Anger Quote by Scott Adsit

I think there's a core of real anger or misery inside every true stand-up comic.

— Scott Raab

I'm not a natural comic, I don't think. That's why I gave up stand-up. It was hard. It involved a lot of death. Dying.…

— Julian Barratt

I don't think stand-up is being appreciated as much as it could be and I don't think it has for a long time. There's…

— Mitch Hedberg

I hate to sound like someone twice my age talking about these comics today and all that, but it's as though their intent or…

— Robert B. Weide

I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out…

— Joe Rogan

I've always been into stand-up, and I always wanted to be a comic because it was like the dream job as a kid, and…

— Tony Rock

Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics,…

— William Raspberry

I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a roomful of…

— Peter Cameron

The comics I've talked to have varied styles as stand-ups, but the throughline is that it's the most intense thing they've ever done.

— Scott Raab

Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.

— B. J. Novak

I had always functioned with dignity, wanting to appear intelligent, macho, never vulnerable or insecure. But now I realize that... a part of these…

— Leslie Nielsen

A couple of female standup comics I know refer to their kids as their Little Career Killers. I was like, I really do not…

— Ali Wong