Quotes About Stand-up

I observe everything around me and when something hits me and it's funny, that's what I talk about. I'm a more observational kind of comic.

He had a defect, which to a comic might be fatal. He wasn't funny.

I just want to be known as funny.

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.

There's a lot of guy comics who I think are funny, but I generally am more excited about a special or a show where there are females.

I thought she was the funniest woman, and I believed being a comedian was the most exciting thing you could be.

Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.

I'm a hard act to follow, because when I'm done, I take the microphone with me.

Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.

I think the more you hone your voice, take risks and talk about things that matter, the better chance you have of getting into the realm of the philosophers of stand up. But you have to be funny.

I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.

Of course I don't use my A-material, it doesn't matter if they think I'm funny or not because they won't be thinking anything pretty soon anyways, if you caych my drift.

Comedy is learning to be funny, and you learn to be funny in small rooms with young audiences.

I'm interested in doing some acting in the future, but it's a distant second to stand up.

I always had one goal, and that was to be a real funny stand-up comic, and that's pretty much what I'm doing. And everything else is kind of like gravy - TV, movies.

Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't make me laugh.

I don't think of myself as a comedian, but as an artist, a scientist and chemist who just happens to be funny. I started doing stand-up to add another level to my game. I feel that I'm a young rookie with a veteran's skill.

You can't be funny if you don't have good material.

Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

They don't make you pay for the humor. It's up and down, but they're trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.

It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.

My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.