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You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well.
Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great theater exercise.
You should really treat stand-up like you would a play. It's a one-man play.
Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue.
I just like doing standup, that's all I'm interested in or good at.
I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
What I like about stand-up is, it's truthful. I'm not up there trying to get laid or look cool. I'm up there because I really love it, and it makes people happier.
When you do stand-up, you're just concerned with trying to leave with some semblance of human dignity at the end of your performance.
Live stand-up is my thing. I love being on stage and just messing around.
The thing with stand-up is, I really enjoyed it, but I kind of loathed it as well. It makes me feel physically sick.
I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
Stand-up keeps you on your toes because it's instant. With TV and movies, you have to wait for the numbers to come in to see what happened at the box office. With stand-up, it's right there, that night, in your face.
For me, standup will always be some part of my life, and other things will move around and find their place.
There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.
I've always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business.
Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am.
I've been doing stand-up since '89.
The thing about stand-up was, I was doing all this sketch and YouTube stuff where I was not being censored and I got to do my own thing, and it was really cool.
I just always loved stand-up. It's like magic. You say something, and a whole room full of people laughs together. Say something else, they laugh again. The fact that people come to see that and participate in that ... I don't know, it's just like magic.
Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.
I love stand up, but every year, the road takes a little more out of you.
The best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There's nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people applaud and stand up - because that's all you.
I wouldn't call myself a standup in the presence of Jerry Seinfeld or Chris Rock, but I do my share of it and it has been and remains part of my activity and I like it.
I could never do stand-up because it's that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell, nine of them have to get a really good response.
Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.
Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it's dangerous.
I have this very abstract idea in my head. I wouldn't even want to call it stand-up, because stand-up conjures in one's mind a comedian with a microphone standing onstage under a spotlight telling jokes to an audience. The direction I'm going in is eventually, you won't know if it's a joke or not.
I've never done stand-up; I came via small-scale touring theatre, through the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, then I got employed on that as an actor who had a humorous sensibility.
Standup really is a young man's game, a single young man's game. Even when I was younger, when I wasn't single, it was hard to be on the road because you go through relationships because your girlfriend kinda got tired of you being gone.
A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
The idea of doing stand-up is terrifying to me.
I don't enjoy doing stand-up. I see it as being like exercise: I feel good about it after I've done it.
I performed stand-up because I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. My set was never joke-centric. It was a performance.
I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
Stand-up came naturally to me because people in Ireland talk. But that's not talking on panel shows; it is structured fun. It reminds me of some tragic aunt clapping her hands and bouncing into a room and announcing we should all play games ... and if we don't we are all a rotten spoilsport.
Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.
It is hard to find something where you can go off as much as I do in stand-up, but I think stand-up allows me that freedom where you can really go off and have a good time.
The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period.
Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.
I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.
Lewis Black taught me stand-up.
When I found stand-up, it was like finding home.
I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
I did stand up first in high school, joined an improv group in college, kept doing stand up after that, no one could deter me. And I have no other skills really, so I'm sorta stuck with this now. It's a little late to switch over to an ornithologist.
Stand-up for me is just my opinions on things, so it wouldn't be as fun translated into a sketch. Nor would a sketch be as fun if it were me standing there saying it.
Nobody really wants to be a stand-up, they want to get on TV.
You would never do stand-up without an audience. I mean, no one would even consider it. It's like they're the instrument you're playing.
There's not one type of stand-up, just like there's not one type of woman.
I do standup every week in L.A. at the Laugh Factory and the Improv.
When I'm doing stand-up, it's just me depending on me. I know how to go out there and make people laugh. I've been doing it since I was a teenager. I trust my instincts. I just go out and talk. A lot of the time I let the material come from the top of my head.
I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.
I've never considered stand-up. Luckily I'm given great lines to say. I'm not sure how great my timing would be if I actually had to come up with my own jokes.
To say it very honestly, removed from ego, standup is just a thing that I understood, a God-given ability.
