Comedy Quote by Pauly Shore

I'm used to doing standup comedy where it's just me and a microphone and what I say goes.

— Esther Povitsky

I just loved comedy, and I think it was my parents who initially brought up the notion of me trying to do stand-up.

— Seth Rogen

I've been doing stand-up just about every night since I started in 1989. It's my home base. But I'm into doing comedy in all…

— Judah Friedlander

I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.

— Jack Quaid

I was raised by a dad who has a fantastic sense of humor who raised me on 'The Muppet Show,' Steve Martin movies, and…

— Janet Varney

I am a comedian and I started in stand-up when I was 22.

— Jenny Slate

You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.

— Brion James

The name of my first comedy album was 'Raised by Cable.' Coming up and watching all of these weird movies on different channels was…

— Baron Vaughn

Standup comedy was my weird hobby. I would drag my poor parents out to the only open mics that were in coffee shops instead…

— Alexandra Petri

The very first time I did standup, I went to an open mike on the Lower East Side at a place that doesn't exist…

— Jessi Klein

I do some of my best stand-up comedy during sound checks.

— Madonna Ciccone

Both my parents recognized early on that I wanted to do something in comedy, and they were really supportive. They're the ones who bought…

— Chris Hardwick