Quotes About Comedy

I don't enjoy writing newspaper articles any more than people like reading them. I'm a standup comic, not a journalist, although sometimes onstage I will say: 'What else is in the news?' Writing is work, which I'm not comfortable with.

I do standup every week in L.A. at the Laugh Factory and the Improv.

My standup is observational, but it's self-observational, and it's self-deprecating, definitely.

I'm in this for the long haul, I want to be doing this until I die. I am a standup comedian. I know a lot of people say I'm not, but I am.

The thing is when I started doing standup, you had to have a clean act because that's how you got on television. There weren't all these cable shows. Also, I didn't want to have that kind of act in case my family came to see me or my kid one day.

The standup thing has been really fun, really seeing the United States instead of reading about it.

I do standup once a year, when I host the CMAs.

From fear to bonding with the audience to getting more open - that's what standup is. It humanises you.

In standup, you don't have anything near you except a microphone. There's something a lot more self-conscious feeling when there's cameras coming in for close-ups. It makes you very aware.

Trying my hand at standup was exciting to me.

I come from standup and improv.

I just loved jokes so much as a child. I remember wanting to perform at, like... age seven by reading from a kids' joke book, and my parents being like, 'That's not what standup comedy is,' and me being like, 'Not yet it isn't! I'm going to change the game.'

I did a lot of standup from ages 19 to 24 but then stopped to focus on sketch with Broken Lizard.

Standup is really the only thing in the entertainment business that you do totally alone.

I love doing standup, but I love watching it more. Watching people like Michelle Buteau or Baron Vaughn get up and do their thing - that is what comedy can be like.

Being in a male-dominated industry, you can feel like a little excluded. That was making me feel like maybe I'm not funny. I was really seriously considering, like, quitting standup.

I know I'm going to be doing standup for the rest of my life.

I have seven brothers and sisters, and they could all be standup comics!

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

I've always been a comedy nerd, and 'Partners in Crime' was probably more influential for me than anything else because it was not only standup, but Robert Townsend had those short films.

I joined a campus competition, as I felt I could do comedy, and I won. Then I started doing standup gigs in 2009 while completing my law degree, but I never told my parents. They only discovered a few years later.

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

I don't know what the secret to doing standup well is, but I do know the goal is to be yourself as much as possible. And working harder than everyone else.

Technology can't eliminate the need for people going to want to go out and see theater and standup comedy.