Quotes About Standup

I did standup comedy. I opened once for Jay Leno.

I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn't include someone the size of the Hindenburg.

When I finished my residency in New Orleans, I went to L.A. where I would work as a doctor during the day, and then at night I would actually go to The Improv and do standup, all the while kind of cultivating my comedy resume.

I wanted to do comedy, but I didn't grow up wanting to be a standup.

People always come up to me and say, 'you should do standup.' It's nice to discover things about yourself. That keeps everything lively and fun.

Metal is easily my favorite thing - Exodus and Anthrax and Megadeth - so it just kind of organically came through in the standup act.

I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.

I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.

Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.

I thought I could see how standup worked. I never thought of being an actor - or anything else, really - but I thought, 'I can see how you get on stage and tell jokes.'

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.

Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.

I graduated from Improv Olympic. I used to do standup comedy.

I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.

The most dangerous place I've ever performed standup is in my home state of California.

America is where standup comedy was born. It's the standard. So you want to go and do your job where this is the mecca of what you do.

A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.

As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.

I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.

I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.

Other kids would sneak out of the house to go to parties and do untoward things. I was sneaking out to do standup downtown. It paid off.

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

No one goes into standup to make money. The frustration and rejection are just too much.

I think standup is pretty good for an introvert because you are performing, but, I mean, it's on your own terms. There are so many people in the room, but it's a one-sided conversation. And you actually don't have to interact - unless you want to.