician Adam Schlesinger about Fountains ...

Mon, 30 Mar 2020

Even with the popularity of his HBO series High Maintenance, Ben Sinclair is still not great at taki...

Thu, 26 Mar 2020

Kathy Valentine is in one of the most famous and profitable female rock bands ever but she’s reall...

Mon, 23 Mar 2020

Dan Aykroyd has thrived in show business but he’s always been in tune with the business part as mu...

Thu, 19 Mar 2020

The world took notice of Utkarsh Ambudkar with his freestyle performance on the Oscar telecast but h...

Mon, 16 Mar 2020

When Thandie Newton took the part of Maeve on Westworld, she had no idea the character would wind up...

Thu, 12 Mar 2020

Don Gavin has Boston in his bones, so much so that he’s still cold even after moving to Florida. M...

Mon, 09 Mar 2020

It’s a good thing Marc cleaned the garage before Don Cheadle came over, otherwise Don might not ha...

Thu, 05 Mar 2020

Being sixteen is tough for almost everyone. But when Thora Birch was sixteen, she went from being a ...

Mon, 02 Mar 2020

Filmmaker Peter Berg and Marc never would have predicted their respective futures when they were liv...

Thu, 27 Feb 2020

Show business paid off early for Carol Kane. She was in her first movie at age 17 and got an unexpec...

Mon, 24 Feb 2020

Juliette Lewis spent much of her life facing her fears. She was a natural introvert who was suddenly...

Thu, 20 Feb 2020

Adam Pally watched his dad put his own show business ambitions aside while he personally washed out ...

Mon, 17 Feb 2020

Ronan Farrow needed to come to terms with a lot of things. He processed the pain and trauma that exi...

Thu, 13 Feb 2020

Some people are born into stunt performing, some achieve it, and some have it thrust upon them. For ...

Mon, 10 Feb 2020

Ben Schwartz was afraid to do plays in high school. In fact, if it wasn’t for his college girlfrie...

Thu, 06 Feb 2020

Once Marc gets over the confusion around Dan Levy’s name (he pronounces it differently than the Da...

Mon, 03 Feb 2020

Ashton Kutcher is still close with the modeling agent who discovered him in a bar in Iowa. He’s al...

Thu, 30 Jan 2020

Ben Bailey and Marc share a particular gripe as comics. Both of them became widely known for beloved...

Mon, 27 Jan 2020

Terry Crews survived a lot. He survived a tumultuous upbringing in an alcoholic household. He surviv...

Thu, 23 Jan 2020

Josh Klinghoffer came over to Marc’s house just days after receiving the surprising news from the ...

Mon, 20 Jan 2020

When listening to actor Brian Cox talk with Marc, it’s hard to see how this pleasant man is anythi...

Thu, 16 Jan 2020

Randall Park’s Korean immigrant parents were skeptical about their son’s career path. But that a...

Mon, 13 Jan 2020

Lily Tomlin received a bit of advice early in her life that she really took to heart: If you can’t...

Thu, 09 Jan 2020

Joe Mantegna is about as Chicago as they come. He grew up in Chicago, he talks like he’s from Chic...

Mon, 06 Jan 2020

During a victory lap for their movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio ...

Thu, 02 Jan 2020

Scott Caan stars in major movies, is on a long running television series, published his own photogra...

Mon, 30 Dec 2019

Shauna Duggins does stunts for blockbuster movies and TV series, but at first she just wanted to ent...

Thu, 26 Dec 2019

Brittany Howard always needs to keep moving forward. That’s part of the reason she made the diffic...

Mon, 23 Dec 2019

Jimmy Tingle has a lot in common with Marc and many other Boston-based WTF guests. But what sets Jim...

Thu, 19 Dec 2019

Academy Award-winning documentarian Alex Gibney is always trying to understand why things are the wa...

Mon, 16 Dec 2019

Jay Roach went from directing major comedies like the Austin Powers series and Meet the Parents to m...

Thu, 12 Dec 2019

To play Richard Jewell, Paul Walter Hauser knew he needed to tap into a part of himself he thought h...

Mon, 09 Dec 2019

Before he was a King of Comedy, before he was even an entertainer, he was Cedric the Insurance Claim...

Thu, 05 Dec 2019

Photographer Ethan Russell is the only person to shoot album covers for The Beatles, The Rolling Sto...

Mon, 02 Dec 2019

There was a point in Jessica Kirson’s life where she was living with too many secrets. She was a p...

Thu, 28 Nov 2019

Keith Wager is a recovery friend of Marc’s who has a lot to be thankful for. Instead of doing drug...

Mon, 25 Nov 2019

Mike Sweeney tried on several different careers before becoming the head writer for Conan O’Brien:...

Thu, 21 Nov 2019

Comic Louis Katz was working with Marc just before the launch of WTF. In the ten years since, Louis ...

Mon, 18 Nov 2019

When a very complementary newspaper profile called Nathan Lane “the last of the great entertainers...

Thu, 14 Nov 2019

Actress Lili Taylor and Marc quickly realize how much they have in common, like their nearly 50 comb...

Mon, 11 Nov 2019

Tony Hale is trying to be more present. He’s motivated by the fact that some of the biggest moment...

Thu, 07 Nov 2019

Kate Nash says getting cast on GLOW saved her life and, when you hear about the emotional roller coa...

Mon, 04 Nov 2019

John Goodman has more than four decades of experience on stage, in movies, and on television, but he...

Thu, 31 Oct 2019

Marc doesn’t consider himself a “folk music guy” but he cannot deny how strongly he responds t...

Mon, 28 Oct 2019

Edward Norton knows the importance of slowing things down. While many entertainers feel the need to ...

Thu, 24 Oct 2019

No one can doubt Pamela Des Barres’s commitment to the life of rock and roll. She’s known as THE...

Mon, 21 Oct 2019

It’s very likely Rick Baker created something that made you smile, laugh, cringe, scream, or all o...

