Comedy Quote by Simon Amstell

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

— Ali Wong

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

Stand-up comedy is a different game all together. You have to improvise on the spot if you feel that the audience isn't enjoying your…

— Johnny Lever

If you look up the definition of stand-up comedy, it's funny on purpose. A little bit of pressure there. It's basically acting. You're telling…

— Michael Waltrip

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

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

— Sam Kinison

A lot of people think stand-up comedy is one person performing to an audience, but I love it more when it's a dialogue, an…

— Rosie Jones

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'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

If you are doing stand-up comedy, you have to be confident in what you are doing. That doesn't mean just because you are confident…

— Judah Friedlander

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

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