Part-interview, part-existential game show – this is Wild Card from NPR.
Host Rachel Martin rips up the typical interview script and invites guests to play a game about life’s biggest questions.
Rachel takes actors, artists and thinkers on a choose-your-own-adventure conversation that lets them open up about their fears, their joys and how they’ve built meaning from experience – all with the help of a very special deck of cards.
Marc Maron can project cynical misanthrope, but those who have spent countless hours listening to him know that his secret weapon is his vulnerability.
He tells Rachel why he’s ending his podcast, “WTF,” despite its enduring popularity, and why he’s as committed as ever to his work as a stand-up comedian.
His latest special, “Panicked,” is out next month.
Marc Maron: Marc Maron has four hit stand-up comedy specials including “More Later” (2015) on Epix, and “Thinky Pain” (2013), “Marc Maron: Too Real” (2017) and “End Times Fun” (2020), on Netflix which was nominated for a 2021 Critics’ Choice Award. His landmark podcast “WTF with Marc Maron,” that launched in 2009 and receives 55 million listens per year, has become a phenomenon in the podcasting space.
Over the years, Marc has interviewed cultural icons such as former U.S. President Barack Obama, Keith Richards, Kate Winslet, and Robin Williams – which, earlier this year, became the first one-on-one podcast episode inducted into America’s National Recording Registry. Marc has starred in the Netflix comedy-drama series “Glow,” and his scripted series “Maron” which aired for four seasons on IFC. He’s had recent roles in films “Joker,” “Spenser Confidential,” “Sword of Trust,” “Stardust,” and the 2021 Aretha Franklin biopic, “Respect” alongside Jennifer Hudson. Marc also stars in the feature, “To Leslie,” starring Andrea Riseborough and Allison Janney, that premiered at SXSW and was released this past October.
He portrayed Mr. Snake the Dreamworks animated feature, “The Bad Guys,” alongside Sam Rockwell and Lex Luthor in “DC League of Super-Pets,” alongside Dwayne Johnson, Keanu Reeves, and Kevin Hart.