Thu, 17 Oct 2019

Living in Hawaii gives Woody Harrelson a pretty good perspective of what life should really be about...

Mon, 14 Oct 2019

Marc sees Rachel Maddow on TV almost every night. But there was a time when they saw each other ever...

Thu, 10 Oct 2019

Jackie Tohn is the co-star on GLOW who Marc feels he knows the most. Not because they knew each oth...

Mon, 07 Oct 2019

Argus Hamilton is the human embodiment of The Comedy Store, with the distinction of being one of the...

Thu, 03 Oct 2019

Danny DeVito is one of America’s most beloved actors and that’s true across multiple generations...

Mon, 30 Sep 2019

Marilu Henner will not forget what was said in this conversation. That’s mostly because she has a ...

Thu, 26 Sep 2019

Jeannie Gaffigan had a lot on her plate. She was raising five kids, writing comedy with her husband ...

Mon, 23 Sep 2019

How did Byron Allen go from teenage stand-up to highly successful media mogul and entrepreneur? Byro...

Thu, 19 Sep 2019

Chaunté Wayans has a last name that adds a lot of pressure to a comedy career. She also happens to ...

Mon, 16 Sep 2019

June Diane Raphael knows people are likely to mispronounce her last name (it’s RAY-feel) but she’...

Thu, 12 Sep 2019

Danny Huston felt somewhat doomed when it came to show business. His father John and grandfather Wal...

Mon, 09 Sep 2019

When Bruce Dern showed up at The Actors Studio, Lee Strasberg told him he was going to be their Fran...

Thu, 05 Sep 2019

When Marc first saw Edi Patterson on Vice Principals, he knew she was the kind of performer who can’...

Mon, 02 Sep 2019

Unlike Marc, Dale Beran was immersed in internet culture for most of his life. He considered himself...

Thu, 29 Aug 2019

Legendary blues guitarist Buddy Guy had many insecurities about performing and they didn’t really ...

Mon, 26 Aug 2019

Betty Gilpin’s performance on GLOW has brought her critical accolades, Emmy nominations, and perso...

Thu, 22 Aug 2019

David Shields is always looking to push the form forward, whether it’s by way of his writing, his ...

Mon, 19 Aug 2019

Patricia Clarkson came to show business by way of New Orleans, where exposure to all manner of publi...

Sat, 17 Aug 2019

From Episode 930, Marc's conversation with actor Peter Fonda about childhood trauma, Easy Rider, and...

Thu, 15 Aug 2019

Stephen Root grew up moving all over the country because of his dad’s job. Being uprooted all the ...

Mon, 12 Aug 2019

Bashir Salahuddin is having a moment. He has two new shows out that he co-created and stars in, Sout...

Thu, 08 Aug 2019

Greg Kinnear actually bailed on being an actor. Even though he performed in high school plays and ho...

Mon, 05 Aug 2019

Walton Goggins has played tough guys, weird guys and guys who completely defy description, but to hi...

Thu, 01 Aug 2019

Juston McKinney’s story keeps coming back to New Hampshire. It’s where he grew up, where he lost...

Mon, 29 Jul 2019

At some point in the past decade, Kurt Andersen felt like he had to figure out America. Coming from ...

Thu, 25 Jul 2019

Now that Tom Dreesen has 50 years in show business under his belt, he wants to enjoy life. He’s ea...

Mon, 22 Jul 2019

Geena Davis says the biggest thing she had to learn as she made her way through show business was ho...

Thu, 18 Jul 2019

Not only did director and writer Alex Ross Perry work in a video store while he was learning to beco...

Mon, 15 Jul 2019

Sean Lennon admits that he was naïve about his family legacy when he began a career in music. He al...

Thu, 11 Jul 2019

When Nahnatchka Khan started developing Fresh Off The Boat for TV, she knew it was an undertaking th...

Mon, 08 Jul 2019

You only need to hear David Lee Roth talk for a few seconds to understand why he is the consummate r...

Thu, 04 Jul 2019

Jamie Lee started her career in close proximity to comedy, but not actually doing it. She was workin...

Mon, 01 Jul 2019

Stephen Dorff started acting in movies before he was a teenager, but the sudden and tragic death of ...

Thu, 27 Jun 2019

Even though Brent Butt grew up in rural Saskatchewan, his path to comedy is similar to American comi...

Mon, 24 Jun 2019

Before Stephen Colbert knew what he wanted to do with his life, all he wanted was to be Hamlet. Not ...

Thu, 20 Jun 2019

When Steve Sweeney was growing up in Boston, the last thing he expected to become was an entertainer...

Mon, 17 Jun 2019

When Marc read Eve Ensler’s new book The Apology, he knew he had to speak with her right away. Not...

Thu, 13 Jun 2019

Jamie Denbo’s life and career would not be the same were it not for her job at a Renaissance fair....

Mon, 10 Jun 2019

As Mavis Staples turns 80 years old, she continues to perform and record with young musicians and pr...

Thu, 06 Jun 2019

Perry Farrell is the creative force behind Jane’s Addiction, Porno for Pyros, and the Lollapalooza...

Mon, 03 Jun 2019

When you talk with John Turturro, it’s quickly apparent that he’s a student of history. But John...

Thu, 30 May 2019

David Letterman started out doing the very thing that scared him to death - getting up in front of s...

Mon, 27 May 2019

In the last decade or so, Timothy Olyphant realized that a lot of his interests when he was younger ...

Thu, 23 May 2019

Duff McKagan weathered the storm of rock and roll excess and now finds himself with a loving family,...

Mon, 20 May 2019

Of course Lisa Kudrow talks with Marc about Friends. But first they discuss several other topics Lis...

Thu, 16 May 2019

A fateful moment in Kyle Mooney’s life was when his high school hip hop group went up in flames. Q...

Mon, 13 May 2019

If there was one constant in Anjelica Huston’s early life and career, it was the pressure to prove...

