Amy Quote by Amy Hoggart

I'm more influenced by characters than standups. I love strong, comic women, because it's so hard and I have so much respect for anyone…

— Amy Hoggart

I've always been into stand-up, and I always wanted to be a comic because it was like the dream job as a kid, and…

— Tony Rock

I've been doing stand-up for a few years, and I have a handful of fans just from stuff I've done, like 'Last Comic Standing.'…

— Nikki Glaser

I'm very much influenced by your traditional comic book artists like Jack Kirby, Alex Toth and Walter Simonson. Their styles were sort of what…

— Tim Fish

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

— Joe Rogan

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

— Carol Leifer

I listen to a lot of standup comics.

— ContraPoints

I had always been heavily influenced by stand-up.

— John DiMaggio

I don't watch a whole lot of stand up. Mainly I prefer to read writers; they make me laugh the most. Something gets you…

— Dylan Moran

I like characters who are larger-than-life, whether life-loving women or the artist or guru who grabs everything. But I don't live among people like…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I love people like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, people who create and write their own stuff - especially when there's just not enough…

— Debby Ryan

My stand-up is more like how I am in real life. I don't really do a character thing in stand-up. It's just a bunch…

— Zach Galifianakis