Quotes About Stand-up

I don't like doing stand-up, because I don't like standing up.

When I was in New York, I got to see Joan Rivers do an hour of material, and it blew my mind. I don't remember how old she was at the time, but she just had this edgy hour that had so much funny stuff in it, and she was so fearless. If you only watch her on the red carpet, you don't get a sense of what a legendary standup comedian she is.

I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this.

I'm not nearly as brave and confident in some of the ways that I think stand-ups are.

Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater.

Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don't know if I've ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline.

I think people know what they're getting with my name, because they've seen my specials on Netflix.

I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.

I'm not the nicest guy on stage.

Nick Kroll, A.D. Miles, Chelsea Peretti - those were the people I was always doing open mics with.

I don't really get to see a lot of other comedians, because I work with the same people all the time. The guy I really like is Nick DiPaulo. I love Nick DiPaulo, but again, he's a buddy of mine. But I liked him for a long time. I liked him before he was a buddy of mine.

Any comic is a very good actor. Look at Don Rickles. He is saying the same joke every night for 20 years and making it look like he just thought of it.

I go to more open mic nights than open mikers.

But, yes, I learned everything working in theater. I learned the importance of community - I was constantly going to play readings, stand-up nights, improv. nights.

I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it.

Every comedian wants to play the London Comedy Store, and I was no exception.

I have no intention of retiring; I can't imagine not doing stand-up. That's where I started and where I'll be.

To me, comedians are the last great storytellers because they depict their stories and create their effect with so few words. In the span of a couple minutes, stand-up comics can communicate more emotion than most novels do in hours worth of reading.

I'd like to see more stand-up routines venture into depicting tragedy. It's conventional to give people a humorous cathartic release; now I'd love to hear stand-up tragedy that would reduce the audience to exhausted tears.

My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.

He's even funnier than that sit-down/stand-up comedian kid I heard about, Jamie Grimm.

We all suffer in our own way; like, life is miserable. And I'm not, 'Oh, I'm a stand-up who's sad,' but the reality is that just about everyone is quietly unhappy. I don't think that pertains to comedians specifically. I think most people look at themselves in the mirror and are not happy with what they see.

I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description anywhere.

It became very obvious to me that in the United States of America, a fluffy ethnic disabled chick was never going to get a job unless she did stand-up.