About Marc Maron: Marc David Maron is an American stand-up comedian, podcast host, writer, director, producer and actor.
It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook. By "we" I mean adults. We're adults, right? But emotionally we're a culture of seven-year-olds. Have you ever had that moment when are you updating your status and you realize that every status up...
Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, "No you can't.
If you can't afford the good food or if you can't afford health care or if you don't have a job or if your car is dangerous because you can't get it fixed and you DIE, you just lost the game-bzzzzz-thanks for playing extreme capitalism.
People who have babies tell me I will know a love that is beyond anything I can imagine, and a joy that is indescribable. Love and joy? That sounds horrifying. I have no way of knowing whether I can handle either of those. I'm much better with need a...
Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be heralded as geniuses and become huge. Of course, all of you think that one describes you...hence the delusion necessary to push on.
He doesn't have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He's a biased historian of self, an emotional revisionist. We all are, for the most part.
I was an abusive, selfish, needy, angry asshole. Now I'm just kind of selfish, a little less angry, occasionally needy, with flights of asshole. I've grown.
That's an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you're fragile, vulnerable, and sometimes stupid. Realize that you're not immortal and you've got to take care of yourself. And then laugh it off ...
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.
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.
For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.
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?
Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.
The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming.
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 bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day.
I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.
Hopefully standup will become special again.
When I was a young kid I loved Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett and Jackie Vernon.
When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of the Cheech and Chong records and all of the Richard Pryor records.
