Bunch Quote by Mitch Hedberg

The basic function of a comic is stand-up because it's so straightforward and simple. If the audience don't laugh, you didn't do your job.…

— Marcus Brigstocke

I don't drink before shows.

— Hari Kondabolu

When I come out to do my stand-up set, I pretty much get bombarded with lines from movies. You try to play off it…

— Kevin Heffernan

I don't really drink before a show. That's my only drinking rule. Especially with today's cell-phone cameras, there's no win to it.

— Kenny Chesney

A lot of comedy clubs are set up with people sitting at little tables and you have everything from the way they are seated…

— John Mulaney

I don't want to look out and perform in front of people who are drunk. I did that when I was playing little clubs.

— Anne Murray

People are disappointed if you're not entertaining and to be entertaining often means to be drunk.

— Matthew Brannon

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

— Gore Vidal

I'm nothing but a drunkard. Why do people expect me to be anything else?

— Hank Williams

People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves.

— Humphrey Bogart

If you get too heavy with the nods and winks, people get a sense that they're excluded from something. If they're in screenings and…

— Hugh Jackman

As a comedian, I can walk out in front of 5000 people and not worry about a thing. Not a thing, believe me. But…

— Bill Cosby