College Quote by Greg Proops

When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class.

— J. B. Smoove

I started doing stand-up in college.

— Carlos Alazraqui

Ive been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.

— Hal Sparks

I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.

— Hal Sparks

I've never done stand-up in my life. I don't know if that's entirely interesting, but I came up in improv.

— Sam Richardson

You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well.

— John Oliver

I started doing improv comedy in 2007, and I think it was that that gave me the confidence to try doing stand-up!

— Rachel Parris

I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good…

— Anonymous

Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.

— Tracy Morgan

I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of…

— Laurie Notaro

Little did I know that earning a living at stand-up is the hardest thing you can do. But once I started doing it, I…

— Greg Giraldo

I started doing stand-up when I was 16, my junior year in high school. My two friends and I would sit at home watching…

— Pete Davidson