Quotes About Humor

I had a crisis of confidence and ran away from being a standup for a while.

You can't teach standup comedy. You can teach someone how to formulate a joke, but making it funny is different.

Standup is just dirtier, a far more risque kind of thing.

When you're doing standup, it's just you. It's your written jokes. You perform it however your personality is.

I'm more of a sketch guy than a standup.

So many comedians, if you asked them, 'What's your priority in standup?' it's probably gonna be to make people laugh or to entertain them. That is just way down on my priority list, if on my list at all. I'm into breaking records. If I can do a set and break a record and get no laughs, I'm happy.

The idea that standup is a thing with defined boundaries is kind of ludicrous.

It's a young man's game - standup comedy.

I continue to do standup because there's a connection with a live audience - there are skills that you do learn as a standup comedian that help you on a set.

A couple of female standup comics I know refer to their kids as their Little Career Killers. I was like, I really do not want to feel that way.

I listen to a lot of standup comics.

That's what's great about standup comedy: the instant feedback. You get up on stage, you tell a joke, if it doesn't work, come back the next day with a better version of it.

The experience of watching other standups is either: 1) you see your mate doing standup and it's really bad and you're heartbroken, or 2) You see your mate doing really well and it's heartbreaking.

Standup is a place where, as long as it's funny enough, you can say your most embarrassing things, shameful things and disappointing things.

We come from a live background of sketch improv and standup.

Standup is like shorthand. Every bit must be both brief and profound or the audience will lose interest.

If there are things that are off limits, why would you do standup?

I'd decided to write about stuff that I would like to hear standup about.

I'd been doing standup since college.

I'm a big fan of Louis CK - I think he's a master of standup.

I have always told my family that I don't want my birthday to be celebrated and that they shouldn't get me anything, even though if they didn't I'd probably write a standup routine about it.

Sometimes I start off shows by explaining to people that it's just a bunch of stories - I always say 'It's like standup, just less funny.'

I have a hard time describing myself as a standup comedian because I don't feel like I'm doing stand up jokes more than I am acting like a person who has a bad point of view.

The thing that's gotten me everywhere in my standup is talking about my family. I started doing it back in high school. I don't think our society looks at marriage and family enough. I think we've gone off course.