After Quote by Cristela Alonzo

I love stand-up more than anything, and I'm so happy to have found a way to use it in the show.

— Louis C. K

I love doing stand-up, and the more you do outside of stand-up to raise your profile, the better your stand-up becomes in terms of…

— Erik Griffin

I performed stand-up because I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. My set was never joke-centric. It was a performance.

— Michael Keaton

Stand-up is the kind of gig that'll show you where you're at.

— Dave Chappelle

One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You…

— Nick Cannon

My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

— Eddie Izzard

I love to get on stage and burn it up.

— Chi Chi DeVayne

The best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There's nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people…

— Aries Spears

Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go…

— Greg Lake

Stand up is the most stressful, and hosting and presenting a show has its own stresses, because you've got an audience which you've got…

— Paddy McGuinness

The only way to get better at stand-up is to do loads of gigs, and I don't know. I spread myself pretty thin to…

— Peter Serafinowicz

When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put…

— Jerry Reed