Comedy Quote by Jim Gaffigan

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

People don't realize, or maybe they've forgotten, that there was a time in history when standup comedy wasn't something that you had to hide…

— Brad Stine

I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up. The comedians by nature weren't very - I mean, they were sociable, but they hung…

— Steve Buscemi

I'm glad that that era of stand-up is over, because I think it adversely affected a lot of people who could have been really,…

— Patton Oswalt

I think stand is better now than it's ever been. I think it's the greatest time ever to do standup comedy.

— Joe Rogan

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

— Brion James

As far as stand-up comedy, I got into the business later than most, yeah.

— Charlie Murphy

I still like doing stand-up now, but it's not the same. It used to be that I was out there with five other comedians.…

— Adam Sandler

Comedy doesn't really matter that much; I know that. I treat it like an adult - I don't treat it like a child or…

— Bo Burnham

I don't think stand-up comedy is becoming too serious, in fact, I wish it was. We are still mostly doing frivolous stuff.

— Varun Grover

Growing up, I didn't know anything about comedy and didn't know anything about comedians or what standup was. I grew up in the projects…

— Carlos Mencia

I think of a lot of comedy being watched alone, for some reason. It's surprising to me that people are getting together to watch…

— Gary Gulman