WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Danny Elfman talks with Marc about Oingo Boingo, Batman, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Simpsons and his new solo album.

William Zabka talks to Marc about redeeming Johnny Lawrence, how Cobra Kai came to be, making his own movie and dealing with the Polish mob.

William Zabka spent the ‘80s playing a variety of bullies all seemingly modeled after his star-making performance in his first movie, The Karate Kid. But by the time he was in Back to School, William grew tired of playing the same jerk again and again. He tells Marc how he expanded his life beyond the typecasting, through music, through family, through world travel, through the arduous mounting of an Oscar-nominated short...

Andrew Santino and Marc didn't know much about each other, aside from both being Comedy Store regulars and comedians from different ends of a generational divide. But in this conversation, they discover the similar paths they both paved in comedy, starting out with no money and no connections, finding themselves unhappy with their early work, and preferring the life of a lone wolf to the life in a pack...

Comic Andrew Santino and Marc talk about the generational divide in comedy, being unhappy with his first special, living as a lone wolf, and what makes The Comedy Store special.

Gabe Kaplan talks with Marc about Welcome Back, Kotter, doing comedy in strip clubs, poker, and some unsettled business from Battle of the Network Stars.

Whether he was getting booked on The Tonight Show or becoming the first standup to have a hit sitcom based on his act or finding success as a professional poker player, Gabe Kaplan says it all happened in spite of his lack of ambition. Gabe tells Marc how he really wanted to become a professional baseball player, how his athleticism served him well in Battle of the Network Stars, and how his initial years in standup were spent opening for strippers and bellydancers...

Rickie Lee Jones is, first and foremost, a storyteller. She realized at a young age that she could process her feelings and tell her own story through the fiction of songs. As she tells Marc, that same impulse prompted her to write a memoir in which she could present her life story through the narrative of her extended family of vaudevillians...

Singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones talks with Marc about storytelling, Tom Waits, New Orleans, and her unique, virtuosic style.

American audiences know Eric Bana from his complex performances in movies like Munich, Black Hawk Down and Ang Lee's Hulk. But in his native Australia, Eric got his start doing standup and sketch comedy. Eric and Marc share their respective experiences of the Australian comedy scene and Eric explains how his gift for mimicry and impressions helped him transition from sketch to dramatic acting...