About Quote by Hannibal Buress

When they first start doing comedy, new comics or even people that have only been doing it three or four years, they're doing an…

— Erik Griffin

When I started doing stand-up again, a lot of it was coming from an angrier place, and I quickly learned that doesn't spell a…

— Tom Green

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

There's an audience that is paid to laugh at my jokes. I'm playing a character while I'm doing stand-up. Real stand-ups, man, they're playing…

— Rachel Brosnahan

I think, as a comedian, the funniest you can be is with people you know, and [whom] you've known for years, in a pub.…

— Ricky Gervais

Luckily, I'm not a stand-up comedian, so I don't get the fear of standing on stage in front of a dead audience: my humorous…

— Charles Stross

One of the biggest misconceptions about me is that I'm a comedian, which I'm not. A comedian is someone who can stand up in…

— Eugene Levy

I'm a standup comedian who gets to act. I'm never going to not do standup. I love doing it and when I go through…

— Bill Burr

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 whole idea of comedy, there is nothing normal about going up on stage to make strangers laugh. But I'm also not an exhibitionist…

— Jim Gaffigan

It's weird because standup can be like therapy. Comedians can't be satisfied with just having fun with our friends. We've got to figure out…

— Artie Lange

We were in front of a live audience and I would be acting with the man who was playing my lover, and we used…

— Billy Crystal