Any Quote by Kristen Schaal

A lot of improvisers mistakenly assume stand-up is awful, because there are a lot of stand-ups in the world that did not appeal to…

— 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

I did standup for a lot of years, too, but when you come out as a standup, you get the feeling from a crowd…

— Ryan Stiles

I know now for a fact that improv can't hold a candle to doing standup. It's not the same buzz, it just isn't. It…

— Ron James

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

In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't…

— John Oliver

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

I come from standup and improv.

— Paul Rust

I think, in a way, the stand-up prepped me for the improv, because I do a lot of riffing in my stand-up.

— Paul F. Tompkins

I just had this perception of stand up that was like you're alone on stage, where improv is very collaborative. That's also why I…

— Ayo Edebiri

When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture.

— Zach Woods

Improv is a disposable art form, but it's kind of freeing in that way, too, because things can fail, and the audience is a…

— Matt Walsh