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Epoch Times
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Epoch Times
Marc Maron Calls Time on His Long-Running Podcast Show
Actor and comedian Marc Maron, best known for his popular podcast, 'WTF With Marc Maron,' is bringing his show to a close after nearly 16 years. The 61-year-old made the announcement during a June 2
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Alex Cooper Offers Intimate Look At How She Grew ‘Call Her Daddy' Podcast Into A Media Empire In ‘Call Her Alex' Trailer
Alex Cooper is pulling back the curtain on how she grew her Call Her Daddy podcast into a multimillion-dollar media empire in her upcoming docuseries Call Her Alex. Hulu released a trailer for the two-part series Tuesday. In it, Cooper explains how her upbringing inspired an entrepreneurial spirit that she took with her into adulthood. Watch the trailer above. More from Deadline 2025 Premiere Dates For New & Returning Series On Broadcast, Cable & Streaming 'WTF With Marc Maron' To End After Over 15 Years 'Love Island UK' Season 12 Gets U.S. Premiere Date On Hulu 'I was fortunate to grow up in a household where it was normalized to speak your mind,' she says. 'Playing sports and making videos in my basement, those were the two things I really loved.' When an accident takes Division I soccer away from her, she finds herself driven to find her new purpose, ultimately resulting in her hit podcast Call Her Daddy. The trailer teases details the podcast's early days at Barstool and Cooper's six-year journey to where she is today. RELATED: Cooper has had huge success in the podcasting space. She initially launched the advice and comedy posdcast Call Her Daddy in 2018, alongside her then co-host Sofia Franklyn, with Barstool Sports before signing a huge deal, thought to be worth around $60M, with Spotify in 2021. The podcast exploded and became second only to The Joe Rogan Experience in the podcast charts, before she moved to SiriusXM last year in a deal valued around $120M. Call Her Alex will launch on June 10 following its June 8 debut at Tribeca Festival. [youtube Best of Deadline 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Tonys, Emmys, Oscars & More Everything We Know About 'Nobody Wants This' Season 2 So Far List Of Hollywood & Media Layoffs From Paramount To Warner Bros Discovery To CNN & More
Los Angeles Times
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Marc Maron will wind down his ‘WTF' podcast after a pioneering run of nearly 16 years
Comic Marc Maron is done. Well, almost done with his famous podcast. 'WTF With Marc Maron' will come to a close this fall, he announced Monday. 'We're tired, people. Burnt out,' he wrote on his website, explaining that he and producer Brendan McDonald had an agreement that they would end the pod's run when either or both of them were 'ready to stop.' Both are now ready, he said. 'As of September we will have been doing the show for 16 years. Wow. That's a long time to do anything,' Maron wrote. 'We have put a new show out twice a week for 16 years and we've put everything we have into those shows. That's just the way we work. We have since the beginning and it's always been just us. Obviously, we had help along the way, but in terms of creating the show Brendan does his job, I do mine. No networks, no boss. Just us and hundreds of guests and you.' 'WTF' was named best comedy podcast by the Academy of Podcasters in 2016 and was nominated for the iHeart Radio Podcast Awards in 2019. The operation began in September 2009, and while it wasn't the first podcast ever, Maron said that 'in terms of making it a viable medium, we were certainly one of the OGs.' There was no way to make money from it at first, he said on Monday's pod. He and McDonald just knew they were going to do two shows a week. 'We changed the world, literally. ... We helped unleash an exciting type of delivery system for pure self-expression,' Maron wrote on his website. Maron told The Times in 2017 that he prepares for interviews by, for example, watching a director's film or listening to a musician's records but without much outside research. 'How do you get around someone's public narrative?' Maron asked The Times. 'People who live public lives have a public narrative. And they'll go to it, because it's easy. Sometimes you can get a little more within those narratives, but to get around it is really the trick.' That year, he and McDonald published 'Waiting for the Punch: Words to Live By From the WTF Podcast,' a collection of excerpts from interviews with guestsincluding former President Obama, Bruce Springsteen, Lena Dunham, Amy Schumer, Louis CK and Will Ferrell, to name a few. Maron credited the selections in the book to McDonald's 'steel trap memory' of who had said what and when. 'What winds up in the book are many of the unexpected or revealing conversational nuggets that could be discovered only after the familiar territory had been crossed,' then-Times staff writer Carolyn Kellogg wrote. Moving forward from this fall — Maron didn't give a specific end date for 'WTF' on either the podcast or his website — the 61-year-old said that post-podcast he will be doing stand-up, more acting and 'hopefully enjoying life a bit.' 'There's probably going to be some ups and downs with me, emotionally, around the reality of this,' he said on the podcast. 'But ... this is a full-hearted decision, it's the right decision for Brendan, it's the right decision for me. It's OK for things to end. It's just time, folks.' Then he launched into an interview with comic John Mulaney.
