Growing up Quote by Dan Mintz

I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up. The comedians by nature weren't very - I mean, they were sociable, but they hung…

— Steve Buscemi

I never did stand-up. If I've been funny ever, it was with other actors.

— Valerie Harper

Growing up, I didn't know anything about comedy and didn't know anything about comedians or what standup was. I grew up in the projects…

— Carlos Mencia

I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it…

— Natasha Leggero

There aren't many opportunities to be a comedian on TV anymore, it's a lot of panel shows. You don't get much stand-up.

— Richard Herring

I'm glad that that era of stand-up is over, because I think it adversely affected a lot of people who could have been really,…

— Patton Oswalt

When I started stand-up - and this is in the '90s - there was definitely people hadn't watched decades of Comedy Central, where people…

— Jim Gaffigan

I wanted to do comedy, but I didn't grow up wanting to be a standup.

— Lolly Adefope

If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to…

— Adam DeVine

I still like doing stand-up now, but it's not the same. It used to be that I was out there with five other comedians.…

— Adam Sandler

When I came to America, it was Dave Chappelle and a lot of comedians on ComicView. That was my first exposure to stand up…

— Jimmy O. Yang

I never really saw myself as a standup comedian. I always just thought of myself as someone who used the eight minutes or 10…

— Kristen Schaal