Season two of GLOW, Netflix’s Emmy-nominated comedy, wrapped with Ruth, Debbie, and the other Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling boarding a bus to Las Vegas. With the show being renewed for a third season, and the future wide open, we looked ahead with the cast to find out which wrestling icons they’d love to have guest-star…
Summer is finally winding down, we’re on the cusp of hoodie-wearing season, which means people around the country will start to stay indoors to snuggle up with a partner and binge whatever Netflix show is dominating the zeitgeist. Or maybe they’ll use watching Netflix as a not-so-veiled innuendo for getting into other…
On Monday’s Conan, host Conan O’Brien noted that his late-night, on-camera relationship with first guest Marc Maron goes back a full quarter-century. Well, nearly, as Conan joked, “You know, the first year we weren’t sure about you.” Maron replied, “And then you realized I could alienate people over and over again,”…
Literally everything about director Todd Phillips’ Joker origin movie sounds ridiculous, from casting a painfully serious actor like Joaquin Phoenix as the villainous clown to creating a Joker origin story that may or may not feature Batman at all, but Phoenix’s supporting cast might be the weirdest part of all. As we…
Following up on a tweet promising to discuss the issue more on his show and “not [on] a shitty platform like Twitter,” on today’s episode of WTF, Marc Maron discussed the sexual misconduct charges against his friend Louis CK at length. Maron and CK have had a rocky relationship over the years—an early episode of WTF…
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Tuesday, September 5. All times are Eastern.
Marc Maron has a new Netflix special coming up soon, and, with it, some new additions to the cranky cultural lexicon. Like “alpha pussy,” a title the stand-up and GLOW star dubs himself with in the new trailer for Too Real, a term describing someone who’s just as rage-filled as a stereotypical “alpha male,” but …
Netflix is bringing up the rear in streaming announcements, but its offerings are highly anticipated enough that it doesn’t really matter that the platform’s a little late to the preview party. Early this fall (or in the death throes of summer, if you prefer) subscribers will be able to watch Netflix originals like…
Two prospective stars of the squared circle toss a medicine ball back and forth. Debbie (Betty Gilpin) is concerned about her prospects with GLOW, the perfectly cheesy acronym—standing for “Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling”—for a perfectly cheesy professional wrestling promotion. She wants pointers from Carmen (Britney…
Though the premiere date is still unknown, Netflix has released a brief teaser for its wrestling comedy series, G.L.O.W. The series, from Jenji Kohan, stars Alison Brie as one of the titular Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling—at least, she’ll eventually become one to revive her failing acting career. Marc Maron is the other…
Last year, podcasting hit a hot streak, as Barack Obama took to Marc Maron’s garage for one of his most candid interviews, proving that this medium remains dedicated to the sincere, unifying power of the conversation. This year, the focus on politics remained with Hillary Clinton not simply guesting, but rather…
Netflix has released a full trailer for Easy, Joe Swanberg’s sex anthology series set in Chicago. Easy tells eight stories in eight episodes, bouncing around between a diverse crew of Chicagoans as they “fumble through the modern maze of love, sex, technology, and culture.” The trailer shows the characters grappling…
Marc Maron, taking a break from wrestling with his own crippling self-doubt, will be joining the cast of Netflix’s new comedy series based on The Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling, G.L.O.W. Maron is coming on board as Sam Sylvia, who according to The Hollywood Reporter is “a washed-up Hollywood director who has a very…
Great, as if Marc Maron needs another thing to have a complex about. As its parent network IFC tweeted earlier today, the season-four finale of Maron will also serve as a series finale:
The fourth season of Maron found our hero in dire straits: Unemployed, addicted to Oxycontin after years of sobriety, and living out of a storage locker. Soon after, the perpetually perturbed comedian checked into rehab, where he made some new friends and had a fling with Amy Pietz while getting sober, losing the…
Among the seemingly endless options of video streaming services out there, Tribeca Shortlist definitely falls on the classier end of the spectrum. The subscription VOD service focuses on selectively curated collections of films put together by filmmakers and artists of all stripes, so you’re not endlessly shuffling…
Bob Fingerman has been working in the comic industry for over three decades, and in that time he’s gathered a lot of material for his semi-autobiographical series Minimum Wage, following a cartoonist named Rob through his professional and personal woes. After a 15-year hiatus, Fingerman revived the title at Image…
The underlying story of WTF With Marc Maron, the comedian’s celebrated podcast, has always been one of recovery and redemption. After a decades-long stand-up career and multiple canceled shows on the liberal talk-radio network Air America, in 2009 Maron was at his professional bottom, unsure where to turn next. It’s…
We’re slowly inching our way toward summer, which means it’s finally time to shake off those winter doldrums. They say that laughter is the best medicine, but The A.V. Club’s 3rd Annual 26th Annual Comedy Festival (featuring Tracy Morgan, Sarah Silverman, and oh so much more) isn’t until June, so what is one supposed…
Maron is returning to IFC for its fourth season this spring, and this year finds the comedian in dire straits. When we last left TV’s Marc Maron (as portrayed by comedian Marc Maron), he was on the verge of success with his own television talk show until the recovering addict turned to Oxycontin. Season four opens up…
