WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episodes
Episode 918 - Paul Rodriguez
23 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Rodriguez has always been paying his dues. Even before he paid his dues doing open mics and parking cars at The Comedy Store, he paid his dues gr...
Episode 917 - Neal Brennan
20 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly seven years after doing an episode of WTF that never aired, Neal Brennan sits down with Marc for a conversation that is probably the one they s...
Episode 916 - Mary Steenburgen
16 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Steenburgen started out pretty far away from Hollywood, as a young girl in Little Rock, Arkansas, growing up during the era of school desegregati...
Episode 915 - Josh Brolin
13 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Brolin knows that time and maturity saved his life. Going back to his rebellious youth, Josh can point to many times where he could have been don...
Episode 914 - Melissa McCarthy
09 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Before comedy and acting were ever on Melissa McCarthy's radar, she was like a lot midwestern teens trying to find herself. She tells Marc how her che...
Episode 913 - Rachel Bloom
06 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Bloom is a self-described show pony, a people-pleaser with a lifelong desire to perform as a means of keeping her anxieties at bay. She tells M...
Episode 912 - Drew Carey
02 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Drew Carey was in a bad place. After losing his dad at a young age, suffering through anxiety and depression in high school, confused by the pressures...
Episode 911 - Scott Thomson / Tom Rhodes
29 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Thompson from The Kids in the Hall isn't too worried about the way of the world these days, mostly because he's been through so much that it all...
Episode 910 - Mandy Stadtmiller
25 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Writer Mandy Stadtmiller's career as a dating columnist was taking off as her post-divorce social life was filled with late-night excitement and famou...
Episode 909 - Bradley Whitford
22 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Bradley Whitford was a huge Key and Peele fanboy who was desperate to work with them. But he didn't know what to think when Jordan Peele asked him if ...
Episode 908 - Sam Tripoli
18 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Tripoli never doubted he would become a comic, so his decision to study psychology was not an attempt to craft a backup plan. Instead he used his ...
Episode 907 - Aisha Tyler / Louie Anderson
15 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Aisha Tyler's directorial debut is a film called Axis about a guy who has hit the wall. That's appropriate for Aisha, following several years of big c...
Episode 906 - Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite / E of Eels
11 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie Musselwhite and Ben Harper are musicians with wildly different backgrounds but a unifying love of the blues. Charlie was there at the birth o...
Episode 905 - Bill Simmons
08 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Writer, producer and podcast pioneer Bill Simmons is a man whose life, career and worldview have changed in real time with the evolution of Internet. ...
Episode 904 - Jason Alexander
04 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Alexander was one of countless New Jersey kids who couldn't resist the lights of Broadway on the other side of the river. When he became a stead...
Episode 903 - Neil Patrick Harris / Michael Imperioli
01 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Neil Patrick Harris credits his New Mexico upbringing with helping him weather the ups and downs of being a child star. It's also something he has in ...
Episode 902 - They Might Be Giants
28 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
John Flansburgh and John Linnell tell Marc the unlikely story of how a couple high school friends became a two-man band at the height of the New Wav...
Episode 901 - Sean Penn / Lynn Shelton
25 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sean Penn wrote a novel to slow things down. He fell out of love with making movies, he is disillusioned by the culture, and he finds it hard to draw ...
Episode 900 - Nick Nolte
21 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Nolte makes an appropriate guest for the 900th episode of WTF because he clearly has about 900 episodes worth of stories to tell. They can't get ...
Episode 899 - Nell Scovell
18 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Nell Scovell has written for a Murderers' Row of television comedies - including The Simpsons, It's Garry Shandling's Show, Murphy Brown, and Newhart ...
Episode 898 - David Mamet
14 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
David Mamet's love for Chicago shows up all the time in his works, including his new novel which is called, yup, Chicago. The prolific playwright-dire...
Episode 897 - Ted Danson
11 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ted Danson is one of the most visible and familiar actors of the past four decades, and yet he still describes himself to Marc as "a phony," "a fraud,...
Episode 896 - David Oyelowo
07 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
David Oyelowo got America’s attention with his instantly-iconic portrayal of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the film Selma. But this classically trai...
Episode 895 - Sharon Stone
04 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sharon Stone made a decision after she achieved fame with Basic Instinct. She wanted to build a way forward in Hollywood without being typecast. Sharo...
Episode 894 - Bill Janovitz / Danny Lobell
28 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When Marc was a young comic living in Boston, Buffalo Tom was one of his favorite bands. Buffalo Tom frontman Bill Janovitz joins Marc in the garage t...
