Quotes About Stand-up

I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian.

The comedian just wants to get a laugh.

I don't consider myself a political comedian because it's so hard. It takes time away from me saying terrible things about TV.

I consider Lena Dunham a comedian.

I don't do drama. I'm a comedian.

Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.

Gilbert Gottfried, I think, is just the most underappreciated comedian in the world. I think that he doesn't get enough credit for how funny he is.

I always wanted to be a comedian.

British comedian Imran Yusuf is fantastic and so is Shazia Mirza, also London-based.

I'm not a comedian who wants to spend far too long on stage.

When I first realized that I wanted to be a stand-up comedian was when I was in the service.

If the show is going really well and the comedian is still annoyed with the audience, chances are he's a Boston comic. That's the beauty of Boston comics.

The job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but a lot of my interests are in politics so I'm going to use that.

You know, a comedian's comedian is just that - it's a guy who's original and funny and can make comics laugh.

I'm not the sort of comedian who wants to make audiences think about politics. I'm not clever in that way.

A lot of comedians are selfish.

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

When I started, there was no comedy community, no comedy industry; there were comedians.

I like seeing comedians do stuff that I could never do.

With most specials, even the best comedians will tell you they could have cut 15 or 20 minutes out of it.

I've always felt so unconnected to other comedians.

I'm pretty much only friends with comedians.

Either you're a political comedian or you're a stand-up. Just talking about politics isn't enough. People who talk about airplane food, you don't call them airplane comedians.