Comedy Quote by Tim Allen

I did standup comedy. I opened once for Jay Leno.

— Alan Colmes

I thought if I could do stand-up comedy well enough, I could parlay it back into films - like Charlie Chaplin and Woody Allen…

— Mike Birbiglia

About a year after I moved to Los Angeles, I decided I wanted to be a joke writer for a late night talk show.…

— Anthony Jeselnik

I needed to be more self-determining, and the most self-determining thing you can do in comedy is stand-up.

— Neal Brennan

So I kept it to myself. Then some of my classmates started to come down to the comedy club, taking a girl out, and…

— Chris Tucker

The only reason I got into stand-up was because my brother told me to. I had no idea what I was going to do…

— Adam Sandler

I had to write a comedy set and film a show at the same time. And it's the second time I've been up on…

— Zach Anner

You know, it wasn't even that I'm a funny guy, I just loved stand-up comedy and I wanted to do it. It was one…

— Bill Burr

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

I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it…

— Natasha Leggero

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

— Elayne Boosler

I started to realize that comedy is what I really wanted to do, but I didn't want to do stand-up.

— D'Arcy Carden