Club Quote by Tom Green

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

— Ali Wong

Stand up comedy can be a tough world to break into. It can take years of painful soul searching, disappointing performances, and pounding the…

— Sarah Cooper

You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.

— Brion James

I still like doing stand-up now, but it's not the same. It used to be that I was out there with five other comedians.…

— Adam Sandler

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

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

At the end of the day, stand-up comedy is like acting when the audience are the other characters that I'm acting with.

— Brett Gelman

Before I started doing standup, I knew that I had what it takes to develop an act. I went down to clubs with not…

— Charlie Murphy

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 this thing you get to do, so you have to treat it with respect. You can't just be like, 'Alright,…

— Bill Burr

When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would…

— Dean Norris

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