Being Quote by Matt Besser

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

I started doing improv comedy in 2007, and I think it was that that gave me the confidence to try doing stand-up!

— Rachel Parris

I'm not a stand-up comedian. I'm not an improv person or anything, but I've always been a fan of that stuff.

— Haley Joel Osment

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

I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as a stand-up…

— Steve Carell

I have a hard time describing myself as a standup comedian because I don't feel like I'm doing stand up jokes more than I…

— Patti Harrison

The trouble with improv is that it is often about being funny in the moment without any real consideration for the bigger picture.

— Simon Pegg

I'm not a comedian. I don't do stand-up. I don't tell jokes. I'm a comedic actor, and approach my work that way. The comedy…

— Eugene Levy

I've been called a funny person, for a long time. I don't know that I know anything about comedic acting. I'm not a good…

— John Cho

For a short period of time, I was like, I have these jokes and if people get them, they get them. And then eventually,…

— Eugene Mirman

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

I think, as a comedian, the funniest you can be is with people you know, and [whom] you've known for years, in a pub.…

— Ricky Gervais