Thu, 09 May 2019

Anna Konkle and Maya Erskine, co-creators and stars of the middle school-based comedy PEN15, met and...

Mon, 06 May 2019

Dennis Quaid believes in the benefits of familiarity. In fact, he attributes his career to it. Multi...

Thu, 02 May 2019

After fifty years in Hollywood producing some of the most popular movies of all time, Irwin Winkler ...

Mon, 29 Apr 2019

Jane Fonda is still acting and is still an activist, two constants in her entire adult life. But as ...

Thu, 25 Apr 2019

Bryan Callen always wished he could be a tough guy. Maybe it was the influence of his Marine father ...

Mon, 22 Apr 2019

Brené Brown’s degree in social work and her research into conditions like empathy and vulnerabili...

Thu, 18 Apr 2019

Mark Arm was there at the beginning of a Seattle music scene that became a national phenomenon. But ...

Mon, 15 Apr 2019

Christina Hendricks can relate if you had a lousy time in high school. Between moving around a lot t...

Thu, 11 Apr 2019

Bruce McCulloch’s characters and disposition on The Kids in the Hall would lead you to conclude he...

Mon, 08 Apr 2019

The last time Vincent D’Onofrio saw Marc it was at a standup show where Marc got tackled on stage ...

Thu, 04 Apr 2019

Growing up in Texas, young Joseph Henry Burnett first experienced musical transportation while liste...

Mon, 01 Apr 2019

John Lithgow can go from playing the sweetest characters you’ll ever see to truly deranged psychop...

Thu, 28 Mar 2019

Phoebe Robinson knows too well the feeling of being “the only one.” Whether it was being the onl...

Mon, 25 Mar 2019

Rob Lowe had several revelations over the course of his life. One is that there’s more fun in sobr...

Thu, 21 Mar 2019

The word prodigy gets thrown around a lot, but if Tal Wilkenfeld isn’t one then the word has no me...

Mon, 18 Mar 2019

Amy Sedaris had no plan of action for her career other than going to Chicago to do sketch comedy and...

Thu, 14 Mar 2019

Aidy Bryant only recently felt like she could tap into her inner rage. She remains a wonderfully nic...

Mon, 11 Mar 2019

To celebrate the milestone of 1000 episodes, Marc and WTF producer Brendan McDonald reflect on how t...

Thu, 07 Mar 2019

Media juggernauts Marc Maron and Tom Scharpling join forces once again, this time to save not only t...

Mon, 04 Mar 2019

Alfred Molina was told early on that he was a “dreadful actor but a marvelous show off.” Thankfu...

Thu, 28 Feb 2019

Gary Clark Jr. tries not to put too much pressure on himself. That’s not surprising since outside ...

Mon, 25 Feb 2019

Andrea Savage didn't really know Marc but thought he was a little scary. Marc didn't know Andrea but...

Thu, 21 Feb 2019

Jon Bernthal’s path to becoming an actor was less about following a dream than about getting out o...

Mon, 18 Feb 2019

Mandy Moore has already gone through several career phases in her young life, from teenage pop star ...

Thu, 14 Feb 2019

Yeardley Smith knows that Lisa Simpson gets people through tough times. She knows because strangers ...

Mon, 11 Feb 2019

Tony Shalhoub grew up with nine siblings so it’s no surprise he developed a way to stand out. Tony...

Thu, 07 Feb 2019

Yorgos Lanthimos makes films that pose a lot of questions and Marc wants answers. But it turns out t...

Mon, 04 Feb 2019

Long before Anderson .Paak was getting nominated for Grammy Awards, well before his collaborations w...

Thu, 31 Jan 2019

Writer Allan MacDonell shaped his writing style at the punk magazine Slash, refined it while working...

Mon, 28 Jan 2019

Allison Janney won an Oscar playing the mother of a figure skater, but when she was younger she actu...

Thu, 24 Jan 2019

If Brad Garrett had to bet on it - and he likes to bet - he’s pretty sure he’ll die in Las Vegas...

Mon, 21 Jan 2019

It's very possible the only reason Aaron Sorkin became a writer is because he spent a lonely night i...

Thu, 17 Jan 2019

For Linda Cardellini, a person whose spiritual crisis took her all the way to the Vatican, it's appr...

Mon, 14 Jan 2019

Howie Mandel went to Hollywood and tried to make a living by putting a latex glove on his head. He n...

Thu, 10 Jan 2019

Not only is Sam Lipsyte one of the funniest modern fiction authors, he’s also one of Marc’s best...

Mon, 07 Jan 2019

When Steve Coogan realized he was good at doing impressions, he also realized it was a really good w...

Thu, 03 Jan 2019

Seth MacFarlane can host award shows, create button-pushing animated shows, and sing standards in sy...

Mon, 31 Dec 2018

Before directing his first feature film, Reinaldo Marcus Green's life could have gone down multiple ...

Thu, 27 Dec 2018

Kyle Dunnigan was saved from a midlife crisis by Instagram. He explains to Marc how he bent the soci...

Mon, 24 Dec 2018

Topher Grace is at a point where he’s only going to make what he wants to make. Not all actors can...

Thu, 20 Dec 2018

Fahim Anwar's path to show business went through Boeing. It's not the most traditional route to Holl...

Mon, 17 Dec 2018

Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz deal with many of the typical challenges of middle age, but they’...

Thu, 13 Dec 2018

Maggie Gyllenhaal grew up with filmmaker parents but didn't really feel like her family was in show...

Mon, 10 Dec 2018

Jeff Daniels has delivered great performances in films, plays and TV shows for more than 40 years bu...

Thu, 06 Dec 2018

Ted Alexandro is a comic who believes deeply in social responsibility. Whether it’s responsibility...

Mon, 03 Dec 2018

Tim Blake Nelson might be a familiar face due to his indelible character roles in many films, but th...

Thu, 29 Nov 2018

Jeff Tweedy doesn’t spend a lot of time reflecting on the past. But he awakened a whole lot of it ...

