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Other than friends and family, my favorite things are New York and stand-up. I love doing comedy in ...
AZIZ ANSARI When they first start doing comedy, new comics or even people that have only been doing it three or ...
ERIK GRIFFIN I've been doing stand-up just about every night since I started in 1989. It's my home base. ...
JUDAH FRIEDLANDER I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials.
DAVE ATTELL See, I'm totally fearless. I got my chops in the most, like, dangerous comedy atmosphere. If you...
MAYSOON ZAYID I started doing stand-up in college.
CARLOS ALAZRAQUI I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I d...
DAVE ATTELL![]()
I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.
EDDIE MURPHY Well, I think my stand-up is often kind of visual. Not like Carrot Top visual, but visual.
MICHAEL IAN BLACK I love doing stand-up, and the more you do outside of stand-up to raise your profile, the better you...
ERIK GRIFFIN The idea of doing stand-up is terrifying to me.
CHARLIE DAY![]()
Stand up for what is right even if you're standing alone.
SUZY KASSEM![]()
There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was try...
DANA CARVEY I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people pri...
SAMM LEVINE![]()
I started doing '30 Rock' and started writing 'Mystery Team' at the beginning of tha...
DONALD GLOVER![]()
Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it beca...
STEVEN WRIGHT I don't like doing things by halves, and I realised you can't do stand-up comedy part-time.
DEIRDRE O'KANE![]()
I came to New York and started doing stand-up and improv, and started auditioning for commercials an...
NICK KROLL I eventually became an actor, starting with doing stand-up comedy in New York and then theater where...
NOLAN NORTH![]()
That meant I could go home at night, ... Doing stand-up comedy, you're on the road an awful lot.
BOB NEWHART![]()
New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There ...
ADAM SAVAGE Most people don't know what it's like to stand up there and speak their mind. I have a venue to do t...
DAVE CHAPPELLE Doing stand-up takes the fun out of being funny.
DOUG STANHOPE Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist&...
JACK WHITEHALL This is what I did growing up and what I like doing, ... Most of the things we're doing at Northeast...
BRUCE HALL The most challenging thing in doing this is the new base realignment and where a conference like thi...
TAMMIE ADAIR![]()
Two things I really wanted to be: a stand-up comic or a New York Yankee - or a really funny New York...
BILLY CRYSTAL A lot of stand-up comedy is embarrassing: too many idiots doing it in orange neckties against brick ...
TRACEY ULLMAN By the time I started doing stand-up, the club scene had died.
JEN KIRKMAN![]()
When I do stand-up, I'm basically doing a one-man show.
CHRIS ROCK There's something about doing stand-up that's cathartic.
DAVE CHAPPELLE The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing for 11 years as a stand-up is hav...
ANTHONY JESELNIK![]()
But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an ...
DEMETRI MARTIN I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
DAKOTA BLUE RICHARDS![]()
Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.
DWAYNE JOHNSON![]()
After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in th...
KEVIN SPACEY I use to stand up for what I believe, now, I believe in what I stand up for.
MARIE-SUZANNE LABELLE (A.K.A MARIE-SUE) What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only...
GRETCHEN WILSON![]()
My first time on TV doing stand-up, I actually did this show in Holland called 'The Comedy Facto...
HANNIBAL BURESS![]()
Stand up to hypocrisy. If you don't, the hypocrites will teach. Stand up to ignorance, because if yo...
SUZY KASSEM Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carr...
JOHNNY VEGAS We're doing a pilot right now for UPN, which hopefully we're going to be picked up on. It's based on...
JOEY FATONE![]()
I like my leaders smart and serious. I don't need a stand-up comic.
KRISTIN GORE When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
DANE COOK![]()
A lot of my friends were mostly working in black-and-white - people like Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbu...
WILLIAM EGGLESTON![]()
My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly...
HARLAND WILLIAMS![]()
When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I hav...
BAT FOR LASHES![]()
Stand up for what is right, even if you stand alone.
SUZY KASSEM Imagine if your hair was to stand up from static electricity, that's kind of what the corona looks l...
ALEX YOUNG I wasn't doing it to take a stand. But, I really ... That's old news. The new news is what can we do...
JOEY PORTER I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most c...
TAMMY BLANCHARD![]()
It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for on...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY![]()
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
MADONNA CICCONE![]()
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
MADONNA Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I It's all so new and everything is happening so quickly. I feel like I'm running to keep up and doing...
ANNE JOHNSON I think me leaving Detroit shaped my style. Me leaving, going to New York, going to L.A. and seeing ...
