Comedy Quote by Esther Povitsky

I do some of my best stand-up comedy during sound checks.

— Madonna Ciccone

Stand up comedy is this thing you get to do, so you have to treat it with respect. You can't just be like, 'Alright,…

— Bill Burr

My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the…

— Pauly Shore

I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.

— Jack Quaid

A lot of people think stand-up comedy is one person performing to an audience, but I love it more when it's a dialogue, an…

— Rosie Jones

At the end of the day, stand-up comedy is like acting when the audience are the other characters that I'm acting with.

— Brett Gelman

Stand-up comedy is not a man's job. It's an alpha job: To be the only person in a room with a microphone who's allowed…

— Katherine Ryan

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

I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.

— Eddie Murphy

You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.

— Brion James

I've been doing stand-up just about every night since I started in 1989. It's my home base. But I'm into doing comedy in all…

— Judah Friedlander

I've been performing stand-up comedy for ten years, it's what I love and will always do.

— Michael McIntyre