Comedy Quote by Jason Whitlock

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

I don't consider myself a stand-up comedian. I consider myself a performer; a comic as opposed to stand-up comedian. Stand-up comedians stand there and…

— J. B. Smoove

What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on…

— Natasha Leggero

Some comedians are silly or goofy or straight joke writers who avoid anything subversive or political. Others are drawn to it. The beauty of…

— Ted Alexandro

Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight…

— Jeff Dunham

Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.

— Aziz Ansari

There's only one rule in stand-up, which is that you have to be funny. Yet 99 per cent of comics look and talk exactly…

— Bo Burnham

For me, stand-up comedy is a conversation between me and the audience. I have to keep them listening. When I'm making jokes about cake…

— Jim Gaffigan

I never did stand-up. If I've been funny ever, it was with other actors.

— Valerie Harper

With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.

— Chris Hardwick

Stand-up comedy is something that you have to strive to do, multiple times a night, every night, to be good.

— Ali Wong

There's a big thing right now with people using stand-up as a scapegoat. People think comedians have the power to change someone in an…

— Bill Burr