Comedy Quote by Josh Widdicombe

I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what…

— Roseanne Barr

I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of…

— Laurie Notaro

But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted…

— Demetri Martin

I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.

— Hannibal Buress

When I started out doing comedy, I was still in college and was working day jobs. I taught preschool for a few years. And…

— Josh Gondelman

I've never done stand-up in my life. I don't know if that's entirely interesting, but I came up in improv.

— Sam Richardson

When I first started doing stand-up back in Philadelphia, the idea of being a professional writer was completely beyond me. It didn't even occur…

— Paul F. Tompkins

Basically, I got into stand-up because I'm too egocentric to be an actor and not disciplined enough to be a writer.

— Christian Finnegan

I never saw myself not being a stand-up. That was my plan.

— Steve Harvey

The only reason I got into stand-up was because my brother told me to. I had no idea what I was going to do…

— Adam Sandler

I've never done stand-up; I came via small-scale touring theatre, through the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, then I got employed on that…

— Mark Williams

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

— Tracy Morgan