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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

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I was raised by a dad who has a fantastic sense of humor who raised me on 'The Muppet Show,' Steve Martin movies, and Woody Allen's standup, and he really encouraged me to ham it up from an early age. Janet Varney

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People would say, Can we develop a sitcom around you? and I would say, Not interested. I'm very happy doing standup and writing and taking my kids to school. Jeff Foxworthy

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Standup is just dirtier, a far more risque kind of thing. Jennifer Coolidge

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To say it very honestly, removed from ego, standup is just a thing that I understood, a God-given ability. Jerrod Carmichael

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That's what's great about standup comedy: the instant feedback. You get up on stage, you tell a joke, if it doesn't work, come back the next day with a better version of it. Jimmy O. Yang

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I was working at Nordstrom Rack, Borders Books, and I was cleaning yachts on the weekends for private parties and being a busboy. I had to break down the tables and roll the forks up in napkins. And I was still doing standup. Jo Koy

In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face. John Oliver

A standup set ends on a buildup of tension and subsequent release for a big laugh. Josh Gondelman

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I just loved jokes so much as a child. I remember wanting to perform at, like... age seven by reading from a kids' joke book, and my parents being like, 'That's not what standup comedy is,' and me being like, 'Not yet it isn't! I'm going to change the game.' Josh Gondelman

You reach a point when you say to yourself, 'Do I want to keep doing this?' There are other things on my plate I want to do - I've been writing a play; I've been neglecting my standup. Joy Behar

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I never did standup before. It just looked like it was really hard, looked like there was like up days and down days - and I'm too emotionally unstable for that. I need to always be funny and always be loved. Kenan Thompson

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You really have to be ambitious and have that drive to really become well known and successful as a standup. Kevin Nealon

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The thing is when I started doing standup, you had to have a clean act because that's how you got on television. There weren't all these cable shows. Also, I didn't want to have that kind of act in case my family came to see me or my kid one day. Kevin Nealon

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I guess there's enough information out there to support that I'm a crazy, wild dude and rock and roll and this, that and the other. And there's enough information to support that, you know, I'm a single father, that, you know, has been a pretty standup guy in his community and pretty private about that stuff. Kid Rock

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I never decided I wanted to be an actor. I just started doing standup because I love standup. Everything else has sort of been these tiny steps leading to this. Kumail Nanjiani

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I love doing different things where, for a little while, I can focus on standup then sketch writing, then performing, then directing a video. That, to me, is stimulating. Kyle Dunnigan

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Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days. Larry David

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I'm really good at standup. I always win at standup. Leslie Jones

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I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well. Mackenzie Crook

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