Living Quote by Chris Cubas

I toured as a nightclub comedian and did some television in New York.

— Jackie Coogan

I've been doing comedy in New York since 2007.

— Scott Rogowsky

I did a lot of crazy gigs man. I hosted a Jack and Jill strip club in Woonsocket Rhode Island which is this tiny…

— Joe Rogan

The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like ooh I want to do that

— Jessica Hagedorn

The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You…

— Alan Rickman

I was doing one of my first shows, I think it might have been in L.A., and it was a really, really, really tiny…

— Benson Boone

I started out in comedy gigging and scraping a living together, and eventually worked up to doing shows at the Comedy Store in London…

— Keith Allen

I was living under a desk in West Hollywood. It was a closet that I shared with another comic. I was shocked when they…

— Dat Phan

My first show was at my friend Corey Petrick's basement in Bucks County, PA.

— Joshua Ostrander

I wanted to come to Chicago. I also wanted to do "Saturday Night Live." And then I got to a place where I didn't…

— Simon Helberg

I was a DJ in college and had my own punk music-focused show all four years.

— Matt Besser

I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just…

— Dane Cook