Marc Maron

Marc Maron is one of those comedians I respect more for his honesty than his jokes, and that is high praise. The stat about forty-plus appearances on Conan tells you he was a road-tested craftsman long before podcasting existed, but it was WTF, recorded out of his garage, that revealed his real gift. He pulls confessions out of guests by being raw and vulnerable first. I find his mix of midlife irritation and genuine curiosity oddly comforting. He turned a stalled career into a second act built entirely on talking honestly, and I think that quiet reinvention is his greatest work.

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Name (English)

Marc Maron

Name (Japanese)

マーク・マロン

Reading

まーく・まろん

Born

September 27, 1963 (age 63)

Origin

Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

Occupation

radio personality / podcaster / stand-up comedian / comedian / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Rabbit

High school

Highland High School

University

Boston University

• Official sitehttps://www.wtfpod.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/marcmaron/
• Xhttps://x.com/marcmaron
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20Maron
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3288246

Tags

• New Jersey
• radio personality
• podcaster
• stand-up comedian

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.