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Comics seemed to have a handle on things. They could sort of disarm and get control over reality. I found it very comforting to laugh.

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Marc Maron
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 27
Actor
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Stand-Up Comedian
Television Producer
Jersey City
New Jersey
Marcus David Maron
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When you're a kid, you always feel you have this weird kindred-spirit thing with other Jews, until you get older and you realize it's just middle-class bourgeois Jews that sort of fit a template that your family fits into one way or another.
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