Standup Quotes

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

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

A weird sort of awareness set in, like, 'Wow. My standup isn't just separate from everything else I do anymore.' With Twitter and Face book, everything is universal that everything everybody says gets seen.

I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job to make sure the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech.

The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.

The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming.

If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? To do a dramatic role in a movie?

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 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.

You know, I guess there's enough information out there to support that I'm a crazy, wild dude and rock and roll and this, that and the other. And there's enough information to support that, you know, I'm a single father, that, you know, has been a pretty standup guy in his community and pretty private about that stuff. But it's on both sides.

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

I wouldn't call myself a standup in the presence of Jerry Seinfeld or Chris Rock, but I do my share of it and it has been and remains part of my activity and I like it.

I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things.

I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this.

I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with.

I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.

This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started.

Hopefully standup will become special again.

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.

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

I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV.

I will always love to perform standup comedy.

People would say, Can we develop a sitcom around you? and I would say, Not interested. I'm very happy doing standup and writing and taking my kids to school.

I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV biz and work on my standup act constantly. It was a dream gig.

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 love standup and I haven't given it up.

It may have lost its special-ness forever and the clubs might not being doing well but I think standup is in the best shape it has been in a long time.

I just like doing standup, that's all I'm interested in or good at.

NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.

I will stay in the car until the last minute that I'm going to jump out and do a standup or jump out and do some interviews.