Stand Up Comedy Quotes
53 quotes by 43 authors
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I just liked stand-up comedy so much. I used to memorize Bill Cosby albums and other people's albums, George Carlin, Flip Wilson.
— Drew Carey
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While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.
— Tim Allen
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I started to do a study on how not to do stand-up comedy. Yeah, it's lonely work. You die, you die alone. It's you, the…
— Jim Varney
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My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.
— Pauly Shore
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I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough…
— Matthew Gray Gubler
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Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight it…
— Jeff Dunham
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When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some…
— Jim Dale
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I think people tune in to watch a football game because they want to watch a football game. If they wanted to watch a stand-up…
— Dan Dierdorf
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New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York…
— Adam Savage
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When it comes to English stand-up comedy, Indians have only seen the best - Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby and the like. So, when someone claims…
— Vir Das
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I do films which get me out of my comedian routine so that I don't get bored being a stand-up comedian. And with films, it's…
— Vir Das
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Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.
— Dwayne Johnson
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But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I…
— Evan Davis
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
— Sam Kinison
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Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive,…
— John Oliver
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Stand-up comedy is the most relaxing thing I do. If I want to unwind and de-stress, I go out and do stand-up, often several shows…
— Judah Friedlander
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Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.
— Dave Foley
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I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what…
— Keenen Ivory Wayans
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You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.
— Brion James
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When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
— Sam Kinison
Who Wrote These Stand Up Comedy Quotes
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