WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episodes
Episode 1586 - Robert Patrick
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The world learned who Robert Patrick was when he showed up as the T-1000 in Terminator 2, but prior to that break out, Robert saw himself as a failed ...
Episode 1585 - Keith Urban
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Keith Urban may seem like an outsider who conquered Nashville, but as he tells Marc, he was an outsider in his home country, too. Coming from what he ...
Episode 1584 - Robert Zemeckis
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Many films in the career of Robert Zemeckis, including his new one called Here, involve some form of time travel. As Robert explains to Marc, nothing ...
Episode 1583 - Al Pacino
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Al Pacino created indelible memories for generations of moviegoers. But while he was writing his own memoir, Sonny Boy, Al kept coming back to mental ...
Episode 1582 - Joe Boyd
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Boyd is part of the music industry in so many ways, as a producer, label founder and more, that his new memoir And The Roots of Rhythm Remain also...
Episode 1581 - Langston Kerman
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Langston Kerman named his new Netflix comedy special Bad Poetry, harkening back to his time as a high school teacher. But as someone with an MFA in po...
Episode 1580 - Sebastian Stan
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sebastian Stan believes creativity is the best therapy. So even when he's playing an unappealing person, like Jeff Gillooly in I, Tonya or Donald Trum...
Episode 1579 - Connie Chung
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Connie Chung’s consummate professionalism and journalistic rigor worked against her as she put together her new memoir. Her impulse is to report the...
Episode 1578 - Kaitlin Olson
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s all a combination of old and new for Kaitlin Olson. She’s just finishing up shooting the first season of her ABC detective series High Potent...
Episode 1577 - Kathleen Hanna
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kathleen Hanna’s life and career exist at the nexus of punk rock, outsider art, photography and feminism. Now that she’s been able to put it all i...
Episode 1576 - Elizabeth Olsen
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Marvel fans around the world know Elizabeth Olsen as The Scarlet Witch, but Elizabeth says she has a different alter ego inside of her— that of an e...
Episode 1575 - Jason Ritter
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As a kid, Jason Ritter felt a lot of pressure as the son of a beloved actor who audiences felt like they knew personally. He didn’t feel pressure fr...
Episode 1574 - Eric Roberts
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While putting together his new memoir, Eric Roberts developed a fuller understanding of his life as an actor. As someone whose parents did not help hi...
Episode 1573 - Ali Macofsky
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hundreds of WTF guests have show business origin stories, but nobody has one like comedian Ali Macofsky, whose impulsive phone call to Ryan Seacrest l...
Episode 1572 - Lupita Nyong'o
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
She may have won an Oscar for her first film role, but Lupita Nyong’o spent the early part of her life hiding her desire to be an actor. Lupita tell...
Episode 1571 - Chris Robinson
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It took Chris Robinson a long time to accept being a rock and roll frontman. Even at the height of The Black Crowes’ success, he just thought they w...
Episode 1570 - Drew Lynch
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Drew Lynch never planned on being a comedian. But his pursuit of an acting career got derailed by a traumatic brain injury that left him with a stutte...
Episode 1569 - Brendon Walsh
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When the topic of past guests comes up, Marc often mentions Brendon Walsh, a comedian who was on several early WTF episodes as well as Marc’s IFC si...
Episode 1568 - Greg Fitzsimmons
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Greg Fitzsimmons returns to WTF after a 13 year absence, but his dynamic with Marc remains the same as it was when they were comics starting out in Bo...
Episode 1567 - Paul W. Downs
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past four years, Paul W. Downs has been one of the people responsible for constructing the ongoing story of a lifer standup comic on the show...
Episode 1566 - Michael Rooker
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Rooker is known for playing a variety of menacing and intense characters. But menace was something he was always good at, as the protective ol...
Episode 1565 - Blair Socci
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Blair Socci comes from an athletic family with a hardened ancestral backstory involving throat slashing and exile. But despite her exterior toughness,...
Episode 1564 - Moon Zappa
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Moon Zappa was on the show back in 2013, she and Marc started dating shortly thereafter. Now that Moon has just written her memoir, Earth to Moon...
Episode 1563 - Beth Stelling
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Marc saw Beth Stelling’s Netflix special, he knew there was something he found familiar. It turns out they both have a similar process of makin...
Episode 1562 - Jimmie Dale Gilmore
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the reasons singer-songwriter Jimmie Dale Gilmore didn’t get a solo record deal until he was in his 40s is because he took an extended time a...
