Quotes About Stand-up

I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.

You can't do comedy with a beard.

My comedy is different than a lot of people's.

Comedy is actually very macho driven.

I'd love to do comedy.

I love doing comedy shows.

I'm not a comedy guy. I don't do comedy shows.

I go to a lot of comedy shows.

Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

I never became a road comic.

A comic, you have to be looking down at him. My favorite rooms, the audience is above the stage, stadium-style.

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.

Lots of comics try stuff out all year round, which is very sensible - I don't.

Many comics stay in one city and develop their acts for that particular audience.

I love stand-up comics, particularly those who have embraced podcasting.

If you think about how many headlining female comics are out there, you could say 15, maybe 20?

I appreciate the audience for checking us as comics.

When they first start doing comedy, new comics or even people that have only been doing it three or four years, they're doing an impersonation of a stand-up. This is what I think a stand-up should sound like.

Typically, in New York, there are so many comics on a single lineup that you can only do eight minutes.

Any club has more than enough comics, so if you're not there every night talking to the booker, you're not going to get on. You have to be there more than they are.

Comedians play off of social commentary.

Before I started doing '30 Rock', I did about 25 movies. I'd always been doing stand-up every night, and then I would do, like, two to four movies a year. So I really liked doing that, and I want to get back to that, but because of the time commitment to '30 Rock', there's not much time to do that stuff.

If you think how many female comics there are compared to how many male comics there are, I think there are quite a few female comics on the TV.