Amateur Quote by Howie Mandel

I met a bunch of people and they said, "We're gonna do a show [Second City]." So we would buy the theater out and…

— Simon Helberg

I was always fascinated by the stand-up comedy shows from my childhood.

— Tejaswi Madivada

When I started stand-up - and this is in the '90s - there was definitely people hadn't watched decades of Comedy Central, where people…

— Jim Gaffigan

I haven't seen comedy as popular as it is now since when I started, in the late 1980s boom. It feels like that again,…

— Paul F. Tompkins

I was always interested in comedy and pop culture.

— Randy Rainbow

Comedy clubs were something that came to pass in the '80s, but toward the end of that, in the early '90s, people started doing…

— Eugene Mirman

I grew up in a pretty strict household in the sense that we just didn't have cable, so I wasn't familiar with what stand-up…

— Hasan Minhaj

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

— Brion James

My first time on TV doing stand-up, I actually did this show in Holland called 'The Comedy Factory' hosted by Jorgen Raymann. It was…

— Hannibal Buress

I grew up fascinated with comedy and with people who could capture someone's attention.

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

I did stand-up comedy for a long time in San Francisco, and then I was like, 'You know what? I'm going to move to…

— Nico Santos

When I came to America, it was Dave Chappelle and a lot of comedians on ComicView. That was my first exposure to stand up…

— Jimmy O. Yang