Best Quote by Neal Brennan

Part of the problem of comedians doing specials every year - when the masters do it, it's like, 'Okay, I guess, go for it'…

— Moshe Kasher

I have a half-hour special on Comedy Central, but so many people have half-hour specials now, and it's not so 'special.'

— Josh Blue

Some people do specials, like, when they've only been doing comedy for three years or something. Which is fine! But I'm kind of old…

— Ali Wong

I feel the life expectancy of a comedian is 30 seconds. If you don't hook an audience in half-a-minute, you're dead.

— Nipsey Russell

If you're a comedian, you can only really write jokes for about an hour a day, so you've got a lot of time to…

— Alex Horne

People have been trained to believe that comedy is the five- and 10-minute segments that you see on TV. But in 10 minutes, you…

— John Pinette

We used to get 27, 28 minutes to do a story in, and now they're lucky if they get 18 or 20 minutes. So…

— Dick Van Dyke

You see a lot of sketch variety shows where each segment is one joke that they repeat over and over and over again, and…

— Eric Andre

Comedians don't have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You have no hits to rely on.

— Aziz Ansari

If you're at the Comedy Store or the Laugh Factory or the Improv, even two minutes helps. You never know who might be in…

— Tony Rock

No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There's no such thing as a good long joke.

— John Waters

As a comedian, as an entertainer, there's a lot of downtime. Once you can accept that comedy is a marathon, not a sprint, it…

— Iliza Shlesinger