Episode 1561 - Anna Akana
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Moving from place to place throughout her childhood was difficult on Anna Akana, but it was growing up alongside the internet that really changed her ...
Episode 1560 - Wolfgang Van Halen
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For Wolfgang Van Halen, learning the drums, guitar and bass came easier than learning to deal with the trolling and resentment he faced for being the ...
Episode 1559 - Clare O'Kane
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When two comics are on tour together, one of the best places to get to know each other is in a car while driving between gigs. Clare O’Kane and Marc...
Episode 1558 - Shalom Auslander
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Shalom Auslander gave voice to something Marc was thinking for most of his life: That he’s been living in a world of Feh. What that Yiddish word mea...
Bob Newhart from 2014 and 2018
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
First, hear Marc's 2014 conversation with Bob Newhart from Bob's home in Bel-Air. Then, a follow-up conversation from 2018 where Marc and Bob talked o...
Episode 1557 - Dan St. Germain
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a long time since Dan St. Germain had his first big gig as an opener with Marc in Sacramento. As the years have gone by, Dan took a few br...
Episode 1556 - Trey Anastasio
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Despite Phish’s enormous following, frontman Trey Anastasio still sees himself as an outsider. Trey talks with Marc about his earliest influences, w...
Episode 1555 - Clarence Maclin
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Clarence Maclin was uniquely suited to make his film debut in the new movie Sing Sing, starring alongside Colman Domingo. That’s because the film is...
Episode 1554 - Stavros Halkias
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Stavros Halkias titled his Netflix special Fat Rascal in part because he doesn’t know any other reality than a life with addictive food issues. Marc...
Episode 1553 - Julianne Nicholson
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Julianne Nicholson came over to the garage at the right time. With Marc deep in the middle of an acting job, it was helpful for both his curiosity and...
Episode 1552 - Paul Scheer
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Paul Scheer was on WTF back in 2010, he spoke about things in his past that he never before spoke about publicly. That conversation with Marc sta...
Episode 1551 - Gareth Reynolds
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gareth Reynolds was struggling in show business as a comic, a writer, an actor, you name it. But not unlike Marc, he finally broke through when he sta...
Episode 1550 - Jewel
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jewel Kilcher left her troubled home life in Alaska as a teenager, hitchhiking her way across the country and living in her car before becoming a musi...
Episode 1549 - Geezer Butler
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As bassist and lyricist for Black Sabbath, Geezer Butler has a lifetime of rock and roll stories to tell. From the band’s working class roots in Bir...
Episode 1548 - Jude Law
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jude Law and Marc made a movie together but they never actually got to meet during it. They remedy that at the production offices of Jude’s latest p...
Episode 1547 - Ali Siddiq
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Comedian Ali Siddiq draws from his life experiences to create his comedy shows. Now in the midst of a four part comedy special called The Domino Effec...
Episode 1546 - Ed O'Neill
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ed O’Neill’s his early days working in an Ohio steel mill and contemplating a potential career hustling for mobsters didn’t seem like a path to ...
Episode 1545 - Larry David
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Larry David says he regrets saying yes to everything right after he agrees to do it. But it’s too late to back out of the garage now, so he’ll try...
Episode 1544 - Susie Essman
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After twenty-four years and twelve seasons as Susie Greene on Curb Your Enthusiasm, Susie Essman’s life has become strangers seeing her on the stree...
Episode 1543 - Tony Goldwyn
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Despite a family name that goes back to the dawn of Hollywood, Tony Goldwyn’s father did not want him to get into the family business. It took Tony ...
Episode 1542 - Molly Ringwald
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There was a time when Molly Ringwald knew she had to get out of America for a while so she didn’t have to be That Girl anymore. Now, with a career t...
Episode 1541 - Steph Tolev
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a role reversal for WTF guests, Steph Tolev thought Marc didn’t like her. And as Marc usually finds out when he assumes another comedian dislikes...
Episode 1540 - Daniel Stern
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Stern made a radical decision in show business after achieving success and financial independence: He decided to stop. After culture-defining p...
Episode 1539 - Billy Strings
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Marc saw Billy Strings play live on stage at Willie Nelson’s birthday show, he watched a born performer make bluegrass music vital to a modern ...
Episode 1538 - A. Whitney Brown
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Before discovering comedy, A. Whitney Brown dropped out of the eighth grade, bounced around reform schools, had a criminal record, and spent time in j...
