Marc Lefton is a stand-up comic based in Gainesville, Florida, and a former award-winning New York City creative director who discovered concepts are a lot easier to execute when you do not have clients. After years of selling ideas to brands, he now sells them to strangers in dark rooms, which is somehow less stressful and better lit.

Onstage, Marc blends tight, economical storytelling with dry, surgical sarcasm and a streak of absurdity. Think polished setup, unhurried turn, then a left-field tag that makes you question why you ever thought reality was normal in the first place. He riffs on politics, history, tech, and everyday delusions with the energy of someone who’s seen too many brand decks and now refuses to lie for money unless there’s a two-drink minimum.

He has opened for Brad Upton (Dry Bar Comedy), Chris Kattan (SNL), and Bo Johnson (Comedy Central). He studied sketch under Bill Chott (The Dana Carvey Show, SNL) and teaches improv, which he describes as “corporate team-building without the HR department.”

Marc is a culture jammer who builds imaginary, implausible companies and releases them into the wild just to see who believes them. He recently released the satirical history book The Tremendous History of the United States of America: How We Became the Nation Proudly Promising to Be as Great as It Remembers Being, upsetting patriots, skeptics, and people who never finished their assigned reading in one convenient volume.