Episode 893 - Jennifer Lawrence
25 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Lawrence takes a break from being one of the biggest movie stars in the world to stop by the garage and talk with Marc about Kentucky, cats v...
Episode 892 - Duncan Jones / Brendon Small
21 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Filmmaker Duncan Jones put his philosophy degree to good use when he started making science fiction films. Now on his fourth one, Duncan tells Marc ho...
Episode 891 - Heather Graham / Sebastian Maniscalco
18 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Heather Graham had stories she wanted to see made and roles she wanted to play, so she took them into her own hands. As she releases her directorial d...
Episode 890 - Gina Rodriguez
14 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Gina Rodriguez is living the dream with her Golden Globe-winning performance as Jane the Virgin, roles in big Hollywood movies like Annihilation, and ...
Episode 889 - Esther Povitsky
11 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Almost a decade ago, a down-on-his-luck Marc Maron told 20-year-old aspiring comic Esther Povitsky to run far away from The Comedy Store because it wo...
Episode 888 - Tracy Letts
07 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tracy Letts is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, a Tony Award-winning actor, and someone Marc is nervous about saying hello to when he sees him out...
Episode 887 - Riki Lindhome / Laurie Kilmartin
04 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Show business finally clicked for Riki Lindhome when she started the comedy music duo Garfunkel and Oates with her friend Kate Micucci. It makes sense...
Episode 886 - Ezra Furman / David Wain
31 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ezra Furman started writing songs when he was 14 years old after hearing Bob Dylan but while still wanting to be a member of Green Day. Ezra tells Mar...
Episode 885 - Rita Moreno
28 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Rita Moreno is a show business legend with an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony to her name, as well as several lifetime achievement awards and the...
Episode 884 - Don Was
24 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Bass player and record producer Don Was is a Renaissance man in the music world. Whether he's producing albums for bands like the Rolling Stones or ru...
Episode 883 - Macaulay Culkin / Cameron Esposito
21 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Macaulay Culkin considers himself retired, dabbling in whatever he chooses at any given time. It's understandable he would want to settle down, consid...
Episode 882 - Derek Waters
17 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Derek Waters created Drunk History, but he really doesn't want to know about the darkness that lies in his family history. And while he doesn't have a...
Episode 881 - Laurie Metcalf / Tom Segura
14 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Laurie Metcalf has never been through anything in her acting career like what she's going through now. After four decades of performances on stage and...
Episode 880 - Richard Jenkins
10 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Jenkins is one of the great character actors working today but he was a late starter in show business. As he continues to rack up awards and ...
Episode 879 - Fortune Feimster
07 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Comedian and actor Fortune Feimster joins Marc in the garage fresh off getting engaged to her girlfriend, which feels pretty far away from the young S...
Episode 878 - Ta-Nehisi Coates
03 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of America's most celebrated and insightful writers. But there's part of him that would be fine with it all going away. Marc a...
Episode 877 - Marc's Family
31 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ring in the New Year with the Maron Family. Marc takes a trip back to some of the earliest episodes of WTF to hear classic interactions with his fathe...
Episode 876 - Michael Marcus / Dr. Steve
27 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Marc closes out 2017 with some old friends. Author Michael Marcus might not have made it to the garage if his life had continued the way it was going....
Episode 875 - WTF Shows of Christmas Past
24 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
For Christmas Day, Marc presents a look back at some holiday moments from the earliest years of WTF. First, hear Todd Glass and Marc talk about the pe...
Episode 874 - Neal Preston
20 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Photographer Neal Preston is known for taking some of the most iconic shots of the world's most famous rock musicians. Neal tells Marc how his love of...
Episode 873 - Steven Van Zandt
17 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Steven Van Zandt, a.k.a. Little Steven, is an encyclopedia of rock and roll history. Steven talks with Marc about learning to play music by watching ...
Episode 872 - Darren Aronofsky
13 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky knows his films are not always crowd pleasers but he also knows exactly what he wants to say. Darren talks with Marc about...
Episode 871 - Loudon Wainwright III / Judd Apatow
10 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III talks life, love and Roman numerals. The prolific musician tells Marc about the heyday of the folk music scene...
Episode 870 - James Franco
06 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
At some point after James Franco became a high-profile movie star, he found himself asking, "What if you get everything you want and nothing changes?"...
Episode 869 - Greta Gerwig
03 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Like the protagonist of her new film Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig grew up in Sacramento, spent the summer going to the state fair, had a complicated relati...
Episode 868 - Sam Beam / Bob Saget
29 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
His given name is Sam Beam but he's known in music as Iron & Wine, maker of soulful folk rock. Marc finds Sam to be a thoughtful son of the South who ...
