Being Quote by Dave McCary

My monologues aren't always funny. They're generally thoughtful. Sometimes at different levels of aggravation. And sometimes no aggravation. But the pressure on me is…

— Marc Maron

Monologues are fun.

— Adina Porter

A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and…

— Andy Samberg

When you start doing television, you want a transcript of what you're going to say, and every time I've had to do that, I've…

— John Bishop

A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and…

— Andy Samberg

It's funny, because even though on a drama like 'Picket Fences' those long monologues would stress me out, doing special effects where there's a…

— Holly Marie Combs

I just don't like filming scenes where it's like, that's not how people talk. People aren't saying a joke every five seconds.

— Dave McCary

What I'm doing in the work I do, I prefer not to just have a series of jokes. It's nice when audiences can connect…

— Christopher Guest

You can't have a laugh track that sort of tells the audience when to laugh and, you know, it's difficult to find those moments.

— Chris Pratt

It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting…

— Christine Baranski

We don't write jokes or anything, the furthest we'll go is we'll repeat certain jokes for the camera.

— David Dobrik

The audience is so important. Because there's something that I might think is super funny, but if it's just not getting the feedback, I…

— Ali Wong