Quotes About Comedy

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.

Hopefully standup will become special again.

I've actually never done standup before.

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.

Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.

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.'

I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this.

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.

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

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

Standup comedy is inordinately difficult. If doing something else for a living will make you equally happy, choose that instead. I'm serious. Comedy is punishing.

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.

I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.

The most dangerous place I've ever performed standup is in my home state of California.

America is where standup comedy was born. It's the standard. So you want to go and do your job where this is the mecca of what you do.

A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.

As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.

I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.

I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

No one goes into standup to make money. The frustration and rejection are just too much.

My wife called me a mule. She once said, "I didn't marry a man; I married a mule!" I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.