Mon, 26 Nov 2018

Martin Mull has many job titles in front of his name: Actor, musician, painter, writer, comedian. Bu...

Thu, 22 Nov 2018

Comedian and writer Annie Lederman saw her adolescence take a turn for the worse after a childhood c...

Mon, 19 Nov 2018

Kenneth Lonergan doesn’t think there’s a real difference between comedy and drama, at least not ...

Thu, 15 Nov 2018

Michael Douglas produced an Academy Award-winner for Best Picture, was the star of a successful tele...

Mon, 12 Nov 2018

"The most dangerous place for black people to live is in white people’s imaginations." That idea h...

Thu, 08 Nov 2018

Sandy Hackett learned from the best, but not just because Buddy Hackett was his dad. But also becaus...

Mon, 05 Nov 2018

Rita Rudner is very likely the only person to start a comedy career because of an article in the New...

Thu, 01 Nov 2018

Roger Daltrey believes you can't retire from rock and roll, rock and roll retires you. But for now, ...

Mon, 29 Oct 2018

Zoe Kazan doesn't think much about the concept of "Hollywood royalty." Yes, her parents are in show ...

Thu, 25 Oct 2018

Python Week continues on WTF as Eric Idle gives Marc his perspective on the creation of the legendar...

Mon, 22 Oct 2018

John Cleese says there's one constant throughout his life, from Monty Python through today. He still...

Thu, 18 Oct 2018

Actor Richard E. Grant keeps a daily diary and has done so since he was ten years old. Having immedi...

Mon, 15 Oct 2018

Busy Philipps is on the cusp of becoming a late night talk show host, so it's appropriate for her an...

Thu, 11 Oct 2018

Recording artist Kurt Vile and Marc like a lot of the same stuff: Tom Scharpling, the blues, Randy ...

Mon, 08 Oct 2018

Writer and comedian Charles Demers has a lot of thoughts on the differences between the United State...

Thu, 04 Oct 2018

Sissy Spacek was a girl from Texas with a guitar who just wanted to sing. But after spending some ti...

Mon, 01 Oct 2018

Anna Faris had Marc on her podcast once. They both agree it got a little weird. They try to navigate...

Wed, 26 Sep 2018

Gale Anne Hurd is one of Hollywood’s most successful producers, with films like The Terminator, A...

Sun, 23 Sep 2018

Joan Jett wanted to be a rocker ever since she got a hold of a guitar, even though she was told gir...

Wed, 19 Sep 2018

Slash is known for guitar wizardry, the top hat, and a prolific career across several major rock act...

Sun, 16 Sep 2018

Kristen Bell had an experience as a guest on WTF that not many others get to enjoy: Marc made her a ...

Wed, 12 Sep 2018

Comedian, actor and writer Adam Cayton-Holland didn't plan on having a memoir in his 30s. But Adam's...

Sun, 09 Sep 2018

Billy Eichner was singing before he was yelling. The star of Billy on the Street had an early love o...

Wed, 05 Sep 2018

Marc talks with Paul McCartney about, well, a lot: The Beatles and Stones rivalry that wasn’t, h...

Sun, 02 Sep 2018

Dan Schlissel died recently. He tells Marc all about it, along with the less harrowing tale of how a...

Wed, 29 Aug 2018

If there was a competition for WTF guest who comes from the most far-flung, middle-of-nowhere place,...

Sun, 26 Aug 2018

Jo Koy is one of the biggest headlining comedians in the world and it might not have turned out that...

Wed, 22 Aug 2018

A lot has changed in the 30 years since Marc and Tanya Donnelly worked together at a luncheonette in...

Sun, 19 Aug 2018

Shooter Jennings was born into Nashville royalty, the son of Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter. But h...

Wed, 15 Aug 2018

There were two times Joe Walsh felt part of a community. The first was as a student at Kent State, b...

Sun, 12 Aug 2018

Jimmy O. Yang felt like an outsider growing up in Hong Kong and then felt like he didn't fit in stud...

Wed, 08 Aug 2018

Chris O'Dowd charmed and amused audiences in things like Bridesmaids, The IT Crowd, and recently the...

Sun, 05 Aug 2018

Jay Leno came up as a comic's comic, a performer recognized by other comedians as one of the best in...

Wed, 01 Aug 2018

Luzer Twersky is an actor who has been seen on shows like Transparent and High Maintenance. But prio...

Sun, 29 Jul 2018

Mila Kunis says she's had a most fortunate trajectory in show business. That's because she got to ex...

Wed, 25 Jul 2018

Marc welcomes back to the show two comedian friends from the early years of WTF, both of whom have e...

Sun, 22 Jul 2018

It’s a summertime double-header of returning guests. First, David Sedaris takes a break from his m...

Wed, 18 Jul 2018

Before he was in Hamilton, Daveed Diggs was an aspiring actor, rapper and spoken word performer crea...

Sun, 15 Jul 2018

Filmmaker and kindred guitar noodler Gus Van Sant meets Marc in the garage and jumps in for a deep d...

Wed, 11 Jul 2018

Ray Liotta had no intention of getting into acting but his fearless disposition led him to performin...

Sun, 08 Jul 2018

Filmmaker and hip hop artist Boots Riley wants his audiences to be radically engaged. He grew up wit...

Wed, 04 Jul 2018

Peter Fonda is happy to be figuring things out, no matter how long it took. Childhood traumas and an...

Sun, 01 Jul 2018

One constant for Paul Rudd as he spent a large portion of his childhood moving around the country, c...

Wed, 27 Jun 2018

Comedian Eleanor Kerrigan knows a lot about The Comedy Store. Not only did she become the club's hea...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018

Lil Rel Howery burst into the mainstream as a hero. Playing the character who saves the day in Get O...

Wed, 20 Jun 2018

New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff came into Robin Williams's life right around the same t...

Sun, 17 Jun 2018

Billy Bob Thornton sees himself in a certain way and feels as though the world sees him differently...

