Comedy Quote by Dana Gould

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;…

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.

— Chris Hardwick

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

A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing…

— Johnny Knoxville

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

— Sam Kinison

Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin, but in…

— Mike Nichols

A lot of stand-up comedians are actually very insecure, and they come on slightly battling the audience. They want to be the superior person…

— Stephen Merchant

If you are doing stand-up comedy, you have to be confident in what you are doing. That doesn't mean just because you are confident…

— Judah Friedlander

Real comedy can't be learned; it comes from a need for justice. The best who stand up, stand up for something.

— Elayne Boosler

Standup comedians are attracted to one another because of their faults. So we're all kind of messed up in the same way, and once…

— Chris Rock

Stand-up comedy is something that you have to strive to do, multiple times a night, every night, to be good.

— Ali Wong

For me, stand-up comedy is a conversation between me and the audience. I have to keep them listening. When I'm making jokes about cake…

— Jim Gaffigan