Anthony Ramos was ready to give up on acting but seeing the musical In The Heights on Broadway gave him... more

William Shatner has lived long and continues to prosper. At 92 years old, he has dozens of projects in the... more

Vir Das doesn’t worry about fitting in. He was born in India, grew up in Nigeria, went to school in... more

Amy Sherman-Palladino says working on a TV show takes over your whole life. This is why Amy went from being... more

Smokey Robinson just released his 26th studio album, but he’s been writing songs since the age of six. Smokey talks... more

For Warren Zanes, music has been a salvation. In his troubled teen years, his brother put him in the band... more

Paul Schrader’s upbringing was steeped in the contradictions of religion, which helped him explore the contradictory characters in his screenplays,... more

Ice Cube never stopped thinking about making music, from the moment he started writing raps in typewriting class to sitting... more

Rachel Weisz and her collaborators totally knocked Marc for a loop with the new series Dead Ringers, a show that’s... more

When comedian Shane Mauss was on the show in 2016, he and Marc talked about the new trajectory in his... more

Tituss Burgess was in the movie Respect alongside Marc, playing gospel singer James Cleveland. But it was Tituss’s own original... more

Both David Mandel and Marc were obsessed with the early years of Saturday Night Live, in large part because of... more

J. Smith-Cameron gets just as surprised while watching Succession as you do. With all the footage they shoot, she’s never... more

As the daughter of Jill Clayburgh and playwright David Rabe, Lily Rabe felt a lot of pressure not to become... more

From February 2013, Marc talks with comedian Darryl Lenox about the struggles he faced throughout his life and how he... more

The last time Ray Romano was on the podcast, he was making the show Men of a Certain Age. Now... more

It's a series of firsts for Alex Borstein: The release of her first comedy special, her first podcast interview done... more

Three episodes into the Netflix series Beef, Steven Yeun's character is emotionally overwhelmed in a Korean church. As the former leader... more

Kelly Reichardt’s latest movie Showing Up is about the life of artists, but Kelly had no experience with art while... more

Brooke Shields is able to look back critically on the toxic culture and misogynistic power structure that pervaded her early... more

Cathy Ladman just made her tenth appearance on The Tonight Show, a milestone in a career that started back when... more

Karina Longworth grew up in Los Angeles and was fascinated by the haunted memories of Old Hollywood. Later in life,... more

Nick Youssef found himself on the receiving end of anti-Arab hate when he took the standup stage shortly after 9/11,... more

Laurie Anderson says she never made art to express herself, she didn’t care about having a “style,” and she sure... more

First up in this two-for-one episode, Marc talks with comedian Ashely Barnhill, who used to work for WTF while she... more

O’Shea Jackson Jr. grew up around music with Ice Cube as a father. But it was a school teacher who... more

A special compilation of this year's Oscar nominees talking about their nominated works. Hear excerpts from Marc's interviews with Michelle... more

Bobby Farrelly knows he was lucky to grow up in small town Rhode Island, which was, in his words, marinating... more

Ronny Chieng has been in America for less than a decade and he’s cementing himself as a prolific force in... more

Hong Chau owes her acting career to social anxiety and a fear of performing in public. It was the desire... more

Austin Butler devoted the past four years of his life to Elvis, the last year of which has been spent... more

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert share a first name, a passion for filmmaking and now awards for Best Director. But... more

Michelle Yeoh travels through the multiverse in Everything Everywhere All At Once. But when she was growing up in Malaysia,... more

Tim Blake Nelson always impresses Marc with his acting and, since the last time he was on the show, he’s... more

Most people know Marc Summers as the host of Double Dare on Nickelodeon and Unwrapped on Food Network. But his... more

As documented in the Wrestling With Marc series on The Full Maron, Marc undergoes a full immersion into the world... more

Wayne Brady is making himself happy again when he’s performing. He makes other people happy hosting Let’s Make a Deal... more

Dave Franco is a successful actor but that doesn’t mean he was full of confidence when he began directing his... more

Radhika Jones just celebrated her fifth year as Editor-in-Chief of Vanity Fair and, as far as Marc is concerned, she... more

Brendan Fraser is receiving awards and accolades for his performance in The Whale but his reasons for taking on the... more

Sarah Polley has a lot to say about memory, narratives and the stories we tell. That’s because she believes they’re... more

Octavia Spencer’s career started behind the scenes, as she worked in casting departments on film sets. Director Joel Schumacher said... more

Todd Field toyed with many pursuits before he ever directed a film. First there was close-up magic. Then he went... more

Andrea Riseborough can't lie. She's terrible at it. But she believes that trait helps her as an actor because there's... more

Katt Williams is a one-of-a-kind comic performer, so it’s only natural he should have a one-of-a-kind backstory. Katt tells Marc... more

Colin Hanks knows there are public perceptions of him that are tricky to navigate. For one, the man known as... more

Ben Foster was 14 years old and when he had what he calls a breakdown. Ben had a moment while... more

Guitarist and singer-songwriter Eric McFadden is a blast from Marc's past. They knew each other when they were teenagers growing... more

Courtney Love is finishing up her first record in more than a decade while she lives in London, perhaps permanently.... more

Writer-director Scott Cooper says the best thing to came out of his acting career was the friendship he struck up... more

Rian Johnson revived the mystery genre with his movie Knives Out and now he’s seeing what other places he can... more

James Austin Johnson figured out at a very young age that he could do impressions. When he got older and... more

Comedian Tommy Tiernan knows a fellow traveler when he sees one. Ever since he saw Marc perform, he recognized a... more

Elvis Mitchell waited his entire life to make the new documentary Is That Black Enough For You?!? As a film... more

It’s the holidays, which means Clea DuVall’s movie the Happiest Season is once again part of a new tradition for... more

Filmmaker James Gray had crisis of confidence after watching a rough cut of his first movie, Little Odessa. Now that... more

Rob Delaney says the last time he was on the show, he didn’t have two coins to rub together. After... more

Live from The Bloomsbury Theatre in London, Marc welcomes comedian and writer David Baddiel to the stage. In light of... more

Writer-director Robert Siegel wanted to explore a career in either comedy or journalism. It turns out he got to do... more

When Marc reads the works of author and screenwriter Bruce Wagner, he starts to question reality. Bruce’s depictions of Hollywood... more