Wed, 13 Jun 2018

Holly Hunter left the family farm in Georgia to become an actor. She talks with Marc about her early...

Sun, 10 Jun 2018

Bob Balaban was born into show business and he didn't even know it until he was 10. The ubiquitous a...

Thu, 07 Jun 2018

From Episode 233, this is Marc's conversation with Anthony Bourdain, conducted in 2011. Anthony died...

Wed, 06 Jun 2018

Vanessa Hollingshead can honestly say that a cruise ship saved her life. She tells Marc what led to ...

Sun, 03 Jun 2018

David Harbour became pretty cynical about the acting profession before landing the star-making role ...

Wed, 30 May 2018

Rachel Brosnahan related to the pressures and insecurities of standup comics when she got the lead r...

Sun, 27 May 2018

Tom Papa got the comedy bug early in life but his unconventional path went from football to live the...

Wed, 23 May 2018

Paul Rodriguez has always been paying his dues. Even before he paid his dues doing open mics and par...

Sun, 20 May 2018

Nearly seven years after doing an episode of WTF that never aired, Neal Brennan sits down with Marc ...

Wed, 16 May 2018

Mary Steenburgen started out pretty far away from Hollywood, as a young girl in Little Rock, Arkansa...

Sun, 13 May 2018

Josh Brolin knows that time and maturity saved his life. Going back to his rebellious youth, Josh ca...

Wed, 09 May 2018

Before comedy and acting were ever on Melissa McCarthy's radar, she was like a lot midwestern teens ...

Sun, 06 May 2018

Rachel Bloom is a self-described show pony, a people-pleaser with a lifelong desire to perform as a ...

Wed, 02 May 2018

Drew Carey was in a bad place. After losing his dad at a young age, suffering through anxiety and de...

Sun, 29 Apr 2018

Scott Thompson from The Kids in the Hall isn't too worried about the way of the world these days, mo...

Wed, 25 Apr 2018

Writer Mandy Stadtmiller's career as a dating columnist was taking off as her post-divorce social li...

Sun, 22 Apr 2018

Bradley Whitford was a huge Key and Peele fanboy who was desperate to work with them. But he didn't ...

Wed, 18 Apr 2018

Sam Tripoli never doubted he would become a comic, so his decision to study psychology was not an at...

Sun, 15 Apr 2018

Aisha Tyler's directorial debut is a film called Axis about a guy who has hit the wall. That's appro...

Wed, 11 Apr 2018

Charlie Musselwhite and Ben Harper are musicians with wildly different backgrounds but a unifying lo...

Sun, 08 Apr 2018

Writer, producer and podcast pioneer Bill Simmons is a man whose life, career and worldview have cha...

Wed, 04 Apr 2018

Jason Alexander was one of countless New Jersey kids who couldn't resist the lights of Broadway on t...

Sun, 01 Apr 2018

Neil Patrick Harris credits his New Mexico upbringing with helping him weather the ups and downs of ...

Wed, 28 Mar 2018

John Flansburgh and John Linnell tell Marc the unlikely story of how a couple high school friends ...

Sun, 25 Mar 2018

Sean Penn wrote a novel to slow things down. He fell out of love with making movies, he is disillusi...

Wed, 21 Mar 2018

Nick Nolte makes an appropriate guest for the 900th episode of WTF because he clearly has about 900 ...

Sun, 18 Mar 2018

Nell Scovell has written for a Murderers' Row of television comedies - including The Simpsons, It's ...

Wed, 14 Mar 2018

David Mamet's love for Chicago shows up all the time in his works, including his new novel which is ...

Sun, 11 Mar 2018

Ted Danson is one of the most visible and familiar actors of the past four decades, and yet he still...

Wed, 07 Mar 2018

David Oyelowo got America’s attention with his instantly-iconic portrayal of Dr. Martin Luther Kin...

Sun, 04 Mar 2018

Sharon Stone made a decision after she achieved fame with Basic Instinct. She wanted to build a way ...

Wed, 28 Feb 2018

When Marc was a young comic living in Boston, Buffalo Tom was one of his favorite bands. Buffalo Tom...

Sun, 25 Feb 2018

Jennifer Lawrence takes a break from being one of the biggest movie stars in the world to stop by th...

Wed, 21 Feb 2018

Filmmaker Duncan Jones put his philosophy degree to good use when he started making science fiction ...

Sun, 18 Feb 2018

Heather Graham had stories she wanted to see made and roles she wanted to play, so she took them int...

Wed, 14 Feb 2018

Gina Rodriguez is living the dream with her Golden Globe-winning performance as Jane the Virgin, rol...

Sun, 11 Feb 2018

Almost a decade ago, a down-on-his-luck Marc Maron told 20-year-old aspiring comic Esther Povitsky t...

Wed, 07 Feb 2018

Tracy Letts is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, a Tony Award-winning actor, and someone Marc is ...

Sun, 04 Feb 2018

Show business finally clicked for Riki Lindhome when she started the comedy music duo Garfunkel and ...

Wed, 31 Jan 2018

Ezra Furman started writing songs when he was 14 years old after hearing Bob Dylan but while still w...

Sun, 28 Jan 2018

Rita Moreno is a show business legend with an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony to her name, as w...

Wed, 24 Jan 2018

Bass player and record producer Don Was is a Renaissance man in the music world. Whether he's produc...

Sun, 21 Jan 2018

Macaulay Culkin considers himself retired, dabbling in whatever he chooses at any given time. It's u...

Wed, 17 Jan 2018

Derek Waters created Drunk History, but he really doesn't want to know about the darkness that lies ...

Sun, 14 Jan 2018

Laurie Metcalf has never been through anything in her acting career like what she's going through no...

Wed, 10 Jan 2018

Richard Jenkins is one of the great character actors working today but he was a late starter in show...

Sun, 07 Jan 2018

Comedian and actor Fortune Feimster joins Marc in the garage fresh off getting engaged to her girlfr...

