Bad Quote by Pete Holmes

I've never been able to write for stand-up.

— Elayne Boosler

Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.

— Jerry Seinfeld

The thing about stand-up was, not only was I getting to write it without anybody saying I couldn't do it, but I got to…

— Donald Glover

For writing stand-up, I have to have a little bit of anger and frustration to be motivated to do it. Stand-up, for me, comes…

— Whitney Cummings

Stand-up isn't something I just sit down and start writing - it's ideas you come up with in the shower, while you're driving, waiting…

— Chris Hardwick

The reason it's satisfying for me to write and perform stand-up is because I get to find out who I am. There's a healing…

— Simon Amstell

My stand-up is more like how I am in real life. I don't really do a character thing in stand-up. It's just a bunch…

— Zach Galifianakis

I really love standup, and I really love writing standup.

— James Acaster

Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more…

— Elayne Boosler

Whatever I'm writing has seemed to be about something I don't feel I could freely express in my everyday life, and stand-up is a…

— Jaboukie Young-White

In standup, it's just you. You're your own writer, your own critic, your own director, and it's never the same. You really don't always…

— Brad Garrett

People sometimes say how standup is so hard, and I always tell them that it's hard at the beginning.

— Bill Maher