Comedy Quotes by Chris Rock

A comedy club is a place where you work out material, you're trying material.

— Chris Rock

Everything's funny - in the right context and done by the right person.

— Chris Rock

Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy.

— Chris Rock

When I do stand-up, I'm basically doing a one-man show.

— Chris Rock

By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer.

— Chris Rock

I think anybody in front of a crowd is a comedian.

— Chris Rock

If I find a comedy club where no one's camera works, I'll go.

— Chris Rock

Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.

— Chris Rock

I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.

— Chris Rock

Being a comedian is a lot like being an athlete. If you're Carl Lewis and you're the fastest, then no matter what…

— Chris Rock

Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjoying themselves, and I'm a professional…

— Chris Rock

I like talking about subjects that aren't funny in the first place and making them funny. So anything down and depressing is…

— Chris Rock

Stand-up is the only career like that where once you get really big at it, people kind of encourage you not to…

— Chris Rock

You just got to be really logical when you're a comedian - to a fault. Like a lawyer's got to believe in…

— Chris Rock

If you can keep your son off the pipe and your daughter off the pole, you're ahead of the game.

— Chris Rock

Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.

— Chris Rock

I kind of keep my personality in my pocket a lot. When I start to do stand-up, that's not my true personality…

— Chris Rock

We got so much food in America we're allergic to food. Allergic to food! Hungry people ain't allergic to shit. You think…

— Chris Rock

I never really write the jokes. I just sit down over a week or two and try to figure out what I…

— Chris Rock

When you make comedy, you make it for the people and you try to have as many screenings and as many tests…

— Chris Rock

I don't think my comedy is that political. It's more social. But whatever. When you make comedy and you do stand-up, you…

— Chris Rock

There's always a moment in any stand-up show I do where people are booing. They kinda boo a premise. And then I…

— Chris Rock

I try to stay with it and I try to stay in contact with comedians and just keep comedians in my life…

— Chris Rock

It's weird with stand-up comedy. It doesn't really translate worldwide. I want to figure out how do I make it worldwide. Do…

— Chris Rock

I've told Michael Jackson jokes. If you got really technical, you could say those are jokes about child molestation. You could, if…

— Chris Rock

I never wanted to churn it out. Comedians tend to work all the time. They never put it down like musicians who…

— Chris Rock

Farrakhan got everybody together for the Million Man March and everything. But Farrakhan don't like the Jews. Which is bugged. I get…

— Chris Rock

For me, anything goes when I pick up a mike. I'm not trying to hurt people - I try not to get…

— Chris Rock

That's all we had when I was a kid: Robitussin. No matter what you got, Robitussin better handle it. "Daddy, I got…

— Chris Rock

You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing.

— Chris Rock

For the most part, comedy is the only fair part of show business.

— Chris Rock

Nobody really wants to be a stand-up, they want to get on TV.

— Chris Rock

Funny is only something that others know about you - you can't be funny by yourself.

— Chris Rock

You can't fake comedy - it's not like a movie, where a director can just cast a pretty face.

— Chris Rock

I'm pretty good at getting over people throwing stuff at me. If you've been doing stand up long enough you know how…

— Chris Rock

Stand-up comedy is like the lowest medium in all of show business in levels of respect.

— Chris Rock

I think all the funny people were bullied. When they talk about outlawing bullying, it's like, what? You want no Comedy Central?

— Chris Rock

Guys play characters that won't grow up and something catastrophic happens and they have to grow up to save the day -…

— Chris Rock

A comedian has to live in his head. All this comedy comes from a lonely place. When you're surrounded by an entourage,…

— Chris Rock

Most parts in comedy, they're not really written for men. They're written for, like, these boy-men.

— Chris Rock