Episode 867 - Rob Huebel
26 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Huebel and Marc start a new podcast within this podcast. It's a show called Contact List and they're pretty sure it makes them sound like jerks. B...
Episode 866 - Jimmie Vaughan / Kasper Collin & Bennie Maupin
22 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It's an extra helping of music talk for Thanksgiving. First Marc sits down with filmmaker Kasper Collin and jazz musician Bennie Maupin to talk about ...
Episode 865 - Christina Pazsitzky
19 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
For Christina Pazsitzky, comedy was finally something she enjoyed doing after burning through twenty-two different jobs in the course of four years. S...
Episode 864 - Lawrence O'Donnell
15 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Lawrence O'Donnell is on MSNBC every weeknight talking about the chaos and tumult of uncertain times. He's no stranger to historic national turbulence...
Episode 863 - Kim Deal
12 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
As a member of The Pixies and The Breeders, Kim Deal is already a rock legend. But she was also a backup singer in a disco band with her twin sister K...
Episode 862 - John Dwyer
08 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Whether you call his band Thee Oh Sees, Oh Sees, or OCS, there's no denying John Dwyer's prolific musical output. From garage bands in Providence to n...
Episode 861 - Jenna Fischer
05 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jenna Fischer came to Los Angeles when she was 22 with no contacts, no guidance, and no idea of what it meant to sink or swim in show business. Now wi...
Episode 860 - John Hammond / Michael Rapaport
01 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
John Hammond was kid from New York with a dad in the music industry, so it's no surprise he became a recording artist. But it was a bit unexpected tha...
Episode 859 - Joy Behar / Adam Goldberg
29 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Joy Behar was already a successful comic when she became a co-host on The View. But before she was a comic, she had already been a teacher, raised a ...
Episode 858 - Lizzy Goodman / Dana Gould
25 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Marc completely missed the era of music that writer Lizzy Goodman chronicles in her book 'Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New Yo...
Episode 857 - Willem Dafoe
22 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Actor Willem Dafoe might have had a hard time standing out while he was growing up as the seventh of eight kids. But he found a way to express himself...
Episode 856 - Bassem Youssef / Sam Seder
18 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Bassem Youssef was a surgeon in Egypt who started doing a YouTube show from his house and eventually became the most popular television personality in...
Episode 855 - Tracey Ullman
15 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On a list of the world's funniest people, Tracey Ullman ranks pretty high. But Tracey tells Marc she doesn't consider herself a comedian or a comic, b...
Episode 854 - Marilyn Manson
11 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Despite being born Brian Warner, Marilyn Manson doesn't separate his stage persona from who he is as a person. That makes for an interesting chat with...
Episode 853 - Jeff Bridges / Beau Bridges
08 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It just so happens that Jeff Bridges and Beau Bridges are both in new movies at the same time (Only the Brave and The Mountain Between Us, respectivel...
Episode 852 - Waiting For The Punch
04 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Marc presents a special audio version of the first chapter of Waiting for the Punch: Words to Live by from the WTF Podcast. This chapter features thir...
Episode 851 - Elliot Gould
01 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Elliot Gould was at the vanguard of American New Wave Cinema in the 1970s, but he tells Marc there were two enemies always working to diminish his pot...
Episode 850 - Tom Colicchio
27 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Top Chef's Tom Colicchio discovered a passion for cooking at a young age, thanks to a book his corrections officer father found in a prison library. E...
Episode 849 - Pete Davidson
24 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Saturday Night Live's "Resident Young Person" Pete Davidson might be the only member of the SNL cast who knew about the show exclusively through YouTu...
Episode 848 - George Schlatter
20 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Television comedy impresario George Schlatter created Laugh In at the peak of cultural upheaval in 20th Century America. He tells Marc why he linked...
Episode 847 - Lee Daniels
17 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Lee Daniels got his start in show business by running a nursing agency. That may seem unusual but the road to success for the producer-writer-director...
Episode 846 - Kathy Bates / Graham Elwood
13 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Kathy Bates hammered her way into movie and pop culture history with her Oscar-winning performance in Misery. Kathy tells Marc why acting never seeme...
Episode 845 - Ken Burns & Lynn Novick
10 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ken Burns and his frequent collaborator Lynn Novick have made indelible documentaries about American life, on subjects like jazz, baseball, the Civil ...
Episode 844 - Lorde
06 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Not every global pop superstar would feel at home in Marc's garage, but Lorde isn't your average global pop superstar. The singer-songwriter takes som...
