Quotes About Stand-up

I never went on auditions because I would be terrible at it, so I just did stand-up.

If you have any sense, if you're any good at comedy, you come to Austin.

I think making a documentary gets you out and about more, with people. With stand-up, you're talking at people. With documentaries you're talking with people, and you're listening a lot more.

A special validates you as a stand-up by documenting your material.

My stand-up is clean; it's not too edgy. I've played it safe since the beginning.

I worked for the Comedy Store as an employee trying to become a paid regular. I had this dream of achieving a half hour special on TV.

I don't think I'm in love with television. I think I'm in love with stand-up, and I'm in love with radio. And then, television is my employer.

I'm not trying to do anything except entertain America.

Nobody escapes during Lisa Lampanelli's show.

I like doing live stand-up because that's where I started. If you do TV and radio you just send it out into the ether and you never find out if people like it or not. To go out and make an audience laugh is nice.

When it comes to work ethics and business, I look up to Aziz Ansari. He's got everything together on his own terms. He does stand-up, comes out with books, and has his own show.

Eventually I'm going to be too old to be on camera, and I've been doing stand-up a long time.

I'm a comic; we get hecklers every night! It's really just part of the job.

I think having an outsider's viewpoint is interesting and good, especially for a comedian.

Whatever I'm writing has seemed to be about something I don't feel I could freely express in my everyday life, and stand-up is a really effective medium for getting people to hear exactly the things and viewpoints that they normally don't want listen to.

I need my comedy to offend. That's my personal views.

You spend so much time in the world of virtual that the actual - which nothing is more actual than stand-up - it's a painful experience for the audience, and the comedian a lot of time - we miss that.

I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'

I think there are so many little hurdles and impediments with stand-up that you'd need to have this insane desire to do it if you didn't have something that clicked right away.

There are all kinds of humor and I have largely indulged in clean comedy.

I'm a late-night guy.

My job is to make people laugh.

Just because you're laughing, it doesn't mean the audience will, necessarily.

You know, my mum's never seen me do stand-up. Ever. She's just too lazy to come.