Important Quote by Sheila Heti

The default position now is that comedians do Twitter but I don't know why. Every bad story you see about a comedian has a…

— Lee Mack

I think the term 'Twitter comedian' can seem like a pejorative because it's not a job, really, and there's such a low barrier for…

— Josh Gondelman

Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I can't get in every idea I want on the show no matter how…

— Mindy Kaling

I try to tweet, but I still haven't gotten into the rhythm as much as some people who have, like, 20,000 tweets. There are…

— Sam Richardson

I will die defending Twitter and what it can do for comedians. Twitter has gotten my friends jobs.

— Megan Stalter

What's cool about Twitter is that you can make a joke about something very of-the-moment or random that I wouldn't be able to joke…

— Aziz Ansari

For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them. You can gauge how good a joke might be…

— Natasha Leggero

I'm very adamant on social media about recommending comedians to people if they don't know them. I think it's so important to go see…

— Dolph Ziggler

I initially signed up for Twitter just to do jokes I wasn't going to do in my stand-up routine.

— Jim Gaffigan

[Twitter] is not totally where I go anymore to sell myself as a concept, as a comedian, because it moves too fast.

— Jen Kirkman

Twitter is comedy writing. It's one-liners that give way to fully fleshed-out thoughts.

— Jaboukie Young-White

I try to be personal, but that's not me, either. What seems to work best, and the tweets I enjoy reading the most, are…

— John Cho