Wed, 03 Jan 2018

Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of America's most celebrated and insightful writers. But there's part of him...

Sun, 31 Dec 2017

Ring in the New Year with the Maron Family. Marc takes a trip back to some of the earliest episodes ...

Wed, 27 Dec 2017

Marc closes out 2017 with some old friends. Author Michael Marcus might not have made it to the gara...

Sun, 24 Dec 2017

For Christmas Day, Marc presents a look back at some holiday moments from the earliest years of WTF....

Wed, 20 Dec 2017

Photographer Neal Preston is known for taking some of the most iconic shots of the world's most famo...

Sun, 17 Dec 2017

Steven Van Zandt, a.k.a. Little Steven, is an encyclopedia of rock and roll history. Steven talks w...

Wed, 13 Dec 2017

Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky knows his films are not always crowd pleasers but he also knows exactly ...

Sun, 10 Dec 2017

Singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III talks life, love and Roman numerals. The prolific musician t...

Wed, 06 Dec 2017

At some point after James Franco became a high-profile movie star, he found himself asking, "What if...

Sun, 03 Dec 2017

Like the protagonist of her new film Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig grew up in Sacramento, spent the summer...

Wed, 29 Nov 2017

His given name is Sam Beam but he's known in music as Iron & Wine, maker of soulful folk rock. Marc ...

Sun, 26 Nov 2017

Rob Huebel and Marc start a new podcast within this podcast. It's a show called Contact List and the...

Wed, 22 Nov 2017

It's an extra helping of music talk for Thanksgiving. First Marc sits down with filmmaker Kasper Col...

Sun, 19 Nov 2017

For Christina Pazsitzky, comedy was finally something she enjoyed doing after burning through twenty...

Wed, 15 Nov 2017

Lawrence O'Donnell is on MSNBC every weeknight talking about the chaos and tumult of uncertain times...

Sun, 12 Nov 2017

As a member of The Pixies and The Breeders, Kim Deal is already a rock legend. But she was also a ba...

Wed, 08 Nov 2017

Whether you call his band Thee Oh Sees, Oh Sees, or OCS, there's no denying John Dwyer's prolific mu...

Sun, 05 Nov 2017

Jenna Fischer came to Los Angeles when she was 22 with no contacts, no guidance, and no idea of what...

Wed, 01 Nov 2017

John Hammond was kid from New York with a dad in the music industry, so it's no surprise he became a...

Sun, 29 Oct 2017

Joy Behar was already a successful comic when she became a co-host on The View. But before she was a...

Wed, 25 Oct 2017

Marc completely missed the era of music that writer Lizzy Goodman chronicles in her book 'Meet Me in...

Sun, 22 Oct 2017

Actor Willem Dafoe might have had a hard time standing out while he was growing up as the seventh of...

Wed, 18 Oct 2017

Bassem Youssef was a surgeon in Egypt who started doing a YouTube show from his house and eventually...

Sun, 15 Oct 2017

On a list of the world's funniest people, Tracey Ullman ranks pretty high. But Tracey tells Marc she...

Wed, 11 Oct 2017

Despite being born Brian Warner, Marilyn Manson doesn't separate his stage persona from who he is as...

Sun, 08 Oct 2017

It just so happens that Jeff Bridges and Beau Bridges are both in new movies at the same time (Only ...

Wed, 04 Oct 2017

Marc presents a special audio version of the first chapter of Waiting for the Punch: Words to Live b...

Sun, 01 Oct 2017

Elliot Gould was at the vanguard of American New Wave Cinema in the 1970s, but he tells Marc there w...

Wed, 27 Sep 2017

Top Chef's Tom Colicchio discovered a passion for cooking at a young age, thanks to a book his corre...

Sun, 24 Sep 2017

Saturday Night Live's "Resident Young Person" Pete Davidson might be the only member of the SNL cast...

Wed, 20 Sep 2017

Television comedy impresario George Schlatter created Laugh In at the peak of cultural upheaval in ...

Sun, 17 Sep 2017

Lee Daniels got his start in show business by running a nursing agency. That may seem unusual but th...

Wed, 13 Sep 2017

Kathy Bates hammered her way into movie and pop culture history with her Oscar-winning performance i...

Sun, 10 Sep 2017

Ken Burns and his frequent collaborator Lynn Novick have made indelible documentaries about American...

Wed, 06 Sep 2017

Not every global pop superstar would feel at home in Marc's garage, but Lorde isn't your average glo...

Sun, 03 Sep 2017

Warren Hutcherson and Marc were getting their starts in standup around the same time. Then, as Marc ...

Wed, 30 Aug 2017

Steve Jordan is considered one of the greatest rock and roll drummers of all time. He joins Marc in ...

Sun, 27 Aug 2017

Actor Jay Baruchel takes the trip down from Canada to talk with Marc about life, acting and the Grea...

Wed, 23 Aug 2017

Marc gets the full story of how Vincent Furnier became Alice Cooper and took rock & roll into dark a...

Sun, 20 Aug 2017

First things first: Brent Weinbach and Marc need to have a good conversation about crying. Once that...

Wed, 16 Aug 2017

To prepare for this conversation, Marc watched one of Jennifer Jason Leigh's earliest films, Fast Ti...

Sun, 13 Aug 2017

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is one of the greatest basketball players ever, but he's happy if you know him a...

Wed, 09 Aug 2017

Canadian comic Mike MacDonald survived four decades in comedy, drug abuse, Sam Kinison, chronic illn...

Sun, 06 Aug 2017

Keith and Kenny Lucas are identical twins and Marc is freaking out at how similar they are. Well, fr...

Wed, 02 Aug 2017

Rory Scovel is from the South, he was born into a legacy of postal workers, and one of his first job...

Sun, 30 Jul 2017

Former Vice President Al Gore has been thinking about change his whole life, whether it was the way ...

Wed, 26 Jul 2017

David Alan Grier studied to become a serious actor at Yale School of Drama, which actually came in h...

