Audience Quote by Ray Romano

You know, when you do standup there are certain requirements that you have to do like you have to go on stage and when…

— Larry David

Standup is like shorthand. Every bit must be both brief and profound or the audience will lose interest.

— Johnny Lever

Well, the best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50…

— Pauly Shore

In order to be good at stand-up, you have to do it all the time. You have to care about it more than anything…

— Eva Victor

The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other…

— Pauly Shore

From fear to bonding with the audience to getting more open - that's what standup is. It humanises you.

— Maysoon Zayid

Stand-up is the place where you can do things that you could never do in public. Once you step on stage you're licensed to…

— Robin Williams

Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said…

— Eric Bana

Stand-up is an amazing art form, I think, because it's all about you having complete control of the situation, but absolutely none.

— Jim Gaffigan

When you're doing stand-up, you achieve an intimacy with the audience you can't get on TV. There's not a better feeling in the entire…

— Bill Engvall

Just because you don't know how to do stand-up doesn't mean you don't know how to put on a show.

— Jack Black

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