DANNY BROWN I had fun doing a lot of low-budget movies and web series. And I got back into stand-up where I star...
MARY LYNN RAJSKUB![]()
I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to c...
BLAIR UNDERWOOD While the business has been good to me, I just feel like doing something different. I have not made ...
HERMAN PERSAUD It is a very difficult kind of transaction to stand up and cheer for.
DANIEL KUNSTLER My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put th...
CRISTELA ALONZO I stand up to people.
KEITH OLBERMANN You are doing a phenomenal job, keep up the good work. its so refreshing to see young women like you...
ARTHLENE LAUDAT LAWRENCE Our goal is to make sure people in New York State know the kind of work Hillary is doing for them.
ANN LEWIS Our goal is to make sure people in New York State know the kind of work Hillary is doing for them.
ANN F. LEWIS I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and ...
QUESTLOVE It's the question of independence. Is she as a judge going to be the person who will stand up and te...
MARK MOLLER![]()
You do stand-up because you have to do it. If you're doing it to become 'famous,' you...
RUSSELL PETERS My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 ye...
DAMON WAYANS, JR.![]()
I kind of thought that stand-up comedy would suffer from the Internet because people seem to know mo...
JERRY SEINFELD I'm doing stand-up comedy. I'm working on a one-woman show about how I don't like my bab...
MARY LYNN RAJSKUB I'm an improviser. I came up doing improv at the U.C.B. Theater in New York for seven years. Tha...
ROB RIGGLE![]()
I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to c...
BLAIR UNDERWOOD I stand up for other people, I'm very protective of people around me. If I feel like somebody is...
CHRISTINA RICCI![]()
I got into stand-up because I love stand-up. Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, s...
DEMETRI MARTIN![]()
Now i'd like to tell u i did something heroic like stand up against a raging team of fire-breathing ...
RICK RIORDAN![]()
My stand-up act is very clean.
CAROL LEIFER I think it's a wonderful cause. I would be doing whatever I can to stand up (and) bring this to the ...
JANET PELASARA Why stay home? I like to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with my people. This is the only place to be.
DALE THOMAS![]()
Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it eithe...
ALAN RICKMAN![]()
Stand-up and sketch and improv - that's the most direct contact you can have with somebody, maki...
T. J. MILLER For the most part I could barely stand up. It was like the worst feeling ever. But I got through it.
PACMAN JONES It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I...
MACKENZIE FOY![]()
I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to ...
ADAM DEVINE
AZIZ ANSARI When they first start doing comedy, new comics or even people that have only been doing it three or ...
ERIK GRIFFIN I've been doing stand-up just about every night since I started in 1989. It's my home base. ...
JUDAH FRIEDLANDER I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials.
DAVE ATTELL See, I'm totally fearless. I got my chops in the most, like, dangerous comedy atmosphere. If you...
MAYSOON ZAYID I started doing stand-up in college.
CARLOS ALAZRAQUI I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I d...
DAVE ATTELL
I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing. EDDIE MURPHY Well, I think my stand-up is often kind of visual. Not like Carrot Top visual, but visual.
MICHAEL IAN BLACK I love doing stand-up, and the more you do outside of stand-up to raise your profile, the better you...
ERIK GRIFFIN The idea of doing stand-up is terrifying to me.
CHARLIE DAY
Stand up for what is right even if you're standing alone. SUZY KASSEM
There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was try... DANA CARVEY I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people pri...
SAMM LEVINE
I started doing '30 Rock' and started writing 'Mystery Team' at the beginning of tha... DONALD GLOVER
Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it beca... STEVEN WRIGHT I don't like doing things by halves, and I realised you can't do stand-up comedy part-time.
DEIRDRE O'KANE
I came to New York and started doing stand-up and improv, and started auditioning for commercials an... NICK KROLL I eventually became an actor, starting with doing stand-up comedy in New York and then theater where...
NOLAN NORTH
That meant I could go home at night, ... Doing stand-up comedy, you're on the road an awful lot. BOB NEWHART
New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There ... ADAM SAVAGE Most people don't know what it's like to stand up there and speak their mind. I have a venue to do t...
DAVE CHAPPELLE Doing stand-up takes the fun out of being funny.
DOUG STANHOPE Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist&...
JACK WHITEHALL This is what I did growing up and what I like doing, ... Most of the things we're doing at Northeast...
BRUCE HALL The most challenging thing in doing this is the new base realignment and where a conference like thi...
TAMMIE ADAIR
Two things I really wanted to be: a stand-up comic or a New York Yankee - or a really funny New York... BILLY CRYSTAL A lot of stand-up comedy is embarrassing: too many idiots doing it in orange neckties against brick ...
