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Comedy clubs can be brutal. Those people are for real, and if you aren't funny, they aren't laughing. They don't care who you are.

— Marlon Wayans

I think comedy is where I feel very silly, confident, and really can't expose too much of my sensitive side.

— Melissa Villasenor

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the…

— Steve Coogan

Every time I've done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there's always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other…

— Aziz Ansari

The problem with comedy audiences - it's like the Coliseum - when they see someone struggling, they don't feel altruistic towards them. They feel…

— Jo Brand

I certainly do believe that a lot of comedy comes from awkwardness and embarrassment - pointing out the ways things are uncomfortable. Definitely the…

— Christian Finnegan

Comedy is one of the few places in entertainment at present where it's good for women to be, as no one is telling you…

— Roisin Conaty

It's quite frightening; the business of trying to be funny is very hairy. In comedy, the potential for humiliation is huge. Trying to be…

— Emily Mortimer

What I found absolutely the best thing about comedy is it's a little club. You find yourself part of this strange needy society of…

— John Bishop

Even though I have fond feelings for comedy clubs, I enjoy the focus you get in a theater. Comedy clubs are a different animal.…

— Brian Regan

Comedy clubs sharpen a comic, they're like the gym for us, making us stronger, faster, funnier. Without them every comedy show would feel like…

— Nigel Ng

The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.

— Hannah Gadsby