Comedy Quote by Sam Kinison

Stand-up comedy is not for the faint-hearted or the thin-skinned.

— Dominic Holland

Stand-up comedy is something that you have to strive to do, multiple times a night, every night, to be good.

— Ali Wong

Stand up comedy can be a tough world to break into. It can take years of painful soul searching, disappointing performances, and pounding the…

— Sarah Cooper

I'm sure when alternative comedy started, before which - Billy Connolly aside - standup was essentially a person being racist and sexist onstage, there…

— Nish Kumar

Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight…

— Jeff Dunham

Real comedy can't be learned; it comes from a need for justice. The best who stand up, stand up for something.

— Elayne Boosler

Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin, but in…

— Mike Nichols

When I started stand-up - and this is in the '90s - there was definitely people hadn't watched decades of Comedy Central, where people…

— Jim Gaffigan

There's no idea or concept in comedy you could do that hasn't been attacked from some angle. But if you start leaving punchlines out…

— Ron White

With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.

— Chris Hardwick

I think stand is better now than it's ever been. I think it's the greatest time ever to do standup comedy.

— Joe Rogan

Stand-up comedy is a sickness. Who wouldn't want a room full of people laughing and screaming at you just because of who you are?…

— Howie Mandel