Episode 1537 - Joe Mande
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Mande’s past appearances on WTF involve him being a sort of merry comic prankster, like back in the heyday of Twitter when he was trolling polit...
Episode 1536 - Chris Pine
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Pine is in the position to offer Marc some advice. As the first-time director of the new movie Poolman, Chris gives Marc practical tips as Marc ...
Episode 1535 - Tiffany Haddish
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Before Tiffany Haddish rocketed to stardom with Girls Trip, she saw Marc at the back entrance of The Comedy Store and told him that she was going to b...
Episode 1534 - Neal Brennan
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While watching Neal Brennan’s new Netflix special, Crazy Good, Marc learned new things about Neal despite knowing each other for 30 years. They sit ...
Episode 1533 - Tammy Faye Starlite
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly 30 years ago in the alt-comedy scene of New York City, Marc crossed paths with an evangelical country singer named Tammy Faye Starlite. She’s...
Episode 1532 - Paula Pell
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Paula Pell is often celebrated as one of the funniest people alive by some of the other funniest people alive. The world is finally getting to see wha...
Episode 1531 - Jimmy Carr
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Marc asked Jimmy Carr to be a guest on WTF years ago, Jimmy admits he wasn’t ready for it. He was already an established comedian at the time, ...
Episode 1530 - Malcolm McDowell
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Malcolm McDowell left behind Liverpool to pursue acting in London, he didn’t imagine it would be the start of 60 years as a performer. Malcolm ...
Episode 1529 - Alex Edelman
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Edelman is the kind of comic who makes Marc immediately anxious. But it’s quickly apparent that Marc is reacting to the fact that he sees so mu...
Episode 1528 - Carol Burnett
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Carol Burnett turns 91 later this month and is still going strong with a featured role in the new series Palm Royale. But Carol is quick to remind Mar...
Episode 1527 - Dina Hashem
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Standup comedy transformed Dina Hashem’s life. So why is she at a point, right after releasing her acclaimed first special, where she cares less abo...
Episode 1526 - Alejandro Escovedo
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Celebrated singer-songwriter and guitarist Alejandro Escovedo made one of Marc’s favorite albums, the 1992 solo record Gravity. But the raw, intimat...
Episode 1525 - David Krumholtz
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Krumholtz lives and breathes Hollywood because, according to him, he has no other choice. The prolific character actor got what he considers a o...
Episode 1524 - Tig Notaro
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tig Notaro’s new comedy special is called “Hello, Again” which serves as a reintroduction of sorts, considering how much has changed in Tig’s ...
Episode 1523 - Eddie Pepitone
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is Eddie Pepitone’s 25th appearance on WTF, by far the most appearances on the show for anyone other than Marc. And yet Eddie and Marc have nev...
Episode 1522 - Dave Attell
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Attell and Marc have known each other for 35 years but really only converse at length on this podcast. Back on WTF after 14 years, Dave explains ...
Episode 1521 - Todd Glass
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Todd Glass was on WTF back in 2012, he decided to do something that changed his entire life. Now, twelve years later, Todd is looking to change t...
Episode 1520 - Thurston Moore
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sonic Youth founding member Thurston Moore is not just an influential figure in the evolution of Noise Rock and the no-wave art scene. He’s a chroni...
Episode 1519 - Rory Scovel
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rory Scovel is back in the garage, fresh off premiering a new standup special on Max that Marc found extremely funny. Now at a point in his life where...
WTF Oscar Nominee Special 2024
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hear Marc’s conversations with past WTF guests who are nominated for Oscars this year: Paul Giamatti, Cillian Murphy, Jeffrey Wright, Annette Bening...
Episode 1518 - Ben Mendelsohn
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Mendelsohn is a prolific actor with a dynamic range, and yet most of his training came from watching movies as a young kid in Australia and learni...
Episode 1517 - Mae Martin
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mae Martin is Canadian, has a background in sketch comedy, spent a lot of time doing standup in England, and is non-binary. And yet, despite a life th...
Richard Lewis from 2011
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Lewis was a comedy hero and inspiration to Marc. They spent their first extended time together in 2011 for this conversation about Richard's l...
Episode 1516 - Lily Gladstone
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lily Gladstone knows that people project all manner of emotions and intentions onto her when she gives a performance. Lily and Marc talk about why tha...
Episode 1515 - Rodrigo Prieto
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rodrigo Prieto is the cinematographer of two of last year's most celebrated films: Barbie and Killers of the Flower Moon, for which he is Oscar-nomina...
