Comedy Quote by Nish Kumar

It's funny how comedy is, you look at people like French and Saunders, when they started out they were very alternative. A lot of…

— Peter Kay

When I hit the scene, there was Billy Connolly and Max Boyce. It was all mother-in-law and Irish jokes, and we broke the mould.…

— Jasper Carrott

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough…

— Patton Oswalt

There's a lot of ordinariness, and people tend to play to the same regressive tropes - sexism, patriarchy, unkindness to the oppressed. Comedy shouldn't…

— Varun Grover

When I started stand-up - and this is in the '90s - there was definitely people hadn't watched decades of Comedy Central, where people…

— Jim Gaffigan

When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

— Sam Kinison

Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin, but in…

— Mike Nichols

I think comedians get too much credit or too much criticism for the style of comedy they do, and they generally do the style…

— Jim Gaffigan

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

— Sam Kinison

Stand up comedy can be a tough world to break into. It can take years of painful soul searching, disappointing performances, and pounding the…

— Sarah Cooper

I have always felt that the rise of what became known as alternative comedy was born out of the loins of the alternative theatre…

— Tony Robinson

A lot of the comedians nowadays just do comedy as a stepping stone. Take for example Dane Cook. The guy is huge. The main…

— Gabriel Iglesias