My standup has always been a direct reflection of my life. When I was single, I talked about single stuff. I talked about dating. When I got married there were only a handful of stories I could move over to where I wasn't going to be disrespectful to my wife. So I developed a new routine.
Stand-up was my entree into the entertainment world. I didn't have to act out somebody else's words. I could just stand there with a microphone, and nobody would interrupt me. It's the most narcissistic thing you could probably do.
I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.
With stand-up, I can have an idea, go down the street to a comedy club and work on it, flesh it out, book a venue, people will come, then film it. I do all that myself; I never have to answer to anybody.
I tend to a lot of improvisational ranting, and that's fun. For me, stand-up has been, performance-wise, a really good outlet.
Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist's chair - but more enjoyable.
I don't consider myself a stand-up comedian. I consider myself a performer; a comic as opposed to stand-up comedian. Stand-up comedians stand there and do their bits; I break every rule in creation. If there's a rule that can be broken in stand-up, I'll do it.
Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
A stand-up's job is to hold the mirror up to society and to look at what we're afraid of. That's why we had shows like 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons.' We made fun of ourselves then.
I love doing radio, and I love doing stand-up, obviously.
I love stand-up. I look at it as a way to always stay productive. I couldn't imagine only being an actor or a writer. Because what the hell do I do when I'm not working? Mope?
Stand-up is the scariest thing - whether it's TV, movies, improv - stand-up is the worst.
Doing stand-up takes the fun out of being funny.
I got into stand-up to get on a sitcom.
Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most.
When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid.
I think right now is the best time for stand-up, ever. I sincerely do.
I'll always be doing stand-up as long as people are still interested in seeing me.
I'm very much a stand-up comedian in my heart. That's really what I do. Now I'm trying to incorporate all of the different elements of my work as a performer, and use it as a stand-up comedian.
Stand-up is different from television. In stand-up, you've got to be in control.
I'm doing a lot of stand-up, but not like when you're living in New York and you can do three sets a night and it's your life, and you sleep all day and you wake up and you eat with a bunch of other comics and then get ready for the night.
I love standup, but not the grind of traveling and dealing with club owners.
The first time I did stand-up was on a dare.
I've done stand-up since I was 18 years old, and I absolutely love it, but I used to go onstage, and the audience was my peers. Now I go onstage, and I could be their mother.
My goal is to forever do stand up.
I'm a standup comedian who gets to act. I'm never going to not do standup. I love doing it and when I go through periods where I'm doing a lot of acting work, I still do standup.
Hopefully standup will become special again.
I stand up to people.
People keep referring to me as a standup, and that just doesn't sit well with me because a lot of my friends are standups and they're brilliant at writing jokes, and I'm not.
There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing.
Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.
Little did I know that earning a living at stand-up is the hardest thing you can do. But once I started doing it, I just loved it, and I realized that I was actually kinda good at it, and then that was it.
[Stand-up] might be ballsy, but I'd rather not be an actor. Actors are tools.
I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.
I want everything to be an honest extension of me. What better way than me talking? It's a direct connection with everyone. With film and television, you make great projects, but stand-up is the thing that is completely yours.
I will always love to perform standup comedy.
Stand-up was like being on a Barbie townhouse stage.
I think in doing stand-up there are no rules and there's no architecture.
I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up.
I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.
I like to edit; I like to work with other people, and that's something stand-up doesn't really have.
I get to do stand-up every single day. I love that live energy exchange between the audience and myself, and to get to say the things I want to say and comment on.
Stand-up and boxing are very similar. You're the only one out there, you're going into a fight, and you're going in with a game plan.
The only way to get better at stand-up is to do loads of gigs, and I don't know. I spread myself pretty thin to get the stage time. I'd love to do more, really.
Stand-up keeps you alive. It is definitely the most specialized field in comedy because you need to stay sharp and well-tuned every night.
When you're doing standup you're kind of doing, 'Hey. I thought of this. This may be funny.'