Marc Maron: Recovering Messiah

Courtesy of Marc Maron

In 2009, Marc Maron was a down-on-his-luck comedian, a man who’d survived alcohol and drug addiction, two divorces and resentment over his friends’ successes in the comedy world. Then, his career was resurrected with a little help from iTunes. For the past two and a half years, Maron has hosted the wildly popular twice-weekly WTF, podcasts in which he interviews comedians like Chris Rock and Robin Williams, television stars including Amy Poehler and Jon Hamm, and even the occasional highbrow public radio personality (Ira Glass, in case it wasn’t clear). Moment editor Nadine Epstein sat down with Maron at his Los Angeles home to talk about Israel, his days as a Hebrew school provocateur and the time he thought he was the Messiah.