Marc Maron Quotes

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

Several of my uncles are comedians. My father is a comedian; my grandfather was known for his jokes. It definitely runs in the family.

I like comedy as a group sport.

I don't think comedy will ever die.

Nothing like a great comedy. I love to laugh!

I'm really bad at writing jokes.

I love comedy, and I love listening to comedians talk.

I never get offered comedy.

Artistically, I find jokes really satisfying aesthetically, because there's something great about getting an idea down to a sentence or two.

Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny.

A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.

The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech.

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

The jokes I used to do on 'Sex and the City' were always comic character things, and they were rarely hard jokes. As soon as you go up in front of people, it demands laughter.

My whole life, I've been telling jokes.

Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.

I tell the most horrible jokes.

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.

Comedy is not something that a person can fake or learn how to do.

I've been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.

My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.

I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh.