Excuse Quote by Dave Chappelle

All the people I looked up to - Roseanne, Tim Allen, and Jerry Seinfeld - were stand-up comedians who used humor to get TV…

— Retta

Before I even knew what stand up was, I tried to make people laugh at school because that was how I made friends, so…

— Bill Burr

There are many styles of standup, but the comedians I like are people like Dick Gregory and Richard Pryor. Because Richard Pryor told the…

— Charlie Murphy

There are certain types of stand-up, who are very successful, who do one type of joke, and never stray out of that. The audience…

— Sean Lock

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'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

I remember seeing Letterman do stand-up on 'The Tonight Show.' Or, it's probably more accurate to say, I remember hearing him do stand-up, because…

— Steve Rushin

I'm not a comedian. I don't do stand-up. I don't tell jokes. I'm a comedic actor, and approach my work that way. The comedy…

— Eugene Levy

The only one that got through was Jimmy Walker, because he plays the gas station attendant. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's…

— David Zucker

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've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I love standup comedians. I really do.

— Jim Gaffigan