Cheap Quote by Marc Maron

I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up. The comedians by nature weren't very - I mean, they were sociable, but they hung…

— Steve Buscemi

When I started stand-up - and this is in the '90s - there was definitely people hadn't watched decades of Comedy Central, where people…

— Jim Gaffigan

There aren't many opportunities to be a comedian on TV anymore, it's a lot of panel shows. You don't get much stand-up.

— Richard Herring

I'm glad that that era of stand-up is over, because I think it adversely affected a lot of people who could have been really,…

— Patton Oswalt

With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.

— Chris Hardwick

I grew up in a pretty strict household in the sense that we just didn't have cable, so I wasn't familiar with what stand-up…

— Hasan Minhaj

As far as stand-up comedy, I got into the business later than most, yeah.

— Charlie Murphy

In the entertainment industry, there is this fear of getting older, because we have high definition television now, and you can see things that…

— Whitney Cummings

Some comedians are silly or goofy or straight joke writers who avoid anything subversive or political. Others are drawn to it. The beauty of…

— Ted Alexandro

For stand-up comedians that go onstage and get to write and perform and direct, and do all these things, the allure of a television…

— Jim Gaffigan

It's weird because standup can be like therapy. Comedians can't be satisfied with just having fun with our friends. We've got to figure out…

— Artie Lange

There's a big thing right now with people using stand-up as a scapegoat. People think comedians have the power to change someone in an…

— Bill Burr