Much Quote by Bill Bailey

The reason it's satisfying for me to write and perform stand-up is because I get to find out who I am. There's a healing…

— Simon Amstell

Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great theater exercise.

— Lewis Black

Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.

— Jerry Seinfeld

Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more…

— Elayne Boosler

In standup, it's just you. You're your own writer, your own critic, your own director, and it's never the same. You really don't always…

— Brad Garrett

In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd…

— Arundhati Roy

The thing about stand-up was, not only was I getting to write it without anybody saying I couldn't do it, but I got to…

— Donald Glover

Stand-up isn't something I just sit down and start writing - it's ideas you come up with in the shower, while you're driving, waiting…

— Chris Hardwick

I just had this perception of stand up that was like you're alone on stage, where improv is very collaborative. That's also why I…

— Ayo Edebiri

Stand-up is really personal. It's not like somebody else is writing the script and you have to do what they write.

— Tracy Morgan

The beautiful thing about stand-up is you can create and immediately deliver, perform, and get paid for what you do.

— Kevin Heffernan

I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.

— Jack Whitehall