Marc Maron has revealed that he’s ending his long-running, game-changing podcast WTF With Marc Maron. After practically 16 years spent interviewing musicians, comedians, and different cultural figures, the veteran comic and actor will launch his closing episode of the podcast later this fall. Maron broke the information in the course of the publish latest WTF episode with John Mulaney, sharing that each he and his producing companion Brendan McDonald are “drained” and “burnt out,” however “completely glad with the work we’ve accomplished.”
“Sixteen years we’ve been doing this, and we’ve determined that we had an important run,” Maron stated. “Now, mainly, it’s time, of us. It’s time. WTF is coming to an finish. It’s our choice. We’ll have our closing episode someday within the fall.” Take heed to the complete episode under.
WTF With Marc Maron shortly established itself instead strategy to podcasts, particularly when it debuted in September 2009. What started as an area for Maron to hash out his annoyances and beefs with fellow comedians quickly became a go-to useful resource for in-depth, sprawling, and laid-back conversations with cultural figures. Maron took a nonplussed however pleasant strategy when talking with visitors, and within the course of often coaxed never-before-heard tales from celebrities whereas making them chuckle.
Throughout WTF With Marc Maron’s long term, he recorded practically 1,700 episodes and talked to everybody from President Barack Obama and Carol Burnett to Ariana Grande and Osees’ John Dwyer. Although episodes sometimes received laughs out of his visitors and listeners alike, Maron by no means shied away from heavy matters or darkish corners. In 2010, he navigated a very private and emotional interview with Robin Williams; and following the 2020 demise of his girlfriend, director Lynn Shelton, Maron opened up in a heartfelt, sobering episode.
Whereas Maron hasn’t shared what his subsequent plan is, he does have a number of initiatives lined up which have been publicly introduced. A kind of is his starring function in Ship Me From Nowhere, the upcoming Bruce Springsteen biopic starring Jeremy Allen White because the Boss. Maron will painting Chuck Plotkin, the producer who painstakingly mastered Springsteen’s pivotal 1982 album Nebraska.
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