Day Quote by Sarah Cooper

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

— Jeff Dunham

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

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

— Sam Kinison

Stand-up comedy in the end, unlike the rest of the entertainment industry, is a meritocracy. There's a certain level of undeniability you can work…

— Jim Gaffigan

Stand-up comedy is a really lonely profession: you 'perform for 2000 people, then you go to a hotel room by yourself and stare at…

— Anh Do

Stand up comedy is an odd way to make a living, one that is regularly tinged with both triumph and despair.

— Paul Sinha

I started to do a study on how not to do stand-up comedy. Yeah, it's lonely work. You die, you die alone. It's you,…

— Jim Varney

You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This…

— Hannibal Buress

Standup comedy is fun. I mean other than having to experience the excruciating lonlieness and unacknowledged sadness that results in funny.

— Dov Davidoff

Stand-up keeps you alive. It is definitely the most specialized field in comedy because you need to stay sharp and well-tuned every night.

— Tommy Davidson

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