For most comedians, being called long-winded might be an insult but for American comedian Bob Marley Jr it is a source of pride.Mr Marley, who will be performing in the upcoming Just for Laughs Bermuda event this month, made the Guinness Book of World Records last September when he performed comedy for 40 hours at the Comedy Connection in Maine. The previous record was 38 hours and six minutes.“It was crazy,” Mr Marley told The Royal Gazette. “I started preparing for it months in advance. I have 20 comedy albums, so I have lots of material. I broke it down. I thought you had to go the full time without repeating. When I talked to the Guinness book people, they said after four hours I was allowed to repeat. I went for 18 hours, without repetition.”For the first hour, Mr Marley said he felt great. It took him all of five hours to realise he’d made a major mistake. At that point he decided it was one of the dumbest things he’d ever decided to do. Throughout the event, Mr Marley had a full house. People came and went, except one die-hard fan.“I did have one guy who stayed with me for the whole 40 hours,” said Mr Marley. “He kept saying: ‘I am here for you man’. At first I thought, this guy is awesome. After three hours I was like, I am going to kill this man. His name was B-Rad, or at least that is what I called him. I was two minutes into a three-minute routine, and he interrupted to ask if he could go to the bathroom. At one point he said: ‘I give you permission to throw water on me, if I fall asleep’. He turned out to be a good guy.”Talking for 40 hours straight with only the odd hour here and there for break was not without its punishments. He wasn’t hoarse afterward, but had “wicked bad” muscles spasms in his throat and cheeks.Mr Marley has been featured in his own special on Comedy Central, and is one of the few comics to do the complete late-night television circuit: ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’, ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno’, ‘Late Night with Conan O’Brien’ and ‘The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson’. Now he said he was looking forward to coming to Bermuda to perform with Just for Laughs Bermuda.“I have been to Bermuda before,” he said. “I did a corporate show there last spring. I’m excited. Anything with a ‘Just for Laughs’ stamp is awesome. I have been to Just for Laughs in Toronto and Montreal, Canada probably four or five times.”The comedian currently lives in Maine, where he was born. His comedy career started when he was in college at the University of Maine at Farmington studying community health.“I went up on stage on a talent night thing,” he said. “It went really well. That was in my junior year. The whole summer between junior and senior year, I was doing stuff in bars. In senior year, I would drive from the northwest corner of Maine to Boston, Massachusetts pretty much every night of the week. One of my professors pulled me aside and said ‘are you on the crack?’ I said ‘what?’. He said, ‘do you do the crack cocaine?’. He thought that I was on drugs because I kept falling asleep in class.”Mr Marley’s mother, Marcia, “freaked out” when he went straight into comedy after college instead of becoming a health teacher, as planned.“She is Irish catholic,” he said with a laugh. “She was doing the rosary beads. To this day she still says, ‘you still have your degree to fall back on’. But she has now worked for me for the past eight years. We have a store in the Maine Mall in Portland, Maine where we sell merchandise.”When his comedy career took off, he moved to Las Angles, California and lived there for 11 years. He and his wife moved back to Maine when they decided they wanted to start a family.“We thought it was a better place to raise our kids,” he said. “It has worked out great. I can still go back and forth. I am still doing television stuff. I did a movie last year ‘Boondocks Saints’, a sequel for Sony Pictures. I have just shot an hour special which we are trying to get on Comedy Central television channel.”Being named “Bob Marley Jr” has worked out rather well for him over the years.“I was named after my father,” said Mr Marley. “When I was born he’d never heard of Bob Marley the singer. I have had all these crazy things happen to me, as a result of the name. For example, once I got a $6,000 cheque for the History of Rock meant for the singer Bob Marley. The name was a lucky coincidence. It is a great thing. The guy was so cool. But on stage I don’t do any jokes about it, although people have said I should.”Mr Marley will be performing alongside other international comedians such as Gina Yashere and Sebastian Maniscalco. Alonzo Bodden was supposed to host the event and perform a solo show, but he had to cancel at the last minute. He has been replaced by comedy legends Dom Irrera and Godfrey C Danchimah, who performs under the stage name Godfrey.Mr Irrera and Godfrey will perform 30-minute sets on January 12 at 8pm at City Hall Theatre. Tickets are $65, or $55 with purchase of a ticket for another night. Tickets to Mr Bodden’s show will be honoured.A show featuring the entire comedy line-up is scheduled for the following night at the Fairmont Southampton at 8pm. Tickets are $85.Gala shows will be held January 14 at 8pm and January 15 at 7pm and 10pm at the Fairmont Southampton. Tickets are $75 for general admission and $85 for reserved seating.Tickets are available at www.bdatix.bm, All Wrapped Up Home in the Washington Mall, in The Money Shop on Dundonald Street and at Fabulous Fashions in Heron Bay Plaza.Tickets may also be purchased by calling 292-7232 however a $3 surcharge will be applied. For additional event information visit www.comedyevent.bm, call 292-7232 or visit www.hahaha.com.For more information about Bob Marley visit www.bmarley.com.