Happy Quote by Michelle Buteau

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

— Tracy Morgan

The first time that I ever tried standup, which is how I found a way into show business, I did what I believed standup…

— Julio Torres

I'm set up where I make a lot of money doing stand-up, and it's easy.

— Ron White

Little did I know that earning a living at stand-up is the hardest thing you can do. But once I started doing it, I…

— Greg Giraldo

I like stand-up. I've done it since I was a teenager, so it's kind of my first job and first kind of creative way…

— Bobcat Goldthwait

I've always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business.

— Louis C. K

I loved stand-up, but I never thought you could do it as a job.

— Romesh Ranganathan

The beautiful thing about stand-up is you can create and immediately deliver, perform, and get paid for what you do.

— Kevin Heffernan

Stand-up is a real art form in itself and one that I really think to be good at you have to devote your entire…

— Rob Corddry

Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.

— Judy Gold

Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in…

— Chris D'Elia

I am happy doing standup so I don't ever want to stop doing it. But I wouldn't mind venturing off and doing other things…

— Brian Regan