Bigs Quote by Laurie Notaro

Whatever I'm writing has seemed to be about something I don't feel I could freely express in my everyday life, and stand-up is a…

— Jaboukie Young-White

No, I never really set out to be a stand up. I wanted to be a writer of some sort. I thought I'd do…

— Josh Widdicombe

You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well. It was probably years before I was…

— 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

There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing. Unlike being in a band or a play or something, I…

— Hal Sparks

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

Stand-up is cool. In stand-up, you get to learn about yourself if you do it from a thoughtful place.

— Ramy Youssef

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

— Tracy Morgan

Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist's chair - but more enjoyable.

— Jack Whitehall

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

When I'm doing stand-up, it's just me depending on me. I know how to go out there and make people laugh. I've been doing…

— Eddie Murphy

In order to be good at stand-up, you have to do it all the time. You have to care about it more than anything…

— Eva Victor