Ability Quote by Bill Burr

With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.

— Chris Hardwick

Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about…

— Natasha Leggero

Some comedians are silly or goofy or straight joke writers who avoid anything subversive or political. Others are drawn to it. The beauty of…

— Ted Alexandro

When they first start doing comedy, new comics or even people that have only been doing it three or four years, they're doing an…

— Erik Griffin

Comedians are therapists. People honestly think we're doing it for ourselves. No. If we wanted to do stand-up for ourselves, we would perform in…

— J. B. Smoove

Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin, but in…

— Mike Nichols

I don't do stand-up anymore. There are no rules in stand-up comedy. Journalists follow plenty of rules.

— Jason Whitlock

I think comedians get too much credit or too much criticism for the style of comedy they do, and they generally do the style…

— Jim Gaffigan

I always think stand-up is the most brutal environment for a comedian.

— Dominic Holland

What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on…

— Natasha Leggero

Stand-up is therapy. I'm sure every comedian has something wrong with them.

— Lee Evans

Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.

— Aziz Ansari