Episode 843 - Warren Hutcherson
03 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Warren Hutcherson and Marc were getting their starts in standup around the same time. Then, as Marc recalls it, Warren was suddenly a television write...
Episode 842 - Steve Jordan
30 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Jordan is considered one of the greatest rock and roll drummers of all time. He joins Marc in the garage to talk about his years playing in the ...
Episode 841 - Jay Baruchel
27 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Actor Jay Baruchel takes the trip down from Canada to talk with Marc about life, acting and the Great White North. Jay explains what it was like being...
Episode 840 - Alice Cooper
23 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Marc gets the full story of how Vincent Furnier became Alice Cooper and took rock & roll into dark and unexpected territory. Alice tells Marc about th...
Episode 839 - Brent Weinbach / Ms. Pat
20 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
First things first: Brent Weinbach and Marc need to have a good conversation about crying. Once that's out of the way, the two of them figure out how ...
Episode 838 - Jennifer Jason Leigh
16 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
To prepare for this conversation, Marc watched one of Jennifer Jason Leigh's earliest films, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, as well as her most recent,...
Episode 837 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar / Phil Stutz
13 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is one of the greatest basketball players ever, but he's happy if you know him as a writer, a cultural critic, an activist, a chro...
Episode 836 - Mike MacDonald / Jon Ronson
09 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Canadian comic Mike MacDonald survived four decades in comedy, drug abuse, Sam Kinison, chronic illness, psych wards, and a liver transplant to make i...
Episode 835 - The Lucas Brothers
06 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Keith and Kenny Lucas are identical twins and Marc is freaking out at how similar they are. Well, freaking a little bit anyway, but only at first beca...
Episode 834 - Rory Scovel / Maz Jobrani
02 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Rory Scovel is from the South, he was born into a legacy of postal workers, and one of his first jobs was in production at a local TV station. It's al...
Episode 833 - Al Gore
30 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Former Vice President Al Gore has been thinking about change his whole life, whether it was the way the changing media shaped our politics or the way ...
Episode 832 - David Alan Grier / Joe Mande
26 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
David Alan Grier studied to become a serious actor at Yale School of Drama, which actually came in handy when he got cast on one of the funniest shows...
Episode 831 - Randy Newman
23 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Marc believes - and many agree with him - that Randy Newman is an American genius. One person who's not so sure is Randy himself who, after half a cen...
Episode 830 - David Remnick
19 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
David Remnick is a seasoned journalist, an accomplished writer and a proud amateur guitar player. But he's also the gatekeeper of an American institut...
Episode 829 - Edie Falco
16 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
With indelible roles in shows like The Sopranos, Nurse Jackie, and Horace and Pete, a lot of people feel like they know Edie Falco very well, even tho...
Episode 828 - Keb' Mo' / Taj Mahal
12 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Blues legends Keb' Mo' and Taj Mahal are distinctly different individuals. One grew up in Compton, California, the other grew up in Springfield, Massa...
Episode 827 - Glow Writers & Creators
09 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Give a listen to how the sausage of television gets made as Marc talks with the creative team behind the show GLOW. First, hear about the process of s...
Episode 826 - Jeff Baena / Dave Anthony
05 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Filmmaker Jeff Baena was always into movies that didn't fit into easy categories. He tells Marc about having his mind blown at an early age thanks to ...
Episode 825 - Kia Stevens / Chavo Guerrero Jr.
02 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It's a tag team match with two of Marc's GLOW colleagues. First, Chavo Guerrero Jr. stops by to tell Marc what it's like to be part of a wrestling dyn...
Episode 824 - Jason Mantzoukas
28 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Mantzoukas is a great improvisational comedian, which you would know from seeing him in shows like The League, on podcasts like How Did This Get...
Episode 823 - Jenji Kohan
25 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Even when she was in school, Jenji Kohan didn't like being told what she couldn't do. So it makes sense that after she was told there was no chance sh...
Episode 822 - Sofia Coppola
21 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Despite a surname that is practically synonymous with modern American cinema, Sofia Coppola didn't want to be a film director. She tells Marc about he...
Episode 821 - Alison Brie & Betty Gilpin
18 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Marc sits down with his coworkers Alison Brie and Betty Gilpin to take stock of the time they spent shooting the first season of the new Netflix serie...
Episode 820 - Kumail Nanjiani & Emily Gordon / Jim Florentine
14 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon are married. They also wrote the movie The Big Sick, which is based on their lives and in which Kumail plays himself....
Episode 819 - Ariel Leve / Wheeler Walker, Jr.
11 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
When Marc crossed paths with writer Ariel Leve back in the '90s, she was working at MTV and on the verge of making a splash as a print journalist. Ari...