Quotes About Humor

If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character?

If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?

Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.

When you're onstage with Chris Rock, anything can happen. He is one of the greatest comic geniuses we've ever seen.

Even when I go do comedy stuff live, I can still feel the drummer in me about to go onstage.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

I celebrate masculinity when I'm onstage.

There is nothing - nothing - like writing a great joke and having that joke kill onstage.

I don't know what Tracy Morgan does onstage, but I can assure you, it's no act.

I hope I'm Jessica Tandy, you know. I hope I'm onstage, and I fall over at 85 or something with everyone applauding thinking that it was a joke, you know, 'There she goes again,' and I'm just gone. I've gone to Heaven.

I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.

When I started out in the late '80s, my act was pretty terrible, and for years, I kind of toiled in obscurity. I don't believe in a hierarchy in comedy; I feel that a person deserves respect the first time they get onstage, and after that, they just have to be funny and get more consistent.

I don't practice or write stuff down - everything I do onstage was just made up before I went on.

I absolutely loved improv! I felt very much at home being onstage. It freed me to be all sorts of people other than myself. It was an escape from myself, if you will. I still love that creative freedom of improv and making people laugh.

I didn't know if I could be funny on stage or write a joke. But I saw that there are no rules. If you're funny offstage, you can figure out a way to be funny onstage.

I think it would be fun to die onstage! Just drop dead in the middle of my show? That wouldn't be so bad.

I had one guy say, 'I watched your show and didn't agree with what you said.' And I'm like, 'It's a joke. How could you not agree? I can understand you saying it's not funny.' But it's like my going onstage and doing a knock-knock and somebody going, 'I disagree. There's no door here.'

I don't write anything. It's all done onstage, which is why I always tell younger comics that they just have to go do it. You have to get up, talk, and take a thought or a word and just expound, and you find it in there. I don't sit down and write.

A lot of comedians are really funny onstage, but they can't do a podcast.

I wore Chuck Taylors for a couple shows, and the second show I wore the Chuck Taylors, that was the one and only time I fell onstage. I haven't really bit it onstage in high heels yet. It will happen. It's not about if, it's about when.

When I started stand-up, the people I admired most were the people who were the most themselves onstage.

Joe Rogan has this podcast where he's talking astrophysics and lean BMI indexes and weird philosophy most of the time and yet, when you see him onstage, you're like, 'Oh, this guy is just a killer comedian.'

As a kid, I always loved Mel Brooks' stuff - 'The 2,000 Year Old Man' record was something my dad put me onto.

No one got anywhere by being too scared to open their mouth in case nobody laughed.