WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

07 Feb 2022

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

03 Feb 2022

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

31 Jan 2022

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

27 Jan 2022

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

24 Jan 2022

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

21 Jan 2022

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

20 Jan 2022

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

17 Jan 2022

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

13 Jan 2022

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

10 Jan 2022

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

10 Jan 2022

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

07 Jan 2022

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

06 Jan 2022

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

03 Jan 2022

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

30 Dec 2021

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

27 Dec 2021

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

23 Dec 2021

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

20 Dec 2021

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

16 Dec 2021

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

13 Dec 2021

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

09 Dec 2021

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

06 Dec 2021

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

02 Dec 2021

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

29 Nov 2021

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

25 Nov 2021

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

22 Nov 2021

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

18 Nov 2021

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

15 Nov 2021

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

11 Nov 2021

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

08 Nov 2021

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

04 Nov 2021

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

01 Nov 2021

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

28 Oct 2021

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

25 Oct 2021

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

21 Oct 2021

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

18 Oct 2021

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

14 Oct 2021

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

11 Oct 2021

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

07 Oct 2021

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

04 Oct 2021

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

30 Sep 2021

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

27 Sep 2021

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

23 Sep 2021

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

20 Sep 2021

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

16 Sep 2021

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

14 Sep 2021

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

13 Sep 2021

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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...

09 Sep 2021

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

07 Sep 2021

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

06 Sep 2021

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

04 Sep 2021

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

02 Sep 2021

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

30 Aug 2021

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

26 Aug 2021

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

23 Aug 2021

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

19 Aug 2021

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

16 Aug 2021

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

12 Aug 2021

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

09 Aug 2021

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

05 Aug 2021

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

02 Aug 2021

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

29 Jul 2021

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

26 Jul 2021

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

22 Jul 2021

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

19 Jul 2021

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

15 Jul 2021

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

12 Jul 2021

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

08 Jul 2021

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

05 Jul 2021

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

01 Jul 2021

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

28 Jun 2021

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

24 Jun 2021

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

21 Jun 2021

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

17 Jun 2021

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

14 Jun 2021

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

10 Jun 2021

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

07 Jun 2021

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

03 Jun 2021

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

31 May 2021

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

27 May 2021

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

24 May 2021

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

20 May 2021

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

17 May 2021

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

13 May 2021

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

10 May 2021

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

06 May 2021

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

03 May 2021

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

29 Apr 2021

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

26 Apr 2021

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

22 Apr 2021

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

19 Apr 2021

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

15 Apr 2021

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

12 Apr 2021

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

08 Apr 2021

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

05 Apr 2021

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

01 Apr 2021

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

29 Mar 2021

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

25 Mar 2021

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

22 Mar 2021

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

18 Mar 2021

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