Becoming Quote by Varun Grover

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

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

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

Standup comedy is fun. I mean other than having to experience the excruciating lonlieness and unacknowledged sadness that results in funny.

— Dov Davidoff

I really don't want to do anything that resembles stand-up comedy. But I will agree to say that I am doing it, and I…

— Lucas Neff

Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin, but in…

— Mike Nichols

Stand-up and comedy is the place where we are supposed to be able to make fun of all of the world's ills.

— Tracy Morgan

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

When I started stand-up - and this is in the '90s - there was definitely people hadn't watched decades of Comedy Central, where people…

— Jim Gaffigan

I think there is more comedians now than ever, more venues now than ever. There are stand-ups who live in towns where they don't…

— Joe Rogan

There is so much competition and content floating around right now, so comedy has to have a lot quirk and heart.

— Varun Sharma

Stand-up comedy in the end, unlike the rest of the entertainment industry, is a meritocracy. There's a certain level of undeniability you can work…

— Jim Gaffigan