Come Quote by John Oliver

I'm used to doing standup comedy where it's just me and a microphone and what I say goes.

— Esther Povitsky

A lot of stand-up is talking about your perspective in the world and your experiences in life. And I think it takes any comedian…

— Rose Matafeo

I'd spent ten years in London, writing and performing my own comedy shows. They gave me the Cheers [scenes], and I thought it was…

— Shelley Long

“There are things I've given up on Like recording funny answering machine messages. It's part of growing older And the human race as a…

— David Berman

When I used to watch comedians with my dad, he laid it all out for me. He wanted to be a comedian himself, and…

— Roseanne Barr

A lot of people think stand-up comedy is one person performing to an audience, but I love it more when it's a dialogue, an…

— Rosie Jones

When you start doing television, you want a transcript of what you're going to say, and every time I've had to do that, I've…

— John Bishop

A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and…

— Andy Samberg

The way I view comedy clubs is, people are drinking, they're ordering food, they're out for the night, and there's also a person onstage…

— Mike Birbiglia

People who have heard of me have heard of me mostly through presenting and asked, 'Why have you gone into comedy?'

— Ellie Taylor

You know, the comedy industry in the U.K. is quite a small place, and lines such as 'sketch is dead' get thrown around a…

— Jamie Demetriou

There's a fallacy with stand up comedy, which is, people come up to comedians, and they go, 'You say what I think but I'm…

— Jim Jefferies