TRACEY ULLMAN By the time I started doing stand-up, the club scene had died.
JEN KIRKMAN
When I do stand-up, I'm basically doing a one-man show. CHRIS ROCK There's something about doing stand-up that's cathartic.
DAVE CHAPPELLE The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing for 11 years as a stand-up is hav...
ANTHONY JESELNIK
But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an ... DEMETRI MARTIN I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
DAKOTA BLUE RICHARDS
Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. DWAYNE JOHNSON
After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in th... KEVIN SPACEY I use to stand up for what I believe, now, I believe in what I stand up for.
MARIE-SUZANNE LABELLE (A.K.A MARIE-SUE) What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only...
GRETCHEN WILSON
My first time on TV doing stand-up, I actually did this show in Holland called 'The Comedy Facto... HANNIBAL BURESS
Stand up to hypocrisy. If you don't, the hypocrites will teach. Stand up to ignorance, because if yo... SUZY KASSEM Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carr...
JOHNNY VEGAS We're doing a pilot right now for UPN, which hopefully we're going to be picked up on. It's based on...
JOEY FATONE
I like my leaders smart and serious. I don't need a stand-up comic. KRISTIN GORE When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
DANE COOK
A lot of my friends were mostly working in black-and-white - people like Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbu... WILLIAM EGGLESTON
My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly... HARLAND WILLIAMS
When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I hav... BAT FOR LASHES
Stand up for what is right, even if you stand alone. SUZY KASSEM Imagine if your hair was to stand up from static electricity, that's kind of what the corona looks l...
ALEX YOUNG I wasn't doing it to take a stand. But, I really ... That's old news. The new news is what can we do...
JOEY PORTER I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most c...
TAMMY BLANCHARD
It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for on... JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams. MADONNA CICCONE
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams. MADONNA Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I It's all so new and everything is happening so quickly. I feel like I'm running to keep up and doing...
ANNE JOHNSON I think me leaving Detroit shaped my style. Me leaving, going to New York, going to L.A. and seeing ...
DANNY BROWN I had fun doing a lot of low-budget movies and web series. And I got back into stand-up where I star...
MARY LYNN RAJSKUB
I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to c... BLAIR UNDERWOOD While the business has been good to me, I just feel like doing something different. I have not made ...
HERMAN PERSAUD It is a very difficult kind of transaction to stand up and cheer for.
DANIEL KUNSTLER My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put th...
CRISTELA ALONZO I stand up to people.
KEITH OLBERMANN You are doing a phenomenal job, keep up the good work. its so refreshing to see young women like you...
ARTHLENE LAUDAT LAWRENCE Our goal is to make sure people in New York State know the kind of work Hillary is doing for them.
ANN LEWIS Our goal is to make sure people in New York State know the kind of work Hillary is doing for them.
ANN F. LEWIS I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and ...
QUESTLOVE It's the question of independence. Is she as a judge going to be the person who will stand up and te...
MARK MOLLER
You do stand-up because you have to do it. If you're doing it to become 'famous,' you... RUSSELL PETERS My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 ye...
DAMON WAYANS, JR.
I kind of thought that stand-up comedy would suffer from the Internet because people seem to know mo... JERRY SEINFELD I'm doing stand-up comedy. I'm working on a one-woman show about how I don't like my bab...
MARY LYNN RAJSKUB I'm an improviser. I came up doing improv at the U.C.B. Theater in New York for seven years. Tha...
ROB RIGGLE
I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to c... BLAIR UNDERWOOD I stand up for other people, I'm very protective of people around me. If I feel like somebody is...
CHRISTINA RICCI
I got into stand-up because I love stand-up. Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, s... DEMETRI MARTIN
Now i'd like to tell u i did something heroic like stand up against a raging team of fire-breathing ... RICK RIORDAN
My stand-up act is very clean. CAROL LEIFER I think it's a wonderful cause. I would be doing whatever I can to stand up (and) bring this to the ...
JANET PELASARA Why stay home? I like to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with my people. This is the only place to be.
DALE THOMAS
Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it eithe... ALAN RICKMAN
Stand-up and sketch and improv - that's the most direct contact you can have with somebody, maki... T. J. MILLER For the most part I could barely stand up. It was like the worst feeling ever. But I got through it.
PACMAN JONES It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I...
MACKENZIE FOY
I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to ... ADAM DEVINE
God transforms us one area at a time. 
Indifference was our greatest enemy. 
No sooner do I conquer a bad habit than I become the biggest critic of anyone who still does what I ... 