Quotes About Performance

I don't like the pressure to try to tell the best jokes. I'm not good at jokes.

All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it's a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories.

Some comics don't like it when people talk during the set, and it does get a little bit annoying after awhile, but I basically let people dictate what jokes I'm going to do.

As a comedian, frankly, I don't care that much about bad jokes.

'Friends' was great fun, but I was just there so they could make some funny jokes about England.

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

I really don't like when you see improv scenes go on too long. It really bothers me, even if the jokes are good.

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.

When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes.

I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.

I told jokes badly.

I never used to tell jokes on stage. Now I'm cutting up jokes all night long.

I'm not built for war. I'm built for entertainment. I'm built for jokes - either telling them or being the butt of them.

I'm not even really a joke-teller. I can do ad-lib and banter, but I don't do jokes.

I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.

I only have eight jokes, but I can do 'em over a two-hour period of time.

I don't like long jokes. I like stories rather than setup punchlines.

My goal is to be exactly how I am offstage - although I realize I'm supposed to punctuate it with jokes.

My favorite moments are the moments everyone cries over. I see people in the audience crying, and I go, 'I did that, too. I don't just do the jokes. I also do the cries.' Jokes and cries, jokes and cries. That's all I'm here for, people.

People want to see comedies where characters aren't sacrificed for the jokes.

What I'm doing in the work I do, I prefer not to just have a series of jokes. It's nice when audiences can connect with the characters as well.

The thing that's frustrating about improv is that even if you have the best show in the world, it's over when it's over. You get to build stand-up - I really like that aspect of it. I like writing jokes, and you don't get to do that in improv.

To deliver something deadpan is very difficult; I don't think people know how hard those jokes are.

A lot of people get into stand-up as a back door into acting or something. But I really like writing jokes and telling jokes.