★★★★★
"There is truly nothing more important than comedy. Okay, that might be an overstatement. There are a few things more important than comedy, but they aren't funny... until we make them funny." With that soon to be oft-quoted line, Marc Maron ended his keynote address at the 2011 Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal. It's a specific comedic philosophy that gives the art form a gravitas and importance that isn't always stressed...
- www.culturebully.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
For avid listeners of Marc Maron's podcast WTF, Maron's new stand-up album This Has to Be Funny may be rather disorienting. His last album, Final Engagement, was released in 2009 (about the time he started the podcast), and in the interim, listeners have been greeted twice weekly by his stream-of-consciousness monologues that run before every interview...
- dustedmagazine.com
2011-09-05
★★★★★
Marc Maron treats the audience like a therapist on This Has To Be Funny. Each story begins with an admission--"I'm the guy 20-to-35-year-old women work out their daddy issues on"--followed by Maron finding the most comedic situation possible to illustrate his point. He admits that once, alone in his house and for seemingly no reason, he said aloud, "You're fucking ridiculous," tempering it with the follow-up comment: "But you're no dummy...
- www.avclub.com
2011-08-22