Quotes About Humor

I like the sound of laughter. I was the guy in the group of friends that would always make the friends laugh. And everyone was like, 'You should do stand up,' so I gave it a shot, and ta-da! They were right.

Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am.

I love stand up, but every year, the road takes a little more out of you.

When you are doing stand up, it is the most glorious hour, when you are an X-Men version of yourself, with lasers coming out of your eyes.

Finding your voice as a stand up comedian means deeply knowing who you are as an artist and a human being.

I prefer comedy acting definitely. I love stand up but I think Im just at home a bit more with comedy acting which is possibly why I love it more.

Stand-up comedy is what I do, and it's so rewarding. If you write a joke and tell it to an audience of 15,000 people who laugh their heads off at it, it's the best feeling in the world.

At the end of the day, stand-up comedy is like acting when the audience are the other characters that I'm acting with.

As far as stand-up comedy, I got into the business later than most, yeah.

I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.

Regardless of what I do, whether I write a book or whether I act or whether I host, I'll always do stand-up comedy because those moments, that's what I crave. If I do something funny, and I hear a crowd laugh in that moment, we're all sharing the exact same experience and the exact same feeling.

I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.

Stand-up comedy is all you. It's your show, it's your game. You control every aspect of it - of that experience and that expression. There's really nothing quite as satisfying.

I grew up in Singapore, and I went to Australia for law school, and after law school, I started doing stand-up comedy.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

A lot of people think stand-up comedy is one person performing to an audience, but I love it more when it's a dialogue, an interaction.

Stand-up comedy is not for the faint-hearted or the thin-skinned.

Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.

Although no one explicitly wants a president who could have a reliable fall back career in stand-up comedy, everyone shudders at the thought of a Rutherford B. Hayes or John Kerry.

Stand-up comedy is a sickness. Who wouldn't want a room full of people laughing and screaming at you just because of who you are? Nothing is as good, except maybe having a baby.

If you are doing stand-up comedy, you have to be confident in what you are doing. That doesn't mean just because you are confident you are funny.

You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.

How I've fed my kids over the years is by doing stand-up comedy in clubs.

I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.