Quotes About Stand-up

Being a female comic and getting a Comedy Central special is an honor because not a lot of women get that.

Most comics' first gig is either brilliant or horrific.

It doesn't matter how many times the audience has heard it before. If it's funny, it's funny.

I think Chicago's kind of a comedy hub, and I think it always has been.

I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.

For the most part, comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other, but most of the time, they're friends. We're the only ones that can really stand our type of humor.

I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.

I thought I had more of a European sense of humour than the average American comic.

I have never ever hung out with actors and comedians. I can't stand it.

When you leave, you basically want to go eat, because I talk a lot about food in my act. So when you leave, you leave hungry.

I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.

I met Harrison Ford at Barney's Beanery. And I met Steve Martin at the bar at the Troubador. He said he wanted to be a stand-up comic. I thought that was the worst idea because he was so square, so Orange County.

Tommy Tiernan is an Irish comic who I believe is one of the finest in the world.

Late night is no different than making a film, really, except that it's faster, and if you do a crap one, you can do a better one tomorrow. Writing a novel and doing stand-up - that stuff is very similar.

I do films which get me out of my comedian routine so that I don't get bored being a stand-up comedian. And with films, it's here today, gone tomorrow. So stand-up comedy is here to stay for me.

I want to see a ton more comedy for women.

In France, I'm not going to say the audience will laugh for nothing, but you could compare the response I get to the response Louis CK or Chris Rock would get if they go up in a club in Denver tonight.

I remember seeing Letterman do stand-up on 'The Tonight Show.' Or, it's probably more accurate to say, I remember hearing him do stand-up, because the Carson show existed mainly as sound leaking under my bedroom door at night. I'd hear Johnny telling jokes and my dad laughing at them.

It used to be that if you got on 'The Tonight Show,' your career was made. Now, if you're on 'The Tonight Show,' maybe 14 more people show up to your gig in Tulsa.

I've performed on 'The Tonight Show' with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, but not at the same time.

I just loved stand-up comics as a kid. I'd watch them on 'The Tonight Show,' and I thought what a great craft it was to come out on stage with no instrument or anything and be able to entertain people.

Lenny Bruce did clean TV. You have to be able to do that, I think, to succeed because if you want to promote something, you go on 'The Tonight Show' or 'Letterman' or whatever, you can't be dirty.

My brother nurtured the love of stand-up comedy in a skinny little black kid named Tony.

Yes, I've seen Louis CK. I wouldn't in any way make a degrading remark about Louis CK, but the question is do I think anyone is funny? And the answer is not too many people. He might fit right in there.