Audience Quote by Anthony Jeselnik

You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This…

— Hannibal Buress

I always do that at the end of shows, like a Q&A session. First of all it lets people know that this isn't some…

— Joe Rogan

Some people assume that I'm a stand-up comedian - I couldn't think of anything worse - and then they ask 'would you like to…

— Joanna Page

I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50…

— Sandra Bernhard

When people say, 'I don't like laughter on a TV show', I think, 'How do you cope when you're watching a stand-up gig live?'…

— Lee Mack

I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder…

— Dana Carvey

Stand-up comedy is all you. It's your show, it's your game. You control every aspect of it - of that experience and that expression.…

— Bryan Callen

What's great about having the live audience is you know immediately if you're funny or not. That always helped when we were doing 'Hannah…

— Emily Osment

If you are not on TV, you don't really exist. I want to bring my comedy to the world and tell my story to…

— Gad Elmaleh

Few comedians can go to their shows and have people yell out bits that they want to hear. It's like going to see your…

— Anjelah Johnson

People come to me with ideas for shows, and I certainly am thinking of stuff all the time. And it's always like, you know,…

— Doug Benson

I can only develop a stand-up show by being on stage. I can't write it. Whenever I see comedy written down, it very rarely…

— John Bishop