Base Quote by Judah Friedlander

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

— Tracy Morgan

Stand-up for me is usually a weekend thing. I go out of town and just do it.

— Chris Hardwick

Stand-up is live, so I'm used to being live for most of my career. It's interesting.

— Colin Quinn

It is hard to find something where you can go off as much as I do in stand-up, but I think stand-up allows me…

— Robin Williams

I like stand-up. I've done it since I was a teenager, so it's kind of my first job and first kind of creative way…

— Bobcat Goldthwait

I really love stand-up. I'm more than happy to do it for nothing. I've come to America to do it for nothing. It's the…

— John Oliver

Stand-up is my favorite thing I've ever done. There's so much independence.

— Rita Rudner

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've always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business.

— Louis C. K

Stand-up is a real art form in itself and one that I really think to be good at you have to devote your entire…

— Rob Corddry

I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials.

— Dave Attell

Stand-up is a very scary, very solitary profession, but you have to experience it to figure out if it's right for you.

— Doug Benson