Sun, 23 Jul 2017

Marc believes - and many agree with him - that Randy Newman is an American genius. One person who's ...

Wed, 19 Jul 2017

David Remnick is a seasoned journalist, an accomplished writer and a proud amateur guitar player. Bu...

Sun, 16 Jul 2017

With indelible roles in shows like The Sopranos, Nurse Jackie, and Horace and Pete, a lot of people ...

Wed, 12 Jul 2017

Blues legends Keb' Mo' and Taj Mahal are distinctly different individuals. One grew up in Compton, C...

Sun, 09 Jul 2017

Give a listen to how the sausage of television gets made as Marc talks with the creative team behind...

Wed, 05 Jul 2017

Filmmaker Jeff Baena was always into movies that didn't fit into easy categories. He tells Marc abou...

Sun, 02 Jul 2017

It's a tag team match with two of Marc's GLOW colleagues. First, Chavo Guerrero Jr. stops by to tell...

Wed, 28 Jun 2017

Jason Mantzoukas is a great improvisational comedian, which you would know from seeing him in shows ...

Sun, 25 Jun 2017

Even when she was in school, Jenji Kohan didn't like being told what she couldn't do. So it makes se...

Wed, 21 Jun 2017

Despite a surname that is practically synonymous with modern American cinema, Sofia Coppola didn't w...

Sun, 18 Jun 2017

Marc sits down with his coworkers Alison Brie and Betty Gilpin to take stock of the time they spent ...

Wed, 14 Jun 2017

Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon are married. They also wrote the movie The Big Sick, which is based...

Sun, 11 Jun 2017

When Marc crossed paths with writer Ariel Leve back in the '90s, she was working at MTV and on the v...

Wed, 07 Jun 2017

It's a doubleheader of singer-songwriters who are separated by several years but tied together by si...

Sun, 04 Jun 2017

Marc interviews an interviewer when Lesley Stahl spends 60 minutes in the garage. The veteran journa...

Wed, 31 May 2017

Marc travels to Washington, DC for a conversation with his old radio co-worker who now happens to be...

Sun, 28 May 2017

Jake Fogelnest was a teenager with a public access show who was thrust into a high-profile MTV gig a...

Wed, 24 May 2017

Danny Fields is a music manager, a publicist, a magazine editor, a writer, and a conduit to some of ...

Sun, 21 May 2017

Griffin Dunne caught the acting bug at a young age and had early success with movies like American W...

Wed, 17 May 2017

As AJ Lee, she was a larger than life superhero who won the WWE women's wrestling championship three...

Sun, 14 May 2017

Joel Hodgson took his Midwestern sensibility, his interest in theater of the absurd, his standup com...

Wed, 10 May 2017

Kevin Bacon started his career with an awkward experience on the set of Animal House. Then his fear ...

Sun, 07 May 2017

John Michael Higgins is instantly familiar to audiences after seeing him in the Christopher Guest mo...

Wed, 03 May 2017

Wendi McLendon-Covey may have found success with The Goldbergs and Bridesmaids but the Hollywood lif...

Sun, 30 Apr 2017

Although Mark Mothersbaugh co-founded Devo, he didn't think it was a band at first. To Mark and his ...

Wed, 26 Apr 2017

Mark Lanegan is the soft-spoken elder statesman of the '90s Seattle grunge scene. Marc Maron talks w...

Sun, 23 Apr 2017

Poor health kept Walter Hill out of the Army in the '60s, but that twist of fate led him into filmma...

Wed, 19 Apr 2017

Marc is a fan of Amanda Peet when she's playing funny, quirky characters, like in Togetherness or Br...

Sun, 16 Apr 2017

Baron Vaughn knows that growing up without a father and sharing a bunk bed with grandma can ignite t...

Wed, 12 Apr 2017

It turns out Michael Chiklis and Marc went to Boston University at the same time, but soon after sch...

Sun, 09 Apr 2017

Marc tries not to fanboy out too much with Anne Hathaway in the garage. While he attempts to keep it...

Thu, 06 Apr 2017

For the 800th episode of WTF, Marc welcomes back the show's very first guest, Jeff Ross. Just as WTF...

Sun, 02 Apr 2017

New York Times comedy critic Jason Zinoman is the one person analyzing comedy from the most prominen...

Wed, 29 Mar 2017

Marc was blown away by author Paul Beatty's celebrated novel The Sellout and wanted to know how a wr...

Sun, 26 Mar 2017

Paul Shaffer takes Marc down the path that turned a piano-playing kid from Canada into a keyboard-fo...

Wed, 22 Mar 2017

Religious scholar Reza Aslan has spent his life studying the facts and misconceptions about belief a...

Sun, 19 Mar 2017

Actor and writer Paul Rust knew how to be funny as a kid growing up in Iowa and struggling with OCD....

Wed, 15 Mar 2017

Filmmaker Louis Theroux once tried to make a documentary featuring Marc but he never used the footag...

Sun, 12 Mar 2017

Kevin Nealon is trying a new approach to life in order to be less of a people pleaser and to allow h...

Wed, 08 Mar 2017

Fred Melamed is instantly familiar, not only because of his scene-stealing performances in the Coen ...

Sun, 05 Mar 2017

Eugene Levy brings more than five decades of comedy history from north of the border into the garage...

Wed, 01 Mar 2017

Whether you see her in Christopher Guest's movies or on 2 Broke Girls or as Stifler's mom, Jennifer ...

Sun, 26 Feb 2017

Filmmaker Raoul Peck spent more than a decade putting together the documentary I Am Not Your Negro, ...

Wed, 22 Feb 2017

Singer-songwriter Norah Jones can float between multiple genres of music with ease, whether it’s j...

Sun, 19 Feb 2017

Comedian Trae Crowder does not shy away from his Southern upbringing, in which he saw economic devas...

Wed, 15 Feb 2017

Unfolding world events are messing with Will Arnett and Marc as they sit in the garage, but they won...

