Comedian Quote by Roseanne Barr

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 think when I started doing stand-up, that's when I really tried to question everything in my belief system which is - I think…

— Jim Gaffigan

I'm not a comedian. I don't do stand-up. I don't tell jokes. I'm a comedic actor, and approach my work that way. The comedy…

— Eugene Levy

Growing up, I didn't know anything about comedy and didn't know anything about comedians or what standup was. I grew up in the projects…

— Carlos Mencia

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know…

— Chuck Palahniuk

What made me a comedian was staying on the stage and starting to talk.

— John Bishop

I always wanted to be a stand-up comedian, even as a kid. Me and my dad would watch 'Evening at the Improv' on A&E.

— Adam DeVine

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

— Seth Rogen

I'm not a comedian, I'm not a stand-up and I don't come from a comedy background. I am an actor, but I've had a…

— Darren Boyd

A lot of stand-up is talking about your perspective in the world and your experiences in life. And I think it takes any comedian…

— Rose Matafeo

Standup comedians are attracted to one another because of their faults. So we're all kind of messed up in the same way, and once…

— Chris Rock

For me, stand-up comedy is a conversation between me and the audience. I have to keep them listening. When I'm making jokes about cake…

— Jim Gaffigan