NBC News
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- NBC News
Marc Maron to end his 'WTF' podcast this fall, citing burnout
Marc Maron announced Monday that he would end his acclaimed podcast, "WTF With Marc Maron," after nearly 16 years. In the latest episode of the popular show, Maron said he and producer Brendan McDonald made the decision to end the podcast sometime this fall. 'It was not some kind of difficult decision, necessarily,' Maron told comedian John Mulaney, who was his guest on the episode. 'Neither me nor Brendan, who are the only people in charge of this operation on every level… we both realized together that we were done.' Maron's show, which celebrates its anniversary Sept. 1, broke ground while the medium of podcasting was still in its infancy. Since its launch in 2009, Maron has recorded more than 1,600 episodes, with guests such as former President Barack Obama, rock star Keith Richards and comedian Carol Burnett. An episode he did with Robin Williams was entered into America's National Recording Registry as the first one-on-one podcast episode. Maron's decision to end the "WTF" podcast comes as podcasts are taking over TV screens amid video formats' increasing popularity. The medium first emerged in the mid-2000s and remained a small, niche market for years before several hits, including 'Serial,' gave the medium a jolt of attention and gravitas. While 2023 was a tough year for podcasts as a whole, popular podcasts retained — and in some instances grew — their audiences in 2024. 'We're tired, we're burnt out, and we are utterly satisfied with the work we've done,' Maron said during Monday's episode. 'We've done great work.' However, Maron said that he is not necessarily retiring from podcasting. "This doesn't mean I'm never going to do something like this again," he said. "It doesn't mean I'll never, you know, have talks like I do here, or or some kind of podcast at some point in time. But for now, we're just, uh, we're wrapping things up. It's OK. It's OK to end things." "And thankfully," he said, while talking about McDonald, "we both realized together that we were done."
NBC News
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- NBC News
Marc Maron to end his 'WTF' podcast this fall
Marc Maron announced on Monday that he would end his acclaimed podcast, "WTF With Marc Maron," after nearly 16 years. In the latest episode of the popular show, Maron said he and producer Brendan McDonald made the decision to end the podcast sometime this fall. 'It was not some kind of difficult decision, necessarily,' Maron told comedian John Mulaney, who was his guest on the June 2 episode. 'Neither me nor Brendan, who are the only people in charge of this operation on every level… we both realized together that we were done.' Maron's show, which celebrates its anniversary on September 1, broke ground while the medium of podcasting was still in its infancy. Since its launch in 2009, Maron has recorded more than 1,600 episodes, with guests such as former President Barack Obama, rockstar Keith Richards and comedian Carol Burnett. An episode he did with Robin Williams was entered into America's National Recording Registry as the first one-on-one podcast episode. Maron's decision to end the "WTF" podcast comes as podcasts are taking over TV screens as video formats grow increasingly popular. The medium first emerged in the mid-2000s and remained a small, niche market for years before several hits, including 'Serial,' gave the medium a jolt of attention and gravitas. While 2023 was a tough year for podcasts as a whole, popular podcasts retained — and in some instances grew — their audiences in 2024. 'We're tired, we're burnt out, and we are utterly satisfied with the work we've done,' Maron said during Monday's episode. 'We've done great work.' However, Maron said that he is not necessarily retiring from podcasting. "This doesn't mean I'm never going to do something like this again," he said. "It doesn't mean I'll never, you know, have talks like I do here, or or some kind of podcast at some point in time. But for now, we're just, uh, we're wrapping things up. It's OK. It's OK to end things." "And thankfully," he said, while talking about McDonald, "we both realized together that we were done."
