Marc Maron on the Web

Foolproof Northwest Comedy Festival
Marc Maron & Mitch Hedberg
Paramount Ballroom
April 23, 1999

Marc Maron
Every Thursday in February at
Surf Reality
172 Allen St.
9:00 P.M.
Five Bucks

Most of the following is stolen from this site: http://www.misfitmedia.com/conan/ Stella has a video clip. Bio: Cobb's Comedy Club Website

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February 1, 1996

School cutup Marc Maron graduates into a class act

By Melanie Gilbert / The Detroit News
Comedy Preview

Marc Maron

8:30 tonight; 8:30 and 10:30 Fri.-Sat.
Mainstreet Comedy Showcase, 314 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor
Tickets: $12

Marc Maron thinks he is due for a lot of bad karma.

"I consciously wanted to be a comic since I was age 9," says the comedian and social satirist by phone from his home in New York City.

Problem was he used the classroom to develop his budding comic presence. "I was a pretty disruptive kid and I think I made a lot of teachers cry."

An auspicious start for this successful standup comic.

Maron has taken his improvisational style out of the classroom and into America's living rooms as the host of Comedy Central's Short Attention Span Theater on HBO and through his standup appearances at clubs like the Mainstreet Comedy Showcase in Ann Arbor this weekend.

"I don't just get up on stage and tell jokes," says Maron. "I can. But my standup is more in a conversational mode. I try to relate to people through my own life and observations."

Maron works with a biting, fiery and ironic style of humor that tweaks the norm. "My comedy is just to the left and to the dark, instead of to the right and to the light," he says.

Nothing but good karma has followed him since he broke into the business a decade ago. Even so, Maron thinks his worst hecklers just have to be school teachers, "and they all sit by the stage," he says.

Copyright 1996, The Detroit News

Once again on Conan

ABSTRACT: Wednesday, December 18, 1996 "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" #698

GUEST: Marc Maron

• Marc talked about Kenneth four hour movie. That's as long as he's paid attention to anything. He could have been an art person, but he is "paid to talk dirty to townies."

• Marc talked about beginning work on an epic joke. The setup begins in ancient Egypt, and the punchline comes in the 1960s. He got a grant from the Shriners.

• Marc talked about doing a standup gig at a place when a guy in a gorilla suit showed up to hand out balloons at an employee party. Mark got depressed when he realised his job wasn't all that better than his.

• Conan asked about being engaged. Mark said it was half because of love and half because he wanted someone around when he failed at life.

• Marc said real love is very impractical. It doesn't exist more than three days. "Romeo and Julliet" had to die at the end because if you fast-forward them three years, they end up like any other couple.

• Conan asked if he worried about staying loyal. Mark said he didn't because he watches a little porno. He had to, because his girlfriend sleeps sometimes. He watched it with her once when she wanted to know why he watches it. He asked if she could do that. She said she didn't think she wanted to. He then told her that's why he watches it.

• Marc talked about holiday shopping. He said the thing to get someone who has everything is nothing.

  BIT:

• A choir of ventriloquist dummies sing "When Irish Eyes are Smiling"

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In the words of Paul McCartney, Very Strange.

Friday, March 15, 1996 "Late Night with Conan O'Brien"

GUEST: Marc Maron

• The previous bit reminded him of his childhood. His mother bought his brother and him ventriloquist dummies which they watched the dogs chew up while imitating the screams the dummies might have made.

• After hearing that the gene that causes Alzheimer's, an incurable disease, has been found, and that a test can be used to determine if you will get the disease, he wonders who would get the test. If you were to find out you were afflicted, the rest of your life would be spent in paranoia. Waking up one morning, you couldn't find one show and would wonder if it was happening. He wants it to be a surprise when he forgets how to open the door.

• In the Lower East Side, the first sign of Spring isn't Robins, it's a puddle of post-St. Patrick's Day green puke.

• He recently entered a suspicious grocery store with little more than a couple packs of gum and some newspapers and three people in the back seemingly inquiring if he wanted drugs. After buying a pack of gum, he felt that in stores that are obviously the front for a drug operation, the clerk should say "Thanks for playing along" if someone makes a purchase.

• He recently did some stand-up in Texas. He felt secure that he could make jokes about militias because, he thought, the barrier of culture around him would frighten away members coming out of the hills. "Oh no, book stores, turn around." However, someone in the audience shouted "come and get us." He figured they were similar people, he was fighting for freedom of speech, the member was fighting for the right to bear arms. He just wanted to say his peace before the member drew his.

• He questions the usefulness of pie charts. Blue....Dole....Pie chart equals truth

• He also questions national polls. Most people just hang up after being asked if they'll answer a few questions just hang up. However, those watching pornos are happy to answer. National Consensus is based on masturbating losers.

• He realizes he was politically inactive. He was looking at his uncle's pins: Impeach Nixon, End the Draft, Martin Luther King, then his: The Cars, Disco Sucks.

• Conan shows a picture of him sporting a Beatles hair style. Marc follows by showing himself in a Sgt. Pepper's jacket, and two pictures of "John and Yoko."

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Tuesday, January 2, 1996 "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" #426

MARC MARON (MW7: "Comedy Tonight")

• Describes his current and past New Year's celebrations.

• Gourmet coffee shops are "drug dealers with gift baskets," hooking their customers on strong coffee, then humiliating them by making them stand in line behind cappucino drinkers.

Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist
Marc Maron Appearances

Fructose (ILA "Private Time") (Marc Maron, Bob Odenkirk, Emo Phillips)

The Particle Board (Marc Maron, Eddie Brill)

On November 11, ten minutes before the Friday, 8:00pm EST showing of MST3K, Vinnie kept his promise, and along with Marc Maron (host of Short Attention Span Theater), answered, as best they could, live calls from viewers. Although the time went quickly, two things were made apparent to me: that this new schedule is not fixed, and that there is a good possibility to switch it if there was enough responce.

Excerpted from: http://pinky.wtower.com/mst3k/