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Marc Maron
September 27, 1963 -
Nationality: American
Category: Entertainer
Subcategory: American Entertainer

For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.

   

It may have lost its special-ness forever and the clubs might not being doing well but I think standup is in the best shape it has been in a long time.

   

I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it.

   

Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.

   

Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap.

   

As a performer you are being used to keep people watching so the commercial endorsements that support the network can be seen by as many people as possible.

   

There are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don't pop. You know why they don't pop? They don't pop because they have integrity.

   

Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.

    Topics: Show Business

On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement.

   

We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.

   

I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me.

   

The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming.

   

It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.

   

Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?

   

When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.

   

Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.

   

I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's taken me years to put him into context historically and really get what he did.

   

Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.

   

The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers.

   

When I was a young kid I loved Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett and Jackie Vernon.

   

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