Stand-up Comedy Quotes

“Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin, but in its essence, it's soul-destroying. It tends to turn people into control freaks.”

“Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.”

“The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.”

“I'm doing stand-up comedy. I'm working on a one-woman show about how I don't like my baby. There is a period of time where a baby is born where the next 3 months is harrowing. A lot of people say it's the most wonderful time, but for me it was harrowing.”

“If you are doing stand-up comedy, you have to be confident in what you are doing. That doesn't mean just because you are confident you are funny.”

“It seems to me that they only seem to mention things in the Bible that are within a 5 mile radius of the guy writing it.”

“I started pursuing stand-up comedy in 12th grade.”

“I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man show, helps keep me young, and yes, it is exhausting, but I don't collapse.”

“Stand-up comedy is all you. It's your show, it's your game. You control every aspect of it - of that experience and that expression. There's really nothing quite as satisfying.”

“I started working full time as a comedian in 2005, shortly after we did the Vince Vaughn 'Wild West Comedy Show.' I worked at the Four Seasons hotel from 1998 to 2005, so about seven years, just trying to put some food on the table and pay the rent while I went out to the open mics and got my feet wet with stand-up comedy.”

“The edge of inappropriate is the spiritual home of the best stand-up comedy.”

“I liked that improv and sketch comedy were collaborative, but you really depended on other people and a stage to perform. With stand-up comedy, I liked that you had no one else to blame and depend on.”

“It's best, I think, to treat stand-up comedy on the telly like tapas: small tasters of something you'd love a proper plate of.”

“I don't do stand-up anymore. There are no rules in stand-up comedy. Journalists follow plenty of rules.”

“Nobody wanted to help me get my start, not to mention it's tough being a female in a man's world of stand-up comedy. It's a very competitive world, and it was a challenge to find my own voice, stick to my guns.”

“I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.”

“I've always loved movies, and enjoyed theater and stand-up comedy and I had a knack for writing and performing.”

“Although no one explicitly wants a president who could have a reliable fall back career in stand-up comedy, everyone shudders at the thought of a Rutherford B. Hayes or John Kerry.”

“When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.”

“Anyone who does stand-up comedy can agree that doing a late-night spot is a dream of theirs.”