What the F*ck: Marc Maron's WTF Podcast Coming to an End
It looks like a podcast institution is officially coming to an end. As he announced on his podcast WTF with Marc Maron (via Deadline) , Maron and his team are set to end the podcast after 16 years and close to 2000 episodes. ' Sixteen years we've been doing this, and we've decided that we had a great run. Now, basically, it's time, folks. It's time. WTF is coming to an end. It's our decision. We'll have our final episode sometime in the fall,' Maron says in the latest episode.
Maron had started the podcast back in 2009 and has since grown it into one of the most popular shows of all-time with 1.1 billion downloads. Maron is best known for having some great celebrity guests; while most of them have been comedians and writers, he also had high profile guests like President Barack Obama as well as musicians like Paul McCartney. He even managed to get Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio to do an interview together while they were promoting Once Upon a Time in Hollywood for Tarantino.
For now, Maron is chalking up the series closing due to him and his team being 'burnt out'. 'It really comes down to the fact that we've put up a new show every Monday and Thursday for almost sixteen years and we're tired. We're burnt out. And we are utterly satisfied with the work we've done. We've done great work, ' says Maron.
It also does seem like Maron is focusing more on stand-up and acting. Ever since GLOW , Maron has been appearing in more projects onscreen like Joker and The Bad Guys . He's also been in TV projects like Reservation Dogs and the upcoming Stick starring Owen Wilson.
Though Maron is closing the door on WTF , he does say that he could eventually get back to it in the future. He continues, ' This doesn't mean I'm never going to do something like this again. Doesn't mean I'll never have talks like I do here, or some kind of podcast at some point in time. But for now, we're just wrapping things up. It's okay. It's okay to end things. It's okay to try to start some other chapter in your life.'
WTF with Marc Maron is set to end this Fall. Watch out for Maron in Stick which premieres on Apple TV+ on June 4.
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