Top 31 Quotes by Marc Maron

Hopefully standup will become special again.

In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.

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 think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.

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

The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.

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.

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

I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now.

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.