Able Quote by Graham Norton

I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out…

— Joe Rogan

I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it.

— Rita Rudner

I've always been into stand-up, and I always wanted to be a comic because it was like the dream job as a kid, and…

— Tony Rock

I'm not a natural comic, I don't think. That's why I gave up stand-up. It was hard. It involved a lot of death. Dying.…

— Julian Barratt

I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to…

— Harvey Pekar

When I realized that people actually wrote comics, that it was a job people could do, I thought, 'Gee, these things are only 17…

— Kurt Busiek

I was writing the kind of comic that would make me, at age 26 or 27, go down to a comic book store every…

— Neil Gaiman

Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we…

— Alan Rickman

I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been…

— Dave Attell

I'd been working since I was eleven so I could buy my own comic books. I was that kid knocking on your door, selling…

— Boots Riley

I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.

— Edmund White

I knew when I got out of high school that I was going to be a stand-up comic.

— Jo Koy