To be a longtime listener of Marc Maron’s WTF podcast is to have a poorer sense of the guests who sign up for his revealing conversations than for the self-confessed “angry comic’s” own biography.
He’s taken us from his drug-fueled apprenticeship under the shrill standup Sam Kinison to the thwarted SNL audition that deepened his resentment for the entertainment industry to his daily struggles in addiction recovery to that seminal 2015 interview with Barack Obama. When Maron and longtime producer Brendan McDonald announced in June that they would be winding down WTF after 16 years and more than 1,600 episodes, the news came as somewhat of a shock to many of fans who assumed – naively, selfishly – that the 62-year-old would just keep threatening retirement before he actually followed through. (Maron declared himself “burnt out” in the pod’s retirement statement.) Coincidentally, a 90-minute documentary has arrived to help with the letting go ahead of WTF’s final installment next Monday.
