Marc Maron is ending his podcast, WTF with Marc Maron, after 15 years – after interviewing musicians, actors, comedians, politicians and extra throughout virtually 2000 episodes.
Saying the information on Monday (June 2), Maron stated he and his producing associate, Brendan McDonald, are “burnt out”. He confirmed that the ultimate episode would air “someday within the fall”.
Since launching in 2009, well-known friends to have appeared on Maron’s podcast have included Chris Rock, Robin Williams and then-president Barack Obama. The present, which initially began as Maron’s method to focus on his ideas and anecdotes about being a comic and actor, ultimately developed to have friends, pioneering the podcast model as it’s recognized at present.
In September Maron’s podcast might be turning 16, and he has confirmed that at round that point, he’ll cease releasing episodes.
“Sixteen years we’ve been doing this, and we’ve determined that we had an important run. Now, principally, it’s time, of us. It’s time. WTF is coming to an finish. It’s our choice. We’ll have our ultimate episode someday within the fall,” Maron stated within the introduction to his episode with John Mulaney, launched on June 2.
“It actually comes all the way down to the truth that we’ve put up a brand new present each Monday and Thursday for nearly 16 years and we’re drained. We’re burnt out. And we’re completely glad with the work we’ve accomplished,” he continued.
“This doesn’t imply I’m by no means going to do one thing like this once more. Doesn’t imply I’ll by no means have talks like I do right here, or some sort of podcast sooner or later in time. However for now, we’re simply wrapping issues up. It’s OK. It’s OK to finish issues. It’s OK to attempt to begin another chapter in your life.”
Followers have been reacting to the information on-line, with some commending his presenting model and persona.
“I didn’t hear to each episode, however I used to be always impressed by Maron’s capacity to have the ability to discuss to anybody about something,” one Reddit consumer wrote. “One of many greats, no query.”
“He was the unique podcast star, it was good to witness his psychological state slowly enhance with every episode,” wrote one other. Take a look at a number of the reactions beneath.
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Maron has been recognized to not draw back from trending matters within the information in his episodes, and makes his opinion on sure points clear. Again in March, he criticised TV host Invoice Maher for constructive feedback about President Donald Trump, calling the comic “a bitch”.
Within the episode the place he spoke to comic and former CNN host W. Kamau Bell, he spoke about figures in comedy who’ve given Trump a platform. “Are you going to be like Invoice Maher, you understand, ‘I’m going to agree with a number of the issues that Trump is doing,’” he stated. “It’s like, dude, you’re a bitch.”
That was not the primary time Maron, an ardent critic of the Trump administration, has taken his fellow comics to activity on the matter of help for the politician. Within the lead as much as the 2024 election, contemporaries of Maron similar to Theo Von and Joe Rogan had Trump as a visitor on the present, however not his opponent Kamala Harris.
Writing on his publication in October of final yr, Maron stated: “When comedians with podcasts have shameless, self-proclaimed white supremacists and fascists on their present to joke round like they’re simply entertainers and even simply politicians, all it does is humanize and normalize fascism. When somebody makes use of their platform for that motive they’re facilitating anti-American sentiment and selling violent autocracy”.
