Force Quote by Nick Kroll

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

That's what's great about standup comedy: the instant feedback. You get up on stage, you tell a joke, if it doesn't work, come back…

— Jimmy O. Yang

Every joke is an experiment. When you sit, alone, and write a script, or just a joke, you really have no idea if it…

— Judd Apatow

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

— Sam Kinison

You don't want to just do a joke because it works - we can make a lot of jokes work - you want to…

— Stephen Colbert

You can't teach standup comedy. You can teach someone how to formulate a joke, but making it funny is different.

— Jermaine Fowler

It's not hard to get people to take a premise and accept it.

— John Rhys-Davies

There are a lot of great jokes you can sit down and write, but that's just a written joke, versus the comedy of the…

— John Mulaney

But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

— Steve Coogan

It always seems to someone outside the business that it is very difficult to write for a comedy show because it must be done…

— Robert Orben

I started to do a study on how not to do stand-up comedy. Yeah, it's lonely work. You die, you die alone. It's you,…

— Jim Varney

If you look up the definition of stand-up comedy, it's funny on purpose. A little bit of pressure there. It's basically acting. You're telling…

— Michael Waltrip