The idea that standup is a thing with defined boundaries…

The standup thing has been really fun, really seeing the United States instead of reading about it.

— Jennifer Coolidge

“I used to think that other people defined the boundaries of life. Rushing in to impress others, and get them to like me gnawed…

— Sai Marie Johnson

I've never felt particularly comfortable in any defined boundaries, ever.

— Rege-Jean Page

I'd love to have a shitty job. I couldn't hold any down. Standup was the only thing I could stick with. I'm an idiot…

— Louis C. K

Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are vanishing and…

— Matt Ridley

Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.

— Javier Marías

“If it was occasionally ludicrous, it was always sublime. [Estelle Jussim on the 19th century Cult of the Beautiful.] ”

— Estelle Jussim

“The idea of spilling blood for the sake of oil would have seemed ludicrous.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous…

— Andrew Solomon

But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and…

— Aldous Huxley

“Would that I were still a ludicrous character in his lousy book!”

— Philip Roth

Obviously, I've made statements that were ludicrous and crazy and outrageous and all those things, because that's the way I always was.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a delusional Housewife in possession of an audience must be in want of a ludicrous storyline.

— Carole Radziwill

Banning sports is a ludicrous proposition.

— Mary Pilon

What puzzles me is the way that some of the smaller, unknown chateaux imagine that because Chinese millionaires pay ludicrous sums for the great…

— Simon Hoggart