Competition Quote by Jo Koy

The best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There's nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people…

— Aries Spears

Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said…

— Eric Bana

If I could make the same amount of money doing standup it would be no contest. The problem is that if you do make…

— Joe Rogan

Continuing to do stand-up is always a challenge because the audiences and the environments in which you work very often differ.

— Bob Newhart

The beautiful thing about stand-up is you can create and immediately deliver, perform, and get paid for what you do.

— Kevin Heffernan

Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.

— Tracy Morgan

The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other…

— Pauly Shore

I'm not someone who gets to play The O2 and places like that, but that's the kind of rock and roll venue. The popularity…

— Tim Vine

With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.

— Johnny Vegas

With stand-up, it's really easy to get complacent and do the same jokes over and over because you know they work. You have fun,…

— Michelle Buteau

Most stand-up is incredibly boring. It's time for people to do something else.

— Julian Barratt

Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.

— Billy Gardell