About Quote by Robert Klein

I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.

— Steve Buscemi

I had always been heavily influenced by stand-up. I was in a comedy team called Red Johnny And The Round Guy.

— John DiMaggio

Richard Pryor is my favorite stand-up ever.

— Norm MacDonald

I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.

— Marc Maron

Before I even knew what stand up was, I tried to make people laugh at school because that was how I made friends, so…

— Bill Burr

I love Steven Wright. I was in high school in the '80s, and there was a lot of stand up on television.

— Demetri Martin

Lenny Kravitz was the biggest gentleman on set. He always helped the ladies, like by pulling out the chair for them. If we were…

— Willow Shields

Thanks to people like Lenny Bruce and George Carlin, it's real freedom to do stand-up comedy.

— Simon Amstell

Certainly there were so many different people I had as heroes growing up. Steve Martin is always my number one. David Letterman's show, that…

— Will Forte

George Carlin was great right up to the end of his life. But Richard Pryor was probably the best, most gifted stand-up comedian who…

— Denis Leary

There are many styles of standup, but the comedians I like are people like Dick Gregory and Richard Pryor. Because Richard Pryor told the…

— Charlie Murphy

To me, those three are the revolutionaries. Richard Pryor was honest, raw. George Carlin was brilliant. He was also deep, fearless. And Sam Kinison…

— Jim Breuer