Quotes About Performance

When you're doing standup, it's just you. It's your written jokes. You perform it however your personality is.

I'm more of a sketch guy than a standup.

So many comedians, if you asked them, 'What's your priority in standup?' it's probably gonna be to make people laugh or to entertain them. That is just way down on my priority list, if on my list at all. I'm into breaking records. If I can do a set and break a record and get no laughs, I'm happy.

I guess that I was always considered a little too weird for the standup clubs and probably too jokey for doing performance art and those places where those are done.

The idea that standup is a thing with defined boundaries is kind of ludicrous.

It's a young man's game - standup comedy.

Standup led me to acting because I liked standup, and I saw people on a stage, and the closest, nearest thing to me was doing plays. It was like, that's the same thing as standup - people are on a stage; they're being seen and saying things - so, because of my love of standup, I moved towards acting.

I continue to do standup because there's a connection with a live audience - there are skills that you do learn as a standup comedian that help you on a set.

I listen to a lot of standup comics.

That's what's great about standup comedy: the instant feedback. You get up on stage, you tell a joke, if it doesn't work, come back the next day with a better version of it.

If you want to do standup, you have to go on stage. That's the only way to get good - stage times.

We come from a live background of sketch improv and standup.

Standup is like shorthand. Every bit must be both brief and profound or the audience will lose interest.

I did a standup show called 'Show Me the Funny,' so from that I got some TV stuff and people would book me for gigs. I wasn't really good enough at that point, so had to catch up with expectations.

If there are things that are off limits, why would you do standup?

In standup, the feedback is instantaneous, and if it fails, you know you'll be off-stage and hiding in a short time.

I'd decided to write about stuff that I would like to hear standup about.

I'd been doing standup since college.

I'm a big fan of Louis CK - I think he's a master of standup.

Sometimes I start off shows by explaining to people that it's just a bunch of stories - I always say 'It's like standup, just less funny.'

I have a hard time describing myself as a standup comedian because I don't feel like I'm doing stand up jokes more than I am acting like a person who has a bad point of view.

We went to open-mike night at a comedy club called Stanford & Sons and the comics were terrible. My cousin dared me to get up there and, well, he was challenging my manhood. I had to do it.

Every now and then, they ask me to come in and improvise with Stanley Tucci for an afternoon. They fly me off to America, I improvise for an afternoon - it's not the hardest, most taxing job.

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