Before Quote by Joe Flaherty

I started doing improv comedy in 2007, and I think it was that that gave me the confidence to try doing stand-up!

— Rachel Parris

I liked that improv and sketch comedy were collaborative, but you really depended on other people and a stage to perform. With stand-up comedy,…

— Ali Wong

When I started stand-up - and this is in the '90s - there was definitely people hadn't watched decades of Comedy Central, where people…

— Jim Gaffigan

Improv requires your audience to be informed about what improv is. With stand-up, anybody can sit down and watch stand-up and laugh at jokes.

— Kurt Braunohler

Improv is so different, it's such a collaborative thing, you're working with other people, nothing is planned and it's kind of this community mentality,…

— Aubrey Plaza

If you grow up doing one thing you don't always think you can do another, but I always loved improv comedy.

— Gillian Jacobs

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

Improv is a fun thing to do on stage with others, sketch comedy is a great way to showcase your writing and acting, while…

— Quinta Brunson

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

By the time I got to uni sketch comedy was much more fashionable than stand-up.

— Richard Herring

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

The thing that's frustrating about improv is that even if you have the best show in the world, it's over when it's over. You…

— Michelle Wolf