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By Jessica Grose
Opinion Writer
On Monday, the comedian Marc Maron said that he would be ending his podcast, which has been running since 2009. I have been listening to Maron’s delightfully surly interview show, “WTF With Marc Maron,” since its early days. In the year 2025 it is hard to believe that a comedian interviewing other comedians could feel utterly fresh and transgressive, but I swear that it once did.
Maron has described creating the podcast as a Hail Mary. He had just divorced his second wife and lost his radio job on the failing Air America network. Maron told New York magazine’s Jada Yuan in 2012, “I had nothing. My manager had hung me out to dry. I was barely solvent. It was sort of like, How do I not die broke?”
