Control Quote by Jaboukie Young-White

You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well. It was probably years before I was…

— John Oliver

I tried and failed at doing stand-up on my own in 2002 but I hadn't found my voice.

— Tim Key

I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.

— Harry Dean Stanton

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

— John Oliver

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

— J. B. Smoove

I keep doing stand-up because you just hope that you can get better and find the voice that you want. You have to get…

— Omid Djalili

There's no one on the road that I tried to pattern myself after. There's no one in history that I tried to pattern myself…

— Charlie Murphy

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

I started doing stand-up in college.

— Carlos Alazraqui

There's something so awesome about being able to get up in front of a microphone and do exactly what you want. Stand-up is as…

— Christian Finnegan

The thing about stand-up is that it's so easy. You just show up and talk. But you can get lazy doing that.

— Jimmy Dore

When preparing for a concert, I do lots of training. I work with a choreographer to create great moves and then I have to…

— Miley Cyrus