I'd decided to write about stuff that I would like to hear standup about. — James Acaster Copy Share Image
To be a really great standup artist, a lot of it comes from the mind. — Sean Strickland Copy Share Image
The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics. — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
Metal is easily my favorite thing - Exodus and Anthrax and Megadeth - so it just kind of organically came through in… — Brian Posehn Copy Share Image
If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are… — Adam DeVine Copy Share Image
You really have to be ambitious and have that drive to really become well known and successful as a standup. — Kevin Nealon Copy Share Image
I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act. — Roger Craig Smith Copy Share Image
Other kids would sneak out of the house to go to parties and do untoward things. I was sneaking out to do… — Hal Sparks Copy Share Image
In standup, the feedback is instantaneous, and if it fails, you know you'll be off-stage and hiding in a short time. — Greg Davies Copy Share Image
When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent. — Aubrey Plaza Copy Share Image
The very first time I did standup, I went to an open mike on the Lower East Side at a place that… — Jessi Klein Copy Share Image
I think what I do in my acting world and what I do in my standup world is bring up a brand… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
I love doing different things where, for a little while, I can focus on standup then sketch writing, then performing, then directing… — Kyle Dunnigan Copy Share Image
Standup really is a young man's game, a single young man's game. Even when I was younger, when I wasn't single, it… — Kevin Nealon Copy Share Image
A weird sort of awareness set in, like, 'Wow. My stand-up isn't just separate from everything else I do anymore.' With Twitter… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
My mom ending up passing away, and I got really depressed and didn't have money for therapy, and so I started doing… — Cristela Alonzo Copy Share Image
I was a standup comic, which doesn't necessarily mean you interact with people all that much. In fact when I did shows,… — Scott Aukerman Copy Share Image
It's weird because standup can be like therapy. Comedians can't be satisfied with just having fun with our friends. We've got to… — Artie Lange Copy Share Image
I think comedians should focus on what makes them happy, what art form fulfills them the most. Don't be calculated about it… — Scott Aukerman Copy Share Image
In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup,… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
I guess there's enough information out there to support that I'm a crazy, wild dude and rock and roll and this, that… — Kid Rock Copy Share Image
A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is… — Carly Craig Copy Share Image
When I was in New York, I got to see Joan Rivers do an hour of material, and it blew my mind.… — Chelsea Peretti Copy Share Image
I did standup for a lot of years, too, but when you come out as a standup, you get the feeling from… — Ryan Stiles Copy Share Image
Whether it's writing a monologue or writing standup or writing a screenplay or writing a play, I think staying involved in the… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
My standup's very gross and vulgar and brassy. There's a lot of screaming. — Sarah Sherman Copy Share Image
