Doing Quote by Kumail Nanjiani

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

I used to do stand-up, actually. I had a ten-minute routine I did for a thing called 'Stand Up for Labour' where we'd go…

— Sadiq Khan

Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.

— Billy Gardell

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've actually never done standup before.

— Jane Lynch

I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up.

— Steve Buscemi

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

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

— Tracy Morgan

I had always been heavily influenced by stand-up.

— John DiMaggio

I continue to do standup because there's a connection with a live audience - there are skills that you do learn as a standup…

— Bobcat Goldthwait

My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

— Eddie Izzard

I get to do stand-up every single day. I love that live energy exchange between the audience and myself, and to get to say…

— Ellen DeGeneres