Stand up comedy Quotes · Page 2

A lot of stand-up comedy is embarrassing: too many idiots doing it in orange neckties against brick walls. I find most sitcoms…

— Tracey Ullman

Now obviously popularity isn't everything when it comes to stand up comedy, but the art form itself is better today than it…

— Joe Rogan

“It seems to me that they only seem to mention things in the Bible that are within a 5 mile radius of…

— Jim Jefferies

Although no one explicitly wants a president who could have a reliable fall back career in stand-up comedy, everyone shudders at the…

— Alexandra Petri

I took a stand-up comedy class because I'd always wanted to.

— Jeanie Buss

I guess you get pigeon-holed in Hollywood, but I'm ok with that because I've been able to do a lot. I started…

— Denis Leary

I can't imagine being a woman in the world of acting, like where you age starts to weigh you down - you…

— Jim Jefferies

I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.

— Riz Ahmed

I took a job in a comedy club - not doing stand-up comedy, because that's my idea of hell, but in the…

— Phoebe Fox

A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out…

— Johnny Knoxville

'Stand-Up Planet' was Anthony Bourdain-meets-stand-up comedy.

— Hasan Minhaj

My passions are stand-up comedy, hard rock and metal, and baseball and the Mets.

— Jim Breuer

I am very proud of what 'Johnny' achieved in stand-up comedy because he believed entirely in giving an audience the best kick…

— Johnny Vegas

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…

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

Doing stand-up comedy is in the middle of a traffic jam getting everybody moving again.

— Jon Stewart

It sometimes seemed to him that for love to work, it had to be fair, that he should tell only half the…

— Tao Lin

Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You…

— Jeff Dunham

The earliest stand-up comedy I was aware of was Bill Cosby. I watched Saturday Night Live as soon as I was aware…

— Louis C. K

As far as stand-up comedy, I got into the business later than most, yeah.

— Charlie Murphy

I mean, there's an aspect I've always said that is - it's, you know, it's not poetry but it's kind of like…

— Quentin Tarantino

A talk show is about having a look at a famous face, a bit of stand-up comedy, knockabout stuff - an interview…

— Terry Wogan

I was always fascinated by the stand-up comedy shows from my childhood.

— Tejaswi Madivada

I do some of my best stand-up comedy during sound checks.

— Madonna Ciccone

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal…

— Dwayne Johnson

Do it [stand-up comedy] because it feels like the right thing to do. Do it because you don't want to do anything…

— Russell Peters