Appeal Quote by Kurt Braunohler

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

Bad improv happens with people who are inexperienced with each other and don't know the craft that well. But bad stand-up is something that…

— Kristen Schaal

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'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

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 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 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

Standup is a place where, as long as it's funny enough, you can say your most embarrassing things, shameful things and disappointing things.

— Sara Pascoe

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

The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile…

— Colin Quinn

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

— Steve Buscemi

Stand-up is the scariest thing - whether it's TV, movies, improv - stand-up is the worst.

— Melissa Peterman