Body Quote by Michelle Wolf

Doing stand-up takes the fun out of being funny.

— Doug Stanhope

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

When you're doing standup, it's just you. It's your written jokes. You perform it however your personality is.

— Tony Rock

We've all seen comedians look like they're reaching just a little bit too much for the laugh. This is counterproductive. The conceit of standup…

— Romesh Ranganathan

The difference when I'm writing a story versus writing a joke is that writing a joke is so much more about the structure and…

— Paul F. Tompkins

There's only one rule in stand-up, which is that you have to be funny. Yet 99 per cent of comics look and talk exactly…

— Bo Burnham

I could never do stand-up because it's that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell,…

— Daniel Radcliffe

I think there is much more storytelling in stand-up now. Less emphasis on the joke. Jokes are still important, but it feels like a…

— Doug Benson

There are certain types of stand-up, who are very successful, who do one type of joke, and never stray out of that. The audience…

— Sean Lock

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

There are many styles of standup, but the comedians I like are people like Dick Gregory and Richard Pryor. Because Richard Pryor told the…

— Charlie Murphy

I've never considered stand-up. Luckily I'm given great lines to say. I'm not sure how great my timing would be if I actually had…

— Emma Caulfield