Comedy Quote by Rachel Parris

Before I started doing stand-up, I never envisioned doing it. I strictly saw myself doing improv and sketch comedy, and then, when I started…

— Quinta Brunson

When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class.

— J. B. Smoove

I've never done stand-up in my life. I don't know if that's entirely interesting, but I came up in improv.

— Sam Richardson

I'm not a stand-up comedian. I'm not an improv person or anything, but I've always been a fan of that stuff.

— Haley Joel Osment

I took an improv class in 2005 in Chicago at ComedySportz, which was short-form, more of a games-based improv. I remember it being real…

— Hannibal Buress

I'd been involved with stand-up before improv, so I already thought highly of myself as being a funny person. I never thought I wasn't…

— Matt Besser

I graduated from Improv Olympic. I used to do standup comedy.

— Redfoo

Improv requires your audience to be informed about what improv is. With stand-up, anybody can sit down and watch stand-up and laugh at jokes.

— Kurt Braunohler

I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it…

— Natasha Leggero

I did standup for a lot of years, too, but when you come out as a standup, you get the feeling from a crowd…

— Ryan Stiles

Improv seemed to replace stand-up, which was very big before that. Stand-up comedy was real hot in the late '80s and through the '90s.

— Joe Flaherty

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

— Brion James