Legendary comedian and podcaster Marc Maron talks with fellow comedian Jim Gaffigan (The Skinny) about his life in stand-up, legendary podcast WTF, and his HBO comedy special, Panicked.
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.
Jim Gaffigan: Jim Gaffigan is a seven-time Grammy-nominated comedian, actor, writer, and producer; a two-time New York Times best-selling author; a three-time Emmy winner; a top-touring performer; and a multiplatinum recording artist. He is known around the world for his unique brand of humor, which largely revolves around his observations on life.
Running two successful parallel careers, one as an actor and one as a comedian, Gaffigan can currently be seen as the lead in the sci-fi drama Linoleum and as Mr. Smee in Disney’s Peter Pan & Wendy, opposite Jude Law’s Captain Hook. Up next, Gaffigan will be seen in the Max limited series Full Circle, from director Steven Soderbergh.
He will also co-star alongside Jerry Seinfeld, Melissa McCarthy, James Marsden, and Hugh Grant in Netflix’s Unfrosted, and is a co-star in Susie Searches, which premiered at TIFF last year and will premiere in theaters this summer. Gaffigan also recently announced a five-city arena tour with Jerry Seinfeld taking place this fall.
Gaffigan and his wife currently live in Manhattan with their five loud and expensive children.
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