WTF with Marc Maron

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WTF with Marc Maron is a podcast that has been published twice a week since September 2009 and is produced and moderated by comedian Marc Maron .

WTF is not only one of the first podcasts, but according to iTunes it is one of the most successful and most listened to. Each issue has an average of over 200,000 downloads; on December 9, 2013, the limit of 100 million downloads was exceeded.

After about 20 issues, Marron began recording the podcasts in his home garage. The first guests were mostly friends from the comedy scene. In the meantime, many prominent and world-famous personalities were guests, including the then incumbent US President Barack Obama .

background

After Maron's radio show Breakroom Live with Maron & Seder was canceled by Air America , he founded his podcast WTF with Marc Maron in September 2009 . He illegally recorded the first episodes of his podcast in the Air America studios as he still had access to the building. Shortly afterwards, however, he moved from New York to Los Angeles. Since then, most of the episodes have been recorded in his private garage. In June 2015, this situation led to the fact that, due to the visit of Barack Obama, the neighborhood of Maron was occupied by several snipers and security officers. Occasionally, episodes are recorded from different hotel rooms, guest offices, or other locations. Since Maron tours more often as a stand-up comedian, many episodes are recorded weeks in advance and then published with a time delay.

Each episode of his podcast begins with the quote “ Lock the Gate ” from the movie Almost Famous , in which Marron speaks those very words.

Special consequences

Awards

In May 2012, WTF was named Best Comedy Podcast by Comedy Central .

In 2014, Rolling Stone named WTF the best comedy podcast ever. In December 2014, Slate magazine declared the Louis CK interview the best podcast episode of all time.

Prominent guests

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James Wolcott: So, Like, Why Are We So Obsessed with Podcasts Right Now? In: vanityfair.com. February 2016, accessed on May 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Julie Miller: Marc Maron's President Obama Podcast: The WTF Host Takes Us Behind the Scenes. Retrieved May 23, 2019 .
  3. ^ Nathan Bob: Almost Famous Do You Wanna Buy a Gate. December 31, 2015, accessed May 23, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Ross Luippold: Beloved Comedian Comes Out As Gay On 'WTF'. January 16, 2012, accessed May 23, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Laura Bennett: An Interview With Marc Maron About What It Was Like to Grill President Obama. June 20, 2015, accessed May 23, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Episode 190 - Todd Hanson - WTF with Marc Maron Podcast. In: wtfpod.com. July 7, 2011, accessed May 23, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Listen Up: The 20 Best Comedy Podcasts Right Now - Rolling Stone. In: rollingstone.com. May 8, 2014, accessed May 23, 2019 .
  8. ↑ David Haglund, Rebecca Onion: Best podcast episodes ever: The 25 best from Serial to the Ricky Gervais Show. In: slate.com. December 14, 2014, accessed May 23, 2019 .