Being funny Quote by Todd Barry

With a sketch show, it's "a bunch of people and they're being funny." In a way that you can't really explain it.

— B. J. Porter

I grew up in a pretty strict household in the sense that we just didn't have cable, so I wasn't familiar with what stand-up…

— Hasan Minhaj

Standups have all the talk shows, but you never see a sketch group on a talk show. Even on so-called variety shows, if you…

— Matt Besser

I'm actually into the idea of doing stand-up comedy, as a joke. You know how people do karaoke for fun? Well it would sort…

— Keeley Hazell

When they first start doing comedy, new comics or even people that have only been doing it three or four years, they're doing an…

— Erik Griffin

A good sketch show, in my opinion, gets together a bunch of fun, funny people and collects their brainfarts, and shares them.

— Will Sasso

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

Sometimes I start off shows by explaining to people that it's just a bunch of stories - I always say 'It's like standup, just…

— Ari Shaffir

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

— Ali Wong

All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it's a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories.

— Michael Schur

I think of a lot of comedy being watched alone, for some reason. It's surprising to me that people are getting together to watch…

— Gary Gulman

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