Sun, 12 Feb 2017

Singer-songwriter Ryan Adams knows there's a stark difference between the way he views the work thro...

Wed, 08 Feb 2017

If Steve Jones was going to start a band after a troubled upbringing filled with petty crime, it mak...

Sun, 05 Feb 2017

If Bill Paxton hadn't suffered from rheumatic fever when he was growing up in Texas, he might not be...

Wed, 01 Feb 2017

Marc had prejudged comedian Joe DeRosa. He thought he was a Philly tough guy who wouldn't want to ha...

Sun, 29 Jan 2017

Robbie Robertson is in the garage to give Marc the full lowdown on the history of The Band, from its...

Wed, 25 Jan 2017

How did an '80s glam metal bassist become one of the most prominent music managers in the industry, ...

Sun, 22 Jan 2017

Martin Landau is an Oscar-winning actor with a lifetime of work on film, TV, and stage. But he's als...

Wed, 18 Jan 2017

Comedian Martha Kelly told Zach Galifianakis she cannot act. That didn't stop Zach from casting her ...

Sun, 15 Jan 2017

John Larroquette knows that people still identify him most strongly with Night Court, and he's okay ...

Wed, 11 Jan 2017

Roger Corman made hundreds of films and gave huge opportunities to filmmakers who became the best Ho...

Sun, 08 Jan 2017

Before James Hetfield formed Metallica, his musical awareness was shaped in equal parts by classical...

Thu, 05 Jan 2017

Martha Plimpton says she learned how to act on the job. She talks with Marc about her childhood role...

Mon, 02 Jan 2017

Marc leaves the cozy confines of the garage and heads to New Jersey (where else?) to talk with The B...

Thu, 29 Dec 2016

Singer-songwriter David Bromberg is a human bridge between at least a half-dozen different styles of...

Mon, 26 Dec 2016

Marc makes a pilgrimage to Las Vegas for a sit-down with Sammy Shore, a comic with a long show busin...

Fri, 23 Dec 2016

It's not entirely accurate to say this episode has never been heard by anyone before. About 700 peop...

Thu, 22 Dec 2016

A lot of former child stars have been in the garage, but Derek Trucks wasn't so much a child star as...

Mon, 19 Dec 2016

Annette Bening attributes her longevity in acting to stopping when she wanted. She talks with Marc a...

Fri, 16 Dec 2016

Every so often Marc gets together with Tom Scharpling of The Best Show to figure out life's big ques...

Thu, 15 Dec 2016

Comedian Billy West is a master of voices and one of the preeminent voiceover artists working today....

Mon, 12 Dec 2016

Casey Affleck says he doesn't want fame or stardom. So how's he handling it now that the spotlight k...

Fri, 09 Dec 2016

In September 2016, Marc recorded a conversation with the legendary Jerry Lewis. Until now, no one ha...

Thu, 08 Dec 2016

Comedian Shane Mauss saw his career gathering steam only to stall out and make him feel like opportu...

Sun, 04 Dec 2016

As Dana Carvey puts it, he gave a Heisman to fame, essentially putting himself on the sidelines of s...

Fri, 02 Dec 2016

We go back into the WTF Shoebox Vault to find another unaired pilot for The Marc Maron Show in Los A...

Thu, 01 Dec 2016

Gothic folk duo The Handsome Family meet up with Marc while he's in Albuquerque to talk about Americ...

Sun, 27 Nov 2016

Comedian Joe Matarese has struggled with bouts of rage, anxiety, and paralyzing indecisiveness. As h...

Fri, 25 Nov 2016

This limited series dives deep into the WTF Vault (aka a shoebox under producer Brendan McDonald's b...

Wed, 23 Nov 2016

Singer-songwriter Scott Fagan created a beautiful album in 1968, called South Atlantic Blues. But th...

Sun, 20 Nov 2016

Michael Shannon cuts a pretty intimidating figure on stage and screen. The combination of his Southe...

Wed, 16 Nov 2016

Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain wrote a book that changed Marc's life. On the 20-year anniversary of ...

Sun, 13 Nov 2016

Lin-Manuel Miranda is not only the creator of Hamilton and In The Heights, he's also a long-time WTF...

Wed, 09 Nov 2016

Talent manager Shep Gordon had no real interest in pop music. He was a young hippie making money dea...

Sun, 06 Nov 2016

On the eve of the U.S. Presidential Election, you owe it to yourself to hear this conversation betwe...

Wed, 02 Nov 2016

Endless Boogie was never supposed to become a band. It was made up of some guys who worked at Matado...

Sun, 30 Oct 2016

Roger Waters wrote songs that changed rock and roll, organized them in ways that changed how albums ...

Wed, 26 Oct 2016

Ron Howard knows the key to longevity in show business. He should, considering his evolution from ch...

Sun, 23 Oct 2016

Sarah Jessica Parker started her acting career at age 11 working with Harold Pinter on Broadway. Tha...

Wed, 19 Oct 2016

Comedian Ritch Shydner is a true road warrior who made his reputation during the comedy club boom of...

Mon, 17 Oct 2016

It's been almost four years since the last Marc and Tom Show. After countless hours helping each oth...

Sun, 16 Oct 2016

David Crosby readily admits that he probably shouldn't be alive. Drug addiction, alcoholism, and hea...

Wed, 12 Oct 2016

Singer-songwriter Margo Price entered the garage on a wave of acclaim and notoriety that is rare for...

Sun, 09 Oct 2016

Larry Clark does not consider himself a photographer and he explains to Marc why he doesn't. But tha...

Wed, 05 Oct 2016

When Marc first saw Hutch Harris perform live with his band The Thermals, he was won over immediatel...

Sun, 02 Oct 2016

Comedian Rachel Feinstein has conquered one of the most difficult spaces in the comedy world: The ba...

Wed, 28 Sep 2016

If you're wondering how John Prine, one of America's greatest living songwriters, came up with such ...