Failure Quote by Colin Quinn

Standup is like shorthand. Every bit must be both brief and profound or the audience will lose interest.

— Johnny Lever

A lot of improvisers mistakenly assume stand-up is awful, because there are a lot of stand-ups in the world that did not appeal to…

— Kurt Braunohler

In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking…

— Eddie Izzard

People sometimes say how standup is so hard, and I always tell them that it's hard at the beginning.

— Bill Maher

If you're going into stand-up, you're hyper-analyzing the world and asking as many questions about a thing as you possibly can so you can…

— Chris Hardwick

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Standup is a place where, as long as it's funny enough, you can say your most embarrassing things, shameful things and disappointing things.

— Sara Pascoe

In order to be good at stand-up, you have to do it all the time. You have to care about it more than anything…

— Eva Victor

In stand up every joke is thought about so meticulously, and one word can completely change how the audience responds. You're up there with…

— Ari Graynor

With stand-up, it's more interesting to hear about people's failures than their successes.

— Aziz Ansari

Any bit of good stand-up I've done has usually been when I've been deeply embarrassed to say the thing out loud.

— Simon Amstell

Sometimes you need to speak up about what you're standing for.

— Pierre Nanterme