Quotes About Entertainment

I really love standup, and I really love writing standup.

In the entertainment industry, there is this fear of getting older, because we have high definition television now, and you can see things that the human eye can't even pick up. But the good thing about standup is that the older you get, the funnier you get.

I wouldn't call myself a standup in the presence of Jerry Seinfeld or Chris Rock, but I do my share of it and it has been and remains part of my activity and I like it.

It's still a soft R, but when I watch other people's standup, I'm dumbfounded that people call me dirty. That's only because I did family television.

Katya Zamolodchikova

I can't imagine a time I don't want to do standup.

I just like doing standup, that's all I'm interested in or good at.

I'm a standup comedian, so I need people.

I don't have courage in my convictions and I'm not interested in serious things or politics: if you're doing an hour of standup, you should talk about a few serious things.

When I go into schools to speak, I am not giving a speech - it's really a one-man show. I call it 'didactic standup.'

People see me on the 'Daily Show' or 'About a Boy'. But the reality is that I only got into this business to do standup comedy.

I still do standup.

I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know?

I did standup comedy. I opened once for Jay Leno.

I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn't include someone the size of the Hindenburg.

I'm really good at standup. I always win at standup.

I wanted to do comedy, but I didn't grow up wanting to be a standup.

People always come up to me and say, 'you should do standup.' It's nice to discover things about yourself. That keeps everything lively and fun.

I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.

I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.

I thought I could see how standup worked. I never thought of being an actor - or anything else, really - but I thought, 'I can see how you get on stage and tell jokes.'

Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.

I graduated from Improv Olympic. I used to do standup comedy.

I bombed so much as a standup that messing up doesn't matter to me anymore. I kind of enjoy bombing sometimes - I try and make everybody hate me more. Like, once I know it's not going well, I can just have fun.