Episode 1514 - America Ferrera
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
America Ferrera didn't expect that her performance in Barbie would lead to an Oscar nomination but few things in life have gone in a straight line for...
Episode 1513 - Mark Ruffalo
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Before Mark Ruffalo became the Hulk, he deeply understood what it felt like to be two people in the same skin. A high school wrestler and a ...
Episode 1512 - Da'Vine Joy Randolph
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Da’Vine Joy Randolph is in the midst of the highly competitive Hollywood award season, but the competitive fire always burns strong within her. From...
Episode 1511 - Ed Zwick
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ed Zwick’s career as a director, writer and producer in Hollywood lends itself to the full memoir treatment, complete with stories about stars behav...
Episode 1510 - John Oliver
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John Oliver is one of those people who just gets Marc. It’s not surprising, considering John has become one of the sharpest observers of the America...
Episode 1509 - Laurie Kilmartin
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Laurie Kilmartin can make comedy out of the darkest situations in her life, from her father’s hospice care to her mother dying of Covid to being tar...
Wayne Kramer from 2014
03 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Marc's 2014 conversation with Wayne Kramer, co-founder of the legendary rock group MC5, covering the ‘60s, jazz, Iggy Pop, the White Panther Party, ...
Episode 1508 - Bobby Lee
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the thirteen years since Bobby Lee was last on WTF, he and Marc have grown to like each other more and more. For one thing, Marc taught Bobby how t...
Episode 1507 - Jon Cryer
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Cryer has been in show business for most of his life and has seen the changes, both rapid and gradual, within the industry. Jon talks with Marc ab...
Episode 1506 - Moshe Kasher
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Moshe Kasher already wrote a memoir about his years as a teenage substance abuser growing up in an orthodox Jewish family with two deaf parents. Now M...
Episode 1505 - Jacqueline Novak
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jacqueline Novak’s new Netflix standup special is a rite of passage story about a girl finding her way into womanhood. Kind of. For Marc, it was ref...
Episode 1504 - Jonah Ray Rodrigues / Ed Begley Jr.
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the return of two past WTF guests who have lots of stories and common experiences to share with Marc. First, Hollywood’s everyman Ed Begley J...
Episode 1503 - Billie Joe Armstrong
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Billie Joe Armstrong and Green Day are heading out on a global tour as they celebrate the 30th anniversary of their breakout album Dookie, the 20th an...
Episode 1502 - Greta Gerwig
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The last time Greta Gerwig was on WTF, she had just directed her first solo feature, the independent film Lady Bird. Now she returns after direct...
Episode 1501 - Joel Edgerton
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Joel Edgerton’s decision to start a filmmaking collective with his brother and friends in Australia is the foundation for his career and an ideal re...
Episode 1500 - Paul Giamatti
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Giamatti and Marc have so many similar interests - amassing books, admiring marginal geniuses, taking jobs out of panic, reassessing classic movi...
The Friday Show Special
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For New Year’s Day, Marc introduces you to The Friday Show, a weekly episode available to Full Maron subscribers, hosted by WTF producer Brendan McD...
Episode 1499 - Matt B. Davis
28 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Matt B. Davis is unique among WTF guests in that he did comedy for more than a decade, got out of the business and never wanted back in. Matt and Marc...
The 'Marc on Movies' Special
25 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For Christmas Day, Marc presents a special collection of exclusive segments that were published this past year on the Full Maron bonus feed as part of...
Episode 1498 - Blitz Bazawule
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Growing up in Ghana, director Blitz Bazawule relied on three things to transport him to other worlds: movies, American hip-hop, and his grandmother’...
Episode 1497 - Tammy Pescatelli
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tammy Pescatelli and Marc were recently on the same show, performing for thousands in a basketball arena. Now in the garage, Tammy and Marc talk about...
Episode 1496 - Rodney Crowell / John Doe
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As one of country music’s most prolific singer-songwriters, Rodney Crowell talks with Marc about the art of songwriting, his evolution as a performe...
Episode 1495 - Peter Sarsgaard
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Sarsgaard is always a memorable presence on screen and on stage. But in his latest role, he’s playing a man losing his memory at an early age....
Episode 1494 - Taylor Williamson
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor Williamson’s obsession with comedy led him to club gigs as a teenager and national press coverage praising “the 19-year-old’s cerebral wi...
Episode 1493 - Kate Simon
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Simon’s love of photography started with a Polaroid camera and her talents put her right in the middle of the art and music scenes in London an...