Quotes About Stand-up

I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.

I go around the country and do a simple gag like, 'The property ladder is now a snake' and get a real laugh.

Before 'SNL,' I would do stand-up, opening for Jeff Tweedy. It was worse than bombing in that people were dead silent.

'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.

I have a half-hour special on Comedy Central, but so many people have half-hour specials now, and it's not so 'special.'

I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up.

I'm not a comedian, but I love the comedians who know when to get off the stage.

Stand-up is my foundation. That's where it started at. And I love it because it's personal. It's mine. It's all me. It's my experience in life.

Ok so there's no TV shows, no movies going on fine, but I love going on stage and performing stand up so my situation is a little better than someone who's strictly just an actor or actress.

I love doing radio, and I love doing stand-up, obviously.

I would love, obviously, just to keep doing stand-up. That's the constant. That's the thing that I'm going to do for the rest of my life, but also I would like a TV show at some point.

I love stand up and it keeps me grounded, to say the stuff I have been thinking without anyone changing it.

One of the many reasons why I love stand-up so much is when you're performing, you get instant feedback. You know if stuff is working right away.

I do podcasts for the same reasons I do stand-up comedy. I love it, and I don't care if anybody else gets it.

I love hecklers. They remind you that you are a comedian.

I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials. I'm not an actor though, so I don't really have much choice in the matter.

I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials.

I love Steven Wright.

I love Steven Wright. I was in high school in the '80s, and there was a lot of stand up on television.

I started doing pot jokes, and I noticed that audiences invariably love pot jokes. Even people who don't smoke pot think it's a funny subject.

Most stand-ups, once they have done it, think of it as their default job. I'm pretty sure Jon Stewart still feels that way now. You are a stand-up first; other things come and go.

Edinburgh is the most pressurised environment to do comedy. You get an hour. There's no compere. You'd better be on the money straight away; you've got journalists in.

But stand-up is also one of the few art forms where women aren't judged on their appearance - possibly the only one where people are actually there to listen to what they say on stage.

When I work in San Francisco doing stand-up, I usually schedule it for July, and we'll drive up the coast and camp in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Big Sur, and we'll just camp our way up the coast, and then we'll get to San Francisco and hang out there for four days.