Standup Quotes
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Standup Quotes & Sayings
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When you're doing standup you're kind of doing, 'Hey. I thought of this. This may be funny.'
— Zach Galifianakis
When I go into schools to speak, I am not giving a speech - it's really a one-man show. I call it 'didactic standup.'
— Bruce Coville
The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.
— Shelley Berman
NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.
— Leonard Maltin
I do standup every week in L.A. at the Laugh Factory and the Improv.
— Brian Dunkleman
I admire Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly a lot because I think they're standup guys.
— Bernard Goldberg
People sometimes say how standup is so hard, and I always tell them that it's hard at the beginning.
— Bill Maher
I still do standup.
— Ray Romano
I enjoy writing the same way I enjoy doing standup. Part of the challenge is being creative and making it work no matter what the constraints.
— Greg Fitzsimmons
I'm a standup comedian, so I need people.
— Chelsea Handler
I started as a standup comic and an actor.
— Larry Wilmore
If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? To do a dramatic role in a movie?
— Howie Mandel
At CBS, I'm in your house. I'm mindful of that. When I do standup, you're in my home and I can say what I want to.
— Craig Ferguson
I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV.
— Ana Gasteyer
I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this.
— Julia Sweeney
I come to Maui and go surfing, standup paddling, slacklining, swimming, and free-diving.
— Julia Mancuso
Standup is more me talking the entire time. There's definitely an exchange of energy because that room, that audience, is giving back.
— Ellen DeGeneres
I like the honesty of standup comedy. People don't fake laugh. If they're truly laughing at you, you know they like you.
— Brian Regan
Hopefully standup will become special again.
— Marc Maron
I will stay in the car until the last minute that I'm going to jump out and do a standup or jump out and do some interviews.
— Martha Raddatz
To say it very honestly, removed from ego, standup is just a thing that I understood, a God-given ability.
— Jerrod Carmichael
You really have to be ambitious and have that drive to really become well known and successful as a standup.
— Kevin Nealon
I'm a singer and performer in a hybrid show that's standup, music and audience participation.
— Jason Alexander
My standup is observational, but it's self-observational, and it's self-deprecating, definitely.
— Chelsea Handler
I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
— Dane Cook
The bigger the mess, the greater the progress.
— Richie Norton
I love standup and I haven't given it up.
— Ray Romano
Life has typhoons. They come and turn everything upside down. But you still have to standup because the next storm may be around the corner.
— Nadia Hashimi
I love to work. I love doing standup.
— Kathy Griffin
Unlike 'Deal or No Deal,' which is for the entire family, my standup is not for the entire family.
— Howie Mandel
Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.
— Shelley Berman
When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.
— Aasif Mandvi
Metal is easily my favorite thing - Exodus and Anthrax and Megadeth - so it just kind of organically came through in the standup act.
— Brian Posehn
You used to have to beg and be the busboy to do standup. I got on Community because people saw my videos on YouTube, which were free.
— Donald Glover
I'm really good at standup. I always win at standup.
— Leslie Jones
As a standup comedian, I've worked almost every New Year's Eve of my adult life. It's the best-paying night of the year.
— Elayne Boosler
I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know?
— Pauly Shore
I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.
— Roger Craig Smith
I was recently voted best standup never to win a major.
— Andy Kindler
I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.
— J. B. Smoove
I will always love to perform standup comedy.
— Shelley Berman
Is it my end-all and be-all to become a standup comic? No.
— Jason Alexander
People always come up to me and say, 'you should do standup.' It's nice to discover things about yourself. That keeps everything lively and fun.
— James Patterson
I just like doing standup, that's all I'm interested in or good at.
— Norm MacDonald
I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.
— Ray Romano
When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.
— Aubrey Plaza
I tell the stories in front of audiences and wait for something to happen. It's similar to a standup comic doing his schtick for an audience.
— Robert Munsch
For me, standup will always be some part of my life, and other things will move around and find their place.
— J. B. Smoove
