Quotes About Comedy

No one set that I ever do is the same. I mean, if I go to a comedy club, and I perform three sets, all three sets are different because anything can happen in between sets.

You see in comedy - performance is the cake and dialogue is like the icing on that cake.

Live performance really terrifies me. I haven't done it, really, in years. I think that's why I retired from my brief career in stand-up.

'Inside' was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.

I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness.

As a comic, I've heard gunshots while I'm trying to get to sleep. I've performed where people wanted to do you harm after the show because of something you said.

I want my audience to be my friends - that is when they will get the best comedy. If they see me as a performer, they won't get the best show.

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

I haven't had a lot of comedy come my way as a performer.

I'm a performer. I do comedy and music, and I blend them together. My band is 'Nasty Delicious!'.

Doing 'Comedy Bang! Bang!,' you have to play at the top of your abilities, so it is so fun to get that opportunity. I've grown a lot as a performer just working with those guys.

When you first start out in stand-up and, probably, as any performer, you enjoy the attention so much, and even though that hasn't died down on stage, it certainly has satiated whatever was in me that was needing that much attention. When I'm off stage, it's not something that I really need.

All those I admired as a young performer had a calmness to their comedy.

If a comedian has a strong following, and the branded segment feels different compared to what you typically do, people will know right away that it's not authentic to who you are as a comedian or performer. Brands need to keep that in mind.

Like, your body has to get used to being in front of people. Like - and you have to be like - you have to be kind of a ham, you know? Like, the thing about writers is they're generally self - comedy writers - self-loathing, sort of play small. And as a, like, performer, you have to think like a comedy writer but act like a performer.

It wasn't so much figuring out my voice comedically, because that was always pretty clear. It was more about performing and being a good, watchable performer.

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

I love creating characters that are ridiculous and flawed. To me, the most important thing about comedy is the joy it can bring to the performers and the audience alike. I love making people laugh and not over-thinking things. Some of my favorite moments are when I am doing an improv scene with friends, and I can't stop laughing during it.

We're not very confident performers, and if we don't get a laugh we get insecure.

I think people have a misconception about comedians and performers. All that stuff is serious business.

I love performing. I love the people. I sound like Liza Minnelli right now, don't I?

I enjoy performing for heavily armed people. It's easier than going to Georgia.

I was always the class clown, and I think I gravitated toward performing for the attention I didn't always think I was getting at home.

I do love live performing, but I'm not a stand-up naturally, and I don't like the lifestyle of working just in the evenings at clubs and stuff - not a natural gig-er.