Finish Quote by Jermaine Fowler

When I was starting out, I was just bringing a garbage bag of jokes onstage, pulling them out like, 'What about this? No? Alright.'…

— W. Kamau Bell

It seemed fun to play a villain on stage and I wanted my jokes to be so good that I could just calmly tell…

— Anthony Jeselnik

I played the tour in 1967 and told jokes and nobody laughed. Then I won the Open the next year, told the same jokes,…

— Lee Trevino

I had to write a comedy set and film a show at the same time. And it's the second time I've been up on…

— Zach Anner

I had no desire to get up onstage and tell jokes. I prefer to stand next to really funny people.

— Jon Hamm

I go to the British Comedy Awards and, you know, quite a few people were making jokes at my expense. It just made me…

— Michael McIntyre

I didn't know if I could be funny on stage or write a joke. But I saw that there are no rules. If you're…

— Kumail Nanjiani

I never used to tell jokes on stage. Now I'm cutting up jokes all night long.

— Robin Thicke

People thought I was funny, so I kind of took entertaining for granted... it was inevitable that I'd start giving little performances.

— Johnny Carson

Well, I am not always joking, sometimes I am serious. But some people always expect you to be funny. If you were like you…

— Dom Irrera

When I look at my audience, I can tell better who's in the crowd and the kind of joke I shouldn't do. It's just…

— Larry the Cable Guy

I remember writing standup jokes without having done sets. But as soon as I did my first set, it didn't matter. Everything I thought…

— John Mulaney