Marc Maron Quotes

I still do standup.

I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.

I just like doing standup, that's all I'm interested in or good at.

Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.

I don't have a specific plan except for as long as people want to listen to me talk, I'm going to keep talking. I can't imagine a life without doing standup.

If all you have is satire, your show will close. Even if all you have is comedy, your show will close. The hardest thing is not making people laugh: the hardest thing is building an emotional story. Any child can make a group of adults laugh.

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience.

The beautiful thing about stand-up is you can create and immediately deliver, perform, and get paid for what you do.

I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way.

I just want to keep people entertained.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

I couldn't fight, and I wasn't particularly interested in the academic. So I started doing satiric bits in the school bathroom. Guys would cut class to come and see me.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

I'm really good at standup. I always win at standup.

I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials.

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

I will always love to perform standup comedy.

Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.

You put funny people in funny costumes and paint them green and we could talk about anything we wanted to, because that was the only thing that fascinated Gene about this particular genre.

I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.

Louis C. K. is one of my all time favorite standup comedians.

I started doing my own animated movies when I was in ninth grade; that's when I got the filmmaking bug. When I was about 16, I started writing jokes for doing stand up, and then I was 19 and started doing stand up.

Comedy is my first love; that's my main goal in life - to keep doing comedy.

I tend to a lot of improvisational ranting, and that's fun. For me, stand-up has been, performance-wise, a really good outlet.